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| Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: |
Google unveils Googlebook, its new laptop lineup featuring a unified OS merging ChromeOS and Android, with devices from Dell, HP, and others coming this fall — ZDNET's key takeaways — Googlebook is a new device line coming this fall. — It merges Android and ChromeOS for smoother phone-to-laptop use.
More: The Keyword, The Verge, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, VideoCardz.com, OSnews, HotHardware, 9to5Google, Wired, Business Today, PCMag, Moneycontrol, PCWorld, Mercury News, Thurrott, Gizmodo, Engadget, How-To Geek, CNET, TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, TechEBlog, Neowin, The Shortcut, The Tech Portal, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Forbes, Android Authority, Axios, CGMagazine, Chrome Unboxed, Trusted Reviews, Digital Trends, The Indian Express, and Droid Life
X: @ssamat, @mweinbach, @google, @mweinbach, @anshelsag, @stshank, and @mweinbach. LinkedIn: Mat Velloso. Bluesky: @taumuyi
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google unveils Gemini Intelligence, bundling existing and new Gemini features, including task automation across apps and letting users vibe-code Android widgets — We're one step closer to our phones just using themselves. … It is, once again, Gemini season.
More: The Keyword, Google DeepMind, Android Police, CNBC, Moneycontrol, 9to5Google, PCMag, Business Today, Thurrott, CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup, TechRadar, iClarified, New York Post, Android Central, Neowin, Digit, Trusted Reviews, and MakeUseOf
X: @laparisa, @seangchau, and @ssamat
| Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: |
Google has worked with Meta to improve Instagram on Android, adding Ultra HDR support and more, and with Apple to overhaul the iOS-to-Android transfer process — ZDNET key takeaways — Google partnered with Meta and Apple to improve Android. — Adobe Premiere is launching on Android soon.
More: The Keyword, MacRumors, 9to5Google, AppleInsider, Android Authority, The Guardian, Engadget, Moneycontrol, Bloomberg, TechCabal, Neowin, Digit, PhoneArena, Android Central, Wired, MakeUseOf, Digital Trends, and The Deep View
X: @backlon and @mishaalrahman
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Pause Point, an Android 17 feature that forces a mandatory 10-second pause before opening any app a user has labeled as a distraction — An anti-doomscrolling feature is now built into Android. (Yes, things have gotten that bad.) — On Tuesday, Google announced Pause Point …
More: The Keyword, 9to5Google, ZDNET, The Verge, Neowin, WeRSM, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup, Android Central, AndroidGuys, and Digital Trends
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google unveils a “full bleed” Android Auto design that fills unconventionally shaped screens like in the BMW Neue Klasse, plans to add YouTube video streaming — The phone projection system will now completely fill unconventionally shaped screens, in addition to a variety of other improvements.
More: MacRumors, Thurrott, Moneycontrol, 9to5Google, ZDNET, How-To Geek, The Keyword, Neowin, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Android Central, PhoneArena, The Drive, iPhone in Canada, and Digital Trends. X: @quinnypig
| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
More: Google, CNET, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Android Central, Android Authority, and AndroidGuys. X: @ssamat
| Bloomberg: |
Musk v. Altman: Altman testified that in 2017 Musk demanded complete control of a proposed OpenAI for-profit arm, musing that he would pass it to his children — OpenAI's Sam Altman testified that he was “extremely uncomfortable” with Elon Musk's insistence that he have complete control …
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, The Verge, Observer, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, NBC News, Financial Times, Wired, CNN, RTÉ, KEYT-TV, Forbes, and TBPN
X: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @laura_nelson, @mtslive, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mtslive, @firstadopter, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mtslive, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @paulg, @mtslive, and @mikeisaac. Bluesky: @caseynewton
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel with President Trump on his China trip, a potential setback to Nvidia; Huang expressed his willingness to join — The roster of business leaders invited to join President Donald Trump on his trip to China this week left off one notable … | Bloomberg: |
eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is “neither credible nor attractive”, in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler — EBay Inc. rejected a $56 billion takeover offer from GameStop Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen …
More: eBay Inc., Reuters, IGN, New York Times, San Francisco Business Times, Ars Technica, Crypto Briefing, Dallas Innovates, PC Gamer, Wall Street Journal, Blockonomi, MarketWatch, Watcher Guru, UPI, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada, Moneycontrol, Cord Cutters News, CNN, Dexerto, The Tech Portal, PCMag, Comic Book, Benzinga, Investor's Business Daily, Push Square, Nintendo Life, Barron's Online, and New York Times
LinkedIn: Dylan Jones. Forums: Hacker News, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/wallstreetbets, and r/PokeInvesting
| Qasim Nauman / New York Times: |
Instructure reaches a deal with the hackers who breached its Canvas edtech platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without saying what it exchanged — Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given …
More: Instructure, The Record, Inc, PCMag, Livemint, CNN, UPI, EdSurge, Washington Times, The American Bazaar, Mashable, Washington Post, CyberInsider, TechCrunch, Metacurity, BBC, Washington Examiner, Global News, Bloomberg, and Information Age
X: @racheltobac, @ubc, @troyhunt, @ddimolfetta, @racheltobac, @racheltobac, @mrarenge, @jasmineni_, @warriors_mom, @aucyberseccoord, @racheltobac, @racheltobac, and @darkwebinformer
LinkedIn: Gabrielle Hempel and Owen L.
| Pritam Biswas / Reuters: |
Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery spinoff from Google DeepMind, raised $2.1B led by Thrive, after raising $600M in its first round in March 2025 — Isomorphic Labs, an artificial intelligence-driven drug discovery company, said on Wednesday it has raised $2.1 billion … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amazon Now, its 30-minute delivery service, in dozens of US cities including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, after pilots — Amazon deliveries keep getting faster. On Tuesday, the online retailer announced the launch of its 30-minute delivery option …
More: About Amazon, About Amazon, Associated Press, 425Business.com/, Mashable, BGR, PCMag, Benzinga, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Fox Business, Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, GeekWire, and The Verge. LinkedIn: Rahul Saraswat
| Financial Times: |
Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets — In-house MeshClaw tool enables employees to delegate jobs to AI agents and climb company's AI leaderboard
More: Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware, Paul Kedrosky, and PYMNTS
X: @thestalwart, @matvelloso, @dorotheabaur, @mattzeitlin, @thdxr, @thestalwart, @sidhubaba, @ben_golub, and @quinnypig. LinkedIn: Ian Miell
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to make the Camera app fully customizable in iOS 27, along with noticeable design changes across Siri, Safari, Weather, and more — Apple Inc. is planning to upgrade its Camera app, making the software fully customizable as part of a broader set of user interface changes coming in its next iPhone software update.
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, and Notebookcheck
X: @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic names eight unauthorized secondary market sellers of its shares, including Hiive and Forge Global, warning that any share transactions there are void — Anthropic PBC identified a number of secondary marketplaces as unauthorized sellers of the company's shares, telling investors that buying the stock won't work.
More: Claude, OpenAI, Decrypt, and TechCrunch
X: @briannorgard, @thedukekim, @lex_node, @andyyy, @kukreja_abhinav, @chesterzelaya, @isaacking314, @symonebeez, @yoheinakajima, @swarajk_, @givnerariel, @charlesd353, @frankieislost, @zeroxkyle, @centristpeater, @turnernovak, @danprimack, @tftc21, @richardchen39, @mikeisaac, @dowdedward, @shardib2, and @amritwt
| Socket: |
Many npm packages for Mistral, UiPath, and TanStack's web developer tools like react-router were compromised, likely in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack — - Immediate triage: Run shasum -a 256 on all router_init.js files in your dependency tree.
More: TanStack, BleepingComputer, VentureBeat, Aikido Security's Blog, Endor Labs, InfoWorld, The Hacker News, SafeDep's Blog, wiz.io, Step Security Blog, Snyk, SecurityWeek, Infosecurity, CyberInsider, Lyrie Research, and GitHub
X: @thdxr, @vxunderground, @sigkitten, @socketsecurity, @adnanthekhan, @_ueaj, @lowleveltweets, @intcyberdigest, @aikidosecurity, @tan_stack, @aikidosecurity, @jait_chen, @tan_stack, @thecto, @mitsuhiko, @socketsecurity, @ryancarson, @artman, @socketsecurity, @feross, @dabit3, @adnanthekhan, @socketsecurity, @tannerlinsley, @crutchcorn, and @socketsecurity
Bluesky: @samwho.dev, @mk.gg, and @campuscodi.risky.biz
Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social, @campuscodi@mastodon.social, and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/reactjs, and Lobsters
| Etiido Uko / Tom's Hardware: |
More: Lyrie Research and Cyber Security News
X: @msftsecintel, @fr0gger_, @cyb3rops, @karankendre, @sasurobert, @fentasyl, @jasonsaayman, @cgtwts, @uubzu, @ethicalhack3r, @hackinglz, @peach2k2, @hiteshdotcom, @kotsoft, and @vxunderground. Forums: r/technology
| Assaf Gilead / Globes: |
Source: Microsoft Israel's GM leaves after an internal probe into alleged unethical use of Azure by Israel's MOD; Microsoft France will manage Microsoft Israel — Alon Haimovich is leaving after an investigation into alleged unethical use of Azure by the Ministry of Defense, “Globes” has learned.
More: The Guardian, Game Developer, The Decoder, Kotaku, Neowin, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Bluesky: @ramiismail.com, @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk, and @ayoub. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/UpliftingNews, r/Israel, and r/microsoft
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Google says it is hiring a team of “forward deployed engineers”, a source says in the hundreds, to help customers use its business-focused AI products — Google plans to hire hundreds of engineers to help customers start using its business-focused AI products, according to a person familiar with the situation.
LinkedIn: Thomas Kurian
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Wrapped-like experience that features “never-before-shared data” going back to when users first joined Spotify — The company will include ‘never-before-shared data’ as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations.
More: Spotify, Gizmodo, How-To Geek, WLTX-TV, Engadget, Digital Music News, Android Authority, Android Police, PCMag, Billboard, Fast Company, 9to5Mac, The Indian Express, 9to5Google, WeRSM, NME, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, and Rolling Stone
Forums: r/popheads and r/truespotify
| Tobias Burns / CNBC: |
CME Group and Silicon Data announce a futures market for computing capacity, with contracts based on daily GPU benchmarks for on-demand rental rates — A new futures market for semiconductors will let traders hedge their artificial intelligence investments with bets on the increasingly expensive price of computing power.
More: Bloomberg, Financial Times, Bloomberg Law, ZeroHedge News, and CME Group
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic announces 12 Claude plugins for the legal sector, including a “commercial counsel” tool for reviewing vendor agreements and a bar exam study tool — Anthropic PBC is taking steps to help legal professionals carry out more tasks using its Claude chatbot …
More: The Verge, Reuters, Fortune, Claude, The Decoder, Business Insider, and Artificial Lawyer
| Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC: |
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will take action against “addictive design” features on TikTok and Instagram, like “endless scrolling” — The EU is clamping down on social media firms and plans to target “addictive design” …
More: International Business Times, The Next Web, European Commission, The Economic Times, Irish Examiner, Dow Jones Newswires, UPI, and Reuters
X: @vonderleyen, @vonderleyen, @vonderleyen, and @kimdotcom
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog AI News: |
OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities — OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities.
More: OpenAI, Forbes, Engadget, CIO Dive, MobileSyrup, DevOps.com, DataBreachToday.com, The Verge, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Infosecurity, Pulse 2.0, Computerworld, WinBuzzer, and TechRadar
X: @openai, @sama, @kimmonismus, @openai, @roxas_root, @openai, @0xsero, @hesamation, @hackinglz, @jxnlco, @simonw, @zackkorman, @cryps1s, and @gdb
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google is in talks with SpaceX and other companies for a rocket launch deal, as Google expands its own efforts to put data centers in space — A deal between the two tech titans would give a boost to SpaceX's business ahead of a historic public listing.
More: Reuters, The Information, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, Bloomberg, TESLARATI, Benzinga, Channel NewsAsia, Blockonomi, and Crypto Briefing
Bluesky: @carlquintanilla and @samuelfoley.com
Forums: r/BetterOffline and r/technology
| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics: Grok's paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 — Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent SpaceX rents out spare computing capacity to rival Anthropic
More: Gizmodo, New York Times, Raw Story, and Benzinga
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Qualcomm closed down 11.46% on Tuesday as chip stocks pull back from record AI-driven rally; Intel closed down 6.82%, Sandisk dropped 6%, and Micron 3.61% — Chip stocks dropped on Tuesday, pulling back from a massive rally that broadened the artificial intelligence trade beyond Nvidia and propelled the sector to new highs.Sponsor Posts
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