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| Ben Casselman / New York Times: |
Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement — Nearly 200 economists signed a letter calling for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential A.I. disruptions.
More: We Must Act Now, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Stanford Digital Economy Lab, SiliconANGLE, Washington Examiner, The Deep View, Fortune, Reuters, Inc, Mashable, Techstrong.ai, The Decoder, Quartz, Gadget Review, and Business Insider
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LinkedIn: Oskar Nordström Skans, Christian Catalini, Christie Ko, Yoshua Bengio, Nathan Ramsey, and Christina Langer
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders — Windows 11's search user experience is getting a big update, with Microsoft moving to prioritize local results, remove promotional content, and much more.
More: Windows Blog, The Verge, Engadget, How-To Geek, PCMag, Pureinfotech, and Thurrott
| Shilpi Jain / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to the lowest Q2 levels since 2013 amid the DRAM and NAND shortage; Samsung returns to #1 with a 24% market share — - Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 2026 reaching the lowest second-quarter levels since 2013 as the DRAM and NAND shortage intensified.
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its nearly 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW+ of compute, pushing its total spend beyond $250B — Meta Platforms Inc. has committed to spending an additional $40 billion on its sprawling data center campus in Louisiana …
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LinkedIn: Pamela Henkel Matassa, Susan Bonnett Bourgeois, Dina Powell McCormick, Michail Angelov, and Khalil F.. Threads: @joelkaplan
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: OpenAI still believes it is on track to unveil its first device in 2026 and release it in 2027; Apple's lawsuit may complicate hiring and supply chains — Apple Inc.'s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of systematically stealing its intellectual property threatens to disrupt …
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| Politico: |
The EU blacklists Russian intelligence group members it says were responsible for spying on and hacking targets across the EU and Ukraine from as early as 2010 — Moscow's Federal Security Service is behind the cyber espionage and sabotage campaigns, EU says.
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| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says after the summer the bloc is set to propose a “social media start date for minors” with “gradual access” — Brussels will propose gradual access for different ages in response to concerns over child safety online
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| Benjamin Guggenheim / Washington Post: |
Sources: Trump admin and industry groups have discussed streamlining releases of US open models of equal or lesser capability than leading Chinese open models — Plus, data centers could end up consuming less energy than we expect. — Not a subscriber? Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox.| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: |
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| Financial Times: |
Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufacturing at its Leixlip facility in Ireland; in 2025, Intel canceled a planned €30B factory in Magdeburg, Germany — Move strengthens Dublin's role in Europe's bid to secure advanced semiconductor manufacturing| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more — Xinzhou Wu on autonomy, Chinese cars, and if we really need lidar — Today, I'm talking with Xinzhou Wu, who is the head of automotive at Nvidia.
More: TheTruthAboutCars, CleanTechnica, YouTube, and MarketWatch
| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
A coalition of 12 states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets — A coalition of 12 states filed an antitrust lawsuit on Monday to block the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. …
More: State of California, GamesBeat, How-To Geek, Politico, Variety, Paramount Skydance Corporation, PCMag, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Deadline, The American Bazaar, The Wrap, Consequence, MS NOW, YouTube, Reuters, New York Times, Axios, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, TV Tech, NewsMax.com, NBC Los Angeles, CNET, Blaze Media, and Bloomberg
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Bluesky: @bradlander, @ddayen, and @notaaroncraig
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| Robert Scammell / Business Insider: |
Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder and one of the biggest names in UK tech, to join its compute team; he is taking a leave of absence from YC — The AI talent wars aren't letting up — and neither is Anthropic's big-name hiring spree. — The AI startup has hired Tom Blomfield … | Will Shanklin / Engadget: |
Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the public debut of the new Siri AI — Try the new Siri AI and system-wide performance improvements. — Adventurous early adopters, your moment has arrived …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Munich-based defense tech startup Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E from Dragoneer, Iconiq, and others at an $18B valuation; Germany made €493M in orders in 2026 — Helsing has raised a financing round at a valuation of $18 billion from investors including the growth equity arm … | TechCrunch: |
Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures — Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by Robot Ventures … | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA — Max Buchan started advocating for infrastructure sovereignty when, as he puts it, “globalization and Davos were still cool.”
More: Pathfounders and Telegraph
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Shein is targeting a $40B+ valuation after winning Beijing's approval for a Hong Kong IPO, set for as early as Q3; Shein canceled its US IPO in 2024 — The fast-fashion retailer could list in Hong Kong as early as the third quarter of this year — Fast-fashion retailer Shein … Sponsor Posts
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