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Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the new Siri AI's first public launch — Try the new Siri AI and system-wide performance improvements. — Adventurous early adopters, your moment has arrived …
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| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude's expressed values and behaviors vary across models and languages — Claude doesn't behave the same way in every conversation. According to new research published Monday, AI giant Anthropic found …
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| Kiranjeet Kaur / IDC: |
China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments — What Happened in China's Smartphone Market in Q2 2026? — China's smartphone shipments came in at roughly 66 million units …
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| 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.
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| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: DeepSeek is in preliminary talks with investors about raising new funds at a ~$71B valuation, after raising ~$7B at a ~$52B valuation at the end of May — Unusually swift pace of capital injection comes as Chinese AI start-up seeks to build out infrastructure
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B+ — Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse said today that it has closed its Series C extension, with a total of $439 million raised in the round.
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| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
A look at AI world models, including how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled, as startups led by tech leaders like Yann LeCun raise billions — Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled. — Over the past few years …
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| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
eMarketer: chatbots like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode will generate less than $1B in ad revenue in 2026; OpenAI projected $2.5B in ChatGPT ad revenue this year — OpenAI is projecting $100 billion in ad revenue by 2030. Emarketer puts the ceiling for the entire chatbot ad market in U.S at just $5.41 billion.
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| Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029 — Deal signals continued demand for renewable energy despite Trump administration's efforts to end tax credits and stall plans
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail “context bombing”, where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% — Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them … | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: Nvidia intensified due diligence and cut its authorized AI chip customers in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan by 50%+ to prevent China diversions — Tougher vetting in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan reflects Washington's push to close export-control loopholes
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| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
In the wake of China's “embodied AI” push, there's an urgency among China's 100+ humanoid startups to launch IPOs; LimX Dynamics raises $200M in a pre-IPO round — BEIJING — Humanoid startup LimX Dynamics is getting ready to go public, just over four years after it was founded during the pandemic.
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| Benjamin Guggenheim / Washington Post: |
Sources: the Trump admin and industry groups discuss streamlining the 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. — Exclusive: The Trump administration and the AI industry … | 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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