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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google DeepMind launches SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model debuting on the Pixel 11 in Gboard and Live Transcribe, first for ASL to English text — Google DeepMind said today it wants to bring the artificial intelligence revolution to the estimated 70 million people across …
More: Google DeepMind, Engadget, Digital Trends, and Unite.AI
| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Google unveils the $1,899+ Pixel 11 Pro Fold, with a stronger hinge, inner and outer displays that are 20% brighter, Tensor G6 chip, and an updated 48MP camera — Fly like a (Tensor) G6. — The Pixel 11 Pro Fold is the ultimate evolution in Google's latest line of mobile devices …
More: 9to5Google, Times of India, Android Police, Business Today, ZDNET, TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, Android Authority, Android Central, Digital Trends, GB News, Mashable, Trusted Reviews, Google, Digit, Notebookcheck, GSMArena.com, Tom's Guide, and Deal N Tech
X: @backlon, @chriswelch, and @chriswelch
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils the $899+ Pixel 11, $1,099+ 11 Pro, and $1,299+ 11 Pro XL, with a Tensor G6, new Gemini features, Magic Capture to pick the best frames, and more — The Google Pixel 11 series starts $100 costlier than the last year, but offers 256GB base storage.
More: 9to5Google, The New Things, Tech Advisor, 9to5Google, Engadget, Associated Press, CNN, Gizmodo, CNBC, Android Authority, Wired, Wired, PetaPixel, Trusted Reviews, and Financial Express
X: @sundarpichai, @rosterloh, @cartidise, @backlon, @google, and @davidimel
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold hands-on: a letdown after Samsung released the Galaxy Z Fold 8, with few design changes, and it feels like Google is coasting this time — In a year when Samsung made two new flagship foldables, the latest Pixel Pro Fold feels like a letdown.
More: T3, Engadget, ZDNET, PCMag, Android Central, TechRadar, Yahoo Finance, Trusted Reviews, Android Authority, SammyGuru, and GSMArena.com
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| Max Buondonno / The Shortcut: |
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X: @joannastern, @joannastern, @joannastern, and @alexmaxham
| David Imel / The Verge: |
More: The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, CNET, Android Authority, Mashable, Imaging Resource, and The Deep View
| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Google is introducing an insulin-resistance trend feature that uses AI, accelerometer, and other sensors, launching first on the Watch 5 and Fitbit devices — Alphabet Inc.'s Google Inc. is bringing a new set of health features to its wearables, including one that tracks insulin resistance over time … | Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Google unveils the $399 Pixel Watch 5 with a satin pyrite case finish, offline Gemini, proactive AI suggestions, better GPS maps, and insulin resistance trends — The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware. Sure, there's a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition.
More: TechCrunch, How-To Geek, 9to5Google, Engadget, ZDNET, Gizmodo, Android Police, CNET, The Independent, Tom's Guide, Android Central, The Sun Malaysia, Mashable, Google, and BGR. LinkedIn: Noah Presler
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google says Android's AirDrop-like Quick Share will now let some devices exchange files and contact info when tapped together, starting with the Pixel 6 and up — The Quick Share update makes it easier to share contact info and files between Pixel devices, and soon, Samsung phones.
More: Google, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Central, Android Authority, Podcasts, and Droid Life
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google plans to launch the $29 Pixel Tag on November 11 with a four-pack priced at $99, matching AirTag 2 pricing, offering UWB, Find Hub support, and more — The $29 tracker combines UWB with Bluetooth channel sounding. … More than two years after launching its own device-tracking network …
More: PCMag, How-To Geek, T3, Engadget, TechCrunch, ZDNET, Gizmodo, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Android Central, Digital Trends, Mashable, Google, and Droid Life
| Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google: |
Google says the Pixel Buds Pro 2 will get new features, including dynamic ANC and sleep sync, via a software update in September, and adds a new Olive color — It's been a couple of years since Google rolled out a new set of Pro-branded earbuds, and while it's still not ready to debut …
More: Android Central, Digital Trends, SoundGuys, Google, Android Authority, and TechCabal
| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI coding startup Cognition is in early talks with investors to raise $1B+ at a $40B+ valuation, after raising $1B at a $26B valuation in May — Cognition AI is in early talks with investors for a new funding round that may boost the coding startup's valuation by more than 50% …
More: PYMNTS, Silicon Republic, RuntimeWire, Tech Funding News, and Tech in Asia
| Bloomberg: |
Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$30.4B, above ~$30B est., driven by surging WeChat advertising and resilient game spending, and net income of ~$8.3B — Tencent Holdings Ltd. more than doubled spending on AI projects and computing to about $7.8 billion last quarter … | Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 41% YoY to ~$78.4B, with cloud and networking products contributing 50%+ for the first time, and net profit up 35% YoY to ~$1.86B — Net profit for the three months ended June rose 35% from a year earlier — Foxconn Technology Group reported another strong quarter … | Will Knight / Wired: |
Researchers find that feeding a frontier model's encrypted reasoning traces to a weaker model from the same provider can make it output the traces in plaintext — Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, arXiv.org, WinBuzzer, The American Bazaar, Digit, The Hacker News, Latent.Space, The Neuron, Wccftech, RuntimeWire, The Decoder, Cyber Security News, and The Information
| Tom Wilson / Financial Times: |
Researchers say suspected Chinese hackers used open-source AI agents to build an autonomous hacking tool that compromised Taiwanese government websites in July — AI agents ran simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins in display of new phase of cyberwarfare.
More: Metacurity, Tom's Hardware, CNBC, KnowBe4 Blog, Insurance Business, and DigiTimes
| Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters: |
AI code review startup CodeRabbit raised a $143M Series C co-led by Atomico and Smash at a $1.5B valuation, after raising a $60M Series B in September 2025 — AI code review startup CodeRabbit said on Wednesday it had raised $143 million in a funding round that valued it at $1.5 billion.
More: Finimize, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Axios, and Fidelity Investments
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Some health and fitness obsessives are using AI for hyperpersonalized training, building dashboards and tools to analyze their sleep, workouts, diet, and more — From marathon training to tracking office angst, health obsessives are linking their data to chatbots to build hyperpersonalized coaches| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin launches Shanghai-based Pragmatik Labs to build digital and physical AI agents; Pragmatik hit a $2B valuation in June — Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin announced that he had started a new AI company, confirming The Information's earlier reports.
More: Pragmatik Labs, Bloomberg, and RuntimeWire
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T says open models currently account for ~25% of its AI usage, and it targets 70% to 80% over time; AT&T uses an average of 45B AI tokens per day — The telecom company is staking its future on open models, both to control token cost and protect its proprietary data
More: Forbes
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
A look at the challenges facing incoming Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu, who joined DeepMind in 2012 and will oversee Gemini and frontier AI research — DeepMind's new boss is set to face intense pressure to close the AI performance gap with OpenAI and Anthropic.
Forums: r/technology
| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings, which acquires traditional service businesses and adds AI, raised $2B from SoftBank, D1, and others at a $12B valuation — The company, Thrive Holdings, acquires businesses to infuse them with artificial intelligence and drew interest from backers like SoftBank.
X: @joshuakushner, @samaysham, and @thriveholdings
| Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal: |
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation, up from $6.6B in December 2025, becoming one of Europe's most valuable startups — New funding round catapults AI company into the ranks of Europe's most valuable startups — Artificial-intelligence startup Lovable …
More: Sifted, Bloomberg, Reuters, Silicon Republic, Lovable, FinSMEs, Tech.eu, Business Insider, BusinessCloud, and Tech Funding News
X: @fabianhedin, @felixhhaas, @deedydas, and @antonosika
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Skan AI, which is building a “context graph of work” by observing staff using enterprise software, raised a $63M Series C co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell — Skan AI, a startup that builds what it calls a “context graph of work” by observing how employees actually perform …
More: SkanAI, FinSMEs, Unite.AI, and RuntimeWire
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
A look at AI news website RuntimeWire, which costs $100/day to run and “beat” human reporters to OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure, favoring quantity over quality — Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It's just the beginning.
More: Talking Biz News. X: @stokel and @nxthompson
Bluesky: @amymaxmen, @knibbs, @jeffgreene, and @davidgilbert. Mastodon: @dsilverman@mastodon.social. Forums: r/Journalism
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
ClearJet, whose AI-enabled logistics service connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on commercial flights, raised a $25M Series B led by Edison Partners — ClearJet, an AI-enabled logistics technology startup, has raised a $25 million Series B, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
More: FinSMEs, ClearJet, and RuntimeWire
| Sumedha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
FlightAware withdraws its lawsuit against Kalshi, a day after it alleged Kalshi is using its data without permission to let users bet on flight cancellations — Flight-tracking company FlightAware withdrew its lawsuit against Kalshi on Tuesday, a day after it filed the suit that accuses … | Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview, supporting ChatGPT Work, Codex, and more; Computer Use outside the in-app browser is not available — On Tuesday, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT desktop for Linux. — Now in preview, the app, which combines ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work …
More: TechCrunch, OMG! Ubuntu, The Decoder, Business Today, Neowin, Implicator.ai, Linuxiac, RuntimeWire, The Verge, Thurrott, SQ Magazine, and Tech in Asia
X: @openai, @theo, @i2cjak, @boazbaraktcs, @giffmana, @nickbaumann_, @thsottiaux, @jameszmsun, @openai, and @btibor91. Forums: r/linux
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