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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
A short video found in Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence and Siri to answer questions — Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC has references to unreleased products: a Home Hub, home accessories, new Beats, AirPods Pro 4, Apple Intelligence in China, and more — The macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate that Apple seeded today has references to several unreleased products, from home devices to iPhones, iPads, AirPods, and Macs.
More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, Apple Must, iThinkDifferent, and AppleInsider. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens, a new mode that limits high-risk chats around self-harm, eating disorders, and other topics, adds studying tools, and more — The artificial intelligence start-up announced a chatbot mode that will automatically limit some conversations to better protect young users.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Opening arguments begin on Tuesday in the US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be “astronomical” — If New Mexico created the blueprint for taking on Meta, California could determine the company's fate when it comes …
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Dutch company Fairphone launches its $650 flagship repairable Fairphone (Gen 6+) in the US and plans to keep launching new phone generations every two years — More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models — Alibaba Group said its new small-size AI model that customers can run on their own personal computers has been downloaded …
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
In filings, Apple acknowledges App Store regulatory changes are weighing on its $100B+ services business; US App Store spend fell 6% YoY in Q2, per Sensor Tower — Court rulings and new App Store rules are beginning to weigh on one of the iPhone maker's profitable growth engines
More: AppleInsider, Macworld, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, PYMNTS, Bloomberg, and MacTech.com
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging “a hundred million people” from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more — Proton's CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Situational Awareness offered part of its $5B Anthropic stake at a 20% discount as it scrambled for cash; word of its trouble left it “being hunted” — From whispers of an Anthropic stake sale to strange options moves, traders sensed trouble and swung into action
More: MarketWatch and New York Post
| Lauly Li / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel phone, smartwatch, and wireless earbud manufacturing out of China in 2027 amid US-China tensions — TAIPEI — Google has told suppliers it plans to have all of its Pixel smartphones, watches and wireless earbuds produced outside …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android — Reddit's latest experiment creates videos with AI voices reading posts and comments out loud.| Owen Dahlkamp / Politico: |
Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch — Congressional lawyers are struggling to manage a flood of legislative proposals generated using artificial intelligence tools …
More: Engadget and Gizmodo
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| Jason Parham / Wired: |
Rogue Studio, which calls itself a “playground for creative ethical mischief”, launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool to make adult content of Hollywood quality — Rogue Studios, a new cinematic adult AI-generator, is betting big on the future of “sophisticated” spicy content.| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba's Alipay launches a new “all-in-one” platform for businesses to use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock jumps 5%+ and is up 40%+ since June — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares rose the most in two weeks as the launch of a new ecommerce platform boosted optimism toward …
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| Shane Goldmacher / New York Times: |
Google quietly rolled out a new program to let verified political campaigns more easily bypass Gmail's spam filter, after years of complaints from the GOP — Republicans previously sued Google claiming its spam filter was biased, but the case was dismissed.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May, $19B in March, $9B in December 2025, and $4B in July 2025 — Anthropic PBC is on track to generate annualized revenue of more than $65 billion based on its current performance, according to people familiar … | Bloomberg: |
Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals — Baidu Inc.'s revenue fell for a fifth consecutive quarter, reflecting a weakening position in ads as well as AI development against rivals like Moonshot.| Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
Klarna says CFO Niclas Neglén and CMO David Sandström plan to step down in early 2027, and lowers its full-year GMV guidance; KLAR falls 19%+ pre-market — The payments company tempered its outlook for the year, even as it swung to a profit and logged higher revenue in the second quarter
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| Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters: |
Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation — Velaura AI was valued at more than $1 billion on Tuesday after raising $110 million in a Series A funding round … Sponsor Posts
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