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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils Googlebook hardware, with flagship devices from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, offering deep Android integration, coming in October for $899+ — Googlebook OS hands-on: It's Android, stupid — Software — Google's main pitch is that Googlebooks should be the laptop of choice for those with Android phones:| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Googlebook OS hands-on: core services like Gmail run as Trusted Web Activities via the Play Store, Gemini Nano powers some apps, and it feels like a Pixel phone — An overwhelming sense of familiarity struck me the first time I used a Googlebook. That was immediately followed by a realization …
More: Android Police, T3, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, TechRadar, AndroidGuys, and Mashable
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google's Googlebook OS, built on Android with a Material 3 Expressive and ChromeOS hybrid UI, offers deep Android 17 integration, 10 years of support, and more — There's a good chance that my next laptop will be a Googlebook. If you're an Android user like me, then yours might be too …
More: Google, SiliconANGLE, Wccftech, Thurrott, Engadget, Tech Advisor, XDA Developers, Android Police, Forbes, PCWorld, CNET, Wallpaper*, Google, Neowin, Unite.AI, PetaPixel, MobileSyrup, Wired, Chrome Unboxed, SlashGear, The Shortcut, Phandroid, Trusted Reviews, and Mashable
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and no merchant consent — Amazon says it has cut off Meta's new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com on behalf of customers …
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| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot “teammates”, and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse — OpenAI pioneered AI that can take over web browsers and other applications on people's behalf, and its ChatGPT app brought generative AI to consumers.
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| Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware: |
Mac mini (late 2026) review: strong M6 performance, faster storage over the M4, and a small footprint, but pricey storage and memory erode its value proposition — The Mac mini's value proposition has evaporated. — Reviews … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Apple Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) review: top benchmark scores, high base memory of 96GB, and four to six ultra-fast Thunderbolt 5 ports, but incredibly expensive — At $11,299, the extra performance over the M5 Max model is only worth it for select buyers.
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
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| Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
iPhone 18 Pro teardown: its SoC now sits outside the logic board for better cooling, the variable aperture is thoughtfully designed but hard to repair, and more — The iPhone 18 Pro's little mechanical pupil is irresistible. A bunch of moving parts make for a good excuse to put our brand new camera under the microscope.
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| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident “notification mechanism” to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit — Treasury secretary says sides working towards ‘shared vision’ after talks with Chinese counterpart| Olivia Fletcher / Bloomberg: |
Ireland's DPC fines Google €403M over how it processed location data after complaints from European consumer rights groups, and gives it six months to comply — Ireland's media watchdog has fined Alphabet Inc.'s Google over how the tech company processed location data after complaints …
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| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
As Xi Jinping visits DC, Chinese economists warn that Beijing is pouring too many resources into AI, which creates few jobs, and is doing little for the economy — “The U.S. Lead Over China in AI Is All But Gone.” “China Is AI-Maxxing.” “China Just Erased America's AI Lead.”
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| Ezra Klein / New York Times: |
After hacking incidents and the industry's existential risk warnings, we need a regulatory ban on RSI, as competition drives unchecked autonomous acceleration — There's a chasm right now between how artificial intelligence feels to most of us who use it and how A.I. feels out at the experimental frontier of the technology.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Mark Gurman on the iPhone Duo, breaking Apple news, Apple's AI-native devices, Tim Cook staying as executive chair, John Ternus, Johny Srouji, and more — Today, I'm talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world's best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg's chief Apple correspondent … | Bloomberg: |
Nscale's S-1: Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85% of its $103B in total contract value, only $2.6B of contract value was active as of late August, and more — Nscale's 1,000-fold increase in contacts over the last three years is mainly due to two clients thirsty for artificial intelligence … | The Information: |
Sources: DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng says training on Huawei chips is one of DeepSeek's biggest bets and Huawei is set to deliver training chips in Q4 or Q1 2027 — DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors that a major priority for his company is to use more domestic chips to train its models …
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| Yash Roy / Bloomberg: |
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident in July “is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents” — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the responsibility for the recent hacking incident involving OpenAI's advanced …
More: CNBC, International Business Times, Quartz, and Wall Street Journal
X: @_nathancalvin, @_nathancalvin, @jstein_sun, and @ustreasury
| Kirsten Grind / New York Times: |
Investigation: AI hacker house AGI House had 37 incidents logged by police since 2022, many for party-related complaints, as Bay Area tech houses proliferate — Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom.| Politico: |
A detailed recap of the White House's 19-day standoff with Anthropic, where a jailbreak dispute led officials to bluntly order Dario Amodei to take Fable down — On the evening of April 6, an unusual request began making its way from Washington to some of Wall Street's most powerful executives.
More: Fortune and The Washington Sun
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
In its first thematic brief, the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI urges governments to rein in AI agents before risks are fully understood — The report lands as Beijing and Washington prepare to discuss AI and world leaders gather in New York this week.
More: Independent International … and Unite.AI
| Delphine Strauss / Financial Times: |
Meta enters a voluntary access agreement granting the UK's Prospect trade union direct access to recruit its 5,000 UK employees, ahead of new UK employment laws — Greater worker representation expected in tech sector when new employment rights come into force next month
More: ITPro
| Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: |
NYC-based Corridor, which uses AI to offer health benefits for small businesses, raised a $16M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures, following a $9M pre-seed — Corridor, an AI-native health benefits broker, raised $16 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, CEO Nikhil Aggarwal tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: TechCrunch and FinSMEs
| Laurie Chen / Reuters: |
Z.AI open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent — Chinese startup Z.ai said on Monday it had disabled some features of its flagship AI coding assistant after some users reported …
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