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Google, Meta, and TikTok file lawsuits to block a California law that bans online platforms from providing "psychologically exploitative features" to under-16s (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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Motorola launches the $1,599+ Signature 27, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset, a 6.8-inch Tandem OLED display, and seven years of OS updates (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Motorola launches the $1,599+ Signature 27, featur...

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Humble Robotics, which is building cabless electric autonomous trucks for regional routes under 250 miles, raised $51M, taking its total funding to $75M (Rya Jetha/Business Insider)

Humble Robotics, which is building cabless electri...

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Mercedes-Benz rolls out conversational models that run directly on its cars instead of the cloud through a partnership with MIT spinout Liquid AI (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Mercedes-Benz rolls out conversational models that...

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Dropbox plans to acquire AI storage startup Tigris Data for $350M, its largest acquisition to date; Tigris raised ~$31.9M from Spark, a16z, and others (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Dropbox plans to acquire AI storage startup Tigris...

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ElevenLabs says users can now publish AI-generated music made with ElevenMusic directly on SoundCloud and that users have created 25M+ tracks using its models (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

ElevenLabs says users can now publish AI-generated...

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Sources: Apple plans to raise ~$7B from its first investment-grade bond offering in more than a year to fund share buybacks, dividends, and capital expenditures (Bloomberg)

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Autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline raised $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation, up from $7.85B after raising $600M in January, and plans to grow US manufacturing (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)

Autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline raised $...

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The MacBook Pro's PROLED XDR display is the best display you can buy right now, but touch adds little to the experience and it lacks Apple Pencil support (Jaron Schneider/PetaPixel)

The MacBook Pro's PROLED XDR display is the best d...

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MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: gorgeous screen, touch is useful, strong performance and speakers, and a Dynamic Island, but pricey and no Face ID (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: gorgeo...

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United Airlines is rolling out a custom native Spotify seatback app across its fleet, letting users log into their accounts, powered by Starlink's Wi-Fi (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

United Airlines is rolling out a custom native Spo...

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Apple rolls out Retention Messaging, letting developers present personalized text, images, or special offers to users who are canceling their subscriptions (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Apple rolls out Retention Messaging, letting devel...

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Agility Robotics is set to begin trading on the Nasdaq under AGLT after a SPAC merger, the first dedicated humanoid robotics company to go public in the US (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Agility Robotics is set to begin trading on the Na...

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Sources detail Dario Amodei's AI beliefs, shaped by forums like GiveWell and based on EA and "rationalism", and his disputes with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman (New York Times)

Sources detail Dario Amodei's AI beliefs, shaped b...

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Discord is moving its desktop app from Electron to Rust for improved speed and memory safety; its CTO shares an image of the Windows app using just 290MB of RAM (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Discord is moving its desktop app from Electron to...

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Sources: Micron suspends construction of its $3B to $4.5B Fab 11E facility in Taiwan, set for 2028, due to mounting uncertainties over a local labor dispute (Bloomberg)

Sources: Micron suspends construction of its $3B t...

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Amazon partners with Uber to make Uber Eats the "official" US restaurant delivery partner for Amazon Prime subscribers, after previously partnering with Grubhub (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Amazon partners with Uber to make Uber Eats the "o...

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Study: UK consumer AI spending passes £1B annually, with 5.1% of adults paying for subscriptions as of July 2026; Claude is rapidly catching up to ChatGPT (Bloomberg)

Study: UK consumer AI spending passes £1B annually...

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