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A failed hunt for an exotic strangeonium reveals two strange particle structures

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The particle zoo just got even stranger. Physicists searching for an elusive exotic particle instead...

China’s J-16 fighters fly 3,700 miles to make debut in major exercise

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China has deployed its J-16 fighter jets to Africa for the first time, sending the...

Why real-time AI at scale is so hard

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Real-time AI at scale is harder than it looks. Pipelines that hum along in development routinely hit problems in production.

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Alibaba plans to raise ~$10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close (Reuters)

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Alibaba plans to raise ~$10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close  —  China's Alibaba (9988.HK) on Sunday launched a HK$80-billion ($10.2 billion) share placement to fund artificial intelligence-related development.

Sources: foldable iPhone feels durable, fits well in a pocket, has useful iPad-like app layouts, excels as a camera viewfinder but lacks telephoto and Face ID (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

China’s flying turbine now pulls clean energy at 13,123 ft, twice the altitude as before

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An airship the size of a football field just proved it can fly twice as...

20 GW of computing capacity: NVIDIA-backed US startup to build data centers in space

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US-based startup Starcloud has raised $250 million in a Series A extension at a $2.3...

US researchers achieve ‘first’ open-air quantum link across 13 miles in New York

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It may sound surprising, but one of the most stubborn problems in building quantum networks...

One pull to wipe them all

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Q Developer is a free extension that lets a coding agent read a project, propose changes, and run commands on

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AirTag 2 4-Pack Hits New Low Price of $85 on Amazon

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Apple's AirTag 2 is on sale for $85.00 this weekend on Amazon, down from $99.00. This deal is on the 4-Pack of the AirTag 2, and it's a new record low price for the accessory, beating the previous low by about $4.

Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

We're also tracking a smaller deal on the AirTag 2 1-Pack, available for [...]

7 of America’s largest EV plants by factory size and production capacity

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America’s electric vehicle industry is no longer confined to a handful of specialized factories. From...

US Air Force awards Xos deal for grid-independent mobile charging system

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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Xos a prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) to develop...

First Mk4B re-entry vehicle for 4000 nm SLBM nuclear warheads commences production

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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) nuclear security enterprise, working with the US Navy, has...

US Marines acquire ‘cognitive’ tool that tracks adversary narratives in real time

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Accrete has received a sole-source contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to provide the service...

Russia builds 15 small marine nuclear reactors with 175-MWt capacity for icebreakers

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Russia has built 15 RITM-200 reactor units. Rosatom chief Alexey Likhachev outlined plans to use...

The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development  —  University lab nurtured the computer scientists who are using ingenuity and imitation to chase down Anthropic and OpenAI; ‘they know perfectly how to mon

A profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and oversaw the Musk v. Altman trial (Jeffrey Kopp/CNBC)

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Jeffrey Kopp / CNBC:
A profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and oversaw the Musk v. Altman trial  —  It's been a crazy four months for Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.  —  The judge in the Northern District of California spent late April …

The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course  —  Leveraged single-stock ETFs attracted billions of dollars of net inflows even as they plunged during market sell-off

Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025  —  Indian startups spent years getting consumers accustomed to having groceries and everyday goods delivered within minutes.

Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses (Financial Times)

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Financial Times:
Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses  —  Private tutors teach semiconductor basics and help polish CVs for hopefuls looking to join lucrative sector

Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

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Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi  —  A sweeping agreement with startup Poolside aims to build an open AI ecos

Sources: Iran-linked hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, coinciding with a wave of Iran-affiliated attacks on US water utilities (Telegraph)

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Telegraph:
Sources: Iran-linked hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, coinciding with a wave of Iran-affiliated attacks on US water utilities  —  Unprecedented cyber attack believed to be most successful of its kind  —  Tony Diver , Political Editor.  Rozina Sabur , National Security Editor.

Sources and documents detail how Tether's plan to build two bitcoin mining sites in Uruguay fell apart amid a dispute with state utility UTE over power supply (Reuters)

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Reuters:
Sources and documents detail how Tether's plan to build two bitcoin mining sites in Uruguay fell apart amid a dispute with state utility UTE over power supply  —  Uruguay seemed like the perfect place for cryptocurrency giant Tether to launch a bitcoin mining operation.

AI agents' growing capabilities are driving productivity FOMO among some startup founders, who feel compelled to work long hours managing and guiding the agents (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

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Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal:
AI agents' growing capabilities are driving productivity FOMO among some startup founders, who feel compelled to work long hours managing and guiding the agents  —  The growing capabilities of AI give new meaning to working yourself to the bone  —  Seductive.  Intoxicating.  All-consu

London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

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Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings  —  Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just

Sources: some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027 (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg:

This Week In Techdirt History: August 16th – 22nd

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Apparel retailers like Zalando, Zara, and ASOS are betting on AI virtual fitting rooms to create a better online shopping experience and cut costly returns (Sonja Wind/Bloomberg)

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Sonja Wind / Bloomberg:
Apparel retailers like Zalando, Zara, and ASOS are betting on AI virtual fitting rooms to create a better online shopping experience and cut costly returns  —  Buying clothes online can leave shoppers frustrated and retailers drowning in returned goods.  Now brands hope that AI-powered tools will deliver the perfect fit

Doodle generative compositions in your browser with Musical Spirograph

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I remember having a Spirograph as a kid and being obsessed with it. Its geometric patterns are hypnotic and gorgeous. I also love generative music composition. So bringing those two things together in a browser tab, I'm hooked. Musical Spirograph is a relatively simple concept. A set of points dash around the screen according to […]

The open mainframe: the keystone of the end-to-end digital enterprise

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In the first article in this series, I discussed how the Open Mainframe Project (OMP) and its open-source framework, Zowe,

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Carrier Pidge hit 75K users and Roost 650K downloads, as slow messaging apps delivering texts at pigeon speeds attract users tired of constant notifications (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)

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Emmett Lindner / New York Times:
Carrier Pidge hit 75K users and Roost 650K downloads, as slow messaging apps delivering texts at pigeon speeds attract users tired of constant notifications  —  Apps that let users send digital messages at ultraslow speeds have taken off, wit

Securing sandboxes: What happens when AI agents escape containment?

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On July 16, the team at Hugging Face noticed something weird moving through their production systems: An intruder that was

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Six identity capabilities for securing autonomous AI agents

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The artificial intelligence landscape has reached a pivotal inflection point. Over the past several years, the paradigm has shifted from

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Apple's Biggest Summer Deals Drop: AirPods Max 2 Plummet to $429, M4 iPad Air $100 Off

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This week, Best Buy kicked off its big 60th anniversary sale that includes great deals on AirPods, TVs, computers, and much more. Alongside this event, we're tracking solid markdowns on portable power stations from Anker and Jackery, plus the best prices of the summer on M4 iPad Air.

Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

Best Buy Anniversary

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Top Stories: Apple Leaks - Camera-Equipped AirPods, Beats 360, and More

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It was a big week for leaks in the Apple world, with Apple itself revealing information on a bunch of upcoming products within a macOS Tahoe 26.7 build and retailers leaking details on new Beats 360 headphones that could be launching soon.


In addition to all of the scoops from Apple's leaks, we also took a look at 30 new things you'll be able to do with iOS 27 when it drops next month (or sooner if you're willing to try the beta), so read on below for all of the details!

Top Stories

Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action

Apple Vision Pro Was Almost Called 'Reality Pro'

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The Vision Pro headset was internally called "Reality Pro" for a significant stretch of its development before Apple settled on the name it ultimately shipped with, according to the prototype collector and leaker known as "Kosutami."


In a post on X, Kosutami wrote that the "Apple Vision Pro was originally called Reality Pro" during the early stages of development, pointing to an internal string, "realityprorealityosdev."

The Reality Pro name is not new information. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman [...]

RFK Jr. Loses It Over CNN Host Doing The Math On Meal Costs From His Cooking Show

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As you’ll recall, RFK Jr., who is totally not checked out of his job at HHS, has managed to sneak in hosting a government sponsored cooking show in between not doing anything about the country’s problems with measles, cyclosporiasis, whooping cough, and so on. Well, two episodes are now out, and the reviews are not […]

Say it once: introducing Bot Preference Sync

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Cloudflare's new Bot Preference Sync automatically aligns your robots.txt file with your AI bot policies for Search, Agent, and Training. Easily manage which bots access your content without maintaining static files.

10 Ways to Improve Your iPhone's Battery Life

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When you're at home or work with regular access to an iPhone charger, you probably don't need to worry much about your iPhone's battery. On days when you're away from home for long stretches, you might want to make some adjustments to extend battery life.


We've rounded up 10 tips that can cut down on battery drain.

1. Turn on Adaptive Power

Bricks & Minifigs Settles With The Mansells — Gutting Its Own RICO Case Against ‘Reckless’ Ben

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We’re not going to do a full rehash of the whole Reckless Ben / Bryan Mansell / Bricks & Minifigs saga here. We’ve already got a bunch of stories on it, and there are many other sources. But there is some news in the form of Bricks & Minifigs (BAM) “settling” with Mansell — and […]

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: School Of Hard Blocks

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on […]

Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods: All the New Rumors

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Apple is working on AirPods that have cameras for feeding data to Siri. The new earbuds will be Apple's first AI wearable, and they're expected to launch sometime in 2027.

Leaked Video

Transforming Mainframe Recovery

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Spline rebuilt its entire 3D editor. Then it handed the keys to Claude Code.

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Spline released V2 on Thursday, a complete rebuild of its 3D editor that enables external coding agents to work directly

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Apple's New Beats 360 Headphones Spotted in Another Regulatory Filing

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Apple's upcoming Beats 360 headphones have been submitted to a regulatory database in the United Arab Emirates, according to a filing viewed by MacRumors. The filing mentions both the name Beats 360 and the model number A3577.

To learn more about the Beats 360, read our previous coverage. The headphones have also appeared in U.S. and Brazilian regulatory databases, teaser photos, and retail listings, suggesting that Apple will release them soon.

Dash0 Acquires Polar Signals for Continuous Profiling and GPU Visibility

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Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels

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The private Android-based OS will expand beyond Pixels next year.

Apple Guts Vision Pro Gaming and Immersive Video Teams, Trims Siri Staff

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In addition to cutting dozens of Vision Pro employees who worked on features like immersive video and gaming, Apple is laying off people who worked on Siri and AI, reports Bloomberg.


Apple is "largely shutting down" the Vision Pro team focused on gaming, and it is paring down the team that makes immersive video content. Approximately 100 employees who were part of the Vision Products Group have been laid off, with Apple also cutting 100 people from its ‌Siri‌ and software groups.

Vision Pro emplo [...]

Anthropic brings Mythos 5 to its Claude Security vulnerability scanner

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Earlier this year, Anthropic launched Claude Security, an enterprise tool that helps development teams scan their codebase for security vulnerabilities

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Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers

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Logitech increased prices by up to 25 percent last year.

Hackers Target Popular arrayref Rust Crate in Supply-Chain Attack

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Build a unified AI agent architecture with DynamoDB and Bedrock

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With native vector search in Amazon DynamoDB, you can store vector embeddings alongside your operational data in a single table. This post shows how to build a unified AI agent architecture where an Amazon Bedrock agent uses one DynamoDB table for both structured lookups and semantic search, with a DynamoDB Streams pipeline that keeps embeddings in sync.

Zero Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets

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Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At the time of writing, about half the states in the US have some internet age verification law in place, and dangerous proposals, from the KIDS Act to the Kids Online Safety […]

Daily Deal: Plantum Plant Identifier (iOS only)

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The Plantum app is a digital tool that helps to identify plants, diagnose plant diseases, and improve plant care. The app can identify over 40,000 plant species, assess their health, and give specific care advice. Plantum offers a suite of digital tools that help users improve plant care by considering light conditions, soil, water schedule, […]

The MacRumors Show: Michael Fisher Talks iPhone Ultra

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YouTuber Michael Fisher, known as "MrMobile," joins us on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show to talk through key rumors about the "iPhone Ultra" and how the device could compare to rivals.

Anthropic’s new browser tool doesn’t actually run a browser

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Anthropic launched a new Browser Use tool that gives Claude a structured view of a web page in addition to

The post Anthropic’s new browser tool doesn’t actually run a browser appeared first on The New Stack.

Fighter jets help destroy Russian drone boat near European offshore gas platform

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Romania blew up drone boat to protect lives of several hundred rig workers.

CBP Officers And Contractors Abused Government Databases To Stalk Their Exes

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This news will come as no surprise to anyone. Those who have been following police misconduct revelations for years have seen this happen time and time and time and time again. Those who are in the business of engaging in police misconduct have known for years that it’s easy to do and it seldom gets […]

A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers

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Samuel Yeboah, Francesco Di Chiara and Mingliang Liu

Today, Netflix runs two Flink autoscalers. That is exactly one more than we want. We built the first one in-house years ago, when there was no mature option suited to our platform. The second came from the Apache Flink community, and it can scale workloads our homegrown system was never designed for. We now run both in production and are steadily converging on the open-source one. Along the way we learned some hard lessons about metrics, cost, and the real price of maintaining infrastructure you could instead adopt, and we hope they are useful whether you run a handful of Flink jobs or tens of thousands.

Why autoscaling is not optional at our scale

Netflix has run stream processing on Apache Flink since 2017. As of 2026 we operate more than 30,000 Flink jobs across mul

Apple Pay Supporting U.S. National Park Foundation Over the Next Week

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Now through August 28, Apple will donate $10 to the National Park Foundation for every purchase made in the U.S. using Apple Pay on Apple.com, in the Apple Store app, or at an Apple Store, up to a maximum of $1 million.

In addition, the annual U.S. national parks Apple Watch Activity Challenge returns on Sunday, August 23 this year.

MG Could Be Next Automaker to Get Apple Car Key Support

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Code found in Apple's backend car key system suggests the company is preparing to add support for MG vehicles.


The discovery indicates Apple has begun preparing car key support for SAIC Motor's MG brand. With an Apple Car Key, drivers can use their iPhone or Apple Watch to lock, unlock, and start a compatible vehicle instead of relying on a traditional key fob, with support for Express Mode that works without authentication.

MG began as a British sports car marque in 1924 before China's SAIC Motor acquired the brand in 2007, and it has since become one of the fastest-growing car brands in Europe. The company recently delivered its one millionth car to a European customer, with roughly 386,000 of those sa [...]

Forget the model wars, Stripe and Ramp just started the router wars

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I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments,

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Walmart to Begin Accepting Apple Pay in U.S. Stores

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After years of holding out, Walmart today announced that it will finally begin accepting tap-to-pay options like Apple Pay in some of its Walmart and Sam's Club stores in the U.S. starting Monday, August 24. The retailer plans to roll out tap-to-pay support to all of its U.S. stores by the end of 2026 and to its gas stations by mid-2027.


"We want customers and members to have choice in how they pay, so they can check out in the way that works best for them," said Walmart, in a press release.

Other major U.S. retailers like The Home Depot, Lowe's, Kroger, and Texas-based grocery store chain H-E-B already reversed course and rolled out tap-to-pay support in recent years, leaving Walma [...]

Apple Paid $17 Billion in Taxes to Ireland Last Year

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Apple paid $17 billion in taxes to Ireland last year, which is 40% of its $43 billion worldwide total (via the Financial Times). The figures were disclosed for the first time under new EU rules requiring large companies to break down their finances by country.

The payment was significantly boosted by the EU's top court ordering Apple in 2024 to pay €13 billion in back taxes, after ruling that Ireland had granted the company unlawful state aid resulting in a tax rate of less than 1%.
This article, "Apple Paid $17 Billion in Taxes to Ireland La [...]

Smartphone Sales Are Falling Worldwide, But Apple Keeps Growing

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Apple gained ground in India, Latin America, and Europe even as all three markets contracted, according to a new series of Counterpoint Research reports.


Between late March and the beginning of August, Indian smartphone sales ran 14% behind the equivalent stretch of 2025, and the market slipped for three straight weeks once major promotions in July had finished. Apple outperformed every rival with a 15% rise, which Counterpoint attributes to strong iPhone 17 demand holding up alongside continued affordability offers. Samsung and OPPO each grew just 4% in the country. [...]

Grok, Claude, and Hermes agents get job titles — and persistent permissions

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Your next AI coworker may look like a chatbot, but underneath their name, face, and job title will be something

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Claude Opus 5 scored 30% on ARC-AGI-3. Wrapped in Nvidia’s AVO, it hit 100%.

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Nvidia first introduced its Agentic Variation Operators (AVO) general-purpose coding agent system in late March 2026. The company has now

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Trump FCC Weakens U.S. Broadband Speed Goals To The Benefit Of Elon Musk And Comcast

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I’ve spent the better part of a lifetime studying and writing about the way corrupted lawmakers and U.S. telecom giants work hand in hand to erode U.S. broadband standards and mapping so they can obscure the way corruption and monopoly result in limited broadband competition — resulting in shitty, expensive, spotty, and slow U.S. internet […]

Production-Grade AI Eval Systems. What I Learned Putting LLMs on Call

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Most coding agent benchmarks skip large-scale refactoring. Not this one.

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AI coding agents still struggle with large-scale refactoring, with the best model achieving only a 41.2% resolve rate on a

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Waterfall 2.0: Controlling LLM-Driven Software Development with Stage-Gated Discipline

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Apple Reportedly Lays Off 60 Vision Products Group Employees

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Apple "has just laid off an entire team dedicated to VR development," reports AppleInsider, citing its own source. Apple is said to have laid off at least 60 employees from its Apple Vision Group.


Bloomberg's Mark Gurman previously reported that the Vision Pro team was disbanded and its members redistributed across other projects, following the October 2025 refresh of the Vision Pro and the headset's weak reception.

Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus also reportedly signed off on cancelin [...]

Why API Test Generation Is a Judgment Problem, Not a Code Generation Problem

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Why Cryptographic Inventory Is the First Step Toward Quantum Readiness

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How AgentFlo built AI sales agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore – Part 2

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Part 2: how AgentFlo built trusted, reliable AI sales agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and AWS serverless architecture. Learn the three-layer guardrails, grounded data foundation, and end-to-end observability behind a +12% net revenue uplift, plus what's next for real-time voice and server-side tool execution.

Camera AirPods Code Reveals Image Capture Resolution, Status Light, Person Detection, and More

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Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods, as indicated by various reports and a demo video of them in action discovered earlier this week. The video was found by MacRumors in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, but it turns out there are even more details in the code.


MacRumors forum member mactracker has discovered a hidden macOS framework called "AccessorySensorManager" that manages sensor data from the AirPods when they are connected to a Mac. That's turned up the following information:

• AirPods designed to capture paired color images:

or: I think that’s ugly.

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Personalisation produces sameness rather than niches because minimising prediction error means hedging toward the conditional mean, and the resulting world then validates the prediction. Evidence from London high streets, Billboard lyrics, MovieTweetings concentration, and synthetic personas; the fix is a mandated exploration floor of about twenty percent, since a token discovery tab does nothing. Aesthetics […]

Americans don’t like AI

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Today, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021. Another 9% are more excited than concerned and 37% say they’re equally excited and concerned, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted June 22-28, 2026. 🔗 Young US […]

when thought leaders get their voice wrong

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Academic rigor and thought-leadership polish both edit the writer’s judgment out of the prose, and LLM text is that same absence with no one behind it. The proposed alternative opens with the conclusion, leaves the reader to close the gap, and keeps the author’s judgment visible throughout. 🔗 🤖 Practitioner Voice

the programmer’s boss is not competition

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Perhaps more intriguing is the makeup of that adoption, and how it appears to be blurring roles. Senior leaders are doing more of the hands-on IC work, adopting AI aggressively to help them do it, and non-engineers are committing code. The suggestion that everyone in an organization is becoming a “builder” seems to be directionally […]

lawyers prompt engineering

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Beyond this being a highly interesting case on its own merits, it shows that ChatGPT transcripts can be obtained by opposing lawyers in discovery or during depositions. Moye said “every lawyer needs to make sure their own experts aren’t generating work product in a way that’s insincere, and then knowing you can subpoena the prompts […]

they were always trying to fina India

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If we map it, again, you can see the two arms of White Empire stretching over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to draw resources and labor in. This was the point of colonialism, reaching the 50% of population that lives within the Valeriepieris circle. That’s why they kept discovering ‘Indians’ everywhere and never corrected themselves. […]

Relative to your interests, Friday

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ICYMI Original content published since last time. Running D&D with AI, Determinism First, and Workflow ROI, with Michael Rishi Forrester – Software Defined Interviews #125 – “Michael Rishi Forrester built his son a homebrew tabletop campaign with AI in the loop – 20 hours of work instead of 60 to 100 – and found out […]

DOGE’s Screwworm Legacy May Be Tons Of Euthanized Cats And Dogs

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Of all the things I thought the Trump administration would cause to enter the public lexicon, I certainly did not have screwworms on my list. If you somehow haven’t heard of this, screwworms are actually a fly that lays its eggs by burrowing into the flesh of other animals. Those animals are mostly cattle, sometimes […]

Dark Cherry and More: Every iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra Color Rumor

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We're likely about a month away from when Apple will launch new iPhone models, and color has been a major topic of discussion. There's going to be a dramatic new color for the iPhone 18 Pro and ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max, but Apple plans to play it safe with the foldable iPhone.

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

Apple Music to Label AI-Generated Songs

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Apple sent emails to its music industry partners about the upcoming launch of a Made With AI label that Apple will apply to AI-generated content (via The Hollywood Reporter).


Content tagged as being "materially generated using AI" will have a label visible to all Apple Music users.

In March, Apple announced Transparency Tags, a system that lets music creators disclose when AI has been used. Transparency Tags are available for artwork, track, composition (lyrics), and music video. Apple said at the time that the tags were optional, and it wou [...]

ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send iMessages on Mac

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OpenAI today said there's a new Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, allowing ChatGPT on Mac to search messages, draft messages, analyze conversations, and send replies to people.


The Apple Messages plugin can be installed from the ChatGPT Plugins interface, and it is listed under Public. OpenAI suggests users try these prompts:

• Check my calendar and reply to [name] with a few times I'm free for dinner next week


• Suggest follow ups from yesterday in messages


• Find birthdays in @messages and add them to my calendar


• Find potential spam messages I can delete

Bumbling Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav Sees $197 Million Stock Sale Bonanza On Top Of Looming $550 Million Golden Parachute

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Warner Brothers CEO David Zaslav oversaw years of dysfunction during the last wave of pointless Warner Brothers AT&T and Discovery mergers, which included tens of thousands of brutal layoffs, consistent creative infighting, endlessly higher prices, cancelled programming, and endless chaos. Unlike most of us, who’d be shitcanned and ostracized, Zaslav is the kind of affluent […]

US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots pivots after US ban

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FCC ban on foreign-made robots accelerated RoboStore’s US manufacturing plans.

GitHub now sees 2.9 billion commits a month — and it can’t keep up

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Per month, GitHub now sees 2.9 billion commits, 130 million merged pull requests, and 24 million new repos. Back in

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Google’s AI coding agent just escaped its own IDE

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When Google launched Antigravity in November 2025, it was on the premise that developers could hand an entire coding task

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npm v12 Shuts Down a Popular Malware Trick — But the Threat Isn’t Going Away

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AI Agents Are Writing Code Faster Than Anyone Can Review It. Tessl Is Betting On Standards To Close That Gap

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Apple Releases New AirPods Beta Firmware With iOS 27 Features

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Apple today released a fifth version of the beta firmware it is testing for the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, and AirPods Max 2. The firmware is available for developers and public beta testers. It has a build number of 9A5347a.


In iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate, Apple is adding a new AirPods interface, a slider for Adaptive mode, and support for custom EQ, so the firmware adds support for those features. AirPods are also compatible with the new [...]

Debian just proposed banning AI code. Here’s why it matters for open source developers & maintainers.

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The board behind open source operating system Debian has tabled proposals for and against the use of LLM-assisted contributions in

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Slack makes it easier to install agents built with third-party tools

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Slack on Thursday rolled out Add to Slack, which lets users more easily bring the agents they’ve built with ten

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Critical Flaw in isolated-vm Can Lead to Sandbox Escape, RCE Threat

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Warp wants to make it easier to build your software factory

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On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, open infrastructure for building cloud software factories, agentic systems that automate work across the

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How to build smarter OpenSearch alerts: Join our live conversation

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OpenSearch is a top-level open-source project under the Linux Foundation, backed by Amazon Web Services and other prominent players. The

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OpenRouter called itself the “Stripe for LLMs” — now Stripe’s swooped in to buy it

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After weeks of speculation, fintech giant Stripe has confirmed that it’s tabled a bid for AI model gateway platform OpenRouter,

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