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• Dell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $46.97B, vs. $44.92B est., and forecasts $192B in FY 2027 revenue, vs. $172.67B est.; DELL jumps 9%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
• OpenAI says Astra is its first model to reach its "Critical" cyber threshold and warns safeguards may mistakenly flag legitimate activity as cyber misuse (Ina Fried/Axios)
• OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra "soon" but will make its advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners (Wired)
• Sources: AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of $3.2B, up from $300M in April, and is profitable (Anna Tong/Forbes)
• Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe, MSL's first real-time audio perception model, with streaming automatic speech recognition, trained with 70+ languages (Meta AI Research)
• Wafer, which makes AI agents that optimize open-source models for a business's workload, raised a $40M Series A, a source says at a $200M+ valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
• Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates image/video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D (World Labs)
• Anthropic says Fable 5.1 sets new standards on coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks, and can fix the root causes of software issues (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
• Aslan, which offers AI agents for the FBI and wider intelligence community that can pose as analysts and undercover spies in online forums, raised $20.8M (Sam Sabin/Axios)
• Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards to let businesses control how their data is reviewed, stored, and managed, after pushback from customers (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
• Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
• Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards (Anthropic)
• Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
• LLM Token Expenditure Index: average cost per million tokens has fallen to 97 cents, part of a sharp months-long decline since hitting a high of $2.07 on May 28 (Alex Harring/CNBC)
• Empirik, which uses AI to predict and prevent IT outages by analyzing system changes and their effects, raised a $21M seed and spins out from Sequoia Capital (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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• A new Android Find Hub feature will help you remember where you put important things
• 'Reasonable' consumers know they don't own digital downloads, Sony says
• What more can you delete from your iPhone to free up space?
• BT's old copper network could be worth over $2 billion
• Razer just released a cute and teensy mobile game controller
• QHD, WQHD, 4K, and 5K resolution: What do they mean and which is best for you?
• Waymo robotaxi rides are now open to the public in Denver, San Diego and Tampa
• What is Dolby Atmos for Headphones and is it worth it for gamers?
• Sony's new ULT Tower are party speakers that chain together with Auracast
• Google brings its Pics image editor to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers
• GoPro says it's moving into AI data centers as part of a $285 million merger
• Why you should change what apps open on startup for Windows
• Perplexity's Hybrid Compute splits sensitive tasks between cloud and local AI
• 'Sonos 27' brings a refreshed UI to the app and lets AI agents control your system
• Sonos unveils new Beam Ultra soundbar with 'true 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos'

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