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Filing: the value of Alphabet's investments in unidentified private companies was ~$124.3B as of June 30, source says driven primarily by its Anthropic stake (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)
Intel reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $16.1B, vs. $14.42B est., its fastest sales growth in ~15 years on "unprecedented" demand; INTC jumps 10%+ after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Tesla stock closed down 14.52% and Alphabet closed down 6.89% after they signaled increased AI spending, amid worries about the mounting costs of the AI boom (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
Microsoft replaces OpenAI's image-generating models with its MAI models in its products; Mustafa Suleyman says MAI models are ~85% cheaper to run in PowerPoint (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
Patreon lays off 20% of its employees, or 93 people, citing a "painful" restructuring due to "profound" changes in the creator economy (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, partners with AMD to develop autonomous humanoid robots using the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series chips (Aishwarya Jain/Reuters)
AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
AMD unveils the Venice-X CPU, with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and up to 5.15 GHz clock speeds, available in H2 2027 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Primate Labs releases Geekbench 7, featuring larger, more demanding datasets for CPUs and GPUs, along with new video and audio encoding/decoding tests, and more (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-powered reports (Carly Page/The Register)

Wired

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For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark
The EU Fines Google $1 Billion for Prioritizing Its Own Services in Search
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The Best Vacuum for Pet Hair—We Tested Many to Find Which Ones Work Best (2026)
The Best MagSafe Wallets for Your Everyday Carry (2026)
The Trump Administration Wants to Change Public Engagement Rules for Polluters
America’s Hot Hybrid Summer
10 Best Meal Delivery Services, Tested by an Ex-Restaurant Critic
People Are Getting Off to Porn About ICE Raids
Banning Social Media for Kids Is a Bad Idea
Google Turns a Selfie Video Into Your Account’s Spare Key
My Week of Transparent Living With Apple’s ‘More Clear’ Liquid Glass Setting
Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop
‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out
Why Lettuce Is Always Making People Sick
The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI
Top Red-Light Therapy Deals at Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale (2026)
‘The Odyssey’ Is Inspiring Unprecedented Levels of Cope
China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
Dyson V10 Konical Review (2026): Affordable and Solid
Which New Samsung Foldable Phone Should You Buy? Fold8 Ultra, Fold8, or Flip8?
Why Samsung Gave Its Next Folding Phone a New Shape
The 13 Best Fans for Getting Through Sweaty Days (2026)
6 Best Fitbit Models for Beginners, Athletes, and Kids (2026)
States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them
A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out
Flipper Busy Bar Review: An Expensive Focus Tool
Is the All-New Range Rover GT Stepping on Jaguar’s Tail?
OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
Shop Best Buy’s Black Friday in July Sale 2026 Before Fall Chaos
Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
This Former Intel CEO Wants to Jumpstart Moore’s Law With Light
A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots
Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
The Light Flip Is the Stylish Dumb Flip Phone of Your Dreams
The Great Peptide Cash Grab Has Begun
Halliday’s New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera
8 Best Smartwatches (2026): Apple, Google, and Hybrid Watches
The Best Smart Home Accessories to Boost Your Curb Appeal (2026)
Abdul El-Sayed Is an Epidemiologist Running for Senate. His State Is a Public Health Disaster
‘It’s a Modern-Day Draft’: Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech
Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now
The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens
Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing
The Galaxy Card Is Samsung’s Answer to the Apple Card
The FDA Says It Didn't Apologize to Supplier Linked to Diarrhea Outbreak, Actually
Fans Flocked to World Cup Host Cities—Causing 80 Percent of the Tournament’s Emissions
Even Mild Sleep Deprivation May Lead to Weight Gain

Engadget

OpenAI once again makes the case for giving ChatGPT your health records
Universal secures rights for film adaptations of 10 Atari games
Instagram is now banning users who make creepy content with Meta glasses
Claude's voice mode just got smarter
Here's why Chinese smartwatches like the Oppo Watch X3 are rarely sold in the US
Bethesda accused of breaking Canadian labor laws with Montreal layoffs
EU gives antritrust approval to the Saudi-led $55 billion takeover of EA
Qobuz overhauls its music player and adds real-time lyrics
Samsung will support the Galaxy Watch 9 and Ultra 2 with five years of updates
Xbox is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming
Apple Maps will power navigation in Ford's upcoming slate of EVs
Does charging your phone in your car waste gas?
The latest Resident Evil movie trailer has lots of fun nods to the games
Lego's latest Nintendo collab is a playable Donkey Kong arcade machine
I'm just glad Samsung's price hikes weren't worse
There isn't a single consumer Wi-Fi router that is 100% American-made
Amazon brings Luna game streaming to the Prime Video app
Ultrahuman overhauls its app, brings all of its analysis on-device
GoPro Wireless Mic System review: An audio upgrade with fixable flaws
Uber lays off 10 percent of its customer service team in favor of using AI

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