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A look at effective altruism's fall after SBF's arrest and how the soon-to-be rich from upcoming AI IPOs give the movement a chance to return larger than ever (Andrew Fedorov/New York Magazine)
Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent (Financial Times)
The global AI boom has thrust CPUs back into the spotlight as Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and others challenge Intel and AMD in the AI data center CPU market (Nikkei Asia)
Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a $300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures (Matt Swayne/The Quantum Insider)
A look at Chinese lidar maker Hesai, blacklisted by the US DOD in 2024, as it expands in the US; Hesai says it has ~33% of the global automotive lidar market (CNBC)
Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)
Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their hardware in a new system to power AI models, the latest example of Nvidia partnering with rivals (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly on Thursday; a source says the US Department of Commerce cleared a broad rollout (Axios)
Lisbon-based Bizay, a customized products marketplace for SMBs, raised a $55M Series D led by Indico, as it aims to accelerate its US expansion (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
Apple's interest in buying CXMT chips has thrust the Chinese memory chip maker and its relationship with Beijing into the AI supply chain spotlight (Financial Times)
Sleep apnea device maker ResMed agrees to sell its software business MatrixCare to PE firm Frazier for $490M in cash; ResMed bought MatrixCare for $750M in 2018 (Puyaan Singh/Reuters)
Meta announces that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that disables the camera if someone tampers with the glasses' privacy LED light (Victoria Song/The Verge)
Meta says Muse Image includes an invisible watermarking system called Content Seal and previews a web tool to check whether an image was generated with Meta AI (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
Sources detail Xbox's big reset after its Game Pass strategy failed; Xbox spent nearly $80B on content deals, but gamers prefer to stick with a handful of games (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

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Engadget

Meta says it will disable the camera on its glasses if you tamper with the recording LED
Meta built an AI detection tool to ID images and video created with its new models
The next Samsung Galaxy Unpacked launch is happening on July 22
NASA transfers ownership of Maryland woodland to the US Fish and Wildlife Service
Meta's new Muse Image model accepts Instagram accounts as a prompt
Hasbro and Scooby Doo team up for one of the goofiest Transformers yet
Doom developer id Software is reportedly losing half its staff
The FCC wants to make easier for ISPs to hide junk fees
Here's what the CE mark means on your electronics
A bug in Discord's safety systems incorrectly banned accounts since May
iRobot made a non-robot floor cleaner
Google's next Pixel event is on August 12
The X app for iOS now has a built-in video editor
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender finally has a trailer and a July 25 release date
Now you can direct Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI from your phone
Here's what all of those Android status bar icons mean
How to protect your tech from lightning strikes
Orbitals is a nostalgic hit of split-screen platforming, puzzles and '90s anime
NASA celebrates James Webb's fourth anniversary with the most detailed image of Centaurus A yet
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