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-As GeekWire noted, Microsoft seems to be moving in the opposite direction of where it wants to go in order to achieve its goal. -OpenAI describes its latest offering as something of a general purpose productivity agent. - Big Ben's clock mechanic says he programmed his Playdate to help check the timing for the iconic clocktower's bells to ring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoic...

We’re expecting an updated family of foldables including not one but possibly two versions of the Galaxy Z Fold 8. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-SpaceXAi says Grok 4.5 is its smartest model yet, built specifically "to excel at coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work." It was trained across tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs on datasets full of coding, science, engineering and math information.  -The US Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is demanding action from autonomous car makers aft...

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-According to Financial Times, Apple has already progressed to testing the company's memory chips with its devices, while it's still lobbying the US government to give it permission to use CXMT's products. -CNBC quotes an unnamed State Department spokesperson who said the use of Chinese models "by US companies raises serious concerns." -DuckDuckGo announced that it can now block most video ads, pa...

The iPhone Fold's complexity means production will get off to a slow start. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

- Google introduced a change to how it hoovers up our data to train its AI platforms. It can now scoop up media you upload to its various search tools for training purposes, according to a report by TechCrunch. -DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company which sometimes keeps tech executives awake at night, is reportedly looking to build its own silicon. -Meta is facing penalties of up to a massive $1.4 tri...

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-A judge has ruled that the Pentagon must not treat Chinese online retailer Alibaba as a Chinese military company with respect to new lobbying restrictions. -As reported by Game File, Sony shared a private message to PlayStation developers and publishers that said they "will still be able to place re-orders for existing PlayStation disc games." -The NASA Swift Boost mission launched on Friday morn...

Next spring could be a fiesta of new iPads, MacBooks and iPhones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Without a doubt, it was the most personally profitable period of any president's term in office, personally netting him a figure north of $2 billion. -According to an analysis from Zach Edwards, a staff security researcher at Infoblox, the person or group behind these accounts is running more than 10,000 malicious "crypto casino" websites. -Cloudflare has announced plans to automatically block mi...

"We're done paying for executives' failures," one Xbox developer said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-OpenAI's Sam Altman has reportedly been in talks with the US government to ensure his company's path towards achieving its goals remains free of political hurdles. -A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket left for space in the early hours of July 2, bringing 29 Amazon Leo satellites with it. -X launched a live streaming command center called Live Studio, with tools creators need to go live more e...

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-In its report, the panel discussed how quickly AI capabilities have evolved over the past few years. The complexity of tasks AI models can accomplish has been doubling every few months. -Conversation Focus, in particular, is only accessible at no cost for three hours per month. If you want to use it for longer than that, you'll have to pay for a $20-a-month Meta One Premium plan. -Netflix has wor...

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-Reuters reported that the documents posted on "the dark web" allegedly show information about both components and their suppliers for the iPhone 18 Pro. -The US Supreme Court just issued a ruling that limits geofence searches by law enforcement agencies, which could have major ramifications for privacy rights across the country. -Tidal is still allowing tracks made with AI on its platform, but wi...

The workers' union plans to fight the cuts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Rocket Lab announced it's buying Iridium Communications in a deal worth $8 billion to compete with SpaceX's ever-growing Starlink network -According to the Financial Times, Google was forced to cap Meta's use of its Gemini AI model after Mark Zuckerberg's company exceeded its computing capacity. -Sony has notified customers in a handful of European countries that they'll soon lose access to some...

The company's new "nanostack" architecture could lead to far more efficient chips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-OpenAI plans to stagger the release of its new AI model, and the first users will only be parties that are approved by the federal government. -According to the office of California Governor Gavin Newsom, it's meant to serve as an "early warning system" for widespread job cuts due to artificial intelligence, allowing the government to proactively determine where interventions may be needed the mo...

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-As part of its latest revamp, Faraday Future, the embattled electric car company, is now pitching a lineup of robots, including humanoids, quadrupeds and a robotic arm. -OpenAI has updated GPT-5.5 Instant, the model you interact with the most when you use ChatGPT, to be better at understanding context and adapting to queries as you alter them to add more conditions or clarifications. -And do you...

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