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Halo, a startup founded by former Harvard students who developed a facial recognition app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, introduces "always-on" AI glasses for $249 (TechCrunch)

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Mustafa Suleyman says "Seemingly Conscious AI" is coming but is something to avoid, and that developers must build AI for people, not to be a digital person (Mustafa Suleyman)

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Inside Google's Reliability Labs, where it stress tests Pixel phones and watches; Google claims the Pixel 10 Pro Fold can withstand 10+ years of folding (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

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Masimo sues the US CBP, saying it exceeded its authority in an August 1 internal advice ruling that let Apple reactivate a Watch blood oxygen tracking feature (Christopher Yasiejko/Bloomberg Law)

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Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring real-time game data and analysis to coaches and players using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI (Ali McCadden/CNBC)

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Google Photos will let users edit images using text or voice prompts, first on Pixel 10 devices in the US, and will add support for C2PA Content Credentials (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon W5+ Gen 2 and W5 Gen 2 for wearables, with a new satellite messaging feature, improved GPS accuracy, better efficiency, and more (Michael L Hicks/Android Central)

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NASA and IBM release Surya, an open-source AI model trained on over a decade's worth of NASA solar data to predict solar flares and winds (Peter Hall/MIT Technology Review)

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company hit its first $1B revenue month in July and that "the biggest thing we face is being constantly under compute" (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Anthropic announces a subscription offering that adds Claude Code to Enterprise and Team plans; the tool was previously available only via individual accounts (TechCrunch)

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A US judge sentences Noah Urban, a member of Scattered Spider, to 10 years in prison in connection with a string of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Character.AI has recently discussed a sale with potential buyers and also talked with investors about raising a few hundred million at a $1B+ valuation (The Information)

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Google announces Gemini for Home, a new voice assistant for Google Home, with support for Gemini Live, coming later this year and replacing Google Assistant (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

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Google unveils the $349+ Pixel Watch 4 in 41mm and 45mm sizes, with a curved display, Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 chip, and satellite communication, shipping in October (Matt Swider/The Shortcut)

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Google launches its first magnetic wireless charging accessories under the Pixelsnap brand; the Pixel 10 phones are compatible with Qi2 and MagSafe accessories (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)

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A recording of the Made by Google 2025 event hosted by Jimmy Fallon (Made by Google on YouTube)

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Pixel 10 series get a Gemini Nano-powered Journal app, music creation feature for recorder, NotebookLM integration for screenshots, Gboard Writing Tools, more (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Google's new AI features for Pixel include Magic Cue for contextual suggestions across apps, Voice Translate for calls, and Visual Overlays for the camera (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Google removes support for physical SIM cards on the Pixel 10 series in the US, relying solely on eSIM; Apple removed it with the iPhone 14 series in the US (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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Google unveils the Tensor G5, a 3nm chip manufactured by TSMC, says it has "significant gains" in performance and runs the "newest" Gemini Nano model (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Google plans to update the Pixel Buds Pro 2 in September with adaptive audio, background noise reduction when using Gemini Live, and a new "moonstone" color (Victoria Song/The Verge)

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Google unveils $130 Pixel Buds 2a with a Tensor A1 chip, Gemini features, seven hours of battery life with ANC, and a replaceable battery, available October 9 (Victoria Song/The Verge)

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Pixel 10 gets a 10.8 MP telephoto lens; 10 Pro and Pro XL get an AI-driven Pro Res Zoom capable of up to 100x zoom; all models get AI features like Camera Coach (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)

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Google unveils a new Gemini-powered personal health coach for Fitbit, rolling out as a preview in October for Fitbit Premium users in the redesigned Fitbit app (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Google debuts Pixel Watch 4 with domed display, emergency Satellite Communication (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Google unveils the $999 Pixel 10 Pro and $1,199 10 Pro XL, with 6.3" and 6.8" OLED displays, Tensor G5 chips, Zoned UFS storage, available on August 28 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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Google unveils the $799 Pixel 10, featuring a new Tensor G5 chip, 6.3" OLED display, Gorilla Glass Victus 2, and Qi2 support, available on August 28 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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Google unveils the $1,799+ Pixel 10 Pro Fold, with a Tensor G5 chip, a new hinge with a gear-less design, 6.4" outer and 8" inner screens, available October 9 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

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Sources: NSA Director William Hartman unsuccessfully tried to protect Vinh Nguyen, an expert in AI and cryptology, from being fired on President Trump's orders (Julian E. Barnes/New York Times)

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TinyFish, which develops AI-powered web agents that automate complex online tasks like dynamic price surveillance, raised a $47M Series A led by ICONIQ Capital (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

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Sony says it is raising PlayStation 5 prices by $50 for all models in the US due to a "challenging economic environment", starting on August 21 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Microsoft says it curtailed Chinese companies' access to advance vulnerability notifications via MAPP starting in July, after probing the SharePoint breach (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

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Google hires NBA star Stephen Curry as a "performance advisor" for its Health, Pixel, and Cloud products, including testing Fitbit's new personal health coach (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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FieldAI, which is developing "brains" for robots, raised $405M at a $2B post-money valuation from Nvidia and others; FieldAI raised an initial $91M in late 2024 (Dan Primack/Axios)

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Microsoft and Asus plan to launch the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X handhelds on October 16; leaks suggest the Ally and Ally X will cost €599 and €899, respectively (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Sources: Amazon plans to revamp its Fire tablets and release a higher-end Android tablet as soon as 2026, after using its Android-forked Fire OS since 2011 (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

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NYC-based Bluefish Labs, which analyzes prompt responses for large brands to understand how LLMs answer consumer questions, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

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Sources: China is considering allowing yuan-backed stablecoins to boost yuan adoption globally and its State Council may approve a roadmap later in August (Reuters)

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South Korea's Upstage, which offers AI document intelligence tools, raised a $45M Series B bridge led by the KDB, Amazon, and AMD, after a $72M Series B in 2024 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Document: Microsoft's 2025 System Security Plan submitted to the DOD, dated February 28, failed to disclose China-based engineers maintaining DoD cloud systems (ProPublica)

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A look at the 2025 AI Film Festival, backed by Runway AI and screened by Imax; some cinephiles deride it while others say it's part of a natural tech evolution (John Semley/Wired)

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Grok's "share" button generates a unique URL that makes users' chats searchable on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo; Google has indexed 370K+ Grok conversations (Iain Martin/Forbes)

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Sources: Oracle is on the hook for tens of billions to build unprecedentedly large data centers, including $1B+ per year on a gas-powered megasite in West Texas (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Elon Musk is quietly pumping the brakes on his plans to start a US political party, telling allies he wants to focus his attention on his companies (Brian Schwartz/Wall Street Journal)

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YouGov: 59% of US adults use AI assistants to check the weather, 51% to play music, 47% to get answers from the web, and 40% for timers, mirroring usage in 2018 (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)

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Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$4.6B, slightly below est., and online ad revenue down 15% YoY to ~$2.3B, as Chinese companies rein in ad spending (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)

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Kick says it is "urgently reviewing" the circumstances around the death of a French livestreamer subjected to violence and sleep deprivation during streams (Tom McArthur/BBC)

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Analysis: Intel's stock, up 28% in August, is trading at a 53 forward P/E ratio, its highest since early 2002, reflecting its declining profits in recent years (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

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Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent bets stablecoins will bolster demand for Treasuries, as talks with Tether and Circle help inform issuance decisions (Financial Times)

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Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus and an earlier product called Monica, says its annual revenue run rate has hit $90M, with Manus contributing the most (Bloomberg)

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