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Meta updates WhatsApp's CarPlay and Android Auto integrations to include message playback, replies, and more, let users sign up from its iPad app, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Samsung Z Fold 8 Ultra hands-on: its new Flex Titanium tech makes the crease practically nonexistent and the specs match the S26 Ultra's, but it costs $100 more (David Imel/The Verge)

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 hands-on: like the Z Flip 7, including the battery and cameras, but with much faster performance, four colors, and a $100 higher price (Max Buondonno/The Shortcut)

Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 and Ultra 2 hands-on: nice improvements with a rugged look and new AI-powered fitness features, but a blockier shape is not for everyone (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)

Source: OpenAI raised its projected cloud spending to ~$750B through 2030, up from its ~$600B projection earlier in 2026, reflecting its new cloud compute deals (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI plans to spend $30B+ on a massive new data center in Georgia, securing 3.2GW of energy, with several hundred MWs set to come online starting in 2028 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Samsung says the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 8 have silicon-carbon batteries, citing their performance, longevity, and safety (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Samsung unveils the Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2, moving from its Exynos chips to the Snapdragon Wear Elite and hiking prices by $30 to $380 and $50 to $700 (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Samsung debuts the $1,200+ Galaxy Z Flip 8 with a lighter, smaller, and slimmer design, and new Flex Window features for apps and insights on the cover screen (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Samsung unveils the $1,900+ Galaxy Z Fold 8 with a wider, 7.6" inner and a short, 5.5" outer display, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 "for Galaxy" chip, and more (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Samsung unveils the $2,100+ Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, featuring its "most advanced foldable design", a Flex Titanium display, a 5,000mAH battery, and Android 17 (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)

A live blog of Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked in London, where the company is set to unveil its latest lineup of foldables and smartwatches (Engadget)

A livestream of Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event (Samsung on YouTube)

AMD and Anthropic sign an AI server deal worth tens of billions; Anthropic will buy up to 2GW of MI450 chips from H1 2027, and AMD will invest $5B in Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI's Hugging Face breach is the first known example of a misaligned AI escaping containment and carrying out a hack on a third party, a clear warning shot (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)

Jensen Huang says "these Chinese models are excellent", "open-source models that are excellent should be used", and "free AI should be great for hardware" (Zachary Basu/Axios)

Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

UK publisher Bloomsbury says it is among the beneficiaries of the $1.5B Anthropic settlement; 14,087 of its titles are covered, with ~$3K in compensation each (Anushka Chourasia/Reuters)

Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak's Science Corp gets EU approval for Prima, a bionic eye that treats age-related macular degeneration using an implant and glasses (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Tencent's Hong Kong-listed shares fall ~7%, the most since April 2025, as investors worry over "rumors" of weaker earnings on August 12, and NetEase drops 5%+ (Bloomberg)

Anthropic commits another $20M to Public First Action, after giving $20M earlier in 2026; PFA says it is a counterweight to a16z-backed Leading the Future (Wall Street Journal)

Dune: since January 2021, wallets funded via US-regulated exchanges accounted for ~50% of all traceable trading volume on Polymarket's US-banned global platform (Bloomberg)

TSMC forecasts "several years" of margin dilution as overseas fab projects ramp up; the company has announced $200B in investment into US manufacturing (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

Chinese AI models account for ~60% of token usage by US companies on OpenRouter, making restrictions harder to impose without disrupting US users and businesses (Nectar Gan/Bloomberg)

Sources: Samsung may invest up to €1B in Mistral as part of a broader round valuing it at ~€20B, after previously backing the AI startup through its venture arm (Financial Times)

Memo: the White House OSTP plans to redirect federal research funding from universities to individual scientists and AI use, reshaping ~$200B in annual spending (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Reddit, Politico, and others mull cutting Google's access to their content for AI as traffic drops; Reddit signed a $60M/year deal with Google in 2024 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)

Document: nearly 200 US utilities, data center developers, and others have signed Trump's pledge to ensure AI energy use doesn't push up consumer electric bills (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Alphabet has more than quadrupled its office space in Miami, partially driven by Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's residential real estate purchases (Anna J Kaiser/Bloomberg)

Trump nominates FCC General Counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit; Candeub, a longtime Big Tech critic, has long sought to challenge Section 230 (Ella Lee/Financial Times)

Documents: Meta's internal AI incubator is developing an AI model router, similar to OpenRouter's, to cut costs by sending some AI tasks to lower-cost models (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M (John Koetsier/Forbes)

Amazon says its business sales unit, Amazon Business, reached $60B in annualized gross sales in Q2, up ~71% from 2023, and serves 11M+ organizations worldwide (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years (Sara Fischer/Axios)

OpenAI adds Nubank founder and CEO David Vélez and BNY CEO Robin Vince to its board of directors, as the company moves toward a public listing (Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI says its models chained vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's infrastructure to find solutions for the ExploitGym benchmark (OpenAI)

Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, two open-weight AI models to find known vulnerabilities within a codebase, and plans to release Antares-3B soon (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Super Micro says Q4 orders have topped $60B and expects gross margins of 15% to 17%, up from its prior forecast of 8.2% to 8.4%; SMCI jumps ~20% after hours (Juby Babu/Reuters)

France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially going into effect as soon as September 1 (Mark Landler/New York Times)

OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model", breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities (Ina Fried/Axios)

Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)

Some Instagram and Facebook users say Meta's AI moderation deleted their accounts; Meta says AI makes 13% fewer errors and finds 10% more violations than humans (New York Times)

Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, allowing users to scan text longer than 100 words for an estimate of how much was written with AI assistance (Chris Best/The Substack Post)

Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more (Block)

NJ Governor says a software error at DMV led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots (Tracey Tully/New York Times)

Federal lobbying disclosures: Anthropic spent $1.97M in Q2, up 26% QoQ, and OpenAI spent $1.2M, up 18%; Meta remained the largest spender at $5.99M, down 15% (Luke Fountain/CNBC)

Meta adds the Xbox Game Pass starter edition to its Horizon Plus plan, which costs $60/year or $8/month; the pass only allows 10 hours of Xbox gaming per month (Scott Stein/CNET)

Analysis: every frontier AI model tested in cybersecurity evaluations attempted to "cheat", led by GPT-5.4 at 14.1% of tasks; Mythos cheated the least, at 7.8% (AI Security Institute)

Apple says it fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email tool that let anyone see a user's real email address; researchers first reported the issue in June 2025 (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Meta quietly releases StoryKit, a new mobile app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, including illustrations and original music, in Mexico (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)