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Apple's best-selling laptop is now caught in the same AI-driven memory squeeze that has already hit budget hardware, with online orders slipping to a 2-6 week wait and higher-RAM configurations delayed even longer.
Samsung's new smartwatch lineup, unveiled at Galaxy Unpacked in London two weeks ago, reaches stores today with a shared Snapdragon Wear Elite chip, record-brightness displays, and Ultra2's first-ever dive certification.
Google is turning its Ask Maps chatbot into an agent that can order takeout, book hotels, find event tickets, and pull details from your Gmail and Calendar.
Meta has launched Muse Code, a terminal-based agentic coding tool powered by a new Muse Spark 1.2 model with a 1 million-token context window — entering the competitive market alongside Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot Workspace.
Google has overhauled its AI leadership: Hassabis becomes Alphabet Chief Scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over DeepMind operations, and Jeff Dean departs to co-found Discovery Loop.
Meta's first AI coding agent enters beta for macOS and Linux, putting the company in direct competition with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, with persistent background agents and a 90%-off contributor pricing tier.
AMD's best quarter in 56 years — $11.5B revenue, data center sales doubled — couldn't offset the shock of Elon Musk announcing SpaceX's new Starmind orbital compute platform will run exclusively on Nvidia Rubin GPUs.
Spotify posted €545 million in net income and its highest-ever gross margin, while a Universal Music AI remix deal continues to overshadow the earnings print itself.
The deal bets on behavioral biometrics — how users type and swipe — to counter a surge in AI-generated financial fraud that traditional detection rules struggle to catch.
The AI software company beat estimates on every metric, with US commercial revenue up 149% year-over-year. Full-year guidance was raised to $8.15 billion.
Alibaba's largest model yet scores ahead of Claude Opus 4.8 on agentic coding benchmarks and offers a 1-million-token context window, all while charging a fraction of what frontier labs in the US charge per token.
Researchers disclosed three high-severity vulnerabilities, collectively named FaceHugger, that bypass Diffusers' trust_remote_code safeguard using a timing gap between when a repository is checked and when it's actually loaded — a library downloaded 8.1 million times in July alone.