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China's AI Boom Creates Frugal 'Entrepreneurial Workers'
China's AI boom is spawning a new class of "entrepreneurial workers" — solo digital laborers using AI to run copy, design, e-commerce and short dramas — whose survival-driven frugality is shaping a di
OpenAI, Anthropic Woo Startups With Token Credits to Win Revenue
OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI labs are offering startups token credits and special promotions in a pitched battle to lock in lasting streams of enterprise revenue.
Hospitals And Hotels Rent Robots Instead Of Buying
Robotics companies from Diligent to Agibot are increasingly renting out machines — hospital delivery bots, humanoids, and factory arms — on subscription terms that bundle maintenance and shield custom
Microsoft's Xbox Cuts 3,200 Jobs, Divests Five Studios
Microsoft is cutting 3,200 Xbox jobs over the next year and divesting up to five game studios in what the company calls a 'reset' of its struggling gaming division.
Yield Guild Shuts Crypto Game Unit, Cuts 35 in AI Pivot
Yield Guild Games is shuttering its YGG Play crypto game publishing unit by August 1, cutting 35 jobs and pivoting to supply gaming-derived behavioral datasets for AI training. The company cited the c
Tesla App Code Hints at FSD Driver Identity Check
Code strings in Tesla's latest iOS app update suggest the company is building a cabin-camera identity check that would block Full Self-Driving from engaging unless the person behind the wheel matches
Apple adds Google Cloud data popup to iOS 27 AI
Apple has added a new permission popup in iOS 26 and iOS 27 that alerts users when their data is being sent to Google Cloud to power AI features, marking a significant shift from the original all-Appl
Apple activates Siri pace and expressivity sliders in iOS 27 beta
Apple activated Siri's pace and expressivity voice controls in iOS 27 beta 3, letting testers personalize how fast and emotionally the assistant speaks — features first teased at WWDC 26 in June.
Altman's OpenAI Stake Plan: $300 Per US Household
Sam Altman is reportedly negotiating with President Trump to give the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI — a proposal the source argues functions more as a political narrative than an actionable polic
Apple Seeds Third iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 Betas to Developers - MacRumors
Apple released the third iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 beta to developers, with cross-coverage highlighting new Siri AI voice customization features including adjustable pace and expressivity.
Google Opts Users Into AI Media Training by Default
Google quietly updated its Search services privacy settings in June, opting users into having uploaded photos, audio, video, and files used to train its AI models — though the 'Save Media' option can
Stealth robotics startup (YC S26) is hiring principal engineers (Palo Alto)
A stealth YC S26 robotics startup building wearable load-carrying devices is hiring three principal engineers at $200-250K plus 1-2% equity, with its hardware already deployed on real users in the fie
Xbox Cuts 3,200 Jobs, Divests Five Studios in Reset
Microsoft's Xbox division announced roughly 3,200 job cuts and the divestiture of five game studios in what Xbox CEO Asha Sharma called a 'reset' to fix an unhealthy business with margins well below c
Quantum Systems drone hits 434 mph speed record
Munich-based Quantum Systems says its Apex Recordhunter electric drone hit 434 mph (699 km/h) in internal testing, outpacing the current unofficial 409 mph electric drone speed record pending Guinness
Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created
Reddit is deploying large language models to combat the spam that LLMs themselves helped generate, blocking 23 million spam views and catching roughly 25,000 new spam posts and comments every day.
Ryzen AI Developer Platform: AMD's Own Linux Distribution Built Atop Debian - Phoronix
AMD is expanding its Ryzen AI footprint with a Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at developers, while its Ryzen AI Halo hardware hits retail at Micro Center and draws comparisons to NVIDIA's DGX S
AMD Ryzen AI Halo Mini PC Reviewed at $4K
Tech reviewers are weighing in on AMD's Ryzen AI Halo mini PC, praising its power and fully open-source software while flagging its steep $4,000 price tag as a barrier for casual buyers.
Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups
Paris-based Station F is launching the second cohort of its F/ai AI accelerator this September, adding Eleven Labs, GitHub, and Rippling as partners after its first batch of 20 startups collectively r
Agility Robotics Going Public via SPAC, CEO Says
Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson told TechCrunch the humanoid robotics startup is going public via a SPAC, positioning its physical-layer engineering as its core advantage in a market she describes
QuimaRAT: Java-Based Cross-Platform RAT Sold as MaaS
Cybersecurity researchers at LevelBlue have identified QuimaRAT, a modular Java-based remote access trojan sold as a malware-as-a-service subscription that targets Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.
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