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Google Email Sets September 4 Start for Assistant Removal on Android

Google Email Sets September 4 Start for Assistant Removal on Android

A user email says Google will begin removing Assistant access from Android phones and tablets on September 4, with paired devices affected too.

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Bending Spoons Agrees to Acquire Airtable in $1.285 Billion Deal

The all-cash agreement values Airtable at $1.285 billion on an enterprise basis and approximately $2.25 billion in equity, but closing still depends on regulatory and customary conditions.

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Qwen3.8-Max Arrives on QwenCloud; Open Weights Are Promised Next Week

Qwen’s new 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model is available through QwenCloud with an advertised 1-million-token context window. The downloadable weights have not shipped yet, and the performance evidence remains largely vendor-reported.

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LemonEdge Raises $21M Series A Led by Blackstone Innovations Investments

LemonEdge announced a $21 million Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments to support product work and expansion in the US and Europe.

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DEF CON 34 Badge Debuts a Mostly Open-Source RISC-V Chip

DEF CON 34 Badge Debuts a Mostly Open-Source RISC-V Chip

DEF CON 34's electronic badge uses Baochip-1x, a mostly open-source RISC-V chip whose published software and hardware design can be examined alongside its physical die.

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DeepSeek Opens V4 Flash API Public Beta for Agent Workflows

DeepSeek Opens V4 Flash API Public Beta for Agent Workflows

DeepSeek’s July 31 update puts V4 Flash in public beta without changing the API call shape. Responses API support and current limits are documented; its benchmark results remain vendor-reported.

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OpenAI Says Two Harness Settings Changed GPT-5.6 Sol’s ARC-AGI-3 Score

OpenAI Says Two Harness Settings Changed GPT-5.6 Sol’s ARC-AGI-3 Score

OpenAI reports that retained reasoning and compaction changed GPT-5.6 Sol’s ARC-AGI-3 public-set score from 13.3% to 38.3%. The model did not change.

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MCP 2026-07-28 Moves the Core Protocol to Stateless Requests

MCP 2026-07-28 Moves the Core Protocol to Stateless Requests

The final MCP 2026-07-28 specification removes protocol-level sessions and initialization from the modern path. Implementers now need to handle per-request negotiation, new result and subscription flows, and explicit compatibility boundaries.

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Apple’s 26.6 Security Updates Span iPhone, iPad, Mac and More

Apple’s 26.6 Security Updates Span iPhone, iPad, Mac and More

Apple released a broad set of 26.6 security updates on July 27, 2026, alongside fixes for older macOS branches. The advisories justify prompt action, but IT teams should still test representative devices and avoid implying that every listed flaw is actively exploited.

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Open Secure AI Alliance Targets Security for Models and Agents

Open Secure AI Alliance Targets Security for Models and Agents

Nvidia and dozens of partners have launched the Open Secure AI Alliance to share security research and tools spanning agent harnesses, identity, model formats and vulnerability scanning.

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Samsung-Broadcom MOU Estimates $200B-Plus Chip Collaboration

Samsung-Broadcom MOU Estimates $200B-Plus Chip Collaboration

The five-year plan spans HBM for future Broadcom AI accelerators, Samsung 2nm-and-below foundry work, and 2.3D/2.5D packaging—but it does not disclose binding orders, volumes or delivery schedules.

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GitHub Adds Claude Opus 5 to Copilot in a Gradual Rollout

GitHub Adds Claude Opus 5 to Copilot in a Gradual Rollout

GitHub is gradually rolling Claude Opus 5 into Copilot for Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise users, with admin controls and usage-based pricing.

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Thira Raises $21M for Enterprise IT Execution Agents

Thira Raises $21M for Enterprise IT Execution Agents

Thira has raised $21 million to build agents for cross-system enterprise IT work. Its planned fall 2026 launch will test integration and governance in practice.

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GitHub Lets Repository Admins Archive Pull Requests Without Deleting Them

GitHub Lets Repository Admins Archive Pull Requests Without Deleting Them

GitHub now lets repository admins hide problematic pull requests from public view while preserving a closed, locked record that admins can restore to visibility.

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Kubernetes Custom Metrics Bring Workload Signals to Autoscaling

Kubernetes Custom Metrics Bring Workload Signals to Autoscaling

Kubernetes custom metrics can bring queue depth, job latency and other workload signals into autoscaling decisions, giving teams alternatives to CPU-only policies.

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GitHub Turns Private Vulnerability Advisories Into Dependabot Fixes

GitHub Turns Private Vulnerability Advisories Into Dependabot Fixes

GitHub's innersource security advisories let enterprises privately warn internal repositories about vulnerable components and trigger Dependabot fixes.

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Tokenmaxxing Meets the Token-Minimizing Backlash

Tokenmaxxing Meets the Token-Minimizing Backlash

The tokenmaxxing wave pushed teams to prove AI adoption by using more tokens. The new discipline is token minimization: route, cache, retrieve, and trim so AI spend turns into measurable value.

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AI Coding Study Shows Review Is the New Bottleneck

AI Coding Study Shows Review Is the New Bottleneck

A July 2026 arXiv study of 802 developers and 196,212 pull requests suggests AI coding can lift throughput, but the pressure quickly moves to human and automated review.

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Tilly Norwood's Film Debut Tests the AI Actor Boundary

Tilly Norwood's Film Debut Tests the AI Actor Boundary

Particle6 says AI-generated character Tilly Norwood will lead Misaligned, turning the AI actor debate from a casting controversy into a test of production, consent and audience trust.

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Nothing's July 7 Tease Puts Ear (3a) and Phone (4b) in Focus

Nothing's July 7 Tease Puts Ear (3a) and Phone (4b) in Focus

Nothing is teasing Ear (3a) and Phone (4b) for a July 7 reveal at 11:00 BST, a useful signal that the brand's next push is affordable consumer hardware rather than only flagship upgrades.

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GitHub Copilot's New Controls Make AI Coding a Budget Line

GitHub Copilot's New Controls Make AI Coding a Budget Line

GitHub's July Copilot updates add AI credit pools, session limits, usage records, and enterprise defaults, showing how AI coding tools are becoming governed infrastructure.

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Google TPU Paper Shows AI Supercomputers Are Becoming Systems Projects

Google TPU Paper Shows AI Supercomputers Are Becoming Systems Projects

A new Google-authored paper traces TPU v2 to Ironwood and shows why AI accelerator gains now depend on memory, networks, resilience, and power efficiency, not just faster chips.

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Stathera's $55M Raise Puts Silicon Timing Into AI Data Centers

Stathera's $55M Raise Puts Silicon Timing Into AI Data Centers

The Montreal startup is scaling MEMS-based timing chips as AI clusters make synchronization a harder infrastructure problem.

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Microsoft Frontier Company Puts 6,000 Engineers Behind Enterprise AI

Microsoft Frontier Company Puts 6,000 Engineers Behind Enterprise AI

Microsoft's new $2.5B Frontier Company shows how enterprise AI is shifting from demos to embedded teams that deploy, govern, and improve production systems.

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