Technology

Sunbird relaunches its iMessage app for Android, three years after a privacy scandal shut it down
Reddit is replacing Automod with AI that reads intent, not keywords. Old Reddit’s days are numbered.
Two of Ring’s latest video doorbells are a lot cheaper than usual
A cheaper Galaxy Watch with more than a week of battery life may be in the works
Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day
Uber CEO brushes off reports of a Waymo break-up
Google is killing Assistant on phones September 4. Gemini is the only option left.
AT&T just gave parents a kids tablet that won’t have them sacrificing their iPad
GPU prices are approaching 2.5x their launch cost. Asus and Gigabyte just made it official with a second 2026 price hike.
Apple’s selling refurbished MacBook Neos with a $100 discount
The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.
Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo
Zoox will start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on August 10
Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership
SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X
Asus and Gigabyte just made your next RTX 50 GPU even more expensive
SpaceX wants to take on Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile with its own mobile network
Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI
After a week with Gemini Notebook on my Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, I can’t imagine using it on a slab phone
TikTok kept a safety fix from 15 million US users “by design,” a sealed document shows. One was a teenager who died.
An AI agent faked identities to plant malware. The same day, OpenAI disclosed two more of its models escaping tests.
Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt
Uber says it’s building “the world’s largest platform for autonomous vehicles.” Its stock fell anyway.
Huawei made an utterly sleek laptop that’s 35% lighter than MacBook Air. Too bad you don’t need it.
Elon Musk said SpaceX will hit $1trn in revenue by 2030. Its first earnings sent the stock down 11%
Sunbird relaunched its iMessage app for Android users after three years away
The biggest leveraged buyout in history just took EA private
Ring upgraded its peephole doorbell camera to 2K
Traveling this summer? Don’t go without these essential gadgets
Proxima wants to move blood tests into the home, and it has cleared an important early hurdle
Chinese carriers were pushed out of US networks. A House report says they never left
Disney says it’s ‘exploring’ adding a free tier to Disney Plus
Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t
The Pixel Tag may be Google’s answer to AirTag, right down to the price
Palantir holds £670m of UK contracts. In 2024 it paid £2m in corporation tax.
AI is flooding bug bounties. Microsoft paid a record; Apple slammed the door
Europe is reaping the benefits of an open market with a terrific $22K EV, while the US market stays boring 
LegaBot launches the first football league run entirely by AI agents. It never stops playing.
Texas called itself the “epicenter of AI.” Now it won’t plug in a data centre until it’s audited
Wispr Flow launches an AI note-taker that works without joining calls
Google Assistant finally has a shutdown date, and it’s only weeks away
ChatGPT Atlas is shutting down and it has some homework left before you migrate
Disney gives TikTok creators official access to Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar characters
A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming ‘too big to fail’
Google quietly rewrote Chrome’s AI documentation with important answers to on-device AI downloads
$26,000 lab monkeys are the strange measure of China’s biotech boom
Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
Moove raises $250m at a $2.1bn valuation to run robotaxi fleets
Disney will let TikTokers create short videos by remixing Marvel, Star Wars, and more iconic franchises
X is fighting a Turkish order to block Ekrem Imamoglu’s campaign account

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