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- Melbourne-based Everlab, which is building an AI-powered preventive healthcare platform, raised a AU$65M Series A led by Airtree Ventures (Tegan Jones/SmartCompany) [56m]
- Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% by the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [2h]
- Zhipu launches GLM-5.2, says it markedly improves coding and agentic tasks, with strong long-horizon capabilities and a 1M context window, under an MIT license (Z.ai) [3h]
- Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [3h]
- Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, debuting in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall (David Heaney/UploadVR) [4h]
- Letter: Hightouch, an ad tech startup recently valued at $2.75B, offers to buy LiveRamp's identity business from Publicis for $800M to $1.2B in cash and stock (Sara Fischer/Axios) [4h]
- A look at Specs, which have a battery life of up to four hours per charge, and an interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel about the AR glasses (Harry McCracken/Fast Company) [4h]
- Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first AR glasses that are "fully standalone" and have a 51-degree field of view, expected "this fall" in the US, UK, and France (Jay Peters/The Verge) [4h]
- Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and is considering a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek as a cheaper option (Ina Fried/Axios) [5h]
- Sources: Apple's AirPods with cameras for AI are scheduled to launch in 2027 alongside the 20th anniversary pro iPhones and a second-generation foldable iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [5h]
- Nvidia desperately wants to sell its latest Vera CPU to China after its market share 'effectively fallen to zero' but can it beat AMD, Intel, and Huawei? [42m]
- RAM crisis or not, the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ should not cost anywhere near $1,800 — but I fear this is just the start of overpriced handhelds [52m]
- 'These attacks don't look like break-ins' — HP warns hackers are turning popular remote access tools into dangerous, stealthy backdoors [1h]
- 'You can’t hide the sound of an engine' — Inside the revolutionary Czech AI acoustic shield designed to hunt low-flying drones, which could soon come to a street near you [2h]
- How to watch Iraq vs Norway: Free Streams & TV Channels for FIFA World Cup 2026 [2h]
- Walmart's rival Prime Day sale starts next week — here are 18 deals worth shopping right now from Ninja, Apple, Bissell, Samsung, and more [2h]
- Maine takes down its data breach notification portal after it is flooded by fake claims [3h]
- Over 1 million WordPress sites at risk after popular plugin hacked — OptinMonster among those hit in CDN supply-chain attack [4h]
- What is the release date for Sugar season 2 on Apple TV? [4h]
- 'We are building a global movement' — UK's teen social media ban sparks a campaign to defend the open internet [5h]
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