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- Sources: Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider) [11d]
- Sources: the Trump administration plans to lift export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 as early as Tuesday evening, making it available to all general users (Politico) [11d]
- Sources: Kalshi agreed to pay $20M to sponsor the World Cup knockouts, after initially balking at FIFA's $150M asking price, alongside ADI Predictstreet (Bloomberg) [11d]
- Almost 1,700 UK investors sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao for at least £150M, alleging Binance sold them risky derivative products without regulatory approval (Kirstin Ridley/Reuters) [11d]
- Filing: President Trump reports $1.4B+ in income from his family's crypto ventures in 2025, including $500M+ from WLF and $635M from the sale of his $TRUMP coin (Reuters) [11d]
- Sources: TikTok settles a lawsuit before a second California trial over social media harm to minors for an undisclosed sum; Meta and Snap remain defendants (Bloomberg) [11d]
- Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, before directing Meta employees to build a prediction market app (Bobby Allyn/NPR) [11d]
- Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a $31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to $41.5M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) [11d]
- Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pickers on platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) [11d]
- Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens through August 31, after which prices rise to $3 and $15, respectively (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [11d]
- Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, with performance close to Opus 4.8 at a lower price and substantially better agentic performance than Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) [11d]
- A study of 22K US companies shows those spending most heavily on AI are adding workers faster than peers, but most gains are among tech companies and startups (Financial Times) [11d]
- No new articles in the Past 6 Hours.
- Samsung teases its next big Unpacked event with social media posts that reveal almost nothing — but we've spotted some hints [11d]
- ‘Speed without control is a liability, not an advantage': GitLab study reveals AI code generation is outpacing controls [11d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, July 1 (game #1619) [11d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, July 1 (game #1116) [11d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, July 1 (game #850) [11d]
- This portable monitor makes its stand useful by shoving 7 ports (and a microSD card) in it to boost your productivity away from a laptop [11d]
- WD Red Plus 4TB review: The WD40EFPX is a reliable NAS hard drive small business users might buy on price alone [11d]
- How to watch Mexico vs Ecuador: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time as FIFA World Cup 2026 co-hosts try to end 40 years of hurt [11d]
- 48 hours with the MemoMind One XR glasses — a slow AI, lack of a camera, and disappointing audio left me desperate for more [11d]
- I tested it, and Astell & Kern’s new pocketable smartphone DAC is a clear winner for detail, marred just slightly by bantamweight bass [11d]
- US Secret Service personnel are putting the lives of America’s VIPs at risk by refusing to use government-issued phones — but they might not be up to the job in the first place [11d]
- TerraMaster F4-425 Pro NAS review: An improvement on predecessors, but falls short of what others are bringing to the same party [11d]
- Control Resonant's ray tracing is a heavy demand on the RTX 5090 — but it's an absolute delight to the eyes [11d]
- A Korean student designed the perfect WFH desk for small apartments, and I hope Samsung now teams up with him [11d]
- What is an AI agent builder? And why should businesses consider using it? [11d]
- How to watch CazeTV from outside Brazil with a VPN [11d]
- Newsom strikes Anthropic deal to get California government half price Claude AI access [11d]
- This near-perfect GoPro Hero 13 Black bundle crashes to a new record-low price [11d]
- I'm an AI fan, but Netflix's use of an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice for its Willy Wonka reality show broke me — and we've officially gone too far [11d]
- ‘Stop calling it a hobby and start treating it as infrastructure’: EXANTE calls out the underfunding of widely used open source projects [11d]
- Lego’s first-ever Olivia Rodrigo collection includes five sets, all up for preorder — and the record player Concert Moon steals the show [11d]
- HyperDrive Next Thunderbolt 5 Dock review: An imperfect docking station that's built to last with one feature that might surprise you [11d]
- I'm hooked on The Bear — here are the affordable kitchen gadgets I'm eyeing up to help me channel my inner Syd [11d]
- Qualcomm targets Nvidia, AMD, Huawei with Dragonfly AI accelerator rack loaded with 43TB of LPDDR5x, future generations set to smash 7PB/s bandwidth [11d]
- How to watch France vs Sweden: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time for FIFA World Cup 2026 as Kylian Mbappe leads Les Bleus in last 32 [11d]
- No new articles in the Past 6 Hours.
- Samsung Teaser Hints at How It's (Literally) Reshaping Its Foldable Phones [11d]
- Clicks Demoes Its BlackBerry-Like Smartphone in New Video, and I'm Thrilled [11d]
- 'X-Men '97,' a New 'Descendants' Movie and Much More Hit Disney Plus in July 2026 [11d]
- Mexico vs. Ecuador: Stream FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Live for Free [11d]
- WhatsApp Lets You Reserve a Username, Making Your Phone Number More Private [11d]
- AT&T Adds Home Internet Options to Its Modular Build-A-Plan Service [11d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 1, #1838 [11d]
- Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 1, #646 [11d]
- Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 1 #850 [11d]
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 1, #1116 [11d]
- Peacock Is Launching New Interactive Features For World Cup Fans Today [11d]
- 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,' 'Big Brother' and More: See What's New on Paramount Plus in July [11d]
- Can't Find Hibernate in Windows? Here's How to Locate It [11d]
- Willy Wonka Competition Series Starring the AI Voice of Gene Wilder Coming Soon to Netflix [11d]
- Livies and Lego Unite: These Five New Sets Celebrate Olivia Rodrigo's Music [11d]
- Download iOS 26.5.2 Now for a Smorgasbord of Security Fixes [11d]
- France vs. Sweden: Stream FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Live for Free [11d]
- Ice, Ice, Maybe? Scientists Are Trying to Regrow Ice in the Arctic With Simple Tech [11d]
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