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In Brief 10:12 AM PDT · July 16, 2026 After weeks of speculation, Uber officially agreed to acquire Delivery Hero, a purchase that will take the ride-hailing and delivery giant’s status to new heights, and nearly 100 markets across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. German-based Delivery
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Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating system that powers billions of devices worldwide. The demand is hardly surprising. It may look like a defeat on paper for Google, which has spent years resisting exactly this kind of access,
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Newsletter platform Beehiiv is expanding into new avenues of engagement by launching a feature called Community, which lets subscribers of a creator chat with each other. The company also launched a new AI Copilot that helps creators manage and grow their audience. The updates come as Beehiiv positions itself as
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Artificial intelligence is moving from prototype to production faster than traditional security paradigms can adapt. For CISOs and platform engineering teams, the challenge is clear: you need to protect proprietary model weights, defend against novel application-layer threats like prompt injection, and enforce strict regulatory compliance—all without slowing down your
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It's time once again for Google to reveal its next wave of Pixel phones. The company has sent out invitations for a Made by Google event that will take place on Aug. 12 in New York at 6 p.m. ET, where it will likely unveil a new
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NotebookLM is one of the best AI tools available, and it's been renamed the Gemini Notebook to bring it in line with the rest of Google's Gemini AI suite, the tech giant announced in a blog post on Thursday. Despite the name change and further integration
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As Power Book III: Raising Kanan is getting ready to wrap its five-season story this summer, Starz is treating fans to a taste of what's to come for its next prequel spinoff in the Power franchise, Power: Origins. A new teaser trailer and first-look photos dropped on Thursday,
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Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal evaluations and then failed a customer in production; only one in twenty fully trusts automated evaluation today; and the most-cited
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Roblox is about to let people make games with AI right inside its mobile app, which could make a platform that’s already filled with content of questionable quality feel even more overloaded. The company has embraced AI with open arms, including a preview of an ambitious take on AI
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* OnePlus has confirmed that it's quitting the US and Europe * No new OnePlus products will be launched in either region * Existing customers will continue to get promised support and software updates The news everyone has been fearing but also expecting has been confirmed by OnePlus — the phone giant
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I liked the controller much more than the dock it was attached. This is a clever concept, and for those with a video or photo editing workflow, it's genuinely useful. But as a dock, it's kneecapped by the bandwidth of a 5Gbps uplink. Pros * + * +Buttons and
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