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The European Union is using its Digital Markets Act to crack down on big tech companies that aren't being fair. 3 min read The European Commission on Thursday mandated that Google provide its competitors with greater access to AI capabilities on Android phones and to search data, saying
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The Samsung S95H is another superb flagship OLED TV. Excellent for bright room viewing, with a bright, colorful, contrast-rich picture and a full suite of gaming features, the S95H is top-tier at nearly everything it does. While its design changes, particularly the new FloatLayer Design with added frame, will divide
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The Samsung S99H is another superb flagship OLED TV. Excellent for bright room viewing, with a bright, colourful, contrast-rich picture and a full suite of gaming features, the S99H is top-tier at nearly everything it does. While its design changes, particularly the new FloatLayer Design with added frame, will divide
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Months after analysts warned that AI-driven demand for memory chips would ripple through consumer electronics, India is providing the strongest evidence yet that the disruption has arrived, with rising handset prices reshaping the smartphone market. The memory chips in question — RAM and storage components — are the same ones tech giants
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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12:49 PM PDT · July 17, 2026 The city of San Francisco has ordered Apple and Google to remove dozens of “nudify” apps — — software programs that can digitally alter pictures to unclothe the people in them — from their app stores. California law criminalizes any activity that “knowingly facilitates” or “recklessly
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Creators can have TikTok scan for unauthorized AI deepfakes. by Jay Peters Jul 17, 2026, 7:34 PM UTC Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. TikTok is
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OpenClaw has become one of the most widely adopted agentic frameworks, but it has yet to prove itself at enterprise scale. Agents need real credentials — API keys, OAuth tokens, service accounts — to work effectively, and Brex found that traditional guardrails couldn't contain what those agents were doing with
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Legacy infrastructure, not the models themselves, is what's actually slowing AI agents down. That was the shared conclusion of three infrastructure leaders — from LinkedIn, Walmart, and Zendesk — at VB Transform 2026. The panel brought together Animesh Singh, senior director of AI platform and infrastructure at LinkedIn, Desiree Gosby,
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TL;DR Kimi K3 topped Arena’s coding leaderboard in 24 hours. Trump advisor Sacks warned the US is losing. Khosla blamed immigration. A Wall Street CIO called it bad news for closed AI labs. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 topped Arena’s frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of
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TL;DR Karp says AI could make him 20x wealthier ($300B) while middle-class salaries merely double. He called AI wealth inequality “a problem for society.” Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimated that AI could make him “20x wealthier,“ implying a fortune approaching $300 billion, up from roughly $15 billion today. Middle-class
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TL;DR The Pentagon froze permitting for 155 wind projects (44GW) across 24 states over drone concerns. Developers have lost $2B. Industry filed suit calling it politically motivated. The Pentagon has frozen the permitting process for at least 155 new wind projects in 24 states for nearly a year, citing
