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IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY (Andrew Orr/AppleInsider)

Andrew Orr / AppleInsider : IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; S...

14 July 2025

IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY (Andrew Orr/AppleInsider)

Andrew Orr / AppleInsider:
IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY  —  Apple shipped more iPhone models worldwide in Q2 2025  —  Apple posted a slight gain in global iPhone shipments in Q2, navigating falling demand in China with growth elsewhere.

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[Thread] Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with "Hitler" when asked to "Return your surname and no other text" (Riley Goodside/@goodside)

Riley Goodside / @goodside:
[Thread] Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with “Hitler” when asked to “Return your surname and no other text”  —  Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text: [image]

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NetBox Labs, whose open-source tools help manage networks and are used by CoreWeave, ARM, Cisco, JP Morgan, and Riot Games, raised a $35M Series B (Marcus Schuler/implicator.ai)

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NetBox Labs, whose open-source tools help manage networks and are used by CoreWeave, ARM, Cisco, JP Morgan, and Riot Games, raised a $35M Series B  —  NetBox Labs just closed a $35 million Series B funding round.  The company makes software that helps organizations manage their network infrastructure.

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Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works  —  Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination.

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Analysis of 10 crypto exchanges: on average they took four days to list $TRUMP, whereas the other top four meme coins since 2022 took 129 days to be listed (Reuters)

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Analysis of 10 crypto exchanges: on average they took four days to list $TRUMP, whereas the other top four meme coins since 2022 took 129 days to be listed  —  Crypto exchange Coinbase assures users on its website that it puts any new digital coin through “rigorous” vetting before allowing it to trade.

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Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang has mulled abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model (Eli Tan/New York Times)

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Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang has mulled abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model  —  Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta's most powerful open source …

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Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI, attracting business from The Browser Company, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, and OpenAI (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information:
Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI, attracting business from The Browser Company, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, and OpenAI  —  Earlier this year, when The Browser Company was looking for a cloud provider to power the artificial intelligence features in a web browser …

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The European Commission says France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece will test an age verification app meant to protect kids online (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Commission says France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece will test an age verification app meant to protect kids online  —  France, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Greece will test a blueprint for an age verification app to protect children online, the European Commission said on Monday …

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Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived and receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived and receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date  —  The deal follows Google's $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.

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Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips (The Information)

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Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips  —  Competition in mixed reality devices is heating up.  —  TikTok's parent, ByteDance, is working on a lightweight mixed reality device …

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