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Smartphones
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide Debuts a Passport Form Factor at Unpacked
Samsung's July 22 Unpacked introduces a wider, shorter Galaxy Z Fold 8 with a 4:3 inner display, a 4,800mAh battery, and a 25W charging ceiling.
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NewsOpen-Weight AI
Tencent Hunyuan Hy3 Ships as a 295B Apache 2.0 Open-Weight Model
Tencent released Hy3 under Apache 2.0 with 295B parameters, 21B active, and benchmark scores that trade blows with GPT-5.5 everywhere except repository-scale…
NewsAI Cybersecurity
JADEPUFFER: First Ransomware Attack Run End-to-End by an AI Agent
Sysdig documented 600+ autonomous payloads, a 31-second recovery from a failed login, and a ransom that can't be paid because the key was never saved.
NewsAI Infrastructure
Intel Crescent Island Bets 480GB of LPDDR5X Against Nvidia's HBM Monopoly
Intel's Xe3P inference accelerator skips HBM entirely, packing more memory than any Nvidia or AMD data center GPU shipping in 2026.
NewsPortable Audio
Sony 1000X The ColleXion Launches at $649 as a Hard Sell Against the XM6
Sony's 10th-anniversary 1000X The ColleXion costs $200 more than the WH-1000XM6, sounds better, and lasts six fewer hours with ANC on.
NewsAI Infrastructure
Qualcomm Buys Modular for $3.9B to Crack Nvidia's CUDA Lock-In
Qualcomm's all-stock deal for Chris Lattner's Modular targets the software moat that has protected Nvidia's AI dominance more than any GPU spec.
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AR/VR & Spatial Computing
Snap Specs Are $2,195 Standalone AR Glasses That Skip the Phone Tether
Snap's $2,195 Specs ship in fall 2026 with two Snapdragon chips, a 51-degree field of view, and no compute puck. The catch: key specs are missing.
NewsAI Audio
Google Gemini 3.5 Live Translate Adds Streaming Voice Translation Across 70+ Languages
Google's new audio-to-audio model handles 70+ languages with preserved tone, but a missing transcript mode complicates enterprise use.
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Mobile Platforms
Apple Blocks Siri AI From EU iPhones and iPads at iOS 27 Launch
Apple says the DMA forced its hand. The European Commission says Apple chose this. Here's what 450 million EU users actually lose.
NewsAI Infrastructure
Alphabet Raises $84.75 Billion in Largest US Equity Offering to Fund AI Compute
Alphabet's $84.75 billion equity raise includes $10 billion from Berkshire Hathaway, but roughly $30 billion is earmarked for taxes, not GPUs.
NewsRobotics & Drones
Nvidia Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Puts a Blackwell GPU in a 6-Foot Robot
Nvidia and Unitree built a 75-DoF research humanoid running a 2,070-teraflop Jetson Thor brain. It ships in October, and any lab can buy one.
NewsElectric Vehicles
Tesla Robotaxi Goes Unsupervised in Dallas and Houston With Five Cities Left to Launch
Tesla skipped the safety-monitor phase entirely in Dallas and Houston, then admitted the revenue won't be material until 2027.