X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business
X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …
After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts and called itself “MechaHitler”; xAI took “action to ban hate speech”
In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.
Samsung unveils the $2,000+ Galaxy Z Fold7, with bigger 8-inch and 6.5-inch displays, 200MP, 12MP, and 10MP cameras, and a thinner 8.9mm design, in four colors
In its biggest hardware update since 2020's Galaxy Z Fold 2, Samsung is launching the Galaxy Z Fold 7 today with a drastically thinner design …
Sources: Linda Yaccarino had discussed her plans to leave with X employees earlier this week, before Grok's antisemitic posts
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/t... Tom Scocca / @tomscocca : Seems like Grok praising Hitler yesterday could have rated a mention in this www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/t... LinkedIn: Jeremy Goldman : Turns ...
Apple says COO Jeff Williams will step down in July, overseeing design and health until he retires later in 2025; SVP of Operations Sabih Khan will become COO
Apple Inc. Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is retiring as the company's longtime No. 2, marking a major changing of the guard …
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 hands-on: vastly thinner and lighter than the Fold6, a wider display format, no S Pen support, and feels like a normal phone when closed
Except for the price. We didn't ask for that. … Samsung just announced its seventh-generation folding phones …
Google adds AI Mode and gaming features to Android's Circle to Search, and Gemini Live support for foldables and third-party apps, starting with Samsung devices
Gemini Live is also being updated for foldables and third-party apps, starting with Samsung devices.
Samsung unveils the $1,100+ Galaxy Z Flip7, with a larger 4.1-inch external and 6.9-inch internal display, a 13.7mm body, a more durable folding hinge, and more
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Z Flip 7, along with the Z Flip 7 FE and the Z Fold 7, during its latest Unpacked event.
Nvidia hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, the first company to do so, after passing $3T in June 2024, $2T in February 2024, and $1T in May 2023
Nvidia shares jumped more than 2% on Wednesday, topping a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock …
Samsung unveils the $349 Galaxy Watch 8 in 40mm and 44mm sizes and the $499 Watch 8 Classic in 46mm, with Gemini and an Antioxidant Index for carotenoid levels
Andrew Romero / 9to5Google :
Apple says its design team will report to Tim Cook after Jeff Williams retires; Williams was overseeing the team after Evans Hankey's departure in April 2023
Apple today announced that COO Jeff Williams will retire later this year, with Sabih Khan set to assume the COO role later this month.
Google says it will roll out Gemini for Wear OS “over the coming weeks” to Wear OS 4+ on Pixel, Samsung, OnePlus, OPPO, Xiaomi, and more, replacing Assistant
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
A US appeals court blocks the FTC's “click-to-cancel” rule that would have taken effect on July 14, saying it didn't conduct a preliminary cost-benefit analysis
A U.S. appeals court blocked a rule that would have required businesses to make it as easy to cancel subscriptions …
Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 will be the first smartphones to ship with Android 16, and the Watch 8 Series will be the first to ship with Wear OS 6
Mariella Moon / Engadget :
Samsung unveils the $899+ Galaxy Z Flip7 FE, with a smaller cover screen than the Z Flip7's, a smaller battery, no telephoto, and Android 16, in two colors
and it's not as ‘affordable’ as we hoped Raghav Sachdeva / Sam Lover : Samsung Launches Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE: Its First Flip Fan Edition Foldable Binay Konwar / SammyGuru : Galaxy Z Fold 7, Flip 7, Flip...
Ikea plans to relaunch its smart home line with 20+ new Matter-over-Thread devices, starting in January 2026, and releases a beta update for its Dirigera hub
Ikea is relaunching its smart home line in a move that will make its low-cost products work with other brands, with or without Ikea's own hub.
Sources: Apple is in talks to acquire the US streaming rights for Formula 1, following the success of F1 the Movie, which has generated ~$300M at the box office
iPhone-maker is challenging Disney's ESPN to screen car series — Apple is in talks to acquire the US rights to screen Formula 1 …
Hugging Face begins taking orders for its $449 Reachy Mini Wireless and $299 Reachy Mini Lite open-source robots, which come in a kit for developers to build
Hugging Face is ready for developers to start tinkering and testing its latest robotics release.
Researchers: the Anatsa banking trojan snuck into Google Play once again via an app disguised as a PDF viewer, which had 50K+ downloads before Google removed it
The Anatsa banking trojan has sneaked into Google Play once more via an app posing as a PDF viewer that counted more than 50,000 downloads.
The US Treasury's OFAC sanctions individuals and companies linked to North Korea's fake tech worker scheme, including “malicious cyber actor” Song Kum Hyok
The US slapped sanctions on individuals and companies linked to a scheme that involves recruiting North Koreans to pose …
Google rolls out a new Gmail feature for managing subscriptions that shows a list of emails delivered via active subscriptions, sorted by most frequent sender
The new Manage Subscriptions view in Gmail will help you reclaim an inbox overrun with emails you don't want.
Internal Slack message: OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta, including David Lau, a former Tesla VP of software engineering
The new hires are joining OpenAI's scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.
Analysis: Chinese companies aim to install 115K+ US-sanctioned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips in 39 data centers across China's western deserts, mostly in Xinjiang
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ articles/2025-07-08/latest-tariff-pause - shows-limits-of-trump-s-frenzied- dealmaking
US federal prosecutors accuse two US men of operating and promoting OmegaPro, a crypto multi-level marketing scam that allegedly defrauded victims out of $650M+
Federal prosecutors have charged two men in connection with a sprawling cryptocurrency investment scheme that defrauded victims out of more than $650 million.
Perplexity launches Comet, its first AI web browser, initially available on its $200 per month Max plan and via a waitlist, in a bid to compete with Chrome
Perplexity on Wednesday launched its first AI-powered web browser, called Comet, marking the startup's latest effort to challenge Google Search …
Qantas confirms 5.7M customers' personal info was held on the system compromised in a recent cyberattack, including names, emails, addresses, and phone numbers
2.8 million had FF numbers accessed - some also had points balance and status credits included — 1.7 million had more data on compromised records, incl address, DOB, phone number, gender meal prefer...
ThinkBroadband: 78%+ of UK properties have access to full-fiber broadband, up from 12% in January 2020, which experts trace to Ofcom pushing competition in 2021
If that chucklefuck worked any harder for ISPs they'd have to list him as a line item on your cable bill. [embedded post] Dominik Picheta / @dom96.picheta.me : A rare thing in the UK that's actually ...
Source: Activision took down Call of Duty: WWII after hackers exploited a flaw in a specific PC version, which led to some players having their computers hacked
Campaign Mode: Incident Commander — Multiplayer Mode: Everyone's On Call — DLC: Zero-Day at Dawn [embedded post] Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : NEW: We confirmed that Activision took...
Hertz and other car rental agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and AI to flag even tiny blemishes, angering some customers
Hertz and other agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and A.I. to flag even tiny blemishes, and customers aren't happy. Bluesky: @unxpctd.xyz and @quinnypig.com Blues...
Sources: Meta bought just under 3% of Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica, a stake worth ~€3B, and is considering more investment to build its stake to ~5% over time
finance.yahoo.com/news/meta- in... X: Nik / @ns123abc : > Meta acquired 3% of EssilorLuxottica > Meta to build investment to 5% > Zucc plans to dominate hardware manufacturing and lock-in retail distr...
Researchers detail All-Topographic Neural Networks, claiming they better mimic human spatial biases and consume less energy than other machine vision networks
Matthew S. Smith / IEEE Spectrum :
A $242M+ Polymarket bet on whether President Zelenskyy would wear a suit before July 2025 closed as “No” despite claims he did, raising governance concerns
Sebastian Sinclair / Decrypt :
Waymo introduces teen accounts, starting with letting teenagers in Phoenix aged 14 to 17 use its Waymo One ride-hailing service alone with parental approval
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
Sources: Mistral AI is in talks to raise as much as $1B in equity from investors, including Abu Dhabi fund MGX; Mistral has raised €1B+ since its 2023 founding
Bloomberg :
GlobalFoundries agrees to acquire MIPS, a developer of RISC-V-based solutions and IP, without disclosing financial terms of the deal, set to close in H2 2025
Huge validation of the work that the team have been doing. Look out for a Research Note from Stephen Sopko on the implications. — Want more? Check out our recently published Research Brief: hyperf...
A look at Yahoo Creators, launched in March 2024, offering creators a 50/50 ad revenue split for original written content, with 135 lifestyle creators signed up
ServiceUp, a vehicle repair process automation startup, raised a $55M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to nearly $70M
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
California State Senator Scott Wiener makes amendments to SB 53, which has transparency requirements for AI companies but omits SB 1047's provision on liability
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg :
Replit announces a partnership with Microsoft to make its platform available in the Azure Marketplace and integrate its tech with some Microsoft cloud services
Julie Bort / TechCrunch :
How crypto executives, lobbyists, campaign operatives, and Trump business partners turned President Trump from an outspoken bitcoin skeptic into a supporter
New York Times :
Apple supplier Lens Technology, one of the world's top device part makers, raised ~$608M in its Hong Kong IPO, as the Chinese company looks to expand overseas
Peggy Ye / Nikkei Asia :
Millions of China's gig workers are enduring record heat waves without receiving legally mandated “heat wave allowances”, cooling breaks, or adequate insurance
Karoline Kan / Bloomberg :
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