Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal:
Inside Amazon's plan to bring fast delivery to rural America and reduce its reliance on USPS; Amazon aims to have 200 rural delivery hubs serving 13K zip codes  —  The e-commerce giant is building shipping hubs in the U.S. hinterlands as it looks to reduce reliance on the U.S. Postal Service

Laila Kearney / Reuters:
Google signs deals with five US electric utilities for 1GW of “demand response” in total, to reduce data center power consumption during peak grid demand hours  —  Google (GOOGL.O) has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota …

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
A look at Andrej Karpathy's “autoresearch” experiment, where an AI agent runs in a loop iterating and evaluating on training code to optimize a model  —  Earlier this month, Andrej Karpathy, a well-known AI researcher who was one of the founding employees of OpenAI and later headed …

Robert Booth / The Guardian:
Palantir won a three-month, £30K+/week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA  —  Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy

Mike Sorrentino / CNET:
Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions  —  ‘Marshals’ Release Schedule: When Episode 4 Hits Paramount Plus  —  OUR EXPERTISE  —  For more than 25 years …