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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: Privacy Display works well, meaningful camera upgrades, and sleeker than the S25 Ultra, but still big, expensive, and lacks Qi2 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

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Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Adobe, and Match sign a voluntary pledge to share threat intelligence about how scammers abuse their services (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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How competition between Brazilian delivery app iFood and Meituan's Keeta in Brazil has descended into accusations of corporate espionage and shady tactics (Financial Times)

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As AI models commodify, Apple's plans to spend just $14B on 2026 capex, far below hyperscalers' combined $650B, or 90%+ of their cash flow, may be a genius move (Horace Dediu/Asymco)

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Sources: Hua Hong is readying a 7nm process at its Shanghai fab with Huawei's help, which would make it China's second chipmaker with such tech, after SMIC (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)

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Sources: Alibaba may unveil a Qwen-based AI agent for enterprises as soon as this week, and plans to gradually integrate the agent into its services like Alipay (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

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Spotify announces Taste Profile editing in beta, the first time it lets users fine-tune the recommendation algorithm, starting with Premium users in New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Microsoft cut plans to add some Copilot AI features to Windows 11 and shipped some tools without the Copilot branding, to reduce AI bloat in the OS (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Reliz, which operates crypto lender BlockFills, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reporting $50M to $100M in estimated assets and $100M to $500M in liabilities (Timmy Shen/The Block)

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Google and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picks five Indian startups from 4,000+ applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI "wrappers" (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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President Trump accuses Iran of using AI as a "disinformation weapon" to make fake images of wartime successes against the US, saying "AI can be very dangerous" (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)

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Micron completes the $1.8B acquisition of Powerchip's DRAM fab in Taiwan, and plans a second fab of similar scale with construction starting by the end of FY26 (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)

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JD.com launches online marketplace Joybuy in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, as it expands globally to challenge Amazon (Reuters)

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Q&A with Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on accidents, why autonomous vehicles won't lead to job losses, plans to license Waymo tech to other companies, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)

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Standard Kernel, which is making AI-powered GPU optimization software, raised a $20M seed led by Jump Capital, with General Catalyst and others participating (Clinton Nwachukwu/Ventureburn)

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Recovered notes from a lobbyist's phone outline a $5M payment structure tied to Argentine President Milei and other top officials' promotion of the Libra token (Zack Abrams/The Block)

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Intellexa's founder says his firm sells surveillance tech exclusively to governments, reviving claims of state spying in Greece after being sentenced last month (Eliza Triantafillou/OCCRP)

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Scanner, which helps organizations build cloud-native security data lakes for threat hunting, detection, and response, raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

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Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Tether, flush with cash, has been investing in diverse sectors ranging from sleep tech company Eight Sleep to humanoid robotics company Neura Robotics (PitchBook)

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