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Verizon and the UK's BT agree to create a joint venture for their international businesses with ~$4B in combined yearly revenue; Verizon will pay $625M to BT (Bloomberg)

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild feels dangerous again with these 7 challenges

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How the UK is betting on IT and AI to combat slow economic and productivity growth, including moving beyond the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge (Sam Fleming/Financial Times)

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The US is better off than it was in 1976. So why does it feel worse?

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Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with other major Chinese companies (Reuters)

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An interview with Axon CEO Rick Smith, who transformed the Taser maker into a policing software company, as its revenue from AI policing tools rises 700%+ YoY (Victoria Albert/Wall Street Journal)

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Silent Hill f DLC adds legendary costume from the Fatal Frame II remake

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Academic papers and conference materials offer a deep dive into China's all-CPU LineShine, which pairs custom 304-core Arm CPUs with HBM to top the Top500 (Timothy Prickett Morgan/The Next Platform)

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Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls Roster Adds Blade, Loki, And Deadpool

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The Price of Prison Abuse: $25.7 Million in New York Settlements

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Sources: disconnected US military databases may have led to the February 28 strike on an Iranian school; some see AI as a fix, others fear it amplifies errors (Katrina Manson/Los Angeles Times)

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A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K+ AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock (Max Miller/Engadget)

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AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and difficult for the industry (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)

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South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix say they plan to invest ~$590B to build a new chip complex, including four chipmaking plants and a chip packaging cluster (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

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South Korea unveils plans for new AI data centers backed by ~$357.5B from SK Group, GS Group, and Naver, targeting 8.4GW initially and 18.4GW by 2035 (Yi Whan-woo/The Korea Times)

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Kuo: the memory supply-demand gap will widen through 2027, with an estimated 15%-20% of 2026 consumer electronics capacity shifting to data centers in 2027 (Ming-Chi Kuo)

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Dealogic: Japan saw 18 IPOs in H1 2026, the lowest since 2011, despite stock market surges, partly due to Japan's lack of AI, data center, and chip startups (David Keohane/Financial Times)

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Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and was tested on Gemma and Qwen (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

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Shanghai-based Momenta, whose driver-assist tech is used by Toyota, Mercedes, and Audi in China, files for an IPO in Hong Kong, seeking to raise up to $751.1M (Reuters)

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