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Google Search's AI Mode gets Gemini 2.5 Pro and new deep research capabilities; Google also expands an AI-powered business calling feature to all users in US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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A review of Smurfs, aka ‘Randomized Free-Association of Stuff That Happens in Kids’ Animated Movies’

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Google’s AI can now make phone calls for you

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Bedrock Robotics raised $80M from Eclipse and 8VC to develop retrofit self-driving kits for construction and worksite vehicles, in testing with five companies (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

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Looks like Steam is having a messy crackdown on sex games

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Scale AI says it is laying off 200 full-time employees, or ~14% of its global workforce, and will stop working with 500 contractors, after Meta invested $14.3B (Bloomberg)

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Tesla reveals Model 3 Plus and Model YL in China as price war heats up

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Airbus' Acubed and Google spinout SandboxAQ test MagNav, a quantum-sensing navigation device and potential GPS alternative, for 150+ flight hours across the US (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

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Europol and Eurojust disrupt pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) that has claimed responsibility for 1,000+ DDoS attacks since 2022, and make two arrests (Jordan Robertson/Bloomberg)

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Microsoft begins testing a Windows 11 feature for sharing the entire desktop with Copilot Vision; it requires first entering a special mode in the Copilot app (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Jensen Huang says "I don't think I changed" Trump's mind on the US' China export rules, and "it's my job to inform the president about what I know very well" (New York Times)

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Sources: OpenAI aims to integrate a checkout system into ChatGPT, to ensure users complete transactions within the platform, with merchants paying a commission (Financial Times)

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Riyadh-based Lucidya, which develops customer experience software, raised a $30M Series B led by Impact46, marking the largest AI funding round in Saudi Arabia (Yassmin Jabri/Bloomberg)

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Stranger Things 5’s first trailer promises an epic showdown

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ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says "while we still prepare for growth in 2026, we cannot confirm it", after Trump threatened 30% tariffs on the EU; ASML falls 9%+ (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)

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Stranger Things season 5 trailer is finally here

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OnePlus’ 2-in-1 USB cable charges your phone and smartwatch at the same time

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For Nintendo, freedom means more than an open world

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Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition just makes me want to play Baldur’s Gate 3 again

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Donkey Kong Bananza has the reviews of a GOTY contender

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