Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

The cube was a lie: up close with our Dbrand Companion Cube before it gets destroyed

The Verge - All Posts

Mario Kart World update 1.7.0 adds new Knockout Tour routes

Polygon - All

Anthropic says it is rolling back a covert Claude Code tracking feature to identify users based in China or affiliated with Chinese AI labs, after backlash (Juro Osawa/The Information)

Techmeme

How a new Amazon-built transatlantic fiber-optic link in Ireland is symbolic of the country's AI ambitions, but also of its chronic lack of defense spending (Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Fujifilm launches two new QuickSnap cameras because Gen Z can’t get enough

The Verge - All Posts

Meta introduces a $20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Techmeme

The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison (Associated Press)

Techmeme

ByteDance is building a $39B data center complex in a free-trade zone in Brazil's Ceará, set to be its largest facility outside of China with a 1GW capacity (Peter Millard/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Who is Mother Askani in X-Men ’97? The truth behind season 2's most important, most mysterious character

Polygon - All

Who is Mother Askani in X-Men ’97? The truth behind season 2's most important, most mysterious character

Polygon - All

Cleared by the US, derailed by the UK: Getty’s Shutterstock merger falls apart

The Verge - All Posts

[Thread] The US' now-lifted export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers towards Chinese AI models (Alex Stamos/@alexstamos)

Techmeme

Anthropic says "some routine tasks like coding and debugging" on Fable 5 "will fall back to Opus 4.8" in "the near term" as it works to "reduce false positives" (@anthropicai)

Techmeme

A look at Manifest, an annual convention for prediction markets where many purists worry that Kalshi and Polymarket are undermining the technology's public good (Christopher Beam/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

BYD, Nio, and other Chinese carmakers are rushing to design and increase the use of locally developed chips with AI functions in a bid for chip self-sufficiency (Financial Times)

Techmeme

South Korean government data: the country's exports grew 70.9% YoY in June to $102.25B, an all-time monthly high, anchored by a record $44.82B in chip shipments (Steven Borowiec/Nikkei Asia)

Techmeme

LeapXpert, which lets companies and sports franchises monitor staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp for compliance, raised $180M led by Riverwood Capital (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Techmeme

Chinese robot maker UBTech launches U1, a line of humanoid robots for personal companionship with lifelike silicone skin and emotional AI, priced from $17,650 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)

Techmeme

Leaked Apple supplier docs show iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max may use Qualcomm modems in the US and Apple's own C2 chips elsewhere, A20 Pro packaging tech, and more (Marko Zivkovic/AppleInsider)

Techmeme

Japan commits up to $6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 (Nikkei Asia)

Techmeme