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What happened to Wolverine's metal claws in X-Men ‘97?

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Range anxiety

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

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Mario Kart World update 1.7.0 adds new Knockout Tour routes

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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)

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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)

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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

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

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

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[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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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