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“If they’re going to go as far as eliminating physical packages, they may as well eliminate the hardware too. A television would be enough. Why would you need the console? If you’re going to get rid of physical games, you may as well go all…”
“ServiceNow reported second-quarter subscription revenue of $3.88 billion, up 24.5% year-on-year, with AI products crossing $1 billion in annual contract value for the first time.”
“IBM plans to spend over $10 billion on quantum in five years, is building the Anderon wafer foundry with $1 billion in CHIPS money, and is buying HRL Laboratories.”
“The report evaluates the capabilities of 43 providers across five quadrants: Workplace Strategy and Enablement Services, Digital Workplace Operations and Support Services — Large Account, Digital Workplace Operations and Support Services —…”
“In May, the chipmaker surpassed $1tn (£750bn) on the South Korean stock market.”
“AWS announced a service availability update on June 30 that moved roughly 20 services and features into maintenance mode. The list includes Amazon Kendra, Amazon Q Business and Amazon Bedrock Agents, which has been renamed Amazon Bedrock A…”
“Octopus Energy's own figures show heat pump sales have surged by 103 per cent, solar panel installations have climbed 78 per cent, and enquiries about electric vehicle chargers have jumped 42 per cent.”
“Usually priced at $1,699.99, it's currently down to just $999.99 right now, saving you $700.”
“The company also raised its full-year subscription guidance to $15.76-15.78 billion and beat earnings expectations.”
“Amazon has committed roughly $200 billion to capital expenditures this year, largely tied to AI infrastructure, alongside tens of billions invested in partner AI firms.”
“The report names Accenture, Capgemini, Fujitsu, HCLTech, Infosys, TCS and Wipro as Leaders in four quadrants each.”
“Most encounters were arranged via the website FabSwingers, say the women, which claims to have more than half a million UK active monthly accounts.”
“AWS shipped Bedrock Agents in November 2023 and Q Business less than a year later. The company is now placing AI services into maintenance faster than many enterprises complete a single procurement and deployment cycle for the same product…”
“The £99 device, which was the first-ever set-top box to bring the Freely platform to any telly with an HDMI port, like those without Freely built-in from Samsung and LG, now comes loaded with new video games and additional channels for sub…”
“49-inch Dual QHD OLED curved monitor with 5120x1440 resolution, 240Hz refresh rate, 0.03ms response, HDR10+, G-SYNC Compatible, DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.1, dual USB-C ports, anti-glare coating and 32:9 aspect ratio.”
“Amazon famously disclosed a $500 million loss in one month alone as agents ran wild to little effect”
“The project, known internally as 'Lighthouse,' aims to showcase Amazon’s heavy investments in artificial intelligence to more than 200 million Prime Video subscribers worldwide.”
“In the area of customer experience, Deutsche Telekom is named the global ISG CX Star Performer for 2026 among the future of service providers. Deutsche Telekom earned the highest customer satisfaction scores in ISG’s Voice of the Customer …”
“There are somewhere between two-and-a-half and three billion people who play games around the world, but only a fraction of those own dedicated gaming hardware”
“AWS reported that 10 Amazon SageMaker AI features moved to maintenance in the same update, including Ground Truth, Clarify, Debugger and Model Monitor.”
“And now you're getting access to six new channels and several new games to play.”
“In her 4.5 star review, our monitor expert Allisa said the Odyssey OLED G9 is 'an incredible monitor that's worth the cost.' In addition, she found it to be 'fantastic, with plenty of features, excellent display, and a pretty solid speaker…”
“UBS estimated last month that token-cost anxiety had become “a real concern for ~60% of organizations,” and “that figure now feels higher””
“While the company has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into AI development, other internal initiatives—including a multiyear effort to revamp its Alexa voice assistant—have yielded mixed results and continued to face financial losses…”
“ISG (Nasdaq: III) is a global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm. A trusted partner to more than 900 clients, including 75 of the world’s top 100 enterprises, ISG is a long-time leader in technology and business services tha…”
“By January 2023 Google had shut down the service, saying it "hadn't gained the traction with users, external", the company had hoped”
“Q Business gives way to Amazon Quick Suite, the platform AWS introduced in October 2025 by folding Q Business capabilities into Amazon QuickSight.”
“Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra will release worldwide on August 7”
“The NVIDIA DSX reference design for AI factories has zero water consumption — we have eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage.”
“one unnamed AI firm disclosed, “our spend on Anthropic was $20k in December and we’re about to cross $1m in July, a 50x increase in 7 months””
“The train uses two 1,200-kilowatt hydrogen-electric propulsion systems, with onboard fuel cells generating electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen.”
“Since inception, Francisco Partners has invested in more than 500 technology companies.”
“Amazon Luna is already included as a Prime subscription, but it has largely existed as a separate destination, whereas now users will be able to view it under the "Games" tab on Prime Video on Fire TVs in the US and UK”
“Taken together, the two announcements represent the broadest coordinated pruning the AWS catalog has seen.”
“Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra is just 4.1mm when unfolded — that's 0.1mm less than last year's model.”
“The approach goes a step further by potentially eliminating industrial chiller plants from the equation by using liquid cooling where the temperature is as much as 45 degrees Celsius for coolant entering the system and approximately 55 deg…”
“In 2019, Microsoft Japan tested a four-day workweek and reported a 40% increase in productivity.”
“The train has a design speed of 110 kmph, although it currently operates at a maximum speed of 75 kmph on the route.”
“with Sony and Microsoft increasing the cost of their consoles and Valve pricing its new Steam Machine from £879”
“SK Hynix supplies 56% of all the high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips used in the most advanced AI super computers deployed by the likes of Nvidia.”
“this adds a barely-there titanium-alloy film to the foldable AMOLED display (Samsung says it measures less than a third of a human hair) and a titanium plate behind the screen to boost durability and reduce the visibility of the crease.”
“industrial chiller plants cut their energy costs by roughly 4% for every degree they raise their operating temperature”
“Moonshot AI, the Pink-Floyd inspired startup behind Kimi, is reportedly preparing a Hong Kong listing within six months. The startup is close to finalizing a funding round that values the startup at just over $30 billion”
“The memo follows a new company rule introduced earlier this month that limits employees to $200 a week in AI spending. That cap covers models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. It does not apply to xAI's Grok.”
“Gamers are willing to trade a little fidelity for convenience, but not to pay premium prices for something they don't own which stutters when the Wi-Fi dips”
“nearly 4 million social media followers”
“Samsung has squeezed a mammoth 5,000 mAh battery inside the handset, which should help Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra endure 27-hours of continuous video playback.”
“The premise was the same: a much lower carbon footprint, significantly lower power consumption, and a loop that is filled once and left alone. What Nvidia adds is scale — its Vera Rubin-based DSX design extends the approach across an entir…”
“The Beijing-based developer just released K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that’s topped several AI benchmarks and shrinks the gap with U.S. frontier models even further.”
“SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 AI modelSpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 earlier this month. Dubbed as the company’s “most intelligent model,” the company said that Grok 4.5 was trained across tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, with training and…”
“his cumulative subscriber and follower count across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook is more than 16.3 million accounts.”
“A 2017 Akamai Technologies research report found that every 100 milliseconds of added latency can drop conversion rates by 7%.”
“This marks the first time that the Galaxy Z Fold hasn't been a step behind the bestselling Galaxy S lineup in camera performance.”
“DDR5 memory kits in Germany rose 7% in July 2026 alone, reaching new all-time price highs according to 3D Center.”
“Yet DeepSeek raised $7.4 billion in its first-ever external funding round in June—at a valuation north of $50 billion”
“It is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).”
“median TTFT for Llama 3.3 70B sits around 1.7 seconds across providers, before any RAG overhead”
“That increase pushed average DDR5 costs to 448% above prices recorded in July 2025, representing more than a fourfold jump within a single year.”
“DeepSeek raised $7.4 billion in its first-ever external funding round in June—at a valuation north of $50 billion—and is reportedly now seeking fresh capital at a valuation as high as $71 billion ahead of the IPO.”
“Elon Musk told Tesla staff to start using Grok, the AI model from SpaceXAI. According to a report by The Information, Musk sent a memo to employees on July 10 telling them to switch to Grok "when possible," citing Grok 4.5's lower token co…”
“A 3-billion-parameter model (such as Microsoft's Phi-4-mini, with 3.8B parameters and a 128K context window) running on modest hardware handles them in under 50 milliseconds at roughly 1% of the cost of a frontier call.”
“Electricity, particularly green electricity, and memory will remain the two scarcest global resources over the coming decade, in his view.”
“According to The Information, commercial investors, like Tencent, JD.com, and CATL, accepted a five-year lock-up and zero voting rights, while China’s National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, a state vehicle, got to inves…”
“Google Cloud revenue jumps 82%... Pichai credited the growth to rapid adoption of the Gemini Enterprise platform, saying nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies now use it”
“RouteLLM demonstrated 85% cost reduction on MT Bench and 45% on MMLU when routing between GPT-4 and Mixtral 8x7B while preserving 95% of GPT-4's response quality.”
“I’m 100% certain that they were still working”
“(Liang himself wrote the biggest check: 20 billion yuan, or almost $3 billion)”
“Gemini app users have hit 950 million monthly actives, making it one of the world's largest AI consumer products”
“In the first quarter of 2026, App Store submissions jumped 84% year-over-year. Last year alone saw nearly 600,000 new apps submitted—the largest wave since 2016.”
“Just yesterday (July 22), Flock decided to abandon its plans to roll out its ‘human distress detection’ feature beyond the trial period. This tool used Flock’s urban acoustic microphones to detect sounds such as human screaming, and would …”
“CXMT, the world’s fourth-largest manufacturer of DRAM memory (used in PCs, smartphones, and electronic devices), will start trading on the STAR Market next week following an $8 billion IPO.”
“AI Mode – which was introduced in October last year – has more than 1 billion monthly active users worldwide”
“According to Vercel's State of Vibe Coding report, 63% of people building with these tools aren't developers at all. They're designers, marketers and individuals who have never shipped a line of code in their lives.”
“ALPR systems don’t just capture your license plate, they are designed to identify your vehicle’s make and model, as well as its color and things such as bumps, scratches, and accessories like bumper stickers.”
“Glow, a Tel Aviv, Israel, and Palo Alto, Calif.-based company designed to help businesses protect employee devices from cyberattacks, raised $180 million in funding.”
“According to Google, more than 140 million users interacted with Ask YouTube during June 2026”
“The research backs this up: an independent analysis found that AI-generated code produces 1.7 times as many major issues as human-written code, and 45% of AI-generated samples fail security benchmarks outright.”
“Only one is a head-scratcher: the 4:3-ratio Galaxy Z Fold 8. Sure, its size makes it the lightest Fold ever, but the question remains: why? ... When we looked at our consumer… insight on how people react to the products, almost over 50% ar…”
“Arrakis, a London, U.K.-based company that helps industrial businesses deploy AI agents for critical operations, raised $37.5 million in funding. Blossom Capital led the $30 million Series A round and Accel led the $7.5 million seed round.”
“Google said its AI model APIs are now processing around 22 billion tokens every minute, up from 16 billion tokens per minute just one quarter earlier — a 37% jump”
“Turbo Live, will be a first of its kind innovation tool in stadium for the Skills Challenge and All-Star Game that allows fans with larger data needs to share and stay connected despite extreme congestion.”
“Samsung may not have been excessively focused on the thinness of the Galaxy Z Fold 8 line, but it was, in one instance, acting on feedback about how hard it can be to open the Z Fold 7. 'Folding and unfolding was some of the most important…”
“By one tally from the research group Data Center Watch, at least 75 projects worth roughly $130 billion were delayed or blocked across the country in just the first three months of 2026.”
“More than 9 million developers now build applications every month using its AI models through APIs and developer tools”
“The iPhone 18 Pro is expected to see a $100-$200 price rise over the iPhone 17 Pro when it is launched in September, no doubt the leasing offer will be in place by then: "The Apple Upgrade service will work like a subscription and users ca…”
“I'm really happy how our hardware and the design team came out with the product, because it's beautiful, and when we test[ed] it with the market for the preview, everybody's asking about when it's coming,' said Kim.”
“Michael Kratsios, the president’s science and technology advisor, said Moonshot and its formidable new K3 AI model, released last week, distilled Anthropic’s new Fable model, released last month as part of its flagship Mythos series. What’…”
“DDN, the company said, contributed high-performance data infrastructure to help researchers efficiently access, manage, protect and scale data for demanding AI workloads.”
“Apps launch up to 30 percent faster in iOS 27, and that includes Apple's own apps and third-party apps. When you're opening apps dozens of times a day, less loading time adds up and makes the system feel faster. Apple says it tested the …”
“Lenovo's Yoga Slim 7x is down to $1,411.24 at Best Buy, saving you $423.37 from its usual $1,834.61 price.”
“—AMD and Anthropic ink a multibillion-dollar server deal. The AI firm will buy up to 2GW of AMD chips; the chipmaker will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic.”
“Samsung Electronics today unveiled the new Galaxy Z series, its most complete lineup yet, designed to expand foldables to a wider audience. The lineup introduces Galaxy Z Fold8, a fresh and exciting form factor that provides a new kind of …”
“Weighing just 2.9 pounds, it's designed to easily slip into a backpack.”
“Earlier leaks have pointed to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro costing upwards of $300, a steep jump that would weigh heavily on a phone's overall bill of materials.”
“Its 14.5-inch IPS touchscreen offers a crisp 2944 x 1840 resolution, while Windows 11 Pro provides business-ready features.”
“Despite this tightrope, the same report also found that more than 80% of business and technology leaders expect budget increases for 2027.”
“This premium 14.5-inch Copilot+ laptop combines Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processor with a sharp high-resolution touchscreen, alongside 16GB of LPDDR5X memory and a 512GB SSD.”
“The subsidy-era of artificially cheap AI is ending, and we are entering the era of AI-based Token Economics, where the cost of intelligence will become a primary budget driver.”
“In his four and a half star review, our expert Isaiah said the Yoga Slim 7x was 'a spectacular laptop built for AI using Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite X CPU' and the OLED screen meant it was 'one of the best-looking I've ever used'.”
“It's also worth noting that there's a newer Gen 11 version of the Yoga Slim 7x with a Snapdragon X2 Elite chip. This model received a four star review from our expert Lewis.”
