AI
AWS Launches $1 Billion Forward-Deployed Engineers Unit to Embed With Customers
AWS committed $1 billion on June 30 to a new forward-deployed engineering unit that sends engineers to embed inside customer organizations for 45-day periods.
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AI
Apple Skips M6 Pro and Max to Fast-Track an AI-Focused M7 Chip for 2027
Apple is skipping the M6 Pro and Max to launch an AI-focused M7 chip lineup in 2027, Bloomberg reports. On-device AI inference drove the decision.
AI
OpenAI Reveals Codex Micro: A 13-Key Macro Pad for Developer AI Workflows
OpenAI unveiled its first hardware product: the Codex Micro, a 13-key macro pad co-built with Work Louder for developers running AI coding sessions.
Apps
Cursor Launches iOS App in Public Beta to Run AI Agents From Your Phone
Cursor for iOS launched in public beta June 29 for all paid plans. Launch cloud agents, track them on your lock screen, and merge PRs from your phone.
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GitHub Copilot's First Metered Bill Just Landed. Developers Are Furious.
June 30 closes GitHub Copilot's first metered billing cycle. Developers on $39 plans are seeing charges over $750 from agentic sessions costing $30-40 each.
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Claude Is Now Generally Available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure
Claude is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure. Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 are live with prompt caching and extended thinking from day one.
Apps
WhatsApp Lets You Reserve a Username to Replace Your Phone Number
WhatsApp opened username reservations today. Claim your handle in Settings. Once live, new contacts reach you by username, not phone number.
AI
Micron Revenue Quadrupled to $41 Billion. Wall Street Is Calling It the Next Nvidia.
Micron revenue quadrupled to $41 billion last quarter as AI data centers ran out of HBM. Wall Street briefly pushed Micron past Meta's market cap and is calling it the next Nvidia.
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Ford Rehired 350 Engineers After AI Failed Its Quality Control
Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers after AI quality control failures triggered major recalls. Ford now leads J.D. Power for the first time in 16 years.
AI
GitHub Copilot vs Cursor vs Tabnine: 2026 AI Coding Assistant Guide
GitHub Copilot vs Cursor vs Tabnine: how 2026's top AI coding assistants compare on pricing, model support, agents, and enterprise deployment.
AI
Anthropic in Talks to Run Claude on Microsoft's Maia 200 Chip
Anthropic is in talks to run Claude on Microsoft's Maia 200. A deal would make it the first major external workload on Microsoft's custom AI chip.
AI
Figma Code Layers Bring Executable Code to the Design Canvas at Config 2026
Figma code layers, Figma Motion, AI shaders, and generative plugins arrived at Config 2026 on June 24, collapsing the design-to-code handoff.