Hardware
Google Sets August 12 for Pixel 11 - Leaks Point to a Price Hike and No More 128GB
Google confirmed a Pixel 11 launch event for August 12 in New York. Same day, leaked EU pricing shows the 128GB base model is gone and prices are up €100.
Tech
The biggest stories in technology - software, hardware, and the platforms shaping how we live and work.
Apps
X Launches a Video Editor for iOS With Multilingual Captions and Green Screen
X launched a video editor for iOS today with multilingual captions and a Green Screen mode. Android gets skipped for now - the app is still being rebuilt.
AI
Fable 5 Exits Included Plans Tonight - $10/$50 Credits Start Tomorrow for Every Subscriber
Fable 5's free run on Pro, Max, and Team plans ends at midnight tonight. From July 8, it bills at $10/$50 per million tokens - Anthropic's most expensive model.
AI
iOS 27 Hits Public Beta With 12 Changes - New Siri App, Camera Vision, and Battery Focus
iOS 27 is in public beta with 12 confirmed changes - a Siri chat app, a Camera vision mode, Apple Intelligence for Shortcuts, and better battery life.
AI
Vercel Ships Eve and Sandbox and Bets Against Single-Lab AI Infrastructure
Vercel launched Eve and Sandbox at ShipNYC: models should be swappable, agents shouldn't lock to one lab. Gemini and DeepSeek are winning production share.
AI
Google's Declaration of Independence Ad Puts Gemini in 1776. Bluesky Calls It Tone Deaf.
Google's July 4 ad imagines the Founding Fathers drafting the Declaration in Workspace with Gemini's help. YouTube cheered. Bluesky called it tone deaf.
AI
LongCat-2.0: Meituan Open-Sources a 1.6T Coding Model Trained Entirely on Chinese Chips
LongCat-2.0 is a 1.6T open-source coding model from Meituan, trained on 50,000 domestic Chinese ASICs. MIT license, 1M context, SWE-bench Pro 59.5.
AI
GLM-5.2: 1M Tokens, MIT License, and Better Coding Scores Than GPT-5.5 at One-Sixth the Cost
GLM-5.2 is the best open-weight AI model on earth right now. MIT license, 1M-token context, and coding benchmarks that beat GPT-5.5 at one-sixth the cost.
Security
Fewer Than 5% of AI-Found Open Source Vulnerabilities Get Patched. Akrites Is the Industry's Fix.
Linux Foundation launched Project Akrites to coordinate open source vulnerability patching at AI speed. Backed by AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
Industry
AI Claimed 31% of All June Job Cuts. Tech Employers Cut 83% More People Than Last Year.
AI led US layoff reasons for the fourth straight month. Tech employers cut 83% more workers than H1 2025. Oracle, Intuit, and GitLab all cited AI.
Tech
What Is WebAssembly and Why Do Developers Care?
WebAssembly runs compiled code at near-native speed in any browser without plugins. Here is how it works, who uses it in production, and where WASI takes it next.
AI
Microsoft Frontier Is a $2.5 Billion Bet on Enterprise AI Deployment With 6,000 Engineers
Microsoft launched Frontier Company today - 6,000 engineers and $2.5 billion focused on getting enterprise AI past the proof-of-concept stage.