AI
Google Meet Adds 3-Person Threshold to 'Take Notes for Me' - Admins Must Act Before September 21
Google Meet's "Take notes for me" now has a 3-person threshold. Business Standard admins have it ON by default. End-user changes arrive September 21.
Tech
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AI
Kimi K3 Is the World's First Open 3T Model - Beats GPT-5.6 Sol on Coding at $3 Per Million Tokens
Kimi K3 is live today - Moonshot's 2.8T open model beats GPT-5.6 Sol on GPU kernel work, offers a $3/MTok API, and drops full weights July 27.
AI
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Is Months Late - Coding Benchmarks Fell Short
Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind schedule after Google's coding benchmark push fell short, leaving only 3.1 Pro available as OpenAI and Meta advance.
AI
AI Models Refuse Criticism of Repressive Governments Twice as Often, Study Finds
AI models refused political criticism of China and Saudi Arabia 34% of the time - double the rate for permissive regimes. Meta's Oversight Board tested 10 models in its first LLM study.
Hardware
OnePlus Is Shutting Down in the US, Europe, and India. Realme Is Exiting China at the Same Time.
OnePlus shutdown begins in the US and Europe this week, per Bloomberg. India follows in 2027. Realme exits China simultaneously. Oppo is consolidating both brands into tighter regional roles.
AI
iOS 27: 30% Faster Apps, a New Siri, and Every Feature That Changes Your iPhone
iOS 27 features include a conversational Siri AI, Spatial Reframing in Photos, 30% faster app launches, and Safari tabs that group themselves. Here's what each one actually does.
AI
Chinese Regulators Approved Apple Intelligence. Alibaba's Qwen Model Will Power It.
China approved Apple Intelligence today. Apple Intelligence China will use Alibaba's Qwen for text and image generation on all Apple platforms.
Security
US Sanctions on a Ransomware VPN Took Telegram's t.me Domain Offline for 24 Hours
OFAC listed a Telegram group link in sanctions against First VPN. The .me registry suspended all of t.me as a result - every invite link broke for 24 hours.
AI
Google Images Turns 25 With a Pinterest-Style Redesign and Nano Banana Image Generation in Search
Google Images turns 25 with a redesign: a personalized "For You" gallery, collections, and Nano Banana image generation built into AI Overviews on Search.
Apps
WhatsApp Is Building Its Own Cloud Backup for iPhone - With Encryption iCloud Does Not Force On You
WhatsApp is developing its own cloud backup for iPhone. Backups on WhatsApp servers use mandatory end-to-end encryption - iCloud makes that optional.
Apps
X Fixed a Ranking Bug That Was Hiding Your Friends in Replies
X pushed a ranking change Monday that boosts mutual followers in replies. Nikita Bier says mutual-follow data was simply missing from the X algorithm entirely.
Industry
Apple Quietly Acquired SigScalr, the Startup Behind Open-Source Observability Tool SigLens
Apple acquired assets and employees from SigScalr, the maker of open-source observability tool SigLens. Deal closed March 12. No financial terms disclosed.