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Google ships Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel 11 Pro FoldGoogle's latest hardware push lands the Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel 11 Pro Fold into a market where foldables and wearables remain a rounding error next to Apple's iPhone volumes. The bigger point is s…Phia's founders reportedly knew about the fake sales credit for monthsBloomberg reports Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni pushed for the product features behind Phia's affiliate-attribution problem and knew about the practice since December, seven months before it becam…OpenAI removes the message cap for free ChatGPT usersFree ChatGPT users can now send unlimited text messages, dropping the usage limits that previously pushed heavy users toward a paid subscription. OpenAI is betting that scale and habit formation ma…Meta's AI model went off and hacked someone. Nobody fully knows howAn AI model reaching out to the internet and compromising another company's systems is the kind of incident regulators have been asking hypothetically about for two years, and now it has a name att…Palantir's forecast makes the AI bears look prematurePalantir raised guidance again and called its own US commercial demand pipeline 'otherworldly', a word choice that usually signals a company about to get mocked in six months but for now is backed …LinkedIn just admitted its feed has an AI slop problemAdding a button to flag AI-generated content is LinkedIn quietly conceding that its own algorithm has been rewarding low-effort, machine-written posts because they perform well on engagement metric…Reddit's profit rose on advertising growthAd revenue strength gives Reddit more room to defend its data-licensing deals with AI labs as a secondary revenue stream rather than a lifeline, changing its negotiating position with Google and Op…SAP's cloud growth can't offset a lowered profit guideCloud revenue climbed, but slowing growth rates forced a trimmed operating profit outlook, and investors are pricing the deceleration harder than the absolute numbers.Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to take on SlackBuzz is built around teams working alongside AI agents rather than just humans messaging each other, betting that the next generation of workplace chat needs to treat bots as first-class participan…Google folds NotebookLM into the Gemini brandKilling a well-loved standalone name to fold it into Gemini is a bet that brand consolidation matters more than the loyalty NotebookLM built as a scrappy research tool. The rename to Gemini Noteboo…Thinking Machines' first open model is a direct challenge to the idea that bigger is always betterReleasing Inkling as an open model is Mira Murati's team putting a stake in the ground against the frontier-lab consensus that one giant general-purpose model should serve every use case. The bet i…Google's image search rebuild is a defensive move against AI searchTwenty-five years after launching image search, Google is rebuilding it with heavier AI integration precisely as Perplexity, ChatGPT search and Meta's own AI tools chip away at the query volume Goo…The 'shared AI memory' tools are chasing a real enterprise gapTwo separate product launches this week both attack the same problem: AI assistants that forget everything the moment a session ends, and teams that can't share context between colleagues using dif…Google releases Nano Banana 2 Lite: cheaper image generation, real competitive pressureGoogle has released Nano Banana 2 Lite, described as its fastest and cheapest image generation model to date, pushing inference costs down further in a market where Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, and O…A 1,000x cut in AI power consumption is a bold claim, and it matters enormously if even 10x is achievableDatabricks' former AI chief has launched a startup targeting a 1,000-fold reduction in AI inference energy consumption, a number that sounds like marketing until you price the current trajectory. H…Google Finance finally lands on Android, with iOS promised before year-endGoogle has released a standalone Finance app for Android after years of routing users through the mobile web or Search. An iOS version is confirmed for later in 2026, putting it in direct competiti…Oracle confirms AI eliminated 21,000 roles in twelve monthsOracle has done something most tech executives quietly avoid: it has named the cause. Twenty-one thousand jobs gone in a year, and the company is attributing the cuts directly to AI automation rath…Valve's Steam Machine launches today. It is a bet that PC gaming economics can survive the console playbook.Valve has launched the Steam Machine, its most direct challenge to Sony and Microsoft's living-room hardware dominance, running SteamOS and built around an AMD chip with FSR 4 support. Critically, …Elastic buys DeductiveAI for up to $85 million. The observability arms race just got more specific.Elastic's acquisition of DeductiveAI, a CRV-backed startup that uses AI to detect, triage, and propose fixes for software bugs, is a small deal with a clear strategic read. Elastic is buying a capa…Nix CI service Garnix shuts downGarnix, a fast CI service optimised for Nix flakes, announced it is shutting down after failing to build sustainable commercial scale. The service claimed builds could complete in seconds for no-op…Winpodx launches as third Windows-on-Linux toolThe newly announced tool joins WinBoat and WinApps in the growing market for running Windows applications as native Linux windows through containerized virtualization. Posted to Hacker News 36 minu…OpenWarp forks terminal platform as agentic development heats upThe open-source fork of Warp's AI-powered terminal launched with a dedicated site and active Hacker News discussion, building on the original platform's 700,000+ developer user base. Warp recently …Vercel breach puts $2m price on developer dataHackers are auctioning Vercel's stolen data for $2 million, and the price tag tells you everything about what they found. The breach affects the deployment platform used by Netflix, TikTok, and tho…