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Nathan Wilmers, Regina Catipon, Maxim Massenkoff, and Peter McCrory, in an Anthropic research article: How has AI restructured work and employment at Anthropic?

Apple Newsroom, during Tuesday’s “Welcome Home” press briefing in New York: Apple today introduced Apple HomeView, designed to be central to the home and personal to everyone in it.

Brevity comes easy this year iPhone 18 Pro.

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc.’s upcoming push into smart home devices will include a doorbell, thermostat and other accessories developed through an unusual partnership with LG Electronics Inc.

Apple: We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data.

Casey Newton, writing at Platformer: Last week at his company’s developer conference, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg heavily promoted Muse, its own consumer-focused agent, which he positioned as a new peer to company pillars like Instagram and WhatsApp.

Hayden Field, reporting for The Verge: We seem to be entering into an AI agent renaissance.

George Hammond and Stephen Morris, reporting for the Financial Times: OpenAI copied millions of copyrighted articles in an effort to build technology potentially worth “gazillions”, despite recognising the “existential threat” it posed to publishers, acco…

Mark Gurman, reporting in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg: Apple prepares a retail store shake-up with a renewed focus on a dedicated Genius Bar and revamped pickup and classes areas… Here’s what Apple has planned: New and upgraded retail stores will

Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, on his personal website: But over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence — not just investing in risk prevention, but pacing the rate of capabilit…

When one book ends, another folds open Image: Apple.

OpenAI: We’re introducing GPT‑6 Astra, the world’s most intelligent and aligned model.

Casey Newton, writing at Platformer Wednesday: On Wednesday, whatever legal cover Meta’s Potemkin well-being teams were meant to provide fell to a settlement of up to $17.1 billion with 47 US states, the District of Columbia, and US territories… For the m…

John Voorhees, reporting for MacStories: Today, Apple announced a new M6 chip that will debut in the Mac mini and an M5 Ultra that is coming to the Mac Studio.

David Imel, reporting for The Verge: Google’s new HiLight notification LED on the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly useless.

Juli Clover, reporting for MacRumors: Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate.

Anthropic: Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark.

Marcus Mendes, reporting for 9to5Mac: Which brings us to The Information’s report, and its account of several cases where “Apple employees who left for other companies over the past decade told The Information they, too, continued to have access to confid…

Dominic Preston, reporting for The Verge earlier in July: A year after overhauling its Z Fold phone with a radically thinner design, Samsung has changed things up again, this time altering the shape entirely.

Chance Miller, reporting for 9to5Mac: Apple has officially announced Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing program available starting today in the United States.

Apple Newsroom: Apple and Ford today announced that Apple Maps will be integrated directly into Ford’s upcoming Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) Platform through Apple’s new MapKit for Automotive SDK.

Ashley Capoot, reporting for CNBC: U.S.

Marcus Mendes, reporting for 9to5Mac: According to The Information, Apple has been exploring potential acquisitions of semiconductor startups to “boost its efforts to build server chips for running AI.”

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: OpenAI’s much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type of home computer for the AI era, according to people familiar with the matter.

A return to form and function Image: Apple.

Chance Miller, reporting for 9to5Mac: Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft.

OpenAI, on X: Introducing ChatGPT Work, a new agent in ChatGPT powered by Codex and GPT-5.6.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, at a Meta town hall reported by Katie Paul and Courtney Rozen at Reuters: In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way t…

Marko Zivkovic, reporting for AppleInsider: For the U.S. variant of the iPhone 18 Pro, which will feature mmWave compatibility, Apple seemingly plans to use Qualcomm modem hardware.

Hartley Charlton, reporting for MacRumors: After temporarily taking it down earlier today, Apple’s online store is back up with a series of product price increases.

Mike Isaac and David Yaffe-Bellany, reporting for The New York Times: Polymarket and Kalshi, prediction markets where users can bet on outcomes as varied as the Super Bowl and the length of the State of the Union address, have been some of the fastest-gro…

Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+): Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset the surging costs of memory and storage chips, Chief Executive Tim Cook said in an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal.

Hugo Lowell, Lily Hay Newman, and Maxwell Zeff, reporting for Wired (Apple News+): Trump administration officials concluded talks with Anthropic on Monday without lifting export controls that were imposed last week on the company’s most advanced AI models…

Apple Newsroom, shortly after this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference: Apple today introduced Siri AI, an entirely new version of Siri, powered by Apple Intelligence.

Tim Hardwick, reporting for MacRumors: In macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple has removed many of the menu item icons that are so prevalent throughout macOS 26 Tahoe, as spotted by Nikita “Tonsky” Prokopov (via Daring Fireball).