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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Pickleball is the past—the tech elite is obsessed with padel. • Plus, an Americana-themed batch of Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Americans,” “East of Eden,” “High Desert Daydream,” “Lonesome Dove,” USA vs. Belgium, and “The Twilight Zone.” The year’s midpoint is an apt moment for some studied reflection, and I’ve been thinking about how much has changed in the last six months. In January, the Reflecting Pool was blue. Lately, it’s.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Leaks suggest Google's new smartwatches could use the same chip as the Pixel Watch 4, while costing more and looking the same. Read more ›
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The most obvious smart ring collaboration has finally happened with the arrival of the Ringconn Gen 3. Read more ›
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The contract unifies existing Oracle licensing under a single vehicle, and is expected to save $441 million across the 10-year period. Read more ›
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Ticks are taking over the United States. Due to climate change, changing land use, and an explosion in the deer population, ticks have been expanding their territory and infecting more people than ever. They carry pathogens that cause everything from Lyme disease to the red meat allergy-inducing Alpha gal syndrome. In some cases, tick bites can […] Read more ›
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Advances in aerial warfare have necessitated improvements to the decoys that keep pilots alive, too, as exemplified by this advanced decoy system. Read more ›
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Imagine not realizing you're about to get shaken and sprayed with water for three hours before walking into a 4DX IMAX theater to see "The Odyssey." Read more ›
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Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough. Read more ›
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The Paramount-WBD mega-merger is on pause, leaving staffers wondering whether a deal or no deal would be better for their careers. Read more ›
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Today Meta is launching Facebook Verified. This is a free badge that lets you know there's a real person behind an account. To get the badge, you need to go through a selfie-based verification process. You basically record a selfie video, which the company will check against your existing profile pictures to confirm a match. The process should only take a few minutes. If you get the badge, it will... Read more ›
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RAMageddon has claimed another company’s products, with costs for streaming devices the latest to blow out. Read more ›
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The 'Rick and Morty' spin-off premieres July 26 and already has a second season in the works. Read more ›
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Roku has raised prices on several streaming devices, blaming memory and component shortages tied to the AI data-center boom. The Roku Ultra jumped from $100 to $150 and the basic Streaming Stick rose from $30 to $40. The Desk reports: In a phone call with The Desk on Friday, a Roku executive said the company made the tough decision to raise prices on its streaming hardware to address shortages in... Read more ›
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman talks a bit about where the company’s increasingly Jarvis-like AI agents could be heading next… and in what form. Read more ›
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I booked a one-night stay at 1 Hotel Seattle for $450 and saw why the luxury chain was voted the best in Seattle. Read more ›
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The extended pause will give time to hear cases for blocking the deal from states and the WGA. Read more ›
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Want to join the Samsung ecosystem without paying flagship prices? Discover the five budget-friendly devices that deliver incredible premium value. Read more ›
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For a long time, scientists assumed that the tiny water pools at Europa's surface came from the moon's deep, icy oceans. But is that physically possible? Read more ›
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Databricks is raising $3 billion in new funding led by Coatue Management at a valuation of $188 billion, a 40% increase from its valuation after its last funding in December, the Wall Street Journal reported. The AI firm hosts GPU servers that customers can use to build applications using AI ... Read more ›
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OpenEvidence, the fast-growing startup that helps doctors find medical information through an AI chatbot, has considered raising $200 million after receiving offers from investors at a valuation of around $20 billion, according to a person involved in the discussions. The company is unlikely to proceed, in part because a round would dilute founders and other shareholders, the person said. OpenEvidence has also held acquisition talks with a large tech company... Read more ›
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In January 2025, just three days after entering office for his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that revoked many of the Biden administration’s efforts on AI. The order was part of Trump’s promise to take a light-touch approach to AI regulation, rolling back what he would later describe as his predecessor’s attempt to “paralyze” the industry through its emphasis on safety. Flanked by venture investor David... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Trump’s AI agenda collides with reality• Tech Culture: Welcome to the great private jet drought• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Gastronomics,” “Catch the Devil” and “The Invite”At the dawn of the AI boom, the technology sparked a real melee between newcomer startups and the industry’s established giants. A good amount of the energy in that fight seems to have diminished lately,... Read more ›
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Building an AI supercampus increasingly means paying more than you bargained for. Oracle’s attempt to salvage a proposed $165 billion project on the rocks in New Mexico is a recent example. The cloud provider earlier this year was planning to spend billions of dollars to build its own natural-gas plants to power Project Jupiter, a 1,400-acre, two-plus gigawatt AI data center for OpenAI near the Texas border town of El... Read more ›
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U.S. stock sales are on track for a record this year, as massive offerings from SpaceX, Alphabet and others push totals past a 2021 high. More sales are coming. Anthropic is headed for an initial public offering as soon as September. And bankers are pitching other public tech companies on issuing more stock. These include Intel, after the chipmaker’s shares more than doubled since the start of the year, according... Read more ›
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It’s midsummer, but now is not the time to be on the beach. This week, we’ve got Alphabet, Google’s parent, and Tesla reporting second-quarter earnings, and the week after, we’ll get Meta Platforms, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and PayPal, a company in the takeover spotlight right now. Of most interest, of course, is how Google, Amazon and Microsoft are doing on the AI front, both in their cloud businesses and in... Read more ›
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Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group has unveiled a preview version of Qwen3.8 Max, its latest and most powerful model, saying its performance is comparable to that of top U.S. models. Alibaba said in a post on X that it believes Qwen3.8 Max, its largest-ever model with 2.4 trillion parameters, is “ ... Read more ›
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Chinese startup Moonshot AI, whose powerful new open-source model is upending Silicon Valley, is seeking formal approval from investors to begin preparations for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The Beijing-based company recently ... Read more ›
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Google is working on a new server chip that would directly integrate the blueprint of its Gemini AI model, enabling the company to serve its AI models to users much more efficiently, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Google intends the new chip, informally dubbed “Frozen v2,” to help it address a major shortage in AI computing capacity that has fueled internal tensions and compelled Google... Read more ›
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