"How AI agents are reshaping how small businesses operate, where the biggest opportunities are, and which risks small businesses should be aware of when using them" www.techradar.com/pro/every-sm...

'Every small business will eventually have a digital workforce of AI agents': Bluehost CEO on how AI agents are reshaping business

Bluehost CEO Sachin Puri breaks down what AI agents mean for small businesses

techradar.com

"SpaceX and the state of Louisiana are close to finalizing a deal for the launch company to acquire about 130,000 acres along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico" arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana

A Louisiana launch site would offer several significant advantages.

arstechnica.com

"The CEO of Featherless AI on why AGI is an architecture problem, why reliability beats raw intelligence, and why he doesn’t want a single billionaire deciding which model you’re allowed to use." thenextweb.com/news/intervi...

“How small can we go?” Interview with Eugene Cheah on AGI, open-source AI, and building a lean company

An interview with Featherless AI CEO Eugene Cheah on AGI, open-source AI, and why reliability matters more than ever-larger models.

thenextweb.com

The AmberMac Show Ep076 has rogue AI, TikTok doctors, angry Elon, & more! Plus Kathryn Hume, Vice-President of AI Engineering at the Vector Institute, talks about AI bias & how AI is reshaping major decisions, from hiring employees to approving mortgages. ambermac.com/the-ambermac...

The AmberMac Show Ep076: Rogue AI, TikTok Doctors, & Angry Elon

In this week's episode, Amber and Jeff unpack what happened when OpenAI lost control of its AI model that hacked Hugging Face (which many are calling it a wake-up call for the future of AI safety),…

ambermac.com

"Tom Holland's fourth outing as Spider-Man posted the second-biggest domestic opening ever and nearly $1 billion worldwide in a single weekend" thenextweb.com/news/spider-...

Spider-Man earns $355 million in its opening weekend, the second-biggest US debut ever

Spider-Man Brand New Day earned $355 million in its US and Canadian opening weekend, just $2 million behind Avengers Endgame's all-time record

thenextweb.com

"Across more than 800,000 IT assets analyzed, 1/3 lacks at least one critical security control. Nearly 1/5 is running end-of-life software & 17% sit entirely outside traditional vulnerability management tools." www.techradar.com/pro/the-cybe...

The cyber risk hiding in plain sight

The attack surface is increasingly fragmented and uncontrolled

techradar.com

'Neuromancer was supposed to be unfilmable. After all, how do you visualize “bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void”?' www.cnet.com/culture/ente...

Apple TV’s Neuromancer Doesn’t Look Exactly Like Blade Runner — and It Shouldn’t - CNET

At last, a new trailer shows us what William Gibson’s “unfilmable” novel looks like on a screen.

cnet.com

"Following recent price increases across products… due to rising manufacturing costs, Apple has introduced a new leasing initiative called Apple Upgrade in the US." in.mashable.com/tech/112321/...

What Is Apple Upgrade? Everything to Know About Apple's New iPhone, iPad and MacBook Leasing Programme

Apple Upgrade launches in the US with monthly payment options for iPhone 17, MacBook and Apple Watch models following recent device price hikes.

in.mashable.com

"I finally discovered why TVs look so much better in stores than they do at home. The display units are specifically configured for retail environments, and certain settings make the demo videos look brilliant." www.xda-developers.com/found-smart-...

I found out why my smart TV looks worse at home than it did in the store

Retailers are fooling you.

xda-developers.com

"Google has announced an expansion of its beta Play Age Signals API, which it claims will allow developers to confirm user ages without impinging on privacy" arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Google's "privacy-preserving" age verification system is coming to the Play Store

Google's new API relies on parents to set age ranges in Family Link.

arstechnica.com

"When Ferrari revealed the Luce — its first EV — to the public in May, the internet reacted. And not in a positive way." techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/s...

Sorry, haters. Ferrari’s first EV is doing just fine | TechCrunch

To the horror of commenters across the internet, the Ferrari Luce appears to be a sales success.

techcrunch.com

"Waymo is slowly adding freeway routes back to its service area more than two months after the company stopped driving these high-speed roads over how its rovotaxis behaved near construction zones." techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/w...

Waymo robotaxis are starting to return to freeways | TechCrunch

The freeway pause — and its restart — comes amid increased scrutiny into Waymo and other robotaxi operators, particularly over how these self-driving vehicles behave in certain high-traffic…

techcrunch.com

"(US Dept) of Energy selected Utah, Idaho, Tennessee, Oklahoma & Louisiana to serve as potential host states for nuclear life cycle innovation campuses… (to) support the full nuclear fuel life cycle, from fuel fabrication to enrichment, reprocessing & disposition." www.deseret.com/utah/2026/07...

Utah may solve one of nuclear energy’s biggest problems: Nuclear waste

The DOE selected Utah as one of five finalists to potentially host a nuclear fuel lifecycle campus to help rebuild the U.S. nuclear fuel supply chain.

deseret.com

"OpenAI's CEO… has seen the proposed framework for implementing President Trump’s executive order on AI intelligence (&) will meet with Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, while in Washington, D.C., this week." www.cnbc.com/2026/07/29/a...

Sam Altman to meet with White House's Wiles this week ahead of AI framework deadline

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is meeting with a range of senior Trump administration officials, lawmakers and economists.

cnbc.com

"Imagine you’re an X user who’s actually excited to make the app your primary payments app after X Money finally launched Monday, after years of delays" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?

Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded.

arstechnica.com

Latest ep of The AmberMac Show: OpenAI's AI model that hacked Hugging Face; Elon Musk's feuding with journalists; bad health advice from TikTok; + Amber talks with Kathryn Hume, Vice-President of AI Engineering at the Vector Institute, about AI bias. Audio/video/links: ambermac.com/the-ambermac...

The AmberMac Show Ep076: Rogue AI, TikTok Doctors, & Angry Elon

In this week's episode, Amber and Jeff unpack what happened when OpenAI lost control of its AI model that hacked Hugging Face (which many are calling it a wake-up call for the future of AI safety),…

ambermac.com

Remember when OpenAI lost control of an AI model that hacked Hugging Face? @jeffmacarthur.bsky.social & I chat about what happened + lots more. This week's full episode of The AmberMac Show podcast is now available everywhere. NEW this morn. Headlines here: youtu.be/DNGeWWS9S5w?...

Musk's Most Cringe Interview Yet? [The AmberMac Show Ep076]

YouTube video by Amber Mac

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‼️ NEW today - we just launched Season 6 of This is Mining: The Podcast - Building a Nation. It's our most important season yet. 🎧 Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c... Canada has what the world needs. Will we seize the opportunity?

"The Indian government has ordered GitHub to pull down Bitchat, the Bluetooth mesh messaging app built by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, as authorities move to choke off communication tools used by protesters" in.mashable.com/tech/112228/...

Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey Reacts To GOI's Bitchat Block Orders; Will He Knock Court’s Door Again?

Whether Dorsey or GitHub will now approach an Indian court over Bitchat is unclear. Given how the 2022 case played out for Twitter.

in.mashable.com

"Mark Zuckerberg really wants you to believe that AI is good, actually. But the centerpiece of his company's new 'optimistic' ad campaign, at least for now, is a one-minute commercial for Meta's AI efforts that... features very little AI." www.engadget.com/2222159/meta...

Meta's pro-AI ad campaign is conspicuously light on AI - Engadget

The company wants people to be anti-doomer, but doesn't say why.

engadget.com

"The transport layer is fast emerging as a strategic foundation for AI-driven infrastructures. It is evolving from simply moving packets to intelligently orchestrating massive data flows with deterministic performance, low-latency, and seamless scalability." www.techradar.com/pro/rethinki...

Rethinking the transport layer for AI-first architecture

The need to re-engineer the entire transport layer to support AI-first architecture

techradar.com

"Apple's soon-to-be released iOS 27 comes with an overhaul of the Messages app, including AI overviews for lengthy texts, one-tap suggestions, like adding a coffee date directly to the Calendar app; and the ability to turn off speech-to-text." www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2...

iPhone Messages is changing with iOS 27. See the new features

Several of the new updates coming to the Messages app are powered by Siri AI, Apple's expanded Siri powered by Apple Intelligence.

usatoday.com

"The US Department of Justice has charged two Volkswagen engineers with securities fraud for an alleged insider-trading scheme connected to the German automaker’s joint venture with Rivian." techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/v...

Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture | TechCrunch

The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.

techcrunch.com

"Telecommunication analytics company Ookla has released its US Speedtest Connectivity Report for the first half of 2026, evaluating how internet service providers have performed thus far" mashable.com/tech/fastest...

The fastest U.S. mobile and internet services of 2026: How did your provider do?

Out of AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, one mobile network dominated.

mashable.com

In this week’s episode, Amber speaks with journalist John Vaillant, bestselling author of Fire Weather, about what we can learn from an oil town that went up in flames. Plus, city planner Brent Toderian unpacks the truth about bike lanes & car-dependent cities. ambermac.com/the-ambermac...

The AmberMac Show Ep075: The Science of Wildfires + Why...

In this week's episode, we explore the science behind out-of-control wildfires and we ask how we can save our cities from Cybertrucks. Jeff hosts this summer special, featuring two of our most…

ambermac.com

"Top password manager company 1Password has launched a new tool that allows artificial intelligence assistant Claude to authenticate on behalf of their user" www.techradar.com/pro/security...

Claude can now enter all your passwords for you - if you give it permission

But it will never see the secrets

techradar.com

"Apple is evaluating PrismML’s technology, which the startup says can shrink powerful AI models enough to run directly on an iPhone while using up to 15x less memory" www.cnbc.com/2026/07/14/a...

Apple in talks with startup that shrinks AI models to run on an iPhone

PrismML says its compressed version of Alibaba’s Qwen model uses up to 15 times less memory, potentially advancing Apple’s AI push.

cnbc.com

"One customer was quoted a billing estimate of close to $2.5 billion for this month’s AWS usage, while others had similar alerts, ranging from a few million dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars" techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/a...

Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars | TechCrunch

Some Amazon customers logged on Friday to a surprise bill estimate claiming that they owed the tech and cloud giant billions in fees.

techcrunch.com

"Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr wants to repeal a rule that has prevented a select handful of broadcasters from taking full control of the media landscape" gizmodo.com/fcc-chairman...

FCC Chairman Wants to Repeal a Key Rule That Would Fundamentally Change Broadcast News

Critics say it's illegal and will only benefit Trump-allied news orgs.

gizmodo.com