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💘 iPhone 18 Pro may debut in a new “Dark Cherry” color.

💘 Elon Musk has proposed government payments for people who lose their jobs due to AI.

💘 Telegram is preparing bot-resistant polls, restricting voting by subscription time and user location.

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💘 Elon Musk has launched the XChat messenger for iOS users.

💘 Telegram's iOS beta version 12.6.4 introduces new tools for content moderation and AI personalisation.

💘 Elon Musk is launching his own financial service, X Money, with a US rollout by the end of April.

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💘 Apple’s future CEO John Ternus plans to cut stock buybacks and redirect billions into new product development.

💘 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has ruled that only human-performed acting and human-authored scripts will be eligible for Oscars.

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💘 Apple is preparing to make chips with Intel, breaking its long-standing reliance on TSMC.

💘 Instagram disabled end-to-end encryption for direct messages.

💘 The European Parliament labeled VPNs a "loophole that needs closing" amid Europe's push for stricter age verification online.

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📌 Apple is preparing iOS 27 with a major Siri overhaul, including a standalone app with chat history.

📌 Malta has become the first country to provide all of its residents with a free one-year ChatGPT Plus subscription

📌 Google has restricted Gemini Intelligence to a small list of devices, cutting off nearly every premium Android phone released before 2026.

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📌 Elon Musk officially confirmed that Starlink is developing an interplanetary internet network.

📌 Donald Trump accidentally invested up to $5 million in a sushi chain instead of an AI company.

📌 The Apple Watch has slowed down 11 years after launch, with users moving to screenless bands and rings from Whoop and Oura.

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The weekend was full of leaks and design reveals:

📌 6 reported features coming to Apple's MacBook Ultra.

📌 First leaked photo of the Samsung Galaxy S26 FE with a redesigned camera module.

📌 Final design of Apple's foldable iPhone Ultra revealed.

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📌 Trump's "Made in America" smartphone turned out to be strikingly similar to HTC's 2024 U24 Pro.

📌 Apple may have finally fixed Siri nearly two years after unveiling its AI plans.

📌 Anthropic disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide after a U.S. government order targeting foreign users.

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📌 India's Telegram ban sparked a surge in VPN downloads and alternative messaging apps.

📌 A woman died after a Tesla on Autopilot crashed into a home in Texas.

📌 Apple is preparing one of its busiest product roadmaps in years, including a foldable iPhone, smart glasses, camera-equipped AirPods, and even a home robot.

📌 One week after SpaceX's IPO, investors are still trying to figure out what the company is actually worth.

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📌 OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6, introducing three new models: Sol, Terra, and Luna.

📌 Chinese open AI models are closing the gap with Anthropic's most powerful models in selected cybersecurity tasks.

📌 iPhone prices may increase later this year.

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📌 The Indian government has ordered Telegram to curb the spread of pirated movies, TV shows, and other audiovisual content on the platform.

📌 TRUMP memecoin buyers lost $3.81 billion, with nearly 989,000 wallets left in the red after the token crashed 97% from its peak.

📌 Apple could unveil its first foldable iPhone alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, but open preorders at a later date.

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📌 Google may equip the upcoming Pixel 11a with the Tensor G6 chip.

📌 Apple left Jony Ive out of its OpenAI lawsuit over alleged trade secret theft.

📌 Apple is testing AI-powered Live Notes for Genius Bar conversations.

📌 Apple plans new iPad and Mac Studio updates and is dropping Mac Pro Extreme chips.

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📌 Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, delivering near-Fable performance at half the price.

📌 Reuters says OpenAI spent a week unaware that its own AI agent was behind the Hugging Face hack.

📌 Apple's next iPad mini could become the company's first water-resistant iPad.

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📌 Microsoft raised Xbox console prices worldwide on August 1.

📌 The Wall Street Journal warns that massive AI investments risk triggering a major selloff that could drag down global stock markets.

📌 The memory chip shortage has reached the MacBook Air, with Apple struggling to keep its most popular laptop in stock.

📌 Apple is exploring turning future smart glasses and headsets into health and fitness devices.

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📌 Netflix has scrapped its English-language Squid Game spin-off, which was set to be directed by David Fincher.

📌 Google Chrome now requires up to 20GB of free storage to run its built-in AI features.

📌 OpenAI has removed text-message limits for ChatGPT Free and Go users.

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📌 Samsung is reportedly working on Galaxy H1, a new pair of premium over-ear wireless headphones that could take on Apple’s AirPods Max.

📌 SpaceXAI has completed its $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor.

📌 Apple proposed a 5–15% cut on purchases made outside the App Store through external links in iOS apps.

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📌 A new type of proxy called WEB Proxy has been spotted in the Telegram Desktop code.

📌 Early testers of Apple’s foldable iPhone praised the hinge and interface, but there’s one catch — no dedicated telephoto camera.

📌 Apple looks set to raise the iPhone 18 Pro price by around $100.

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📌 A federal court overturned the Pentagon’s decision to blacklist Anthropic, ruling the move unconstitutional.

📌 Replacing the inner screen on Apple’s first foldable iPhone could cost more than $1,100.

📌 OpenAI is cutting off Cursor from its models after the coding platform was acquired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

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📌 Apple is reportedly making only a few hundred foldable iPhones a day, well behind schedule.

📌 The iPhone 18 Pro Max could get a “mechanical aperture” camera for better control over light and depth of field.

📌 GPT-6 Astra is now rolling out, but independent tests found only modest gains and still put it behind Claude overall.

📌 A US court has blocked Operation Bluebird from using the Twitter trademark. The startup can still use the blue bird logo for now.

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📌 Anthropic is reportedly in talks to bring Nvidia in as an anchor investor in its IPO, with Nvidia considering an investment of up to $10 billion.

📌 Apple is developing two Beats-branded gaming controllers for iPhone, and a new Apple TV is expected this fall.

📌 Researchers found a hidden cross-account channel in ChatGPT that could be used to access connected services such as Gmail.

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