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Leaked renders via Android Headlines show the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, Watch 9, and Watch Ultra 2; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is likely a new wide foldable

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Sources: Sonos' layoffs include some top design and product executives, like VP of Design Dana Krieger; CEO Tom Conrad says the move reduces management layers

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The AI data center boom has led to surging demand for power transformers, with average lead times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years

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Techmeme: A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48. 6% (Emma Whitford/Inside Higher Ed)

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Companies are mobilizing internal groups of "AI champions" to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025

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Cognition releases SWE-1. 7, trained from Kimi K2. 7 and available at 1, 000 tokens/second, claiming it nears GPT-5. 5 and Opus 4. 8 on benchmarks at a lower cost

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The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years

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Open AI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark

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Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1 GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9 B and take two to three years to construct

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Space XAI launches Grok 4. 5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to "handle difficult, long-running" legal, finance, and coding tasks

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