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@AskPerplexity account switcher finally in the Perplexity Mac app 👀

been waiting for this one

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@NBCNews New York just became the first state to pause data center construction entirely

the build as fast as possible assumption behind the AI infrastructure boom just hit its first major regulatory wall

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iOS 27 public beta dropped and the new Siri AI finally feels like a real upgrade
now i know why my battery was dead when i woke up 😂 apparently everyone's phone is running hot and draining overnight. classic beta experience

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@haider1 everyone dropping frontier models and google announced pretty URLs

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the real divide in 2026 isn't ai vs no ai.
it's people who use ai as a shortcut vs people who use it to go deeper.
one replaces thinking. the other extends it.
the output difference is obvious within a week.

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@github @Kimi_Moonshot first open weight model in the copilot picker is a bigger deal than it sounds. if it holds up on real tasks it changes the cost conversation for every team paying frontier model prices

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qualcomm going after tenstorrent at $8-10B is the clearest sign yet that the risc-v ai chip market is being taken seriously. nvidia can't be the only answer forever

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@bridgebench 43.4 vs 42.8 is close enough that the real decision is just cost vs depth. sonnet 5 for reasoning heavy tasks, glm for execution. not even a competition, just different use cases

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robosense collapsed the entire lidar chip architecture into a single die. cuts manufacturing costs by 90%. the unsexy hardware wins are the ones that actually unlock humanoid robot scale

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@Itsbrutox unix-based terminal out of the box, solid battery life for dev work, and the ecosystem just works if you're already on apple. that combo is hard to beat for a lot of devs

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@bridgemindai if the pricing gap closes that much, the model choice stops being about cost and just becomes a capability call. worth watching if that holds across other benchmarks too

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the nasdaq fell 2.21% in its worst ai sector single day this quarter

the semiconductor unwind that's been building for weeks finally hit the broader tech index hard. june ends on a rough note for ai hardware names

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Binance fighting to stay in the EU after failing to secure its MiCA licence in Greece.

ESMA warned unlicensed firms to wind down. Binance says it's exploring alternatives. a direct regulatory collision is now set.

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@proforma_addbck still in early talks as of this week , no deal confirmed yet but qualcomm hasn't walked away either

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Qualcomm in talks to acquire Tenstorrent for $8-10 billion, moving beyond mobile into AI data center silicon. Open RISC-V architecture, Jim Keller behind it. If this closes it creates a genuine third player in AI inference chips.

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Binance told EU users it will no longer provide services after failing to secure its MiCA licence.

The world's largest crypto exchange losing EU market access is a structural shift ,not a temporary setback.

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Nearly half of the S&P 500's 30% profit growth comes from Big Tech inter-company investment accounting, not actual business operations.

Alphabet's $38B in "other income" is 60% of its net income. A finance professor warns this could unravel investor confidence fast.

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Amazon in talks to sell AI chips externally, creating $50B market challenging Nvidia's dominance. Building chips then selling to competitors changes AI hardware landscape most significantly since Nvidia monopoly. Amazon AI chips $50B Nvidia

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@claudeai PR walkthroughs and living project dashboards built from Claude Code sessions, shared at a private link with the team.

The "how do I show my team what the AI actually did" problem just got a direct answer.

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Snap Specs AR glasses launch this fall at $2,200, fully standalone, no phone required. The hardware decision is right. Whether the price point is right is what the market is about to answer.