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Walmart consolidates its AI agents into four "super agents", for customers, staff, engineers, and sellers/suppliers, using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
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Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26, with its new Liquid Glass design language (Jay Peters/The Verge)
2025-07-24 18:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
C3.ai founder and CEO Thomas Siebel steps down due to health issues related to an autoimmune disease that resulted in visual impairment in early 2025 (Hanh Truong/Silicon Valley Business ...)
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In a memo, Satya Nadella addresses the "enigma" of layoffs while "Microsoft is thriving", saying the transition into the AI era "might feel messy at times" (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
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Google will officially deprecate links generated with its goo.gl URL shortener on August 25, 2025; the company stopped generating goo.gl URLs in March 2019 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2025-07-24 17:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: OpenAI is planning to launch GPT-5 in early August, complete with mini and nano versions that will also be available through its API (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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Google's lead for Home and Nest Anish Kattukaran apologizes for Assistant reliability issues on home devices and announces "major improvements" later this year (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
2025-07-24 16:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Figma makes its prompt-to-app coding tool Figma Make available to all users, after initially launching it in beta for Full Seat users earlier in 2025 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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Lyft rolls out letting riders "favorite" or block drivers to enhance loyalty from riders and drivers; favorites get priority for future scheduled rides (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Cognition, which makes the coding assistant Devin, is in talks to raise $300M+ at a $10B valuation; it was reportedly valued at $4B in March (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
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Armada, whose mobile AI data centers for use in remote environments have been used by the US Navy, raised $131M, bringing its total funding to $200M+ (Cal Biesecker/Defense Daily)
2025-07-24 16:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU says it will investigate whether KKR provided incorrect or misleading information in its €22B acquisition of Telecom Italia's fixed-line network (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
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In Yuga Labs vs. Ryder Ripps, an appeals court rules that NFTs are "goods" that can get trademark protection but sends the case back to a lower court (Zack Abrams/The Block)
2025-07-24 16:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Founders Fund and Dragoneer have committed to investing $1B+ each in OpenAI's second, $30B installment of its $40B round announced in March (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
2025-07-24 15:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit accusing Intel of defrauding shareholders by hiding problems in its foundry unit, news of which led to a $32B one-day stock fall (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
2025-07-24 15:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
HeroDevs, which provides support for legacy open-source software, raised $125M from PSG, intends to allocate $20M to its Open Source Sustainability Fund (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
2025-07-24 15:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Gamefound, a board game crowdfunding company, acquires Indiegogo, which has 38M members and will change its pricing to be in line with Gamefound's flat 5% fee (Jay Peters/The Verge)
2025-07-24 15:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Leena AI, which develops an employee-facing agentic AI assistant, launches "AI colleagues" that it says can work and interact just like human employees (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
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LegalOn, whose contract review tool uses AI to identify risks and suggest edits, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $200M+ (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
2025-07-24 15:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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