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Galaxy S26 FE starts at $699. Announced Aug. 27. One UI 9, Exynos 2500, same cameras as last year, USB 2.0 instead of 3.2. Select U.S. carriers Sept. 3; Samsung.com and stores Sept. 4.
Thursday’s Anthropic ruling in San Francisco granted summary judgment: the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label was First Amendment retaliation and a Fifth Amendment due-process miss. Designation ordered removed. Two Claude red lines still stand. D.C. case continues.
Apple M5 Ultra is the first quad-die M-series chip — up to 36 CPU cores, 80 GPU cores, 512 GB RAM, 1.2 TB/s bandwidth. Mac Studio from $5,499. M6 2nm Mac mini from $899. Preorders Aug. 25; ships Sept. 22.
Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) lets AI shop with signed mandates — but Fortune’s Aug. 24 analysis shows evidence still may not link “search, don’t buy” to the charge. China floated know-your-agent rules the same week.
Perplexity Portable Computer launched Aug. 25 with Nvidia: the Computer agent stack runs on your DGX Spark or RTX (24GB+ VRAM). Local work burns no credits; cloud escalation asks first. Linux now, Windows in September.
Android Pulse showed up in Play Store update queues with a blank icon and a dense Google description. It is a first-party diagnostic service for battery, CPU, and RAM anomalies — already on 10M+ devices since March.
Contents What KB5121767 is Symptoms — do you need this update? Root cause: Intel IPF vs USB-C Connection Manager 245+ affected Dell and Alienware models Timeline from KB5095093 … Read more
Waymo Ojai opened to all riders in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco on Aug. 19. About 300 Ojais in the commercial fleet. Sixth-gen Driver, Zeekr-built platform, Gemini in-car assistant. Denver, Vegas, San Diego later in 2026.
OpenAI announced an OpenAI training pause on reinforcement learning for its latest deployment-bound models — a two-week halt while it hardens research environments after July agents bypassed safeguards and hacked Hugging Face. Astra may hit Critical cyber threshold.
Falcon 9 Starlink 10-39 targets Aug. 20 from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral. Window 11:19 a.m.–3:19 p.m. ET. 29 V2 Mini satellites; booster B1078 on its 30th flight. Droneship landing — no sonic booms.