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The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m… · Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t…

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    Rules & power 1 source

    The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporting it anyway.

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    Your work 1 source

    Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

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    Money 1 source

    Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become

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    Everyday life 1 source

    Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket

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    Builders 1 source

    Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

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    Builders 1 source

    Can Cursor Remain a Platform for OpenAI and Anthropic’s Models Inside SpaceX?

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for July 3, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Achieving operational excellence with AI MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  2. Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders’ target Ars Technica
  3. Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC Ars Technica
  4. Teaching AI to run with the turbines MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  5. The Download: a startup has a solution for AI’s groupthink problem MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  6. Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 Ars Technica
  7. OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom The Verge
  8. Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech Wired
  9. Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop Wired
  10. You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly Wired
  11. After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release Ars Technica
  12. As AI Reshapes Global Energy Systems, Melbourne Leads Through Engineering Collaboration IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  13. The Space-based Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  14. Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn’t ready for it The Verge
  15. Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return The Verge
  16. Hugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AI Hugging Face
  17. Google’s NotebookLM can sum up your research in a TikTok-style clip The Verge
  18. ScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework Migration Hugging Face
  19. Why Specialization Is Inevitable Hugging Face
  20. Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on “Stochastic Parrots” IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  21. Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  22. Featuring Every Eval Ever Results on Hugging Face Model Pages Hugging Face
  23. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  24. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  25. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  26. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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