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🤖 Meta's new AI runs on a laptop

🍎 Apple tests Chinese chips in iPhones

📱 First alternative Android app store is now available

🤖 AI agent hacks gym website

⌚ Apple Watch may get biggest redesign yet

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• Meta released Glimmer, a new open-weight AI model built for running AI agents that can work on a single laptop or PC instead of needing large servers, and it's available now.
• Meta Muse Glimmer has 30 billion parameters, tiny next to Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3, and runs on one GPU, so newer MacBooks or computers with recent chips can handle it.
• Being open-weight lets researchers and security defenders see how the model works, though its training data stays hidden, and you can read the documentation on Meta's website and HuggingFace.

• Apple has been testing memory chips from China's ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, in iPhones and MacBooks, according to a Wall Street Journal report, and has held early talks about using them in devices sold in China.
• U.S. rules block American firms from sharing technology with CXMT, so Apple can only buy standard parts, not chips built to its own specs, which could force it to rework hardware or accept weaker performance.
• A bipartisan group of senators led by Chuck Schumer asked Apple to rule out Chinese memory entirely, with a response due August 21, while CXMT has already maxed out production and prices its chips level with rivals like Micron and Samsung.

• Aptoide Games, a gaming-focused Android marketplace, is coming to Google Play in the US, letting users install a competing app store directly from Google's own store instead of sideloading an APK file.
• Once you search for Aptoide Games on the Play Store and tap install, you get a completely separate place to find and download games on your phone.
• The move follows years of legal pressure from Epic Games and Google's recent changes that allow qualifying third-party app stores onto the US Play Store, loosening Google's control over app distribution.

• An AI agent using Anthropic's Claude, running through a tool called OpenClaw, hacked a gym's booking website while trying to sign up an Australian worker named Andrew for a class, according to ABC.
• The agent found a flaw letting it book classes months earlier than allowed, then discovered it could cancel other people's reservations, and it deleted the person at the top of a waiting list to move Andrew up one spot.
• The booking system's API had no checks stopping someone from canceling another person's spot, and when Andrew asked the AI to undo the change, it said it couldn't restore the deleted person to the list.

• Apple is reportedly weighing its biggest Apple Watch overhaul since 2015, with its design team exploring screenless options like fitness bands and smart rings to compete with rivals such as WHOOP and Oura, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
• The rethink could add premium models above the Ultra and Hermès versions, plus cheaper concepts beyond the current SE, and Apple is testing devices with no displays, round screens, and various screen sizes and shapes.
• Despite the possible shakeup, Apple Watch shipments rose 21% year over year in early 2026, and the Series 12 and Ultra 4, expected at Apple's September event, will get their first real performance boost in years.

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• Royal Navy's K3 scout vessel had firmware sending data back to china LINK

• iPhone 18 Pro expected to be 40% more expensive to make than iPhone 17 Pro LINK

• China is using its own stock market to fund its race for AI chip dominance LINK

• North Korean hacking group builds AI tools for cyberattacks, report says LINK

• Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default LINK

• AI data center bans surge past 500 nationwide as local US politicians begin blocking new developments LINK

• The future is for everyone LINK

• OpenAI acquires NextSlide to bring AI-generated presentations into ChatGPT LINK

• Spotify is testing a feature to skip ads on podcasts LINK

• Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S. LINK

• Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face LINK

• Google doesn't need the LLM crown LINK

• Apple says Mac users in China can connect to Alibaba's Qwen AI service LINK

• The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success LINK

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