Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Brings Three Foldables and Titanium Crease Therapy

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked lands July 22 with rumored Fold 8 and Ultra models, a Flip 8, Watch 9, and possible Galaxy Glasses tease.

Emergent Raised $130 Million to Let Non-Coders Ship Software. The Bugs Are Also Invited.

Emergent raised $130 million to turn non-coders into software builders. The market is huge, the traction is real, and the debugging bill is coming.

Alibaba Turns AI Into a Department Store With Qwen, Agents, and Earbuds

Alibaba unveiled a full-stack AI push at WAIC: Qwen 3.8, enterprise agents, open chip software, and earbuds. The future has departments.

TIPS Clone Just Made Balkan Banking Boring in the Best Possible Way

TIPS Clone went live July 20, bringing 24/7 instant-payment settlement to the Western Balkans and turning payment plumbing into policy for banks.

This Week in Snark: Fable 5 Loses to PowerPoint, Hyundai Buys the Whole Robot, and Your Dinner Files for an IPO

Fable 5 lost a fight with PowerPoint, Hyundai bought the rest of the robot dog, and dinner raised $650 million. The machines are doing great. The files, less so.

Claude Fable 5 Couldn’t Edit My PowerPoint. Five Prompts Ate My Credits.

Fable 5 failed a basic PowerPoint editing job, burned through my credits, and exposed the widening gap between dazzling AI demos and usable work.

Strivve Wants Your Bank Card to Win the AI Shopping Race

Strivve is extending card-on-file placement to AI shopping agents, turning “top of wallet” into a fight over which issuer gets picked by software.

NextGO Epi Raised €2 Million to Make Power Electronics Wear Gallium Oxide

NextGO Epi raised €2 million to commercialize gallium oxide wafers for high-voltage power electronics. The material is weird, expensive, and genuinely promising.

Signal Ring Turns Your Finger Into a Blood-Pressure Dashboard, Minus the Cuff Drama

Signal Ring puts cuffless blood-pressure tracking on your finger for $399. It is focused, clever, and still waiting to prove the medical promise.

Wonder Raised $650 Million to Make Dinner a Robot-Mediated IPO Problem

Wonder raised $650 million at a $9 billion valuation to scale robot kitchens, food halls, AI, and delivery. The ambition is real. So is the burn.

Kimi K3 Turns the AI Race Into a 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Price War

Moonshot's Kimi K3 brings frontier-level AI, low API pricing, and open weights to the U.S.-China model race. The hardware bill remains enormous.

Hyundai Is Buying All of Boston Dynamics, Because Atlas Needs a Factory More Than Applause

Hyundai is taking full control of Waltham-based Boston Dynamics as Atlas moves from viral robot demos toward factories, manufacturing, and real work.