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DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic

DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic’s Opus-4.8. On DeepSeek’s own published table, it beats that model on three benchmarks out of eleven. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is live on the company’s API platform. It takes the text-only V4-Flash and adds the ability to read images and screenshots. […]

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Samsung approves a record $80bn shareholder return, and the stock falls

Samsung Electronics approved the largest shareholder return in South Korean corporate history on Friday. Its shares then fell as much as 2.6% in post-market trading. The board signed off on a Samsung shareholder return of between 90 trillion and 110 trillion won for 2026. That is roughly $65bn to $80bn. It is about five times […]

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YouTube raises Premium prices across Europe with an opt-in deadline

YouTube Premium is getting more expensive across Europe. This time the company is asking subscribers to agree, rather than simply imposing the increase. A price-change notice seen by TNW went to a Romanian subscriber on Friday. It puts the individual plan up from RON 29.00 to RON 32.00 a month, a rise of about 10%. […]

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Castelion raises $1bn at $13bn to scale hypersonic weapon production

Castelion has raised $1bn at a $13bn valuation. Three SpaceX executives founded the company in 2022 to build missiles. Its first product is Blackbeard, a hypersonic strike weapon designed for quantity rather than craft. The structure repays a close read. The round is $800m in equity plus $250m of committed financing for a revolving credit […]

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DOJ opposes an emergency hearing over the FCC’s review of ABC’s licences

Disney asked a federal judge to hold an emergency hearing by Tuesday over the Federal Communications Commission’s move to review the licences of its eight ABC-owned stations. The Justice Department told the court on Thursday that there is no hurry. The government’s argument is procedural and, on its face, mild. A hearing designation order would […]

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Pew says 10% of the web now shows signs of AI authorship

Pew found strong signs of AI authorship in around 10% of a random sample of webpages in July 2026, rising to more than a third among pages published since ChatGPT’s release. Commercial domains carry most of it, at about 10% of .com against roughly 1% of .edu and .gov. About a tenth of the web […]

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Hyundai’s luxury brand has a new flagship EV, and no European plans for it

Genesis has unveiled the GV90, a full-size electric SUV with 490 kW, a 123.5 kWh battery and pillarless coach doors on the Neolun version. It goes on sale in the United States early next year, and the announcement says nothing about Europe. Genesis has revealed the biggest and most expensive thing it has ever built. […]

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Fairphone’s most repairable phone yet is now available in the US at $650

Fairphone is selling directly in the United States for the first time, with the $650 Gen 6+ and its twelve user-replaceable parts. The Dutch company is entering a market with no equivalent of the EU repairability rules that took effect last year. Fairphone is selling in the United States directly for the first time. The […]

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