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🤔 AI is publishing bestsellers now

Apple Books and Amazon are being flooded → with AI-generated copies of books by well-known authors. Some fake publishers reportedly release up to 10 titles a week.

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🤐 AI hacked AI

Hugging Face revealed a cyberattack carried out entirely by an autonomous AI agent without human involvement. The attackers accessed internal datasets and service credentials.

The company's own AI tools also struggled during the investigation — commercial models blocked some security analysis requests because they could not distinguish researchers from attackers.

More details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/hugging-face-autonomous-ai-agent-cyberattack

❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 Google may equip the upcoming Pixel 11a with the Tensor G6 chip.

📌 Apple left Jony Ive out of its OpenAI lawsuit over alleged trade secret theft.

📌 Apple is testing AI-powered Live Notes for Genius Bar conversations.

📌 Apple plans new iPad and Mac Studio updates and is dropping Mac Pro Extreme chips.

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😏 Are quotes in Telegram becoming a Premium feature?

A banner prompting users to subscribe to Telegram Premium now appears when applying quotes to a text message.

📌 Markdown and advanced formatting do require a Premium subscription, but quotes shouldn't be affected.

📌 There's a workaround: tap "Send Without Formatting", and the banner disappears while the quote remains.

Most likely, this is a bug that will be fixed in a future Telegram update.

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😾 Balancing things out

Tesla has a new $225 product — but it's a balance bike for kids.

The bike is designed for children aged two to five and supports riders weighing up to 35 kg (77 lbs). If you weigh any more than that, you'll have to stick with Tesla's other products.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/tesla-balance-bike-for-kids

📱 Caviar unveils Legends

Caviar has unveiled Legends, a new luxury smartphone collection dedicated to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The lineup features a custom Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra for Messi (before Samsung has even officially unveiled the phone) and iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max editions for Ronaldo.

More details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/caviar-legends-messi-ronaldo-smartphones

🧠 China's next AI heavyweight

Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K3, a new large language model the company says is the world's largest open model. It's already available through the Kimi chatbot, Kimi Code, Kimi Work, and the API.

More about the model:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/moonshot-kimi-k3-open-ai-model

🧠 AI gets its own keyboard

OpenAI has unveiled Codex Micro, a compact controller built for managing AI agents. The device lets users monitor tasks and control Codex with physical buttons, a joystick, and a rotary dial.

Everything you need to know:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-codex-micro-ai-controller

🚘 Driver not found

You can finally book a driverless taxi in Dubai. The service is now live, with bookings available through Uber and Apollo Go.

How to book a ride, where the service is available, and what to expect:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/dubai-public-driverless-taxi-service

🤐 Not your keys, not your seed phrase

Kaspersky GReAT has uncovered → OkoBot, a new malware platform targeting crypto wallet owners with phishing prompts designed to look like Trezor and Ledger interfaces.

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🤩 Samsung foldables: almost no secrets left

The full specs of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra have leaked online just a week before the official launch.

What to expect from Samsung's new foldables:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/galaxy-z-fold-8-fold-8-ultra-specs-leak

🦴 ChatGPT gets a body

OpenAI's first consumer device is reportedly set to be a portable screenless smart speaker, with former Apple design chief Jony Ive playing a key role in its development.

Everything we know about the rumored device:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-first-device-ai-smart-speaker

🙂 No choice, Google?

Swiss regulators have launched a preliminary investigation → after Google removed Android’s search choice screen in Switzerland, making Google Search the default option.

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😎 Telegram got a lot more powerful

Telegram has officially rolled out its July update across Android, iOS, and desktop. Highlights include:

📌 A rich text editor with headings, tables, code blocks, and inline media.

📌 Communities that bring channels, groups, and bots together in one place.

📌 Plus several other additions, including fully private search across more than 350 million GIFs.

Everything new in the latest update:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/telegram-july-update-rich-text-editor-communities

🧠 Finally, someone who won’t interrupt

OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models now powering ChatGPT Voice. It can listen and speak at the same time, slip in the occasional “mhmm” or “yeah,” and tell the difference between the end of a sentence and a pause to think.

What’s new with ChatGPT’s voice:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-gpt-live-chatgpt-voice-models

🤷‍♂️ Still no evidence?

Pavel Durov was questioned → in Paris for more than six hours on July 8, his fourth hearing since being charged in August 2024.

His lawyers said investigators still have no evidence to support the case and have filed complaints in France and with European courts.

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🤫 Delete it!

A Chinese regulator has warned → of an alleged backdoor in Anthropic’s Claude Code, claiming the AI coding tool contains a built-in tracking mechanism that can send users’ location data and identity-related identifiers to remote servers without consent.

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🦴 GPT-5.6 gets the green light

The US government has lifted restrictions on the wider release of GPT-5.6. OpenAI will make all three models in the lineup → Sol, Terra, and Luna — publicly available on July 9.

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🧠 AI loyalty has a price

US companies are increasingly switching from expensive AI models → by OpenAI and Anthropic to cheaper Chinese alternatives as token prices at leading American labs rise.

Open Chinese models can cost 60% to 90% less to run than their leading US rivals.

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