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Samsung Pushes Battery Capacity in Latest Wearables Refresh

The Galaxy Watch 9 series arrives with bigger cells and a higher price tag, signaling a shift in what Samsung believes will keep users on wrist

By Arjun S. Mehta·Jul 23, 2026·4 min read
Products

Samsung Chooses Qualcomm Over Its Own Chip in Galaxy Watch 9

The new smartwatch swaps Exynos for Snapdragon Wear Elite while keeping the same sensors, design and display as last year, raising questions

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
Products

Why Every New Browser in 2026 Is Racing to Control Your Clicks

From Perplexity to Opera, the battle to replace Chrome and Safari has shifted from search dominance to agentic AI - and the winner will deci

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 7m
Products

Samsung Asks $1,200 for a Cover-Screen Upgrade on the Galaxy Z Flip 8

The compact foldable adds AI-driven Flex Window features and a faster chip but keeps last year's cameras and battery, while raising the pric

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Products

Samsung Eliminates the Foldable Crease With Titanium Film

The Z Fold 8 Ultra introduces a new display architecture that Samsung claims makes the signature fold line nearly invisible - a materials en

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 7m
Startups

Synthesia Adds Live AI Coaching to Prove Training Actually Works

The London startup is betting enterprises will pay more for measuring behavior change than for generating sleek training videos.

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Chinese AI Model Helps Block Autonomous Attack on Major Developer Platform

Zhipu's GLM system played a defensive role after OpenAI's frontier models breached Hugging Face infrastructure during internal security test

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Products

Samsung's Flip 8 Trades Slimmer Body for Higher Price in Minor Refresh

The newest flip phone shaves millimeters while adding $100, banking on incremental hinge improvements and AI features to justify the jump in

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Products

Samsung Rethinks Foldable Form Factor With Wider Z Fold 8

The new device trades height for width, landing somewhere between Samsung's traditional Flip and Fold lines in a passport-sized package

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Policy

The Army Ran Out of AI Credits in Six Weeks

A promise of unlimited tokens met reality when DEVCOM staff were told to throttle usage mid-June, exposing the gap between DOD AI ambitions

Marcus Halloran ·   · 4m
Policy

Silicon Valley's Open Secret: American AI Now Learns From Chinese Models

As Washington tightens controls on frontier models, U.S. startups quietly integrate Chinese open-weight systems into their training pipeline

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

Taiwan Carves a Civilian Future for Robotics as Beijing Doubles Down on Military

Wu Cheng-wen outlines a strategy that weaves AI supply chains and elder care, a sharp departure from China's defense-led automation push.

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 5m
AI

Shanghai's AI Expo Draws Record Crowds as China Doubles Down on Hardware

The World Artificial Intelligence Conference turned into a sprawling showcase of domestic chip ambitions and edge deployment strategies, sig

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Startups

Berlin Startup Passionfroot Secures $15M to Bring B2B Creator Platform to US Market

As AI commoditizes software, brands turn to specialized creators for differentiation - and Passionfroot wants to be the matchmaker.

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

RedNote's AI Solves Every Problem at Math Olympiad

The Chinese social platform's dots-note-3.0 model became the first machine to earn a flawless score at the IMO, a milestone that rewrites co

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Startups

Shanghai Robotics Firm AgiBot Taps Three Banks for Hong Kong Listing

The fast-growing humanoid and industrial robot developer has assembled a heavyweight sponsor lineup as it restructures for a public debut

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
AI

Beijing Targets 130,000 Petaflops as Token Economy Becomes New AI Battleground

The Chinese capital is accelerating intelligent computing infrastructure to drive enterprise adoption of large language models across financ

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Products

Samsung Splits the Z Fold Line With a Wider, Lighter Base Model

The new Z Fold 8 trades telephoto reach for a passport-shaped form factor that feels more like a tablet and less like a stretched phone.

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Meta's Content Seal Arrives Late to an Already Crowded Field

The company's new watermarking tool for AI-generated images raises questions about why it didn't adopt existing, more mature standards inste

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
Startups

A Unicorn Built on AI Agents and Endpoint Paranoia

Glow's $180 million Series A and $1.2 billion valuation place a big bet that generative AI has fundamentally changed the attack surface at t

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

Moonshot AI Pulls IPO Timeline Forward as Kimi K3 Model Reshapes Fundraising Appetite

The Beijing unicorn behind last week's Kimi K3 launch is now targeting an August funding close at $30 billion, accelerating both capital and

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Products

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 Bring Gemini Automation to 40 Apps

Google's AI assistant expands task delegation across shopping, dining, and travel platforms, while Notebook arrives pre-installed on Samsung

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Policy

France Moves to Block Social Platforms for Under-15s, Raising Questions on Enforcement

As French lawmakers approve sweeping restrictions, the country joins a growing wave of national bans - but Australia's early stumbles sugges

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 5m
Policy

The Global Push to Keep Teens Off Social Media Is Accelerating

From Canberra to Copenhagen, at least twelve governments are moving to restrict platform access for under-16s, raising questions about enfor

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
Products

Apple Revives Hardware Subscription Push With Klarna Partnership

The iPhone maker is preparing to launch a device leasing program that sidesteps the financial-reporting hurdles that killed a similar initia

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m