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Today’s highlights
- Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine — 2026-08-28
- Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they’re all Chinese automakers.
- Google further buries search results under AI mode — 2026-08-28
- Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from
- Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses? — 2026-08-28
- Are XREAL’s smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment?
- Xbox CEO calls Project Helix a ‘family of devices’ — 2026-08-28
- According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Microsoft’s “next generation console” - phrasing that seemingly implied a singular device - will actually be a “family” of
- Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips — 2026-08-28
- Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It’s the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.
- An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI — 2026-08-28
- Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.
- Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases — 2026-08-28
- The feature, announced this week, allows Brave’s users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses.
- Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets — 2026-08-28
- There’s a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.