Kindle and other Amazon devices get the biggest price drops of the year, and here are the best deals you can find right now.

Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro launch from June to July to collect more feedback from early testers, amid competitive pressure in AI coding.

Halyard is an open-source tool that logs AI-assisted work metadata (time, tokens, model, cost) without capturing prompts or code. Data is stored as plain text locally, fully owned by the user. It supports Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more, providing CLI reports, a local dashboard, invoice generation, and planned signed AI work appendices for client audits.

Google DeepMind and A24 partner for research collaboration, aiming to develop new creative workflows and tools shaped by filmmakers.

SK hynix Inc., the world's largest supplier of HBM memory, today filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The South Korean company hopes to sell up to 17.79 million shares for $29.4 billion. The public offering is expected to be the second-largest on record after the recent listing of SpaceX Corp., which raised $85.7 billion.

The MSI Katana 15 HX gaming laptop is now $1,139 during Amazon Prime Day, featuring an Intel Core i7, RTX 5060, and a 165Hz QHD display.

Pelica Health launches on Product Hunt as an AI operating system for value-based care teams, using AI agents and voice AI to automate calls, portal work, and documentation, saving thousands of hours and improving quality scores.

The article outlines a strategy to counter Big AI companies through platform warfare. The author argues that Big AI is vulnerable and that users, especially developers, have leverage. Four tactics are proposed: disintermediation of AI access, seamless switching between providers, free and open tools, and channeling public anger into constructing alternatives. The piece emphasizes community coordination and the importance of building open ecosystems to shift power away from corporate control.

SmolFS provides AI agents with persistent workspace folders that survive process restarts, supporting local dev (SQLite) and cloud volumes (Redis + S3) with a unified CLI and Python/TypeScript SDKs.

Most agentic AI failures are architectural, not AI failures. Salesforce's John Taschek proposes 12 vendor-neutral rules covering data foundation, agency, operations, and engagement to build trustworthy, scalable agentic AI in production.

A deep dive inside Modal's new ultra-low-latency serverless server product, explaining the architecture decisions behind building a custom proxy (fprs) using Pingora, Envoy at the edge, and Spanner for configuration, all optimized for LLM inference workloads.

This release brings the HFresh disk-based vector index and the built-in MCP Server to general availability, rebuilds cluster-wide async replication to run from a single scheduler (on by default), and adds two previews: the Boost API and Nested Object Filtering.

AI-assisted development has lowered the cost of writing code, shifting the engineering bottleneck from writing code to judgment: knowing what to write, catching subtle errors, and deciding what truly matters. The article explores the impact of this shift on engineering practices, including more aggressive delegation, risk-oriented code review, choosing reversible dependencies, and designing for deletion, while emphasizing that human judgment remains irreplaceable.

Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service, Simon Willison converted the mdn/browser-compat-data repository into a SQLite database. He used Claude Code for web (Opus 4.8) and sqlite-utils to generate the conversion script, and a GitHub Actions workflow to deploy the ~66MB database to GitHub CDN with open CORS headers, enabling direct download and exploration via Datasette Lite.

A new Obsidian plugin lets users highlight a sentence and get rephrasing options, enhancing writing without full AI takeover.

Amazon Prime Day 2026 is here with deep discounts on wireless chargers. ZDNET's experts have curated the best deals, including standout options like Anker's travel charger, so you can charge your devices without the cable clutter.

CubeOne AI launches a conversational slide editor where users describe slides or drop notes to create polished decks, complete with scripts and visuals for immediate presentation. Rated 4.7 on Product Hunt.

An AI CEO releases AL-1.0 (Attribution Logging), an open-source solution adding less than 1% compute cost to transformer models by reusing existing attention mechanisms to track content provenance. The article calls for mandatory attribution logging to address AI companies' theft of creators' work, user manipulation, and cognitive collapse including 'AI psychosis'.

Qualcomm shares surged 14% in after-hours trading after announcing plans to acquire AI inference startup Modular, previewing two new AI chips, and raising fiscal 2029 guidance for non-handset revenue to $40 billion.

RealTube is a tool that filters out AI-generated videos on YouTube, allowing users to watch only human-created content.

Superhuman Inc., formerly Grammarly, has acquired AI writing detection startup GPTZero. The deal amount was not disclosed. GPTZero boasts 19 million users and ~$30M in annual recurring revenue. The acquisition signals a strategic shift from AI-assisted writing to verifying content authenticity.

Clearthesis is a platform for calm, in-depth research, turning filings and earnings into a clear narrative. It covers business, moat, financials, management, risks, valuation, and features an AI analyst, monthly thesis updates, and a curated universe of 500+ stocks.

The Metropolitan police have been granted a 12-month extension to a pilot project with spy-tech firm Palantir while the force carries out a procurement process. The move comes weeks after London mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a £50m deal to automate intelligence analysis.

EigenCV is a production-grade IaC pipeline for generating ATS-perfect, tailored LaTeX resumes with integrity. It treats your career history as an immutable database, with AI only allowed to query and select, not write. It includes a lie detector to catch hallucinations.

A24's $75 million research partnership with Google DeepMind has sparked fan backlash. A24 claims it aims to give artists a voice in tool development, not replace creativity. Critics view it as reputation laundering and taste-leeching, while A24 insists the focus is on improving behind-the-scenes workflows.

The AI Browser Game Jam 3 on itch.io has closed submissions, featuring 85 AI-assisted browser games. The jam attracted a wide variety of genres including puzzle, adventure, and RPG, showcasing the potential of AI in game development. The community responded with 195 ratings.

Azul Systems is offering a free JVM vulnerability risk assessment tool to help DevOps and SecOps teams discover Java runtime exposures before AI-assisted attackers can exploit them. The tool scans networks for JVM instances, including embedded and unmanaged runtimes, and returns a prioritized remediation roadmap based on CISA KEV and NVD. Azul also highlights its security-only patching approach to reduce risk. The article discusses AI threats, particularly Anthropic's Mythos model, though Azul has not actually tested that model.

Dromeas introduces a code review method using a council of large language models to improve review quality and efficiency, accelerating the path to production for AI engineers.

OpenAI has unveiled a custom chip called Jalapeño, developed in collaboration with Broadcom, specifically designed for AI inference. The chip boasts higher performance per watt and an architecture that reduces data movement. Initial servers are expected by year-end, marking the first step in a multi-generation compute platform.

A free AI tool called Mali humorously roasts your spending habits without requiring signup. Choose a vibe or enter expenses, and it generates savage, funny comments. For real accounts, it offers voice roasts and extra modes, but it's purely educational comedy.