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Samsung's 201g passport foldable makes its 4:3 inner screen easier to choose, but absent optical zoom and uneven app layouts remain expensive compromises.

The M5 Air improves its 512GB baseline and wireless platform, while 60Hz, fixed upgrades and fanless limits still define the right buyer.

Liner's Series C backs an enterprise push built around source-backed search, but citations remain only one part of deploying trustworthy AI.

Life360’s new $7.99 scannable pet tags let families instantly receive a “Zoomie alert” and the animal’s last known location when the tag is scanned after a rescue. The addition of care‑tracking features—feeding, walks, medication logs—consolidates pet safety and routine management within the existing Life360 app.

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Instagram’s new “First Draft” tool instantly creates a rough cut of a Reel in under ten seconds, giving creators a ready‑made starting point they can tweak before publishing. By cutting out the tedious manual trimming and sequencing steps, it speeds up the workflow and makes video creation far more accessible for novices and small‑scale creators alike.

Google turns its foldable into a bright 8-inch Pixel workspace, but weight, benchmark gaps and modest camera gains narrow the ideal buyer.

GrapheneOS is preparing official support for future Motorola flagships, followed by Razr foldables, while current Motorola phones remain unsupported.

Hugging Face is reportedly entertaining acquisition bids that could value the startup at roughly $13 billion, according to TechCrunch (24 Aug 2026). However, the founders' sense of responsibility toward the open‑source community they nurtured raises doubts about whether a sale will ultimately go through.

General Intuition has secured backing from Valor Ventures, Point 72 Ventures and Seven Seven Six at a $6 billion pre‑money valuation, marking a major vote of confidence in its foundation model that teaches AI agents to navigate space and time. The fresh capital will accelerate the startup’s push into robotics, enabling developers to reuse a single, generalized AI core across diverse hardware and tasks.

Waymo has detailed a custom 5nm ASIC delivering more than 1,000 TOPS for onboard sensor processing, alongside its redundant robotaxi computer.

TikTok and ByteDance will pay $400 million to resolve US allegations under COPPA, while the settlement makes no determination of liability.