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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
Sonos finally added Live Activities controls for your iPhone lockscreen
Sonos released an update to its mobile app that finally introduces support for iOS' Live Activities, giving iPhone users quick access to playback controls on their lockscreen. The added functionality is a "much requested, anticipated, and needed feature," according to a post Sonos shared to Reddit today that was spotted by 9to5Mac. While some features like displaying album art are not available, the Sonos Live Activity provides basic details and controls when listening to music or podcasts through a Sonos system without having to fully unlock your iPhone and open the app. Support for Live Activities and lockscreen controls similar to wha … Read the full story at The Verge.
Trump’s dumb border wall
A bulldozer plows through land during construction for a section of border wall near Santa Elena Canyon on August 14, 2026 in Big Bend National Park, Texas. | Photo: Brandon Bell via Getty Images About 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved mountain road that passes cows grazing on open range, stands a cottonwood tree believed to be at least 200 years old. The "grandmother" tree, as some locals call it, is imperiled and already showing signs of stress, almost as if it knows its fate. The leaves are yellowing prematurely, falling to the ground at the height of summer. On July 27th, a construction crew felled three neighboring trees to build an extension of President Donald Trump's wall along the US-Mexico border. An activist climbed up the last tree standing two days later and ever sin … Read the full story at The Verge.
Enterprises with AI context layers report agent failures at more than twice the rate of those without one
A company builds a governed context layer specifically to stop its AI agents from confidently giving wrong answers. Once that layer is live, the company is more than twice as likely to report the failure happening — not less.In the past six months, 68% of enterprises have traced a confident but wrong AI agent answer to missing or inconsistent business context. Thirty-seven percent say it happened more than once, ahead of the 32% who saw it happen only once. The figures come from a VB Pulse July 2026 survey of 101 qualified enterprises with more than 100 employees. That s up from 57% in a VB Pulse survey conducted in June. Recurring failures climbed too, from 31% then to 37% now.This is the second time VB Pulse has asked enterprises this exact question, once in June and now in July. The failure rate is climbing, not falling, even as more enterprises report a governed layer in production, up from 25% in June to 32% now.How agents get context determines whether they re wrongEvery AI agent
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
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Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
Apple ordered to change app data consent prompts on iPhones and iPads
Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of giving the prompts a design that favored its own apps. Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompts reportedly cost social media apps nearly $10 billion when they launched with iOS 14.5, making cross-app tracking of users largely opt-in. But as a designated "gatekeeper" under the EU's DMA rules, it is facing additional scrutiny over whether the program provides a level playing field. The regulator says the prompts steer users away from agreeing to let third-party apps use their data, while encouraging them to give consent for … Read the full story at The Verge.
Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South
African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.
As enterprises confront AI agent sprawl, xpander wants them to own their own control and context layer
Enterprise AI has a new infrastructure problem: companies are accumulating agents faster than they are developing systems to govern them.Gartner estimates that the average global Fortune 500 company will have more than 150,000 AI agents in use by 2028, up from fewer than 15 in 2025. Yet only 13% of organizations believe they currently have the right AI agent governance in place, according to the research firm.That widening gap is creating a market for infrastructure that sits above individual models and agents — handling execution, permissions, observability, memory, access to enterprise systems and lifecycle management without forcing developers to reconstruct those services for every new agent.xpander.ai, a startup founded by three former AWS principal engineers, is the latest company trying to own that layer.The company is making its enterprise AI agent platform generally available today, positioning it as a vendor-neutral control plane for building, running and governing agents acr
WiiM’s capable HomePod-esque smart speaker is almost $50 off
The smart speaker market is more or less dominated by major tech companies: Apple, Google, Sonos, and Amazon. But WiiM’s powerful 100W Sound smart speaker is an attractive alternative because it’s not locked down to play nicely with select music services. It supports over 20 services, and it sports Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 and ethernet, giving you multiple ways to connect. Additionally, it taps into standards used by other speakers, including Chromecast, Spotify Connect, DLNA, Alexa Cast, and more (AirPlay 2 is off the table, though its Pro Music Streamer supports it). In other words, it can be added to multi-room setups you may already have in the Google Home or Amazon Echo ecosystem. The black and white versions are rarely discounted, but they’re each 15 percent off at Amazon and directly through WiiM. Normally $299.99, they’re $254.15. WiiM Sound Smart Speaker Where to Buy: $299 $254.15 at Amazon $299 $254.15 at WiiM WiiM also makes the Sound Lite, which is also discounted by 15 perc
How Heidi built production-ready AI for healthcare at global scale
Presented by MongoDBBuilding AI that is accurate, secure, and reliable is a major engineering feat for organizations subject to the compliance obligations that govern healthcare, financial services, and transportation. The challenge of delivering AI-driven products is compounded by the fact that technology in these industries has tended to lag behind other sectors because regulation requires organizations to move carefully — and slowly. Now, many are also confronting data infrastructure modernization projects as they try to catch up with today’s demand for AI.Australian-founded AI Care Partner Heidi offers an example of successful modernization. Its flagship product, Heidi Scribe, now automates much of the administrative work that consumes clinicians’ days across more than 190 countries, supporting roughly 2.7 million patient interactions each week. That expansion rests on infrastructure decisions taken years before the company reached global scale, says Yu Liu, co-founder and chief te