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SpaceXSI debuts Grok Voice 3.0, saying it tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index, responds in under a second, and costs less than rivals, at $0.08/min (SpaceXSI)

Sources: Anduril opens a tender offer of up to ~$1.3B for staff at a ~$90B valuation, available in 16 countries for the first time; it was valued at $61B in May (Bloomberg)

Google says users with a standard account can now build personal Android apps for free in AI Studio and will be able to share them with friends in coming months (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)

Suki, an AI ambient scribe for healthcare providers, raised a $90M Series E led by Healthier Capital; a source says it projects $60M-$80M in revenue this year (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

Sources: Bumble is in advanced talks to be taken private at a ~$1B valuation by Ithaca Holdings, founded recently by two Silicon Valley execs; BMBL jumps 45%+ (Cara Lombardo/Wall Street Journal)

Muse Wonder Full (max) outperforms Fable 5.1 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, matches Sonnet 5.5 (max), and is just shy of Opus 5.5 (max) (@artificialanlys)

Can fans expect Goblins or Vulpera in WoW: Forever? Blizzard says it has 'no plans' to add modern WoW races to the game — 'Our main focus for the game is to build off the foundational lore of Warcraft'

How Musk and Benioff pledged to rename SpaceXAI and AIForce, while Nadella and Nvidia adopted "super intelligence", as Silicon Valley falls in line with Trump (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

A look at the economics of Anthropic's data center leases as analysts estimate a 245 MW site could yield ~$1.3B/mo; sources say it signed a cloud deal with IREN (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)

"Super Intelligence systems" are black boxes that shouldn't be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella)

Hundreds of AI-decompiled or vibe-coded clones of games appeared in recent weeks, ported to run in browsers; some big titles like GTA: Vice City, Halo play well (Lewis Parker/Kotaku)

IDC: Shenzhen-based DJI and Insta360, accounting for 73% and 20% of global smart camera market in Q2, are vying for the top spot as GoPro's share drops to 3% (William Langley/Financial Times)