Citing eight unnamed sources, POLITICO reports the Trump administration is considering a second wave of semiconductor tariffs that would hit finished products like laptops, gaming consoles, and data center servers, not just chips themselves. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reportedly favors tying duty-free chip import limits to each company's committed U.S. manufacturing output, and officials have signaled that exemptions granted under January's Proclamation 11002 for data centers, startups, and consumer devices might not survive into this next phase.
A technical blog post explains why three-term recurrence relations used to compute Bessel functions can fail depending on direction and function type. Forward recurrence works for second-kind Bessel functions but not first-kind, while reverse recurrence works for first-kind but not second-kind functions.
Salesforce shares jumped over 20% Thursday, marking its second-best trading day ever, after the company posted stronger-than-expected second-quarter results and unveiled an expanded partnership with Anthropic. The deal includes a new plugin called Claudeforce, which lets sales teams pull data through Anthropic's Claude chatbot, and was announced by CEOs Marc Benioff and Dario Amodei during a CNBC appearance.
Google has expanded its AI Mode search feature to let users track flight prices across more than 180 countries, receiving email alerts when fares change. The tool can also display flight and hotel costs in points or miles, and in the US, users can now book hotels directly within AI Mode using Google Pay through partner services.
At Hot Chips 2026, Cerebras detailed its next two wafer-scale accelerator generations, including a new Nexus rack architecture for the CS-4 system that triples rack-scale performance using three WS-3T engines. The company also confirmed that its future CS-6 system will introduce 3D-stacked DRAM directly on top of its wafer-scale logic and SRAM, marking a first for its chip design.
A developer built a web demo that replicates the broadcast 'squeezeback'—the effect where a video feed shrinks into a corner while surrounding space fills with graphics or extra content. Instead of baking this into pre-rendered video like a typical online example, the demo uses a CSS Grid with animated track sizes, placing the video player in a live, resizable cell chosen at playback time.
Amazon has cut the price of the 47mm Garmin Fenix 8 AMOLED Sapphire and Titanium edition to $849.99, a $250 reduction from its $1,099.99 list price. The discount ties the watch's previous all-time-low price set during a past Prime Day event.
A class action lawsuit filed against Oura claims the company misled consumers about the accuracy of its smart ring's sleep-stage tracking. The suit argues Oura lacks sensors for brain waves, eye movement, and muscle activity needed to properly detect sleep stages, and instead relies on AI guesswork from heart rate, temperature, and breathing data. The named plaintiff, who paid $503 for the ring, says she was overcharged for a device that doesn't deliver the accuracy Oura advertises.
Rockstar Games and Netflix released an extended gameplay preview of Grand Theft Auto VI, showcasing improved graphics, dense environments, and cooperative gameplay between protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos. The footage, captured on PS5, highlighted combined driving-and-shooting sequences, a split mission requiring stealth and combat, and glimpses of activities like basketball, boat driving, and parachuting.
Salem Robotics, founded by veterans of UT Austin robotics research and Los Alamos National Laboratory, is building software that lets existing mobile robots perform hazardous industrial inspections such as radioactive contamination smears and leak detection checks. The system focuses on precise, constrained manipulation—keeping a probe normal to a surface or within a tight offset from a pipe—while accounting for kinematics, joint limits, and collisions. The company demonstrated its software running on real robot hardware in a launch video.
Opslane is a new open-source platform that records user sessions to catch bugs beyond crash reports, including silent UX failures like unresponsive buttons or abandoned forms. It ranks issues by how many users are affected, investigates the highest-impact ones, and automatically opens verified pull requests when it can confirm a fix works in a sandbox environment. The system integrates with coding agents via an MCP server and delivers a daily Slack digest summarizing what broke and what's ready to merge.
SKC's Absolics unit told investors on July 27 that embedded glass substrate samples from its Covington, Georgia plant are undergoing package-level reliability testing in Taiwan, with results expected by year-end. Meanwhile Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Sumitomo Chemical's Dongwoo Fine-Chem finalized a $310 million joint venture on July 2 aiming for production in late 2027, while Intel, the technology's original champion, has pushed back its own rollout to around 2030 and shifted toward licensing patents instead.
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