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Sources: Microsoft sidelined some Copilot-branded AI features on Windows 11 after the Recall delay, and shipped some promised features without the Copilot name (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft sidelined some Copilot-branded AI features on Windows 11 after the Recall delay, and shipped some promised features without the Copilot name  —  Originally announced in 2024, Microsoft's plan to integrate Copilot across various areas of the Windows 11 shell has been shelved …

Reliz Ltd., which operates crypto lender BlockFills, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reporting $50M-$100M in estimated assets and $100M-$500M in liabilities (Timmy Shen/The Block)

Timmy Shen / The Block:
Reliz Ltd., which operates crypto lender BlockFills, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reporting $50M-$100M in estimated assets and $100M-$500M in liabilities  —  Quick Take  — Chicago-based BlockFills has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Google's and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picked five Indian startups from 4K+ applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI "wrappers" (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google's and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picked five Indian startups from 4K+ applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI “wrappers”  —  Many artificial intelligence startup ideas are still little more than superficial “wrappers” built on top of existing models.

President Trump accuses Iran of using AI as a "disinformation weapon" to make fake images of wartime successes against the US, saying "AI can be very dangerous" (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)

Kenrick Cai / Reuters:
President Trump accuses Iran of using AI as a “disinformation weapon” to make fake images of wartime successes against the US, saying “AI can be very dangerous”  —  U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday accused Iran of using artificial intelligence as a “disinformation weapon” …

Micron completes the $1.8B acquisition of Powerchip's DRAM fab in Taiwan, and plans a second fab of similar scale with construction starting by the end of FY26 (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters:
Micron completes the $1.8B acquisition of Powerchip's DRAM fab in Taiwan, and plans a second fab of similar scale with construction starting by the end of FY26  —  U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology (MU.O) said on Monday it plans to build a second manufacturing facility in Taiwan …