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Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

OpenAI’s big Codex update is a direct shot at Claude Code

The Verge - All Posts

Google’s AI Mode update lets you open links without leaving the page

The Verge - All Posts

Drift Protocol secures $147.5M in funding, including $127.5M from Tether, to replace Circle stablecoin with USDT after a $270M exploit linked to North Korea (Will Canny/CoinDesk)

Techmeme

Why Bill Bellamy’s Latest Message to Black Women Has the Internet Heated

The Root

95 Rapid-Fire Questions About Invincible VS

Game Informer

The US DOJ says a judge sentenced two US citizens to a combined 16 years in prison for running laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers pose as US workers (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Techmeme

Hilton Head’s Gullah Geechee Community Built A Legacy, Now They’re Fighting To Be Heard

The Root

Lana Del Rey revealed as new James Bond game theme song singer

Polygon - All

Netflix's Mating Season trailer reveals The Big Mouth team's take on dating

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Factory, whose AI coding agents switch between AI models depending on the complexity of the task, raised a $150M Series C led by Khosla at a $1.5B valuation (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

Skyrim mod makes players debate dragons to kill them

Polygon - All

Roblox revamps Roblox Assistant, its plain-language AI tool for game development, with agentic tools to let developers plan, build, and test games (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Solidroad, which uses AI to evaluate customer interactions with human and AI agents to find risk, skill gaps, and more, raised a $25M Series A led by Hedosophia (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)

Techmeme

Overwatch season 2's Mercy rework nerfs her healing, but makes her more fun to play

Polygon - All

Microsoft planning Surface Laptop with an OLED display

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Google announces a Gemini app integration between Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to let the AI image generator "automatically reflect" users' tastes (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Techmeme

All Your Base Are Belong to Us' strange history, explained definitively

Polygon - All

Critical Role founders Ashley Johnson and Taliesin Jaffe team up for the second season of Weird Kids

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D&D reveals new official actual play show with all-star cast — and it's good

Polygon - All