Matt Burgess / Wired: Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security engineering, warns that EU DMA proposals to open up Android and Search could lead to a significant increase in fraud within weeks.— Pro-competition European proposals could lead to the opening of Google and Android search systems. The company says there are serious privacy flaws.
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Marc Maurer / Wall Street Journal: AI is forcing consulting firms to move from hourly billing to fixed or results-based pricing, a transition that is proving slow and difficult for the industry.— As AI threatens to make the billable hour obsolete, professional services firms are struggling to reinvent how they bill their clients.
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and has been tested on Gemma and Qwen.— Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has rolled out a major upgrade to its flagship V4 model aimed…
Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: Jefferies: Memory prices expected to rise 40-50% in Q3 2026 and 30-40% in Q4 as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide significant relief in the near term— Memory prices are expected to rise further in the coming quarters of 2026, as persistent shortages continue to grip the market.
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Injector pens for Wegovy weight loss treatment, manufactured by Novo Nordisk A/S, on display during a press conference in Mumbai, India, June 24, 2025.Dhiraj Singh | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMillions of older Americans on Medicare are about to gain access to obesity medications for the first time – but the historic change may go unnoticed for many of them. Starting Wednesday, eligible beneficiaries can get obesity medications through Medicare’s new Bridge Demonstration Program for a monthly copay of just $50. This media coverage marks a long-sought victory for patients, doctors and obesity advocates who have pushed for wider access to…
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