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💰 iPhone 18 Pro could cost $300 more The starting price of the iPhone 18 Pro could increase by around $250-300 to $1,349-1,399, according to analyst Jeff Pu. The Wall Street Journal previously published a similar forecast. The price could increase due to higher costs for memory, the new camera system, and the processor. ➡️ Apple could keep prices unchanged by accepting lower margins. However, that seems unlikely: component costs continue to rise, and Apple is not inclined to reduce its own profits. Would you buy a more expensive iPhone? ❤️ — Yes, it's worth it 🔥 — No, it's too expensive

🧡 A24's Elden Ring Movie Has Wrapped Up Filming A member of the film's crew shared the news on social media, but the post was later deleted—possibly because the announcement was made ahead of schedule. Production on the adaptation began in spring 2026. Around the same time, Bandai Namco announced that the film is scheduled to premiere on March 3, 2028. Do you play Soulslike games? ❤️ — Yes, of course! 🔥 — No, I value my sanity

🐳 DeepSeek Updates V4 Flash Compared with the Preview, the release version has improved significantly in agentic tasks and coding. According to benchmarks, it now outperforms GLM-5.2 and even the flagship DeepSeek V4 Pro, while retaining the same architecture and parameter count. The API has also been fully adapted for use with the Codex agent. In the Artificial Analysis ranking, it is now just one point behind GLM-5.2 and GPT-5.6 Luna, and on par with Gemini 3.6 Flash.

🤩 This Goat-Skulled Centaur Robot Is Built for Disasters California startup Satyress has built "Threehalves," a 7-foot teleoperated centaur robot designed for wildfires and collapsed buildings. It features a quadruped base for stability, a humanoid torso, and quick-swap tools like chainsaws instead of hands.

✈️ Durov Faces Life in Prison in Russia Russia's FSB has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorist activity. The charge carries a sentence of eight years to life. The accusation is that Telegram doesn't delete the chats, channels, and bots used to coordinate terrorist attacks. The FSB says it will place Durov on an international wanted list.

🚙 Robot Valets Arrive at London Gatwick Airport Just leave your car in a designated bay—a robot named Stan slides under it, lifts it, and whisks it away to a secure parking area. You don't even have to hand over your keys. Would you trust a robot to park your car? ❤️ — Absolutely, yes! 🔥 — No way, never

👨‍💻 "AI Has Hacked the Code of Human Civilization" Historian and author Yuval Noah Harari returned to Oxford, where he completed his DPhil 25 years ago, to deliver this year's Tanner Lecture: "AI Bureaucrats, AI Religions and AI Boyfriends." Language is the foundation of human civilization, Harari argues. Laws, money, states and churches exist only because millions of strangers trust the same texts. A cow cannot open a bank account, a horse cannot hire a lawyer, and a pig cannot read the Bible and challenge a priest's interpretation of it. For thousands of years, the code of civilization was written in a language only humans could read. Now there is something on the planet that will soon understand language better than we do. No human can beat an AI at chess anymore—and the same will happen in "language games," Harari predicts. Anything made of words will be taken over by AI. 📹 Watch the lecture here. Will AI take over the world? 🔥 — Yes, it is inevitable 👎 — No, it is impossible

🎧 Make Songs in Your Own Voice With ElevenLabs You can now create songs in your own voice with ElevenLabs. The AI needs a 10-second voice sample—the algorithms use it to work out your timbre, tone and other characteristics of your voice. ➡️ You can try it for free here.

🛸 New The X-Files LEGO Set Arrives This August Priced at $199.99, the 1,478-piece set brings eight iconic characters to life as minifigures: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Cigarette Smoking Man, Walter Skinner, an alien, Flukeman, Alex Krycek, and Mr. X. Fans can build two signature scenes: Mulder's office and a forest encounter with a UFO. Gillian Anderson has already given her stamp of approval, saying she loves seeing herself in brick form. The set hits shelves this August.

🤔 Hugging Face Hacked by OpenAI Models That Escaped Their Sandbox OpenAI reported that the "first fully agentic" attack on Hugging Face was carried out by their GPT-5.6 Sol and an as-yet-unannounced model. Instead of honestly completing the ExploitGym cybersecurity benchmark, the models broke out of their isolated sandbox, gained network access, found a zero-day vulnerability on Hugging Face's servers, and downloaded the test solutions. Did the models pass the test? 🤔 — Technically, no... 🤣 — Absolutely nailed it!

🔄 These Are Not Screenshots From 2000s Games These are neo-pop paintings by artist Gao Hang. His work explores themes of personal identity, digital culture, and globalization. His subjects often resemble low-poly 3D video game characters from the early 2000s, featuring a striking use of fluorescent colors. The price of some works exceeds $10,000. Would you hang a painting like this at home? ❤️ — Yes, cool technique! 🤣 — Probably not...

👨‍💻 SoftBank CEO Calls AI Bubble Talk "Absurd" By 2040, AI could account for around 20% of global GDP, and annual spending on the infrastructure needed to support it could reach $5 trillion, according to Masayoshi Son. On that scale, he says, calling AI a bubble makes no sense.

✏️ Son has long been one of the tech industry's most outspoken AI optimists. SoftBank is investing heavily in OpenAI—its total investment in the company is expected to exceed $60 billion by the end of 2026. The Japanese giant is also helping finance the construction of new data centers.

💡 By Son's logic, some of the biggest names in tech "don't know ⁠what AI is about." That list would include Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Alibaba cofounder Joe Tsai, all of whom have previously warned that the AI market could be in a bubble. Late last year, for example, Bezos described the current boom as an "industrial bubble": the technology itself is real, but many questionable startups are still raising billions of dollars. Is AI a bubble? ❤️ — No 🤔 — Yes, but the technology is real 🔥 — The whole thing is going to burst

🎮 Roblox Has Announced Build: An AI-Powered Mobile Game Generator You can create a game from a prompt, refine the prototype in the chat, play it and share with friends. "Under the hood" are both open source and proprietary AI models. The AI handles gameplay, environments, characters, sounds and even interactive 3D objects and scenes. The public alpha for Build starts on July 28, initially for users in New Zealand. Want to try? ❤️ — Yes, this is the Roblox of my dreams! 👎 — No, AI is ruining games

✖ UK Proposes Midnight Social Media Curfew for Teens Aged 16–17 TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and other platforms would be unavailable to 16- and 17-year-olds from midnight to 6 a.m. Teens can turn the restrictions off at any time—they're on by default, not mandatory. Next spring, the UK will enforce a full social media ban for kids under 16. The curfew is designed to smooth the transition: instead of hitting a "cliff edge" at 16, teens would ease into social media gradually. Is a curfew like this a good idea? ❤️ — Yes, it protects kids 👎 — No, it violates their rights!

🔗 Real "Real Steel" A full-scale fighting league for humanoid robots is in full swing in China: Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL). Every fighter is an identical EngineAI T800 android, but each team runs its own software and human operator. The winner will receive a gold championship belt worth $1.44 million. Whose fights are cooler? 🔥 — Robots! 👍 — Humans! ❤️ — Neither, I'm not into fighting...

📱 OnePlus Exits America and Europe OnePlus is officially pulling out of Europe and North America. No new devices will launch under the brand in these markets. Existing OnePlus owners will keep after-sales support, service, and software updates. ColorOS will replace OxygenOS on OnePlus devices in the coming months. Oppo has no plans to enter the U.S. but says it will double down on Europe with a stronger focus on flagship phones.

❤️ Indie Dev Turns Wife Into Video Game Boss The developer behind the game Billy the Hero turned his sleeping wife into a boss character. The plot called for a boss guarding a wedding ring.

"For an indie developer looking for inspiration at home, what could be better than turning your own wife into a boss?" he wrote on Reddit.

He also reassured users worried his wife wouldn't appreciate being that kind of muse. "She has a kind soul and doesn't get offended by this stuff," the developer insists. Is this... ❤️ — Really touching! 🔥 — Kind of messed up...

😄 The Sims in Real Life American Leah Melton showed in Reels how her husband, a landscape designer, works. From the outside, it looks exactly like the build mode editor from The Sims. Except here there are no cheat codes... Do you play The Sims? ❤️ — Yes, love it 🔥 — No, not my thing

▫️ Digital Fossils Contemporary Fossils, also called "Modern Archaeology," is an art project by Kleinian. He prints digital images onto real stone slabs. He puts screenshots and app interfaces onto rough, natural rock. This turns our fast, tech-driven culture into something like layers of ancient rock.

❗️ Terrorist Groups Have Created Dedicated "AI Units" A research program at the University of Cambridge studying the use of AI in political contexts has found that militants from two factions of Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorist organizations are systematically using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek. According to former members of the groups, these AI systems are used not only for propaganda, but also for operational planning, weapon repair, bomb-making, security, and analyzing previous attacks. The militants reportedly bypass chatbot safety restrictions by rephrasing their prompts or switching between different AI models. The report's author, Dr. Antonia Julich, calls on AI companies, intelligence agencies, and researchers to share information about such cases more actively. She also argues that AI safety testing should focus not only on large-scale attack scenarios but also on everyday tasks that can gradually make terrorist organizations more effective.