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🚗 BYD overtakes Tesla as top EV seller
🌐 Amazon’s AI assistant comes to the web with Alexa.com
🧠 Microsoft CEO calls AI a 'cognitive amplifier'
📱 Samsung to double Google Gemini devices to 800 million
💥 Taiwan averaged 2.6 million daily Chinese cyberattacks in 2025
🎁 + 15 other news you might like
🧰 + 6 trending tools
📚 + 2 trending papers
🚗 BYD overtakes Tesla as top EV seller LINK
Chinese rival BYD has officially passed Tesla as the world’s top seller of electric vehicles after reporting 2.26 million BEVs sold in 2025, whereas Tesla’s annual deliveries dropped to just 1.64 million.
The company saw its sales figures slide nine per cent due to increasing competition, the phasing out of a tax credit, and buyer concerns over the conservative politics of Elon Musk.
Musk claims Tesla will begin mass production of its electric Semi truck, self-driving Cybercab, and Optimus robot in 2026, following shareholder approval of a pay package that could make him a trillionaire.
🌐 Amazon’s AI assistant comes to the web with Alexa.com LINK
Amazon officially launched a new website called Alexa.com that lets Alexa+ Early Access customers interact with the digital assistant through a browser, similar to how people currently use AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini.
The service encourages families to upload personal documents and emails so the AI can track items like soccer schedules, which helps it function as a hub despite lacking the productivity suite data rivals already have.
A refreshed mobile app now offers an agent-forward experience that puts a chatbot-style interface on the homepage, meaning chatting is the focus while other features take a backseat for the consumer.
🧠 Microsoft CEO calls AI a 'cognitive amplifier' LINK
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues the industry needs to abandon "slop vs sophistication" arguments and embrace artificial intelligence as a "cognitive amplifier" that helps humans apply these tools to their goals.
Critics on X mocked the post by trending "Microslop," noting that telling people not to call AI "slop" creates a "Streisand Effect" that results in millions hearing the word for the first time.
Microsoft is backing this future by building massive Fairwater data centers with over 2 gigawatts of capacity, infrastructure designed to support interconnected systems that orchestrate multiple agents with memory and tool usage.
📱 Samsung to double Google Gemini devices to 800 million LINK
Samsung plans to double the number of mobile devices with Galaxy AI to 800 million units in 2026, relying largely on Google’s Gemini model to power the smartphones and tablets.
Co-CEO TM Roh says the company will apply artificial intelligence to all products and services as quickly as possible to fend off competition from Apple and Chinese rivals in the market.
While search is the most used feature, owners frequently open generative AI editing and productivity tools, along with summary functions, inside a suite that also includes the Bixby assistant for different tasks.
💥 Taiwan averaged 2.6 million daily Chinese cyberattacks in 2025 LINK
The National Security Bureau says Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan averaged more than 2.6 million every day in 2025, targeting key infrastructure like hospitals and banks to disrupt daily social functions.
Beijing coordinated its operations with physical intimidation, ramping up hacking activities during 23 of the 40 joint combat readiness patrols that sent military planes and ships close to the democratically governed island.
Attackers used man-in-the-middle attacks against science parks that anchor the semiconductor industry, aiming to steal advanced technologies so China can maintain self-reliance during its technology competition with the U.S.
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- Self-driving cars could prevent over 1 million road injuries across the US by 2035LINK
- China’s “artificial sun” just broke a fusion limit scientists thought was unbreakableLINK
- Dramatic drop in Stack Overflow questions as devs look elsewhere for helpLINK
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🧰 Trending tools
PostSyncer: a unified platform for managing content creation, scheduling, replies, and team collaboration across multiple social media accounts in one interface.LINK
NativeBridge: enables developers to test mobile apps on real iOS and Android devices via shareable links with AI-powered Maestro tests and crash reporting.LINK
MiroMiro: a browser extension that lets you hover over any web element to instantly copy its CSS, extract colors, and download assets without digging through DevTools.LINK
Drylendar: a simple alcohol consumption tracker that visualizes your drinking patterns in a shareable calendar format to help monitor habits.LINK
Opttab: an analytics platform that tracks and optimizes how your brand appears in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity.LINK
DoNotNotify: logs Android notifications and blocks them using customizable whitelist/blacklist rules, including regex pattern matching for notification content.LINK
📚 Trending papers & reports
Language models extract structured knowledge graphs from text: researchers achieved 96% accuracy converting unstructured documents into organized networks of facts and relationships between entities.LINK
Quantum mechanics explains entropy-driven forces mathematically: researchers proved that forces arising from disorder, like those in polymers, follow quantum rules with specific energy states.LINK
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