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Anthropic Drafts Monzo Founder as Compute Crunch Bites
Anthropic hired Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield, signaling that compute scarcity is now a core product and operations fight.

AI Token Budgets Could Hit Meta Engineers Like Payroll
Meta may cap AI token budgets per engineer as coding tool costs threaten to rival salaries.

New York Data Center Moratorium Hits AI's Power Grab
New York froze major data center approvals, forcing AI builders into a fight over power, water, and local control.

Intel Macs Lose Out as macOS 27 Public Beta Opens Today
macOS 27 public beta is live, but only Apple Silicon Macs qualify. Back up first or keep it off your main machine.

Pinwheel Revives Landline Phone for Kids to Kill Apps
Pinwheel Home gives kids Wi-Fi voice calls without apps, texts, cameras, or feeds. The pitch is reachability with real limits.

New York Data Center Moratorium Freezes AI Buildout
New York froze permits for data centers over 50 MW, making AI infrastructure a statewide energy fight.
Hot Pink Pixel 11 Colors Leak From Amazon Listings
Deleted Amazon placeholders point to louder Pixel 11 colors, led by hot pink, but the leak is still messy and unconfirmed.

Spoiler-Light Hints Crack NYT Strands July 14 Answers
NYT Strands July 14 game #863 has six theme words and a spangram. Start with low-spoiler hints before the full answer list.

Uber Product Strategy Bets on Hotels Without App Bloat
Uber is stretching into hotels, AI, finance, and robotaxi data, but its biggest challenge is avoiding super app clutter.

Privacy Fight Forces LAPD to Drop Flock Cameras for Now
LAPD let its Flock deal lapse over data ownership and sharing, putting license plate readers under a tougher city privacy test.

Shokz OpenRun Pro Deal Crashes Back to $109 Floor Today
The Shokz OpenRun Pro is back near $109, matching its January low and making the last-gen open-ear headphones harder to ignore.

Altman Shreds Space Data Centers as AI Valuation Bait
Altman's jab lands because space data centers look more like near-term AI valuation bait than infrastructure investors can bank on.