Intel provided more detail about the scope of its planned job cuts and other business changes while sharing its second-quarter earnings . Reports in April suggested that Intel could eliminate around of its staff in a restructuring plan. Today, the chipmaker said it anticipates having a core workforce of 75,000 employees by the end of 2025. That’s about a third less than the 108,900 people it employed at the close of the previous fiscal year.
These cuts are part of the company’s current goal to bring its non-GAAP operating expenses down to $17 billion this year, then to $16 billion at the end of 2026. The effort to rein in spending is also leading Intel to abandon some previously announced expansions. The business will no longer embark on new projects in Germany and Poland, and it said it will consolidate its Costa Rican testing and assembly operations into existing efforts in Vietnam and Malaysia. Finally, it will also “slow the pace” of its stateside growth at a construction site in Ohio.
“Our operating performance demonstrates the initial progress we are making to improve our execution and drive greater efficiency,” said Lip-Bu Tan, who has been forthright about his plans to since in March. Tan was brought in to replace Pat Gelsinger in an effort to turn around Intel’s business following a long, slow slide into financial trouble.
For the past few years, T-Mobile has been working in partnership with Starlink to deliver a custom-branded satellite service to users in the US. Now, after regulatory hurdles, Super Bowl ads, and an extended beta period, it’s finally read for anyone who wants to try it — including non-T-Mobile customers.
T-Mobile’s satellite service, dubbed T-Satellite, officially opened to all US-based customers yesterday, following nearly six months of beta testing. While it’s easier to sign up for if you’re an existing subscriber, users on any US-based carrier can jump on board with a satellite-exclusive plan if they have the right phone. Plans currently start at just $10 per month, although that’s a limited time offer — eventually, T-Mobile plans to charge $15 per month for access to its direct-to-cell satellite network. If you’re on one of the carrier’s highest-tier plans though, you may be able to get access included, no surcharge required.
Today marks a huge step in @TMobile’s mission to end dead zones. T-Satellite is officially out of beta and available to anyone who wants it — including Verizon and AT&T customers!
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At launch, T-Satellite only supports sending and receiving text messages — including to 911 — and location sharing, with image support currently in the process of rolling out.. T-Mobile says voice and data coverage is still on the books, though it’s not available at launch. Location sharing is handled through either Google Messages or Apple’s Messages app, depending on your phone. Regardless of whether you’re a T-Mobile subscriber, T-Satellite is designed to automatically activate whenever your main SIM enters a dead zone. You’ll need an unlocked device to use this network, however.
Unsurprisingly, T-Mobile supports a wide variety of smartphones, though only from a handful of manufacturers. Still, if you’ve purchased a recent device from Samsung, Google, Motorola, or Apple, you’re probably covered. Here’s the list:
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Google
Google Pixel 9
Google Pixel 9 Pro
Google Pixel 9 Pro XL
Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold
Google Pixel 9a
Samsung
Samsung Galaxy S21, S21+, or S21 Ultra
Samsung Galaxy S22, S22+, or S22 Ultra
Samsung Galaxy S23, S23+, or S23 Ultra
Samsung Galaxy S24, S24+, or S24 Ultra
Samsung Galaxy S25, S25+, or S25 Ultra
Samsung Galaxy S21 FE
Samsung Galaxy S23 FE
Samsung Galaxy S24 FE
Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Flip 4
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7*
Samsung Galaxy XCover 6 Pro
Samsung Galaxy XCover 7 Pro
Samsung Galaxy A14
Samsung Galaxy A15 5G
Samsung Galaxy A16 5G
Samsung Galaxy A25 SE
Samsung Galaxy A35
Samsung Galaxy A36
Samsung Galaxy A53
Samsung Galaxy A54
Samsung Galaxy A56 5G SE
Motorola
Moto Edge 2025
Moto G 5G 2025
Moto G Power 5G 2025
Moto Razr (2024)
Moto Razr+ (2024)
Moto Razr (2025)
Moto Razr+ (2025)
Moto Razr Ultra (2025)
Apple
iPhone 13 series (all models)
iPhone 14 series (all models)
iPhone 15 series (all models)
iPhone 16 series (all models)
Coming soon
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7*
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE
Motorola Edge 2024
Moto G Stylus 2024
T-Mobile REVVL 7
T-Mobile REVVL 7 Pro
*Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 appears on both T-Mobile’s list of supported devices and upcoming devices.
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Intricate giant sand sculpture will rise from the shoreline this weekend as part of the 21st annual Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival.
The festival will take place from Friday, July 25 through Sunday, July 27 and is a free event for the public.
“Over the course of three days, hundreds of thousands of people venture down the event boardwalk and take in the sculptures, beach, entertainment, food, and fireworks,” the festival said on its website.
The hours for the event are from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday.
The festival noted that there will be increased traffic in the area around Revere Beach due to the festival, delaying drive times.
Organizers said the “fastest and quickest way” to arrive is via the MBTA, particularly the Blue Line subway to either Revere Beach or Wonderland stations located within walking distance of the shoreline.
On site there will be a variety of vendors and food trucks including Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Matilda Empanadas, Berry Sweets, Trolley Dogs, Cousin Maine Lobster, Bono Appetit, Eloti Street Corn, Kelly’s Roast Beef, Boston Burger Company, Sunset Cantina and more.
The festival’s 30-minute fireworks show will take place on Saturday, July 26 at 9 p.m.
Last year, 15 sand sculptors from around the globe competed for a shot at the festival’s $5,000 grand prize.
The winner was Canadian sculptor Jobi Bouchard for “Blend In,” a sand sculpture of a chameleon among plants.
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Contract review remains a slow, manual process that strains legal teams, forcing lawyers to sift through dense language, flag risks, and translate legal terms.
In fact, the problem is so prevalent that for the past several years, Tokyo-based LegalOn Technologies has had an open door to that market: its AI contract review software for legal teams is today used by 7,000 organizations across Japan, the U.S. and the U.K., the company claims, and it leads the Japanese market, with 25% of all public companies in the country using its platform.
LegalOn’s AI contract review tool, Review, identifies risks and suggests edits based on playbooks built by lawyers, and each customer’s legal standards. The company claims Review cuts review times by up to 85% while improving quality and accuracy.
Success hasn’t tempered LegalOn’s ambitions, however. The company now wants to further build out AI agent tools to go along with its software, and recently raised $50 million to do just that.
The Series C funding round is being led by Goldman Sachs’ growth equity fund, and saw participation from existing investor World Innovation Lab (WiL). New investors Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (a law firm in Japan), Mizuho Bank, and Shoko Chukin Bank also invested.
While a lot of the new cash is being dedicated to developing more AI agent products, the company is also enhancing its go-to-market efforts in the U.S. and U.K., where it says its business has quadrupled over the past year.
LegalOn declined to disclose its valuation.
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Founded by two former corporate lawyers, Nozomu Tsunoda and Masataka Ogasawara in 2017, LegalOn aims to address time-consuming tasks before and after the contract review process, such as organizing legal requests and automating contract management.
According to Daniel Lewis, Global CEO of LegalOn, the company stands out from the hordes of legal tech startups using AI thanks to its foundation in attorney-drafted, expert legal content. That base, he says, makes LegalOn unlike other tools that rely on users to build rules from scratch, or use generic AI models that lack the precision required for legal work.
“Our approach ensures contract reviews are aligned with real legal standards, making the output more accurate, consistent, and practical for legal teams. In addition, we have more than 50 attorney-built playbooks, seamless integration into existing workflows, and our solution works out-of-the-box on day one,” Lewis said.
Just last week, the startup launched another tool: Matter Management helps legal teams track contract requests, assign owners, connect matters to relevant people and documents, and collaborate with other departments.
The company has also struck a non-equity tech partnership with OpenAI, which gives LegalOn access to the ChatGPT maker’s advanced large language models.
“It’s a technical collaboration,” Lewis explained. “It gives us early access to their latest models, and it positions our engineers to work kind of side-by-side with engineers from OpenAI. So in that regard, it will advance our goal of building cutting-edge [AI] agents using great technology, but being able to ground that in our proprietary legal content and expertise.”
But even as generative AI transforms the legal industry, Lewis doesn’t think it will replace lawyers. “The state of the technology isn’t there yet, and replacing lawyers isn’t even our vision,” he said. “Lawyers are still in the driver’s seat. The things AI can’t do perfectly today are, by definition, the things only people can do. And the lawyers who lean into that responsibility — to oversee, to edit, to exercise judgment — are the ones seeing the most extraordinary leverage from AI right now.”
The Series C brings LegalOn’s total capital raised to over $200 million. Its investors include SoftBank Vision Fund, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia Capital China), Japanese venture capital firm JAFCO, and MUFG Bank.
After teasing it earlier this year, Lego has unveiled its Game Boy set. The 421-piece model is a “brick-built replica of the original Game Boy” and has buttons you can press, including the +Control Pad, A and B buttons and Select and Start — though you can’t play games on it, obviously. It even comes with brick replicas of Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and Super Mario Land game paks, along with corresponding lenticular screens or a Nintendo start screen.
Once built, you can set the Lego Game Boy and paks on a buildable display stand “for the ultimate piece of retro-inspired home or office gaming decor,” Lego says. Other details you can admire include a contrast adjustment and volume dial, along with the Game Pak slot.
The Game Boy set is not Lego’s first crack at a Nintendo-based product. Back in 2020, the company released a set based on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The new Lego Game Boy set is now available for pre-order on Amazon for $59 with shipping starting October 1, 2025.
Google Assistant has, especially in the context of the smart home, been crumbling over the past couple of years. In a post this evening, Google’s lead for Home and Nest has acknowledged Assistant issues while also teasing “major improvements” coming later this year.
As Google has been moving towards Gemini, the experience of using Google Assistant has been, in a word, chaos. It works sometimes, but “reliable” certainly doesn’t come to mind for Assistant nowadays. This is especially true in the smart home, as Google Assistant speakers and just general controls through the voice assistant haven’t been working as well as they used to.
In a post on Twitter/X, Google’s Anish Kattukaran, Chief Product Officer over Google Home and Nest, has acknowledged “recent feedback” over Google Assistant reliability.
Hey everyone, I want to acknowledge the recent feedback about Google Assistant reliability on our home devices. I sincerely apologize for what you’re experiencing and feeling!
We hear you loud and clear and are committed to getting this right — and making sure we have a long term solution that provides better reliability and capability. We have been actively working on major improvements for [some time] and will have more to share in the fall.
Beyond just acknowledging what’s going on, the post teases “major improvements” in the pipeline. While it’s not directly named, it seems reasonable to assume Gemini is involved. Google last year teased Assistant improvements which have started to surface in recent months. Presumably, we could hear more as Google’s August 20 launch event for the Pixel 10 series nears, but it could also be after that given the “Fall” timeline.
How has Assistant been working for you as of late?
Joshua Quimby, of Billerica, faces a single charge of motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation in connection with the crash on July 20, 2024 on Concord Road in Bedford. The criminal complaint charging Quimby was issued Wednesday after a clerk magistrate determined there was probable cause to charge him, Ryan and Bedford Police Chief John Fisher said in the statement.
On July 20 at around 3:36 p.m., Quimby was driving a Volkswagen GTI when prosecutors say he hit Tamar Vishlitzky, 53 of Concord, as she walked her bike across the road in a crosswalk near a bike path intersection.
After the crash, Quimby was cited for operating a vehicle with a suspended license, a crosswalk violation and electronic device use while operating a motor vehicle, according to the statement.
Quimby will be arraigned on the motor vehicle homicide charge on Aug. 15, 2025.
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A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.
On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced the first winner of the K Prize, a multi-round AI coding challenge launched by Databricks and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski. The winner was a Brazilian prompt engineer named Eduardo Rocha de Andrade, who will receive $50,000 for the prize. But more surprising than the win was his final score: he won with correct answers to just 7.5% of the questions on the test.
“We’re glad we built a benchmark that is actually hard,” said Konwinski. “Benchmarks should be hard if they’re going to matter,” he continued, adding: “Scores would be different if the big labs had entered with their biggest models. But that’s kind of the point. K Prize runs offline with limited compute, so it favors smaller and open models. I love that. It levels the playing field.”
Konwinski has pledged $1 million to the first open-source model that can score higher than 90% on the test.
Similar to the well-known SWE-Bench system, the K Prize tests models against flagged issues from GitHub as a test of how well models can deal with real-world programming problems. But while SWE-Bench is based on a fixed set of problems that models can train against, the K Prize is designed as a “contamination-free version of SWE-Bench,” using a timed entry system to guard against any benchmark-specific training. For round one, models were due by March 12th. The K Prize organizers then built the test using only GitHub issues flagged after that date.
The 7.5% top score stands in marked contrast to SWE-Bench itself, which currently shows a 75% top score on its easier ‘Verified’ test and 34% on its harder ‘Full’ test. Konwinski still isn’t sure whether the disparity is due to contamination on SWE-Bench or just the challenge of collecting new issues from GitHub, but he expects the K Prize project to answer the question soon.
“As we get more runs of the thing, we’ll have a better sense,” he told TechCrunch, “because we expect people to adapt to the dynamics of competing on this every few months.”
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It might seem like an odd place to fall short, given the wide range of AI coding tools already publicly available – but with benchmarks becoming too easy, many critics see projects like the K Prize as a necessary step toward solving AI’s growing evaluation problem.
“I’m quite bullish about building new tests for existing benchmarks,” says Princeton researcher Sayash Kapoor, who put forward a similar idea in a recent paper. “Without such experiments, we can’t actually tell if the issue is contamination, or even just targeting the SWE-Bench leaderboard with a human in the loop.”
For Konwinski, it’s not just a better benchmark, but an open challenge to the rest of the industry. “If you listen to the hype, it’s like we should be seeing AI doctors and AI lawyers and AI software engineers, and that’s just not true,” he says. “If we can’t even get more than 10% on a contamination free SWE-Bench, that’s the reality check for me.”
After largely focusing on the ways the company wants Gemini to change everything from to , Google is finally ready to launch new hardware. The next Made by Google event is on the books for , and Google has already confirmed what at least one of its new phones will look like.
As in past years, Google isn’t the only source for information on its new phones and wearables. Nearly all the new hardware the company is expected to announce has leaked in one form or another ahead of the event. With that in mind and after sifting through what’s leaked, here’s what Google is likely to show off at the Pixel 10 launch event in New York City on August 20.
Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL and 10 Pro Fold
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Google’s invitation for the event says that the company is sharing “the latest on our Pixel phones, watches, buds and more,” which more or less confirms the company will introduce a slate of products that’s similar to what it launched in 2024. That means a Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold are absolutely on the menu.
Google’s tease of the Pixel 10 confirmed what have already signaled: the company isn’t abandoning the new design language the established. The pill-shaped camera bump and flat front display will still be present on the Pixel 10, and the real changes will be in the details, like for example, how the flat sides of the Pixel 10 join with the phone’s back.
Those subtle changes will apparently also include the thickness of the Pixel 10s. While both the Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL and 10 Pro Fold will use the same sized OLED screens as their Pixel 9 counterparts, they’ll be housed in thicker and heavier bodies, . Google’s new Pixels are also supposed to come in . The Pixel 10 will come in “Frost” (a royal blue), “Lemongrass” (a yellow), “Indigo” (a light purple) and “Obsidian” (a dark gray), while the Pixel 10 Pro / Pro XL will come in Obsidian, “Porcelain” (off-white), “Moonstone” (a bluish gray) and “Jade” (a light green). Less information is known about the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, though recent leaks suggest it’ll come in Moonstone and Jade, as well.
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The most visible external change that’ll be introduced on the Pixel 10 is the addition of a new telephoto camera. The new telephoto camera is a 11-megapixel 5x telephoto, , similar to the one on the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. Meanwhile, the Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL are expected to feature a 50-megapixel wide, 48-megapixel ultrawide, 48-megapixel telephoto and 48-megapixel selfie cameras. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold could feature a different lineup, with a similar main camera, but 12-megapixel ultrawide and telephoto cameras, and 11-megapixel selfie cameras.
Inside the new phones, Google is laying the groundwork for future performance gains with a new Tensor G5 chip. It’s likely be much more power-efficient thanks to the company switching to a 3nm design produced by TSMC. the chip might not be all that different in terms of raw power, but the Tensor G5 is likely designed to be extra capable when it comes to using local AI features.
Pixel Watch 4
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The third time was the charm for the , so the main task Google has with the Pixel Watch 4 is to not squander the solid base it already has. Leaks for the company’s have been limited so far, but renders of the Pixel Watch 4 shared by do suggest Google has a few changes planned.
Namely, much like the company’s phones, the new Pixel Watch seems like it’ll be a little bit thicker and come with smaller bezels. The Pixel Watch 4 should be available to purchase in the same 41mm and 45mm sizes as before, but a thicker frame that could accommodate a larger battery, or a new wireless charging system. Notably, the renders are missing the charging pins used on the Pixel Watch 3.
Beyond that, Google has already indicated how Wear OS is evolving. The new Wear OS 6 update is debuting on the , and will presumably be available on the Pixel Watch 4 at launch. It includes built-in access to Gemini, among other tweaks. Given Google also manages the Fitbit Premium subscription, it wouldn’t be all that surprising if the Pixel Watch 4 gets some exclusive fitness tracking features, too.
Pixel Buds 2a
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Google launched the Pixel Buds Pro 2 last year, and it typically doesn’t update its premium earbuds on a yearly cadence. So instead, Google might pair the Pixel 10 with the Pixel Buds Pro 2 in a new color, and save its new hardware announcements for a sequel to the Pixel Buds A-series called the Pixel Buds 2a.
Unlike the company’s premium wireless earbuds, the A-series Pixel Buds have historically skimped on things like active noise cancellation to hit a lower price. There’s little reporting on where Google will take the Pixel Buds 2a, but you can expect the new earbuds to come in some of the new colors being introduced on the Pixel 10.
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The Qi2 wireless charging standard is available for all phone makers to use, but it hasn’t been widely adopted among Android phone makers. Qi2 uses magnets to offer improved charging speeds, just like Apple’s MagSafe, and the Pixel 10 could mark Google’s adoption of Qi2 through a new feature called
suggests the Pixel 10 will include the necessary magnets to make Qi2 happen, and will be introduced alongside a lineup of Pixelsnap accessories. Adding some weight to the report, the that its faster Qi2 25W charging is coming to “major Android phones.” It would make sense if Google’s Pixel 10s were included.
Gemini and other exclusive software features
Gemini is Google’s current favorite, and the company is pushing the AI assistant everywhere it makes sense. The last few Pixel Drops — Google’s regular Pixel-focused software updates — have primarily included Gemini features. It would make sense for Google to include a few more software exclusives on the Pixel 10.
Google is hosting the Pixel 10 launch event on August 20 at 1PM ET / 10AM ET. The company has invited press to attend in person, and you can read coverage of everything Google announces right here on Engadget.
Pichai starts by saying that the Gemini 2.5 series — particularly the Pro model — was built with agentic capabilities top of mind: “It’s the direction where we are investing the most.” There’s also a tease, which could be a reference to Deep Think, about what’s to come:
There’s definitely exciting progress, including in the models we haven’t fully released yet.
There’s still work to be done in regards to reliability, latency, and cost, with Google seeing progress across those areas. Pichai expects “2026 to be the year in which people kind of use agentic experiences more broadly.”
Today, Google has launched agentic features like Deep Research in Gemini and AI business calling in Google Search. There’s also Project Mariner for AI Ultra subscribers, while Google announced an Agent Mode for the Gemini app at I/O.
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The CEO was also asked about XR glasses. He is “super excited about our investment in glasses.” That said, he cautious that phones will still be the main device in the near term:
…I think it will be an exciting new emerging category, but I still expect phones to be at the center of the [consumer] experience… for the next two to three years, at least.
That’s not particularly surprising since Google is first moving ahead with Android XR headsets. Back in May, Google announced partnerships with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to “create stylish glasses with Android XR.” With Samsung, it’s “creating a software and reference hardware platform that will enable the ecosystem to make great glasses.” Finally, “developers will be able to start building for this platform later this year,” which presumably means a new emulator.
Outside of the call, Sundar Pichai posted some reflections on Alphabet. In August 2015, the parent company was announced and he was named CEO of Google. (He stepped into the role a few months later.)
Been thinking about the incredible growth in our new businesses since then – Cloud, YouTube, Play, Subscriptions etc. To give a sense of progress, in 2015 all of Alphabet’s revenue added up to $75B. YouTube and Cloud alone ended 2024 at an annual run rate of $110B.
Looking ahead, Pichai is “excited for everything that’s coming into view for the next decade, especially the progress towards AGI – and we’re going to work hard to make sure it’s beneficial for everyone. Onwards!”
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