Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

Earlier this week, Apple’s WebKit team shipped Safari Technology Preview 247 with a built-in Model Context Protocol server — 16 tools that give any MCP-compatible AI agent direct access to a live Safari browser window. Within this workflow, an agent can capture screenshots, inspect the DOM, execute JavaScript, read console output, monitor network requests, resize the viewport, emulate CSS media modes, and run accessibility checks, all without the developer leaving the terminal. Anyone building against Safari knows this is a solid quality-of-life improvement. And since this is the second official MCP server Apple has shipped in under a month, platform vendors are starting to build MCP into their products rather than leaving it to community implementations. Two servers, three wee

On July 2, Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, announced the formation of the Microsoft Frontier Company. The new operating unit will embed 6,000 industry and engineering experts inside customer organizations to design, deploy, and run AI systems. Microsoft is backing it with $2.5 billion. Rodrigo Kede Lima, most recently president of Microsoft Asia, will lead it. The announcement landed just two days after AWS committed $1 billion to a forward-deployed engineering organization of its own. Anthropic and OpenAI had already launched service ventures on the same pattern in May. Within a fortnight, every major AI platform vendor has moved toward the same conclusion. See also: AWS just put $1 billion into forward deployed engineers. Here’s why it matters for enterprise teams

TL;DR Ask Maps in Google Maps already uses Gemini to give you recommendations about restaurants you might like. Now Ask Maps appears to be getting ready to actually place food orders for you. It’s not yet clear exactly how this agentic capability will work, or if there will be device restrictions. Like everything else under Google’s sun, Maps currently incorporates a healthy dose of Gemini, with one of its biggest upgrades landing this past spring through the introduction of Ask Maps . That can be a great resource when you’re out and about and looking for suggestions on somewhere to visit — like a restaurant recommendation, for instance. For as useful as that is, it could soon be getting even better, as Maps gets ready to place food orders on your behalf, so your order’s ready when you get

One of my everlasting fears when I join a new Android beta is the risk of bricking my phone by applying a corrupt update from Google. We’ve seen so many bootlooping Pixels over the years, with some updates or beta versions being pulled or delayed while Google fixes the issues and re-releases a proper version. But a bootlooping Pixel is not the end of the world. There are two official online tools that can help you save your bricked Pixel — the Android Flash Tool and a lesser-known Pixel Update and Software Repair Tool.

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TL;DR Google’s been working on a new AirDrop-like Tap to Share feature for sharing photos, videos, contacts, and more. Ahead of that arriving, it looks like the Google Contacts app is being updated to get ready to support it. The app will move “Your info” to the top of the contacts list for quick sharing access. We’ve been tapping our phones to make payments for the better part of forever at this point, but there’s still something undeniably slick about getting a new way to get something done with just a quick tap of our phone. Lately, we’ve been anticipating Android getting an AirDrop-style Tap to Share feature , and today we’re checking out some changes to Google Contacts that appear to be in preparation for its arrival. You’re reading an Authority Insights story. Authority Insights brin

Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google Wallet is finally rolling out a unified transaction history that combines payments from your Android phone and Wear OS smartwatch. The feature has been in the works since at least January, following Google’s efforts to expand Wallet’s search and transaction history. Google Wallet’s long-awaited unified transaction history is finally rolling out after months in the making. Since at least January, Google has been preparing the Wallet app on Android by expanding its search and transaction history , with early indications suggesting support for purchases made on multiple devices. The work is paying off now. The app is beginning to display payments from your Wear OS smartwatch along with those from your phone, providing users a single location

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Micron Technology Inc. on Saturday broke ground on the expansion of its factory in western Japan, a ¥1.5 trillion ($9.3 billion) undertaking to produce advanced memory chips.

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