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This episode is brought to you by Capital One Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi agentic AI. They already deployed one. It's called Chat Concierge and it's simplifying car shopping using self reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks. It doesn't just help buyers find a car they love, it helps schedule a test drive, drive, get pre approved for financing and estimate trade in value. Advanced, intuitive and deployed. That's how they stack. That's technology at Capital One.
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Go Touch Grass. You have probably heard this phrase, maybe you have even said it. But beneath the sort of light hearted nature of this meme is something very real and important. A growing sense that staying in touch with our humanity and being present in our bodies matters more than ever in today's digital world. My name is Minouche Zamorodi and I am taking over as host of TED Talks Daily this week to explore what technology is actually doing to your body and mind. In special interviews with scientists, doctors, parents, artists and more, we're going to dig into your physical and mental health on tech how we think about our bodies differently now, how we relate to new innovations that are amazing but also a little scary, and how we can live a healthier life in this high tech era. Tune in on TED Talks Daily. Wherever you listen to podcasts,
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These are the daily tech headlines for Wednesday, July 1, 2026. I'm Jen Kutter. Anthropic announced on X the U.S. department of Commerce lifted export controls on Claude, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and Access will be restored to users beginning Wednesday. NBC News viewed a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick saying Anthropic agreed on protocols and standards and releases for Mythos, Fable and future models and will inform the US government of any malicious activity. Fable 5 and Mythos 5 initially went offline on June 12 following US officials claiming the models were severe cybersecurity risks in the social media addiction case filed by a 15 year old boy in California. A TikTok joined YouTube in settling before the case begins. Meta and Snap remain defendants in the case beginning July 27th. Snap settled in a previous social media addiction case along with TikTok, in which a jury found Meta and Google liable in the verdict Getty Images plans to terminate a merger agreement with Shutterstock following the UK's competition and markets Authority imposing a condition that Shutterstock would be required to sell its editorial business. As Getty says it is not required to accept this condition under the merger agreement, the board voted against proceeding and instead voted to terminate the merger agreement on July 6 in a Tuesday filing with the U.S. securities and Exchange Commission. The board may reconsider if the situation changes by the sixth. The merger agreement was first announced in January 2025. On Tuesday, OpenClaw announced on X that the free open Source AI agent OpenClaw is now available on iOS and and 9to5. Google reports the Android app is currently a bit wonky with a very basic UI, while the iOS app is slightly more polished. On Tuesday, Business Insider sources claim Microsoft is planning to cut nearly 2.5% of the workforce beginning as early as next week. Business Insider sources say the layoffs will impact sales, consulting and the Xbox divisions. According to an sec filing in 2025, Microsoft had approximately 228,000 employees as of June 30, 2025. In June 2026, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, along with Chief Content Officer Matt Booty shared a memo including we have found ourselves overextended going forward. This cannot continue. Meta is adding rate limits to features on previously sold smart glasses In a help article, Meta states a subscription to MetaOne Premium, which is $19.99 a month, isn't required for non subscribers to be permitted use of certain AI features, merely rate limited. Specifically, the use of the conversation focused feature, which can amplify the voice of a person the user is speaking to, will be available for only three hours a month. Subscribers will be limited to 15 hours a month. The Verge notes this limit quote unquote is ridiculous as Conversation Focus runs on device and the Verge was able to continue using Conversation Focus while disconnected from the Internet. Meta has not responded to a request for comment. Sometime over the next month, Reddit web viewers will be forced to log into the platform in order to view pages on old.Reddit.com Reddit claims old Reddit's logged out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. This move is consistent with Reddit's earlier move to limit non logged in users for visiting on mobile, attempting to force more readers to the Reddit app. On Wednesday, Sony announced the future shutdown of the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita in select regions this year, with more to follow the currently announced store closures in August 2026 include Mexico, Honduras and Nicaragua, and additional Latin American and Middle Eastern countries will close in late 2026. Closure in more countries begins in July 2027. The PS3, launched in 2006, discontinued in 2016 and the PS Vita, launched in North America in 2012, discontinued in 2019. And Sony also announced new games sold for PlayStation consoles will no longer have physical copies on discs beginning January 2028, which includes both first and third party titles. Game File reports PlayStation games will still be available in physical stores in 2028 with a digital code in the box. In an earlier Sony investor report, Sony claims 4 out of 5 purchases of games for PS4 and PS5 are digitally purchased. For more discussion on the tech news of the Day, subscribe to the Daily Tech news show@dailytechnewshow.com where you can also find the show notes and links to every headline. Please remember to rate and review daily Tech Headlines on your podcast service of choice from everyone here at Daily Tech Headlines. Thanks for listening.
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This episode is brought to you by Capital One Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi agentic AI. They already deployed one. It's called Chat Concierge and it's simplifying car shopping using self reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks. It doesn't just help buyers find a car they love, it helps schedule a test drive, get pre approved for financing and estimate trade in value. Advanced, intuitive and deployed. That's how they stack. That's technology at Capital One.
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Go Touch Grass. You have probably heard this phrase, maybe you have even said it. But beneath the sort of light hearted nature of this meme is something very real and important. A growing sense that staying in touch with our humanity and being present in our bodies matters more than ever in today's digital world. My name is Minouche Zamorodi and I am taking over as host of TED Talks Daily this week to explore what technology is actually doing to your body and mind. In special interviews with scientists, doctors, parents, artists and more, we're going to dig into your physical and mental health on tech how we think about our bodies differently now, how we relate to new innovations that are amazing but also a little scary and how we can live a healthier life in this high tech era. Tune in on TED Talks Daily. Wherever you listen to podcasts,
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