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Jay Peters

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    Canva is acquiring an AI “agent management” platform and a “marketing automation” company.

    As Canva expands beyond its roots as a design platform, the company says the acquisitions of Simtheory and Ortto will help Canva “become the system where teams do all of their work from start to finish.”

    A screenshot of Simtheory.
    A screenshot of Simtheory.
    Image: Canva
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    Jay Peters
    Unity will continue to support Meta’s VR headsets following an extension of their partnership.

    Unity already powers the “majority” of the top-selling VR games on Meta’s platform, according to a statement from Unity’s COO.

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    Jay Peters
    WhatsApp’s native CarPlay app is now available.

    The app, which lets you do things like see your recent chats and send a message using dictation from the CarPlay dashboard, was recently in beta but has now rolled out widely, as reported by MacRumors.

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    Jay Peters
    The foldable iPhone is actually “on track” to launch in September, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

    Nikkei Asia reported earlier that the foldable iPhone could hit shipment delays due to engineering setbacks, but Gurman says that the phone will be announced with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup. However, he says supply of the foldable iPhone might initially be limited.

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    Jay Peters
    Amazon, in a new deal with the USPS, will lower its shipping volume with the agency.

    As part of the tentative deal, Amazon will ship 20 percent fewer packages through the Postal Service, The Wall Street Journal reports. An earlier WSJ report had said that Amazon was looking to cut “at least two-thirds” of its postal volume with the USPS.

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    Jay Peters
    Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a free PS5 Pro update on Wednesday.
    • Ray Tracing Pro, which targets 40fps on VRR-enabled displays or 30fps “otherwise”
    • Ray Tracing, which has “select ray tracing enhancements” and runs at 60fps
    • Performance, which offers up to 90fps on VRR displays “while maintaining high image fidelity”

    Something to play on the now $899.99 console.

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    Jay Peters
    Valve has released a native visionOS version of its Steam Link app in beta.

    “This update improves network performance, allows streaming up to 4K resolutions, and allows you to dynamically adjust the curve of the display in panoramic mode,” Valve says. But the app doesn’t support VR content — it’s intended for streaming 2D games.

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    Jay Peters
    PlayStation is going to scan players into its games.

    As part of a new initiative called The Playerbase, people can apply to have their likeness incorporated into PlayStation titles. Initially, one person will be selected to appear in Gran Turismo 7, but Sony says it looks forward to “expanding The Playerbase as additional PlayStation Studios participate.”

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    Jay Peters
    Anthropic has signed a big AI infrastructure deal with Google and Broadcom.

    The “multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity” are expected to come online beginning in 2027 to “power our frontier Claude models.” The company also says that its run-rate revenue has surpassed $30 billion.