TechSambad Jun 28, 2026: Loops, Lawsuits, and a $965B Bet

A curated roundup of the most impactful stories in AI, technology, and research — handpicked to keep you informed and ahead of the curve.

1 SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype

Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.

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2 Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.

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3 The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here’s how he used AI to fight back.

When confronted with cancer, Connor Christou fed everything tied tied to his regime — blood results, scan data, wearable output, journal entries — into Claude.

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4 Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on

New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.

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5 Repositioning retail for the AI era

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping assistants, but in...

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6 Building a Stable Fable 5 Traces Workflow in Colab: Parsing Tool Calls, Auditing Data, and Training Baselines

In this tutorial, we build a stable workflow around the Fable 5 Traces dataset from Hugging Face. We avoid fragile dependencies and manually parse the merged JSONL file to keep...

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7 Liquid AI Ships LFM2.5-230M with llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang, and ONNX Support for On-Device Inference

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-230M, its smallest model yet. The 230M-parameter, open-weight model runs on-device at 213 tok/s on a Galaxy S25 Ultra and 42 on a Raspberry Pi 5. Built...

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8 DeepSeek Releases DSpark, a Speculative Decoding Framework That Accelerates DeepSeek-V4 Per-User Generation 60–85% Over MTP-1

DeepSeek open-sourced DSpark, a speculative decoding framework that attaches a draft module to existing DeepSeek-V4 weights. It pairs a parallel draft backbone with a lightweight Markov head to cut suffix...

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9 DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260625-00/?p=112467 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705910 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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10 Armadillo – A DNS Server in Gleam for Homelab Use

Article URL: https://github.com/vshakitskiy/armadillo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704816 Points: 17 # Comments: 0

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