Pixel 10a: iterative midrange update

New pixel phone. A bunch of new AI models including Gemini’s entry into the music AI space. Everybody is trying to make AI fetch happen in India. And Matthew Ball’s state of the gaming industry report doesn’t paint as gloomy a picture as our own headlines might have suggested this year.

• The Pixel 10A is a little too much like last year’s phone (The Verge)
• Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6 (TechCrunch)
• Google’s AI music maker is coming to the Gemini app (The Verge)
• Adani bets $100 billion on data centres to power India’s AI ambitions (Reuters)
• Nvidia secures multibillion-dollar Meta deal as it battles chip rivals (FT)
• Global game content sales rose 5.3% to $195.6bn in 2025 (GamesIndustry.biz)

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