Disney says it is “fully integrating” Hulu into Disney+, plans to launch a “unified” Disney+ and Hulu app in 2026 and migrate Hulu's live TV subscribers to Fubo
Hulu will replace the Star brand on Disney+ internationally this fall
Disney plans to launch its new flagship sports streaming service ESPN on August 21 for $29.99 per month, or $35.99 per month when bundled with Disney+ and Hulu
ESPN will launch its new flagship streaming service — also named ESPN — on August 21. — Disney's ESPN has been working …
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good OpenAI on GitHub : ...
Amazon plans to make OpenAI's new gpt-oss open-weight models available on Bedrock and SageMaker, the first time it has offered OpenAI's models to AWS customers
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White House official: President Trump plans to announce today that Apple will commit to spending another $100B on US manufacturing; Tim Cook is set to attend
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Nvidia says its GPUs do not contain backdoors, kill switches, or spyware, and hard-coded, single-point controls like kill switches undermine trust in US tech
NVIDIA GPUs are at the heart of modern computing. They're used across industries — from healthcare and finance to scientific research …
Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system using Microsoft Azure that collects recordings of millions of phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians' phone calls on Microsoft's servers in Europe
Grok's new “spicy” option on its generative AI video tool Imagine produces nude deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift, even without explicit user prompting
Safeguards? What safeguards? … The “spicy” mode for Grok's new generative AI video tool feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $7.69B, vs. $7.43B est., net income down 31% YoY to $781M, and diluted EPS of $0.48, vs. $0.49 est.; AMD drops 5%+
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares fell on Wednesday after the company failed to deliver a clear outlook for resuming sales in China …
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to hold a secondary share sale for current and former staffers at a ~$500B valuation; OpenAI was valued at $300B in March 2025
OpenAI is in early talks about a potential sale of stock for current and former employees at a valuation of about $500 billion …
Microsoft unveils Project Ire, a prototype AI system that can reverse engineer and identify malicious software autonomously, without human assistance
Microsoft says it has created an advanced AI system that can reverse-engineer and identify malicious software on its own, without human assistance.
OpenAI offers ChatGPT for enterprise to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 per year, to boost its adoption after the US GSA approved OpenAI as a vendor
OpenAI is providing access to its ChatGPT product to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 a year as part of a push to get its AI chatbot more widely adopted.
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image, an open-source AI image generation model focused on accurately rendering text, with support for alphabetic and logographic scripts
After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models …
Analyst: China summoning Nvidia over alleged H20 security risks shows it “wants to use the Nvidia case to show China is a buyer, but it won't be a blind buyer”
both countries are racing to build infrastructure Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : Nio, Xpeng Lead China's Push To Ditch Nvidia Chips Thomas Wright / The Atlantic : Trump Is Sabotaging His Own AI Plan Mari...
Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports; Uber only disclosed 12,522 reports during the period
Uber received a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the United States almost every eight minutes on average between 2017 and 2022 …
Researchers demonstrate a novel Gemini attack using poisoned Google Calendar invitations to trigger smart home devices; Google fixed the flaws earlier in 2025
For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real-world havoc … Bluesky: @katie-drummond , @mattburgess1 , and @couts . Forums: r/artificial Bluesky: ...
Instagram now lets users repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts, collected in a designated tab, and adds a Snapchat-like, opt-in maps feature
The platform is adding a TikTok-like reposting feature. … Instagram is getting several new features that pull from competitors …
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.7B, Gross Bookings up 17% to $46.8B, trips up 18% to 3.3B, income up 82% to $1.5B, and authorizes a $20B share buyback
Ride-hailing app announces plans after posting upbeat outlook for gross bookings — Uber has announced plans to buy back $20bn …
AMD reports Q2 data center revenue up 14% YoY to $3.2B, as CEO Lisa Su says AI chip revenue fell YoY due to the US' China export curbs and the MI350 transition
The US DOJ says two Chinese nationals were arrested in California and charged with illegally shipping AI chips, like Nvidia H100s, to China from 2022 to 2025
Two Chinese nationals were arrested in California and charged with illegally shipping tens of millions of dollars' worth of AI chips to China …
The Trump administration warns states that they risk losing access to grants from a $42.45B broadband deployment fund if they cap prices on low-cost ISP plans
The Trump administration is telling states they will be shut out of a $42 billion broadband deployment fund if they set the rates …
Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 31% YoY to $2.68B, above $2.55B est., GMV up 31% YoY to $87.84B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SHOP jumps 20%+
Shopify (SHOP.TO), forecast third-quarter revenue above market estimates on Wednesday, as its AI features and platform upgrades boosted demand …
Linda Yaccarino is named CEO of digital health platform eMed Population Health, less than a month after she stepped down as CEO of X
How Palantir won over US lawmakers, leveraging geopolitical crises, technological trends, and DC connections, as CEO Alex Karp adopts a persona not unlike Trump
The onetime Silicon Valley upstart has emerged as a power player in Trump's second term—and adopted his persona
OpenMind, which is developing an OS for humanoid robots, raised $20M led by Pantera and unveils FABRIC, a protocol that lets robots share info with one another
Many companies are focused on building robots, or the hardware components to help them move, grip objects, or interact with the world around them.
WhatsApp will now show users a “safety overview” when a user not in their contacts adds them to a group, with key info and safety tips to help counter scams
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Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts from March 2024 to June 2025, as X and Modi's government clash over content rules
In January, an old post on Elon Musk's social media platform, X, became a concern for police in the Indian city of Satara. X: @adityakalra , @munsifv , and @reuterstech X: Aditya Kalra / @adityakalra ...
Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, several owned by companies outside the US, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law
8.5.2025—Florida Sues Czech-Owned Porn Sites—Gimenez, Miami Mayor—Much More... Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : Florida cracks down on porn sites over child protection law Stephany Matat / Tallahassee Dem...
Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving administrators the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like wrong citations
as if enshittification is not self imposed. if you simply act in the interest of your actual users, it just doesn't happen. X: @halsted_19 : Cool. A Wikipedia entry on “Signs of AI writing” [image] F...
Super Micro reports Q4 revenue up 7.5% YoY to $5.76B, vs. $6.01B est., and lowers its fiscal 2026-year sales forecast from $40B to $33B+; SMCI drops 18%+
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Sources: China held talks about merging a group of chip equipment makers into a national champion but faced pushback over ownership structure and valuation
Beijing wants ‘megamergers’ to help fragmented sector face large US and European rivals — Beijing is facing obstacles in its push …
The UK CMA clears Omnicom's $13B acquisition of rival Interpublic after launching an investigation into the deal on June 23; the FTC cleared the deal on June 25
The watchdog had been considering whether the deal would lead to a substantial lessening of competition
China plans to allow its first stablecoins in a bid to internationalize the CNY, as policymakers warn that dollar-backed tokens cement USD's global dominance
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Snap reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $1.34B, vs. $1.35B est., 469M global DAUs, vs. 467M est., and a global ARPU of $2.87, vs. $2.90 est.; SNAP drops 15%+
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC :
Sources: Singapore-based used car online marketplace Carro is preparing for a US IPO as soon as 2026, aiming to raise up to $500M at a $3B+ valuation
Singapore-based Carro, Southeast Asia's largest used-car online marketplace, is preparing for a U.S. initial public offering as early …
Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre reports Q2 net revenue up 34% YoY to $6.8B, vs. $6.7B est., and net income down 1.5% YoY to $523M, vs. $596M est.
Andre Romani / Reuters :
Microsoft says it paid $17M to 344 security researchers across 59 countries between June 2024 to June 2025 via its bug bounty program; the top reward was $200K
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Lyric, which offers AI-powered supply chain management and forecasting tools, raised a $43.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $67M
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Coinbase adds Embedded Wallets to its Wallet SDK, letting developers integrate wallets into their apps with a few lines of code, with onramps and swaps support
Vishal Chawla / The Block :
Match reports Q2 revenue flat YoY at $864M, net earnings down 6% YoY to $125.5M, invests $50M in product, and provides a Q3 forecast above est.; MTCH jumps 10%+
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg :
Cincinnati-based Pantomath, which automates enterprise data operations using AI, raised a $30M Series B led by General Catalyst, after a $14M Series A in 2023
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Filing: in its ChatGPT lawsuit, the NYT asked OpenAI to produce 120M user chats to analyze how often ChatGPT regurgitates its articles, after OpenAI offered 20M
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica : Bluesky: @quinnypig.com . Forums: Slashdot and Ars OpenForum Bluesky: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : I am no statistician, but can't you get meaningful signal from or...
A US federal judge strikes down a California law blocking large platforms from hosting deceptive AI-generated content related to elections, citing Section 230
Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico :
Sources: AI video startup Runway is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $5B+ pre-money valuation; rival Luma AI aims to raise $1.1B+ at a $3.2B+ pre-money valuation
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