Sources: the Trump administration is in talks with Intel to have the US government potentially take a stake in the company; INTC closed up 7.4% on August 14
The Trump administration is in talks with Intel Corp. to have the US government take a stake in the beleaguered chipmaker …
Sam Altman says OpenAI “totally screwed up some things” on the GPT-5 rollout and confirms plans to fund a brain-computer interface startup to rival Neuralink
Over dinner, OpenAI CEO's addressed criticism of GPT-5's rollout, the AI bubble, brain-computer interfaces, buying Google Chrome, and more.
Opendoor CEO Carrie Wheeler steps down, with Shrisha Radhakrishna named president and interim CEO; OPEN jumps 8%+
Opendoor Technologies Inc., a real estate company that became a meme stock in recent months, said Chief Executive Officer Carrie Wheeler is stepping down immediately as the board searches for a replac...
An interview with Sam Altman on spending billions on AI infrastructure, wanting Chrome if it's really for sale, AI models saturating the chat use case, and more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still talking like the future belongs to him, a week after the rollout of the company's latest model raised …
Sen. Josh Hawley calls for a congressional probe into Meta after a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids; Sen. Marsha Blackburn backs a probe
Two Republican U.S. senators called for a congressional investigation into Meta Platforms (META.O) on Thursday …
SCOTUS rejects NetChoice's emergency appeal to block a Mississippi law that requires age verification and parental consent for teens to join social networks
Also: There are other big pending applications. Gabriel Malor / @gabrielmalor : It's absurd. SCOTUS has held that even temporary violations of the First Amendment constitute irreparable harm. — So ...
Sources: some investors seek to replace N26's co-CEOs after German financial regulator Bafin identified new deficiencies in the digital bank's internal controls
Some investors in N26 are urging the German digital bank's two chief executive officers to step down, following fresh criticism …
Apple rolls out a software update that enables a redesigned blood oxygen monitoring feature for its Watch Series 9, 10, and Ultra 2, circumventing the ITC ban
but there's a catch Sean Whooley / MassDevice : Apple to reintroduce blood oxygen measurements on watches Johanna Romero / PhoneArena : Blood oxygen monitoring returns to Apple Watch in the US — but w...
Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must give investors short-term results to get permission for long-term investments, such as its AI ambitions
Meta delivered blowout earnings the same quarter that Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on AI; I don't think it was a coincidence.
Appfigures: ChatGPT's app for iOS and Android hit $2B in global consumer spending, including $1.35B so far in 2025, up 673% YoY; Grok made ~$25.6M this year
ChatGPT's mobile app is raking in the revenue. — Since launching in May 2023, ChatGPT's app for iOS and Android devices …
Google announces Gemma 3 270M, a compact model designed for task-specific fine-tuning with strong capabilities in instruction following and text structuring
ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/c... Tim Duffy / @timfduffy.com : Google just released a 270M parameter Gemma model. As a tiny model lover I'm excited. Models in this size class are usually barely coherent...
Louisiana AG Liz Murrill sues Roblox, alleging among other things that it continues to facilitate CSAM distribution and the sexual exploitation of children
people in high places are finally catching on, but the founders are already billionaires [embedded post]
Meta's standalone Meta AI app, launched in April 2025, offers an uneven experience, hallucinating and not personalizing replies despite access to Meta accounts
The Meta AI app offers an uneven experience, posing a sharp contrast to Mark Zuckerberg's lofty artificial intelligence ambitions. X: @natlungfy , @jackson198285 , and @markgurman X: Natalie Lung / @n...
SoftBank-owned PayPay files for a US listing; sources: PayPay aims to raise $2B+ at a $10B+ valuation, and the listing could happen by the end of the year
Sale of American depositary shares could value payments company above $10bn and help fund AI bets — PayPay has filed for a US listing …
How Google's Jigsaw and pollster Scott Rasmussen plan to use AI to survey Americans on political views to find common ground ahead of the US' 250th anniversary
A collaboration between the tech giant and a polling nonprofit will gather five to 10 people each from every congressional district …
Mike Novogratz's Galaxy says it has secured $1.4B in debt financing to expand its Helios data center in West Texas, aiming to boost AI and HPC capabilities
The firm, led by Mike Novogratz, projected its deal with AI cloud firm CoreWeave could generate $1 billion in annual revenue over 15 years.
Sources: xAI was part of a US GSA's AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but the GSA removed xAI after Grok posted antisemitic content in July
A short thread for the reader to try figure out what the common denominator is here. — A. Grok was about to get a lucrative Govt. contract. It went all Nazi, because well, birds of a feather ... 1...
Klarna reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $823M and net loss up 194% YoY to $53M, as it prepares for a second attempt at a US IPO, after pausing plans in April
Revenues jump a fifth to $823mn as Swedish buy now, pay later group continues US expansion and neobank drive
CoreWeave's IPO lockup expires, letting holders of 80%+ of its Class A shares sell; its stock fell 33% in the two days after its Q2 earnings amid selloff fears
CoreWeave Inc.'s March initial public offering has been a roaring success for anyone lucky enough to get in at the start.
Accenture plans to acquire Melbourne-based cybersecurity company CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital, reportedly valuing CyberCX at AU$1B+
Mark Anderson / Bloomberg Law :
Foxconn's AI server business surged 60%+ YoY in Q2, surpassing revenue from Apple-related products for the first time, and is projected to grow 170%+ YoY in Q3
Update Reuters : AI demand propels electronics giant Foxconn's second-quarter profit Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : Foxconn Q2 profit jumps 27% on booming AI server demand Kathrin Hille / Financ...
Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with regulations like the EU's DSA, the UK's Online Safety Act, and the US' Take It Down Act
This feature will be interesting to follow: An informal dispute resolution process, where 🦋 will call folks before proceeding to any formal dispute process. — bsky.social/about/blog/0... @notjustdna...
Google debuts Flight Deals, an AI tool within Google Flights to let users find cheaper fares via natural language queries, in beta in the US, Canada, and India
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Q&A with OpenAI VP and Head of ChatGPT Nick Turley on ChatGPT's future, showing ads in chatbots, hallucinations, GPT-5 blowback, GPT-4o, subscriptions, and more
www.theverge.com/news/759140/ ... Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : It is remarkable - and ridiculous - that the head of ChatGPT at OpenAI can still not directly explain why people use ChatGPT [embedded pos...
Anthropic expands Claude's Learning mode, available only to Education users since its April launch, to all users, including two feature variants for Claude Code
here's what they do
Source: AI coding startup Cognition raised nearly $500M led by Founders Fund, bringing its valuation to $9.8B, more than double the level earlier this year
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal :
Source: investors have offered cloud startup Vercel hundreds of millions at an $8B-$9B valuation, which would nearly triple its $3B valuation from 15 months ago
The Information : Bluesky: @petecapecod and @edzitron.com Bluesky: Peter Cruckshank / @petecapecod : Woah that's a huge increase in value 📈 probably because they're killing it 🔥 Ed Zitron / @edzitron...
Sources: Lambda is in talks about a funding round that could value the cloud infrastructure company at $4B to $5B ahead of a potential IPO by the end of 2025
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