US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says the UK has dropped its mandate requiring Apple to provide a backdoor for accessing users' encrypted data
Britain has dropped its demand for the iPhone maker Apple (AAPL.O) to provide a “backdoor” that would have enabled access …
SoftBank agrees to invest $2B in Intel, buying ~2% of Intel's outstanding shares for $23 per share, becoming Intel's fifth-biggest shareholder; INTC jumps 5%+
Intel and SoftBank announced on Monday that the Japanese conglomerate will make a $2 billion investment in the embattled chipmaker.
Nvidia plans to roll out RTX 5080-class performance to GeForce Now in September, letting users of its $20-per-month Ultimate tier stream in up to 5K at 120fps
I played 5K at 120 FPS and it blew my mind Andrew Burnes / NVIDIA : GeForce @ Gamescom 2025: DLSS 4 Now in 175+ Games & Apps, New RTX Games, Borderlands 4 RTX Bundle, NVIDIA Blackwell on GeForce NOW &...
Nvidia debuts Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer model, saying it achieves comparable or better accuracies than Qwen3-8B on reasoning benchmarks
Small models are having a moment. On the heels of the release of a new AI vision model small enough to fit on a smartwatch …
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go, a new India-only plan priced at Rs. 399, or ~$4.57, per month, its most affordable yet, to grow users in its second-largest market
ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Tuesday launched ChatGPT Go, a new India-only subscription plan priced at 399 rupees ($4.57) per month …
An MIT report finds that 95% of GenAI pilots at companies have little to no financial impact, due to the “learning gap” for both the tools and the companies
Good morning. Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line.
A US federal appeals court rejects T-Mobile's bid to overturn a $92M fine for illegally selling customer location data without consent, after a 2024 FCC ruling
A federal appeals court rejected T-Mobile's attempt to overturn $92 million in fines for selling customer location information to third-party firms.
Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank acquiring Intel's faltering foundry business in the weeks before announcing SoftBank's $2B investment
Japanese group's approach comes as US manufacturer struggles to attract customers and compete with rival TSMC
Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in India ahead of debut, a first, as it expands to five factories to cut reliance on China for US-bound units
Apple Inc. is expanding iPhone production in India at five factories, including a pair of recently opened plants …
Sources: Nvidia is developing a new Blackwell-based AI chip for China, tentatively known as the B30A, that will be more powerful than its H20 model for China
Nvidia (NVDA.O) is developing a new AI chip for China based on its latest Blackwell architecture that will be more powerful …
Tether hires Bo Hines, who stepped down as White House Crypto Council Executive Director earlier in August, as an adviser to help it expand in the US
Cryptocurrency firm Tether has appointed former White House crypto policy executive Bo Hines as a strategic adviser to help steer its expansion …
Nvidia updates its beta app to add global DLSS overrides and more control panel options, including anisotropic filtering, anti-aliasing, and ambient occlusion
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Nvidia announces Install-to-Play for GeForce Now, letting users install games opted into Valve's Steam Cloud Play, without waiting for Nvidia to curate them
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Nvidia, Discord, and Epic Games are testing game demos on Discord servers, letting users try a game without downloading it or signing up, starting with Fortnite
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Databricks is finalizing a Series K at a $100B valuation, up 61% from its December 2024 round; sources say it is co-led by Thrive and a16z plans to participate
The data analytics company, fueled by the AI boom, was valued at $62 billion less than a year ago
Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires as CTO and leaves the board; Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich, who joined in 2006, becomes CTO and joins the board
Update Palo Alto Networks, Inc. : Palo Alto Networks Announces Retirement of Nir Zuk, Founder and CTO
Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.54B, vs. $2.5B est., net income down 29% YoY, and Q1 and FY 2026 guidance above est.; PANW jumps 5%+
Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected quarterly results and issued upbeat guidance for the current period.
American Exceptionalism Acquisition, a SPAC led by Chamath Palihapitiya and focused on energy, AI, DeFi, and defense, files for a US IPO, seeking to raise $250M
American Exceptionalism Acquisition Corp. A 25,000,000 Class A Ordinary Shares … Steve Goldstein / MarketWatch : Chamath Palihapitiya warns ‘no crying in the casino’ as he launches another SPAC after ...
DeepSeek releases V3.1, adding a longer context window, with few other details; Chinese media blames CEO Liang Wenfeng's perfectionism and bugs for R2's delay
DeepSeek announced what appeared to be an update to its older V3 artificial intelligence model on Tuesday, declaring an enhanced version ready for testing.
NYC-based Eight Sleep, which makes the AI-powered Pod smart mattress cover for measuring sleep, raised $100M from HSG and others, after an $86M Series C in 2021
Roughly one in three adults in the U.S. regularly gets insufficient sleep, driving demand for tools that can monitor, analyze, and enhance rest.
What to expect from Google's “Made by Google” Pixel hardware event on August 20: four Pixel 10 phones, including a 10 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 4, and Pixel Buds 2A
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Australia's ACCC says Google agreed to pay a AU$55M fine over deals with Telstra and Optus to preinstall only Google Search on Android phones from 2019 to 2021
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The US FTC sues Key Investment Group, operator of sites like TotalTickets.com, for evading purchasing limits to buy up and resell live event tickets at a markup
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NYC-based Keychain, which makes AI-based software that helps manufacturers manage their product cycles, raised a $30M Series B, taking its total funding to $68M
Keychain, a U.S. startup that helps consumer brands find manufacturing partners, has raised $30 million in fresh funding …
Tim Sweeney says the UK's mobile app store regulation lags “well behind” other countries, and calls the CMA delaying its iPhone sideloading decision a “blunder”
Competition and Markets Authority delayed decision over fees Apple and Google charge developers Forums: Slashdot Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : UK is Lagging Behind Rest of World in Tackling Big Tech, Sa...
Texas AG Ken Paxton probes Meta and Character.AI over claims they deceptively market chatbots as mental health tools, misleading kids and other vulnerable users
so I think it's good more states are cracking down on how companies present them www.platformer.news/ai-therapy- p... [image] Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Character AI and Meta almost certainly are doi...
Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$16.2B, above ~$16B est., and net income up 134% YoY to ~$1.6B, driven by EV sales countering slowing smartphone demand
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Google says users created 100M videos using its AI filmmaking tool Flow since its May launch; Flow leverages Veo 3 and focuses on maintaining visual consistency
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Blockchain-based lender Figure files for a US IPO, reporting H1 2025 revenue up 22% YoY to $191M and a $29M net income, compared with a $13M net loss in H1 2024
A Letter from Our Founder At the tail end of 2017 I had my “aha” moment on blockchain. Finextra : Blockchain lender Figure files for IPO Will McCurdy / Decrypt : Blockchain Lender Figure Technologies ...
Bill Gates backs the Alzheimer's Insights AI Prize, which gives $1M to a team making AI to “accelerate breakthrough discoveries from existing Alzheimer's data”
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Google proposes Play Store changes in the EU, like making it easier for developers to direct users to websites and a new tiered fee structure, after EU scrutiny
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A survey of 4,446 US adults on AI: 71% are concerned AI will put “too many people out of work permanently”, 61% worry about electricity consumption, and more
Reuters : Forums: r/technology Forums: r/technology : Americans Fear AI Could Wipe Out Jobs for Good
Source: Arm hires Amazon VP of Engineering Rami Sinno to help develop its own AI chips; Sinno helped develop Amazon's homegrown Trainium and Inferentia chips
Rami Sinno returns to the company, boasts Trainium and Inferentia on resume DigiTimes : Arm reportedly hires Amazon AI exec to advance chip ambition Kahekashan / The Hans India : Arm Taps Amazon's AI ...
Functionize, which offers a cloud platform that uses AI to speed up software testing, raised a $41M Series B, bringing its total funding to $67M+
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