Microsoft and Asus plan to launch the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X handhelds on October 16; leaks suggest the Ally and Ally X will cost €599 and €899, respectively
Microsoft also has a handheld compatibility program to showcase which games run well on the new Xbox Ally devices.
Sony says it is raising PlayStation 5 prices by $50 for all models in the US due to a “challenging economic environment”, starting on August 21
The prices will go up by $50 for all three models. … Sony is raising the price of all PS5 models by $50 in the US due to a …
Kick says it is “urgently reviewing” the circumstances around the death of a French livestreamer subjected to violence and sleep deprivation during streams
An investigation has been launched into the death of a French streamer known for extreme challenges.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says that Intel must give the government an equity stake in the company in return for CHIPS Act funds; INTC closed up 6.97%
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday that Intel must give the U.S. government an equity stake in the company in return for CHIPS Act funds.
Google unveils the $1,799+ Pixel 10 Pro Fold, with a Tensor G5 chip, a new hinge with a gear-less design, 6.4" outer and 8" inner screens, available October 9
They actually did it. … Finally, a foldable to take to the beach. The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold is official …
Sources: Elon Musk is quietly pumping the brakes on his plans to start a US political party, telling allies he wants to focus his attention on his companies
The billionaire has sought to maintain ties with JD Vance, a potential heir to Trump's MAGA political movement
The White House launches an official TikTok account, aiming to communicate President Trump's messages; the first video shows Trump declaring “I am your voice”
The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, taking advantage of the short video app's …
Microsoft says it curtailed Chinese companies' access to advance vulnerability notifications via MAPP starting in July, after probing the SharePoint breach
Microsoft Corp. has curtailed Chinese companies' access to advance notifications about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its technology …
The Nasdaq fell 1.4% on August 19, as Nvidia dropped 3.5% and Arm 5%, with AI enthusiasm cooling after a critical report from MIT and a warning from Sam Altman
Warning from OpenAI's Sam Altman and MIT paper puncture Wall Street's enthusiasm — US tech stocks sold off as warnings …
Document: Microsoft's 2025 System Security Plan submitted to the DOD, dated February 28, failed to disclose China-based engineers maintaining DoD cloud systems
The tech giant is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking.
Microsoft adds a COPILOT function to Excel for Beta Channel users, letting them use text prompts to categorize data, summarize feedback, and brainstorm ideas
AI in Excel finally feels natural thanks to the new COPILOT function. … Or rather, more Copilot is being packed into the popular spreadsheet program.
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 …
Sources: Amazon plans to revamp its Fire tablets and release a higher-end Android tablet as soon as 2026, after using its Android-forked Fire OS since 2011
Amazon (AMZN.O) is plotting a big change to its Fire tablet lineup following years of escalating gripes from consumers and app developers …
Grok's “share” button generates a unique URL that makes users' chats searchable on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo; Google has indexed 370K+ Grok conversations
xAI made people's conversations with its chatbot public and searchable on Google without warning …
Google unveils the $799 Pixel 10, featuring a new Tensor G5 chip, 6.3" OLED display, Gorilla Glass Victus 2, and Qi2 support, available on August 28
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :
Sources: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is looking into government equity stakes in Micron, TSMC, Samsung, and others that receive CHIPS Act funding
‘We should get an equity stake for our money’ Rich Smith / Motley Fool : Why Micron Stock Got Clobbered Today Tyler Lee / Android Headlines : Trump's Plan: Turn CHIPS Act Grants Into Stakes in Samsung...
Sources: Oracle is on the hook for tens of billions to build unprecedentedly large data centers, including $1B+ per year on a gas-powered megasite in West Texas
Oracle Corp.'s Larry Ellison used to scoff at the idea of cloud computing, saying in 2008 that it was “complete gibberish.”
SoftBank's shares plunged up to 9.2% on August 20, as tech stocks in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong fell after US tech stocks dropped overnight
Link: fortune.com/2025/08/18/m... Nash / @radiodeadair.com : This is the part where they're going to pretend every single one of us who were correct about “AI” for the past few years actually wasn't, ...
Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent bets stablecoins will bolster demand for Treasuries, as talks with Tether and Circle help inform issuance decisions
Treasury secretary's discussions with crypto groups have helped inform issuance decisions — Treasury secretary Scott Bessent …
Vantage Data Centers plans to spend $25B+ to build a 1.4 GW, 1,200-acre data center campus in Shackelford County, Texas, the largest in its global portfolio
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters :
Google hires NBA star Stephen Curry as a “performance advisor” for its Health, Pixel, and Cloud products, including testing Fitbit's new personal health coach
Curry's role as Google's ‘performance advisor’ will involve providing feedback for Health, Pixel, and Cloud products.
Sources: China is considering allowing yuan-backed stablecoins to boost yuan adoption globally and its State Council may approve a roadmap later in August
China is considering allowing the usage of yuan-backed stablecoins for the first time to boost wider adoption of its currency globally …
A look at the 2025 AI Film Festival, backed by Runway AI and screened by Imax; some cinephiles deride it while others say it's part of a natural tech evolution
From a POV butterfly larvae doc to something that resembled a perfume commercial, Runway AI's film festival selections did little to convince me of AI's artistry. Bluesky: @johnsemley3000 and @manisha...
FieldAI, which is developing “brains” for robots, raised $405M at a $2B post-money valuation from Nvidia and others; FieldAI raised an initial $91M in late 2024
FieldAI, a California-based developer of “brains” for robots, raised $405 million in venture capital funding at a $2 billion post-money valuation.
Wyoming launches a stablecoin, FRNT, marking the first time a US state has issued a blockchain-based, fiat-pegged token to be used by retail and enterprises
Announced at SALT's Wyoming Blockchain Symposium, FRNT … Bogdan Patru / Bitcoinist.com : SEC Chair Paul Atkins Unveils Plans for President's Digital Assets Group Tanzeel Akhtar / Cryptonews : Wyoming'...
Canva launches a staff stock sale to new and existing investors at a $42B valuation, up 30%+ from $32B in 2024, reports $3.3B+ annualized sales and 240M+ MAUs
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US federal prosecutors charge an Oregon man with operating the Rapper Bot, one of the most powerful DDoS botnets ever, which knocked X offline earlier in 2025
Today the U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against the operator of Rapper Bot, a massive IoT-based DDoS botnet. … Forums: r/Eugene : Eugene Man Charged with operating one of the largest bo...
A look at Justin Sun's lawsuit against Bloomberg for publishing his crypto assets, which he says he shared confidentially to qualify for its Billionaires Index
Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com , @darthbluesky , @molly.wiki , @...
YouGov: 59% of US adults use AI assistants to check the weather, 51% to play music, 47% to get answers from the web, and 40% for timers, mirroring usage in 2018
Digital assistants can do more but not well or consistently. — 16h — Google, Amazon, and Apple are all upgrading …
Bullish says it has received all $1.15B in capital raised from its IPO in stablecoins, including USDC, USDG, and PYUSD, marking a first for US public markets
Mostly on Solana X: @ripple : Congrats to @Bullish on a successful IPO! 👏 A portion of the IPO proceeds were settled in $RLUSD, minted on the XRP Ledger. This is the first public listing to bring the ...
TinyFish, which develops AI-powered web agents that automate complex online tasks like dynamic price surveillance, raised a $47M Series A led by ICONIQ Capital
AI startup TinyFish has raised $47 million in a Series A funding round led by ICONIQ Capital to scale its platform for building …
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing version of Qwen-Image, supporting modifying Chinese and English text while preserving font, size, and style
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat :
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
Information about our paid subscription plan, Go. Satyendu Mohapatra / Appleosophy : OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Go in India for Under $5 per month: It's Most Affordable Plan Yet NDTV Profit : ChatGPT Go ...
Sources: NSA Director William Hartman unsuccessfully tried to protect Vinh Nguyen, an expert in AI and cryptology, from being fired on President Trump's orders
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u... X: Julia Ioffe / @juliaioffe : “Ms. Gabbard, on orders from President Trump, fired the scientist, who was a leading government expert on artificial intelligence, crypto...
PE firm Advent International agrees to acquire U-blox, a SIX Swiss Exchange-listed maker of wireless and positioning chips, for ~$1.3B via a public tender offer
Andrea Figueras / Wall Street Journal :
Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$4.6B, slightly below est., and online ad revenue down 15% YoY to ~$2.3B, as Chinese companies rein in ad spending
Deborah Sophia / Reuters :
Firecrawl, which offers an open-source web crawler for developers and AI agents, raised a $14.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners
Julie Bort / TechCrunch :
Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular nuclear reactor to power a data center, set to be completed in 2026, raised a $100M Series B led by Valor
Julia Hornstein / Business Insider :
NYC-based Bluefish Labs, which analyzes prompt responses for large brands to understand how LLMs answer consumer questions, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE :
Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus and an earlier product called Monica, says its annual revenue run rate has hit $90M, with Manus contributing the most
Bloomberg :
Analysis: Intel's stock, up 28% in August, is trading at a 53 forward P/E ratio, its highest since early 2002, reflecting its declining profits in recent years
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg :
EliseAI, which provides AI tools for health care and housing industries, raised a $250M Series E led by a16z, doubling its valuation from August 2024 to $2.2B+
Krystal Hu / Reuters :
South Korea's Upstage, which offers AI document intelligence tools, raised a $45M Series B bridge led by the KDB, Amazon, and AMD, after a $72M Series B in 2024
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Source: Pylon, which uses AI to automate B2B customer service, raised $31M led by a16z and Bain Capital at a valuation in the hundreds of millions of dollars
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information : X: @steph_palazzolo X: Stephanie Palazzolo / @steph_palazzolo : Pylon, a self-described “Zendesk-killer,” has raised $31M from A16Z and BCV at a valuation in t...
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