Dell reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $29.78B, vs. $29.17B est., and forecasts Q3 EPS of $2.45, below $2.55 est.; DELL drops 5%+
Despite beating on its top and bottom lines, shares of Dell Technologies fell more than 5% Thursday in extended trading after giving third-quarter earnings per share guidance …
The CFTC says non-US crypto exchanges have a path to bringing on US users, in an advisory clarifying how they can register as so-called foreign boards of trade
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has taken a step that could make it easier for some overseas crypto exchanges …
In a trial over a fatal Autopilot crash, Tesla denied having crash-snapshot data, until a hacker hired by the plaintiffs recovered the data from the vehicle
The critical evidence was presented last month to a jury, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida.
Police are investigating a murder-suicide in what appears to be the first documented murder involving someone who engaged extensively with an AI chatbot
“Erik, you're not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran's paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
Sources: Alibaba developed a new AI inference chip to compete with H20; it is manufactured by a Chinese company unlike an earlier AI chip made by TSMC
Chinese tech companies spark market exuberance by signaling they are catching up to U.S. — SINGAPORE—Chinese chip companies …
Sources: ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao threatened to quit Meta within days of joining and return to OpenAI; later, he was given the chief AI scientist title
Longtime acolytes are sidelined as Big Tech chief directs biggest leadership reorganisation in two decades
Court filing: the UK sought broad access to Apple user data, including bulk iCloud interception beyond ADP, and hasn't dropped the mandate as the US claimed
Document indicates British government's ‘backdoor’ demand was not limited to the company's most secure iCloud service
xAI launches Grok Code Fast 1, a “speedy and economical” agentic coding model, available for free for a limited time on GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, more
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, on Thursday released a new “speedy and economical” agentic coding model …
Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in under a second on a single GPU, and a text model called MAI-1-preview
On Thursday, Microsoft announced two powerful AI models it built that it says perform at the level of the world's top offerings …
Autodesk reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $1.76B, vs. $1.73B est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est., and raises its annual forecasts; ADSK jumps 5%+
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EU competition commissioner Teresa Ribera says the EU must be ready to walk away from the US trade deal if the US demands a watered-down DSA and DMA
Bloc must be prepared to walk away from trade deal with US if it retaliates against Brussels' digital laws, warns Teresa Ribera
Sources: the US government restored xAI to its vendors list after removing it for Grok's antisemitic content; email: the White House asked GSA to add xAI “ASAP”
A partnership between xAI and the US government fell apart earlier this summer. Then the White House apparently got involved, per documents obtained by WIRED.
Intel CFO David Zinser says the company received $5.7B in cash from the US government on August 27; the White House says the deal is still “being ironed out”
Intel CFO David Zinser said that the semiconductor giant received $5.7 billion from the U.S. government on Wednesday evening.
Valve adds credit card-based age checks for UK users to access “mature content” games on Steam; Discord and others are using selfies for verification
Valve has started to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act. … Valve has started to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act …
Reliance launches a subsidiary called Reliance Intelligence, aiming to create national-scale AI infrastructure in India, in partnership with Google and Meta
Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man and chairman of Reliance Industries, has unveiled an ambitious plan to build the country's AI backbone through …
Sources: DeepSeek plans to use Huawei's Ascend AI chips to train smaller versions of its upcoming R2 models but will still use Nvidia chips for largest models
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Elon Musk files a motion to dismiss a US SEC suit over his 2022 Twitter stake disclosure, calling allegations that he cheated investors a government overreach
Elon Musk asked a federal judge to dismiss a US Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit over his growing stake in Twitter Inc. in 2022 …
Intel CFO says the US deal aims to deter Intel from selling its foundry; it lets the US buy 5% more at $20/share if Intel's stake in the unit falls below 51%
until it didn't Mai Tao / Robotics & Automation News : US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel for $9 billion Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica : Intel details everything that could go wrong with U...
The US makes it harder for Samsung, SK Hynix, and Intel to produce chips in China by revoking waivers for the use of US equipment in their Chinese operations
The U.S. will make it more difficult for global chipmakers Samsung (005930.KS), SK Hynix (000660.KS) and Intel (INTC.O) …
FriendliAI, which aims to help companies run AI model inference faster and cheaper, raised a $20M extension to its $6M seed fund from late 2021
FriendliAI, an AI inference platform startup, has raised $20 million in a seed extension round, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively.
An investigation finds spammers are deploying Holocaust-themed AI slop images across Facebook, in an attempt to game Meta's content monetization program
An international network of spammers are posting AI-generated images of Holocaust victims on Facebook, a BBC investigation into “AI slop” has found. Bluesky: @newjukeboxcafe , @disabilitystor1 , @jane...
India's largest telco Reliance Jio, owned by Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani, says it aims to list its shares through an IPO in India by the first half of 2026
Five Key Highlights The Indian Express : Reliance AGM 2025 Announcements: Reliance Jio plans IPO in first half of 2026, expand business overseas Karan Dhar / Fortune India : Jio to expand operations o...
Filing: credit reporting giant TransUnion discloses a data breach affecting 4.4M+ customers' personal info but claims “no credit information was accessed”
My updated story: — https://techcrunch.com/... Forums: r/IdentityTheft : TransUnion Data Breach r/technology : TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people r/cybersecurity : Tran...
Anthropic requires users to accept new terms by September 28, including choosing whether new chats and coding sessions can be used to train AI models
by default for consumer versions … John Dolman : So the last bastion of not training on your data as a default falls. — Whilst I understand the use of user interaction to refine the model … Bluesky:...
The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini
together with DOC, we're showing how. David Tso / @davidtsocy : Coinbase is partnering with the U.S. Department of Commerce to bring official government macroeconomic data onchain GDP, inflation (PCE)...
Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$34.6B, below ~$35.4B est., and net income up 76% to ~$5.9B, above ~$4B est., as AI demand drives cloud sales up 26%
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
OpenAI makes its Realtime API generally available with features like MCP support and debuts gpt-realtime, its most advanced speech-to-speech model, in the API
[video] @liodakis : Congrats to @pbbakkum on shipping gpt-realtime! It's been awesome watching him and the multimodal team sweat the details and get to a GA quality multimodal model. It's crazy to thi...
A judge rules Nvidia must face trial over allegations that it benefitted from autonomous driving data stolen by an engineer who defected from Valeo in 2021
Nvidia Corp. must face trial in the case of an engineer who inadvertently revealed autonomous driving trade secrets that he allegedly stole from a former employer.
In a letter, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail; Google says its spam filters are not biased
but not similar Democrat emails—as suspicious or dangerous spam and blocking them from reaching their intended Andrew Ferguson / @afergusonftc : Today I sent a letter to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google's...
Samsung rolls out Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in its 2025 lineup of TVs and monitors, letting users ask for movie suggestions, plot recaps, and more
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Marvell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $2.01B, in line with estimates, and forecasts Q3 revenue at $2.06B, below $2.11B est.; MRVL drops 15%+
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 33% YoY to $876.4M, above $837M est., GMV up 43% to $10.4B, and EPS of $0.20, above $0.12 est.; AFRM jumps 10%+
We delivered another tour-de-force quarter of accelerating GMV growth …
While facial recognition tech remains unregulated at the US federal level, 23 states have passed or expanded laws to restrict mass scraping of biometric data
Bobby Allyn / NPR : LinkedIn: Pete Fussey . Bluesky: @eff.org . Forums: r/technology LinkedIn: Pete Fussey : Interviewed for this NPR story on US State-level initiatives to regulate biometrics in the...
Huawei reports H1 2025 revenue up 3.9% YoY to ~$58.5B, driven by soaring AI compute demand and a rebound in phone sales, and net profit down 32% YoY to ~$5.2B
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Rain, a stablecoin-backed Visa card issuer, raised a $58M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures, after raising a $24.5M Series A led by Norwest in March
Yueqi Yang / The Information :
Sources: Meta aims to launch its next-gen Llama AI model, Llama 4.X, by the end of 2025; the TBD team developing Llama 4.X is also trying to fix Llama 4 bugs
Jyoti Mann / Business Insider : LinkedIn: Jyoti Mann . Forums: r/LocalLLaMA LinkedIn: Jyoti Mann : Scoop: Meta Superintelligence Labs is racing to ship its next AI model, Llama 4.X, by year-end, two ...
Sources: Pinecone, which provides an AI-compatible vector database, is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Pinecone was valued at $750M in 2023
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InstaLILY, whose industry-specific AI agents called InstaWorkers integrate with legacy systems, raised $25M from Insight Partners
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
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