Apple announces the iPhone Air, with eSIM-only worldwide, a 5.6mm design, an A19 Pro chip, an N1 chip for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and a Center Stage front camera
a great choice. Gonna be hard to pick one over the other. [image] @ijustine : New iPhone 17 Air is soooo thin, wow. Feels like the first MacBook Air announcement.. #AppleEvent ... Max Weinbach / @max...
Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, with an aluminum unibody design, vapor chamber thermal management, Ceramic Shield 2 glass, and three 48MP rear cameras
in hindsight — unwise move to titanium with the iPhone 15 Pro and fixing the overheating issues of the past two models. Marques Brownlee / @mkbhd : No black pro phone is killing me 🫠 @intogalaxyy : It...
Apple says the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air have Memory Integrity Enforcement, “industry-first, always-on memory safety protection”, like Microsoft and Google offer
Memory Integrity Enforcement is always-on safety protection designed to make life harder for spyware developers.
Apple announces the $799+ iPhone 17, featuring an A19 chip, a larger 6.3" display and 120Hz ProMotion support, improved brightness of up to 3,000 nits, and more
release date, price, specs, colors and all the upgrades Taras Buria / Neowin : iPhone 17 finally gets ProMotion, larger display with always-on support, new cameras, more Moneycontrol : Apple unveils i...
Spotify plans to roll out lossless audio at 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC to Premium users over the next two months in 50 markets, without needing a pricier subscription
Subscribers will be able to enjoy 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC as part of their Premium plan. … It's been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio.
Larry Ellison becomes the world's richest person for the first time, at $393B, overtaking Elon Musk at $385B, as Oracle's stock jumps 40%+ after beating Q1 est.
Larry Ellison has become the world's richest person for the first time, ending Elon Musk's nearly year-long reign in the top spot.
Apple event tidbits: the new MagSafe battery is an iPhone Air exclusive, the Air likely uses binned A19 Pro chips, and older AirPods will get Live Translation
Apple crams a lot into its keynotes, but almost as notable is what it chooses not to talk about.
Oracle reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $14.93B, vs. $15.04B est., $2.9B net income, and remaining performance obligations up 359% YoY to $455B; ORCL jumps 40%+
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Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Vimeo for $1.38B, in an all-cash deal set to close in Q4, representing a 91% premium; Vimeo will be delisted from exchanges
Bending Spoons, one of Europe's largest mobile app developers, has agreed to buy the video platform Vimeo in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.38 billion.
Arm launches four Lumex compute subsystem CPU architectures to improve on-device AI on smartphones, PCs, and wearables, and unveils its new Mali G1-Ultra GPU
As the smartphone market has matured, the workloads that consumers expect from their tiny in-pocket mobile computers has increased drastically.
Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping
Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.
Sources: Amazon is developing consumer AR glasses codenamed Jayhawk, with microphones, speakers, a camera, and color display, set for late 2026 or early 2027
Amazon is developing a pair of augmented-reality glasses for consumers, say two people with knowledge of the plans.
Reddit removes subscriber counts from subreddit pages, replacing them with past seven-day metrics to show how many users visited and made how many contributions
Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.
Sources: Meta's TBD Lab team sits in an area near Mark Zuckerberg's desk that needs special badge access, and their names are not on the company's org chart
An influx of highly paid researchers has created new status divisions, even as some recent hires have already left their jobs
Apple Watch's hypertension notifications and sleep score will come to some older models with watchOS 26; Apple expects FDA clearance for the notifications soon
New hypertension notifications are coming to the Watch Series 9 and up. … Apple just announced a bunch of new health-tracking …
Apple unveils the $249 AirPods Pro 3, with a new design, 2x the Pro 2's ANC performance, a heart rate sensor, and live translation, shipping from September 19
here's how to get yours today Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie : AirPods Pro 3 Vs AirPods Pro 2 Battery Life Comparison Brittany Vincent / Mashable : Preorder your AirPods Pro 3 at Apple and get personalized...
Quantum startup PsiQuantum raised $1B led by BlackRock, Temasek, and Baillie Gifford at a $7B valuation, up from $3.2B in 2021, for a 1M-qubit computer by 2028
PsiQuantum backed by BlackRock, Temasek and Baillie Gifford as investment race intensifies — PsiQuantum has raised $1bn …
Robinhood announces a feed where users can follow and copy verified trades of other investors and public figures, rolling out in beta to ~10K users in Q1 2026
Robinhood Social will allow users to post their trades and track those of public figures, like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Memo: Apple's AI training guidelines update in March for data annotators marked DEI as a “controversial” topic and removed intolerance as a “harmful” behavior
Two months after Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down at Donald Trump's inauguration, several hundred employees …
iPhone Air hands-on: very thin with rounded edges reminiscent of previous iPhone designs and a camera “plateau” that flows smoothly into the back of the phone
Do Not Click This Link Mrwhosetheboss / Mrwhosetheboss on YouTube : iPhone 17 / Air / Pro Hands on - Everything's changed. Hisan Kidwai / Fossbytes : Apple Debuts Super Thin iPhone Air, but Who's It F...
How AlphaFold2 and the rise of generative AI kickstarted a new AI drug discovery boom after a spate of startups from the mid-2010s failed to live up to the hype
In the mid-2010s, a spate of start-ups hoping to transform the laborious process of finding new drugs launched with big promises.
Amazon and Netflix partner to let advertisers buy Netflix ad inventory via Amazon's demand-side platform, after Amazon signed a similar deal with Disney in June
Amazon and Netflix are two of the major competitors in Hollywood's streaming wars, but in at least one instance, they're ready to team up.
Amazon's Zoox launches its robotaxi service in Las Vegas, letting riders hail its toaster-shaped cars between specific destinations in the city's 4.2-mile Strip
The driverless car group launches to the public in challenge to Waymo and Tesla over the future of ride-hailing
A US Treasury Department document says “digital content creators”, including podcasters, social media influencers, and streamers, are eligible for tax-free tips
A U.S. Treasury Department document includes podcasters, social media influencers and streamers among occupations eligible for tax-free tips.
Lyft partners with Ann Arbor-based May Mobility to let Atlanta riders request an autonomous minivan, with a safety driver, starting in a seven square-mile area
The vehicles from May Mobility will have safety drivers who will ‘drive manually during initial trips,’ the companies said.
Reddit launches free tools for publishers within Reddit Pro to track article performance and get suggestions on which communities to share their stories in
Reddit on Wednesday launched a set of free tools for publishers to track their article performance and receive suggestions …
Replit raised $250M led by Prysm, nearly tripling its valuation to $3B; its annualized revenue grew from $2.8M to $150M in the past year and it has 40M users
AI coding startup Replit Inc. has raised $250 million in a funding round that nearly triples its valuation to $3 billion …
Global premium smartphone sales rose 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1; Apple grew 3% YoY, capturing a 62% share of the premium market
- The global premium smartphone market's unit sales grew 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1.
Uber plans to add Blade helicopter rides as soon as 2026 via a partnership with electric air taxi maker Joby Aviation, which acquired Blade for $125M in August
Uber is tackling a new form of ride sharing: helicopters. — The ride hailing company on Wednesday said it will launch Blade helicopter rides …
Stability AI launches Stable Audio 2.5, which the company claims is the first audio generation model designed for “enterprise-grade use cases”
Stability AI first gained attention for its Stable Diffusion lineup of gen AI text-to-image models, but that's not all the company does.
In a letter to FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Sen. Ron Wyden accuses Microsoft of “gross cybersecurity negligence” leading to hospital operator Ascension's breach
US Senator Ron Wyden says glaring cybersecurity flaws by Microsoft Corp. enabled a ransomware attack on a US hospital system …
Kraken opens trading of 60+ tokenized US securities to its EU users, powered by Backed Finance's xStocks; rwa.xyz says tokenized shares' market value is ~$421M
Crypto exchange Kraken opened up trading of tokenized US securities to its customers in the European Union, expanding the reach of the nascent asset class.
The EU's General Court sides with Meta and TikTok in their legal dispute with the EC over the DSA's 0.05% supervisory fee, saying the EU's methodology is flawed
Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok on Wednesday won their legal fight against a European Union supervisory fee imposed …
Google says it is scrapping multi-cloud data transfer fees for organizations in the EU and the UK ahead of the EU Data Act taking effect on September 12
Google (GOOGL.O) said on Wednesday it had scrapped data transfer fees for organisations processing workloads “in parallel” …
Q&A with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, who will leave the role later this year after leading the nonprofit since 2015, on privacy, encryption, AI, and more
www.wired.com/story/eff-ci... Forums: r/fednews : Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights BeauHD / Slashdot : Executive Director Cindy Cohn Will Step Down After 25 Years Wi...
Sources: Microsoft will use Anthropic's models for some AI features in its Office 365 apps, after finding Claude Sonnet 4 beats OpenAI's GPT-5 in some tasks
Microsoft moves beyond OpenAI? Igor Bonifacic / Engadget : Microsoft reportedly plans to start using Anthropic models to power some of Office 365's Copilot features Sherwood News : Census data shows d...
Brain Co., co-founded by Jared Kushner, Elad Gil, and others to help enterprises and governments use AI, comes out of stealth with a $30M Series A
Kushner teamed up with prolific solo investor Elad Gil and Luis Videgaray, the former Mexican foreign minister, to launch Brain Co. … Bluesky: @seanokane Bluesky: Sean O'Kane / @seanokane : we're at t...
Leaked docs: Chinese network-monitoring provider Geedge Networks has sold Great Firewall-style censorship systems to at least four countries, including Pakistan
Zeyi Yang / Wired :
Amsterdam-based Nebius Group plans to raise $2B in convertible notes and $1B in equity to help it expand after signing an up to $17.4B+ deal with Microsoft
Nebius Group NV plans to raise $3 billion in convertible notes and equity to help it expand in the wake of a major deal …
How AI is upending the music industry in Latin America, as artists push back against a flood of AI-generated music on Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube Music
Laura Rodríguez Salamanca / Rest of World :
ASML's €1.3B investment in Mistral gives the French startup capital and credibility, but it must prove it can survive in a US- and China-dominated AI industry
Bloomberg :
The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media acquires VideoVerse, whose AI tools let broadcasters extract highlights from sports footage, sources say for $200M-$250M
its largest deal ever —The company, which owns sites like @PlayersTribune & @FanSided, has quietly grown a massive sports tech publishing biz —Company valued at over $1B, no IPO plans right now @axios...
Sources: Sequoia stands to gain ~$2.65B from Klarna's IPO, a six-fold return on its ~$500M total investment, and is selling ~2% of its stake in the IPO
Katie Roof / The Information :
Israeli chip monitoring startup ProteanTecs raised a $51M Series D led by IAG, with participation from Arm, Samsung, and more, taking its total funding to $250M
The Israeli company has now raised more than $250M, expanding global footprint across automotive, cloud, and telecom. — ProteanTecs
At the Man vs. Machine hackathon, co-hosted by AI nonprofit METR to test if AI helps people code faster and better, the top prize went to an “AI-supported” team
roughly 100 people were randomly assigned “human” or “AI-supported” projects, and the winner nabbed a $12,500 cash prize. www.wired.com/story/san-fr...
Alibaba's mapping app Amap launches its own ranking of restaurants, hotels, and tourist destinations, intensifying its competition with Chinese rival Meituan
Casey Hall / Reuters :
CuspAI, which develops AI foundation models for materials discovery, raised a $100M Series A led by NEA and Temasek, a source says at a ~$520M valuation
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune :
The stocks of Strategy copycats, companies buying crypto for their treasuries, are falling, as some struggle with little differentiation and rising volatility
Bloomberg :
Bain Capital agrees to sell its data centers in China to a consortium led by Shanghai-listed Shenzhen Dongyangguang in a ~$4B deal
Bloomberg :
An analysis of Lightcast, Foote Partners, and PwC studies on job salaries: AI-skilled workers command 19% to 56% higher pay, reflecting “task-based hiring”
It seems like pretty much anyone could claim to have these “skills.” — By the way, I worked in NON-generative legal AI for almost 6 years... 😎 [embedded post]
The Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and its efforts to accelerate AI adoption across the US are alarming populists in the president's base
Joe Miller / Financial Times :
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