Google Pixel’s Factory Is Part of the AI Model
Google’s reported 2027 plan to manufacture Pixel phones, watches, and earbuds outside China collides with a product strategy built around Tensor G6 and Gemini. Meanwhile, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have pledged $67.5 billion in India as industrial capacity disperses across specialized hubs.
Reddit’s Archive Has Terms—and 10% of Revenue
Reddit says licenses with Google and OpenAI supply about 10% of revenue, while core search reaches more than 70M weekly users. The contest is over who can query the archive, on what terms, and whether people keep replenishing it.
TikTok’s Cap Table Cannot Diagnose an Outage
TikTok US now sits inside a majority-US-owned joint venture where Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX hold 15% each, ByteDance retains 19.9%, and other investors hold 35.1%. After January’s glitches, TikTok named an Oracle data-center outage, but public descriptions do not show whether validators can reconstruct the incident.
A short video found in Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence and Siri to answer questions
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate.
YouTube plans to start counting a view as soon as a video plays from August 24, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos
By tracking views from the instant a video starts to play, YouTube's new counter works more like TikTok, X, and Instagram.
Opening arguments begin on Tuesday in the US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be “astronomical”
If New Mexico created the blueprint for taking on Meta, California could determine the company's fate when it comes …
Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more
Cursor can now host your code. — Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all paid plans.
Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May 2026, $19B in March 2026, $9B in December 2025, and $4B in July 2025
Anthropic PBC is on track to generate annualized revenue of more than $65 billion based on its current performance, according to people familiar …
OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center
Agreement with SoftBank's SB Energy caps weeks of negotiations over the largest data-center project announced to date
David Sacks says “Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize” after Amodei shared policy ideas
Some thoughts on Dario's post: 1. Dario does not actually address Gavin Baker's account of what he said - something he could easily deny if it were inaccurate. 2. Dario claims his critics live in a “b...
Apple unveils new EU business terms from October 1, resolving disputes with the EU, including a new 5% Core Technology Commission and App Store commission tiers
Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission.
BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B via pay-later loans in 2025, nearly 2x from 2023
The rapid growth of pay-later loans raises questions about whether their popularity is driven by consumer preference or desperation.
Sources: the US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of a Justice Department antitrust probe over whether its investment partners …
Sources: Anthropic's revolving credit facility is set to surpass its ~$10B target as banks compete for roles on the upcoming IPO; Anthropic could limit the size
Anthropic PBC's revolving credit facility is set to rise above its roughly $10 billion target, according to people familiar with the matter …
OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens, a mode that limits high-risk chats about self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and more, and has studying tools and guardrails
The artificial intelligence start-up announced a chatbot mode that will automatically limit some conversations to better protect young users.
OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold
OpenAI said Tuesday that it has made several changes to its safety practices following its determination that an upcoming system …
Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch
Congressional lawyers are struggling to manage a flood of legislative proposals generated using artificial intelligence tools …
Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its Xfinity XB7 and newer gateways, a free opt-in feature that enables its routers to detect movement at home
Comcast is activating free Wi-Fi motion sensing on Xfinity gateways, allowing its routers to detect movement at home.
Dutch company Fairphone launches its $650 flagship repairable Fairphone (Gen. 6+) in the US and plans to keep launching new phone generations every two years
More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).
Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models
Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil, after the country's data protection authority ordered it last week, saying Discord failed to protect children and teens
Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, said on Monday it suspended its livestreams in Brazil after criticism …
The US SEC proposes exempting certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements, with exemptions for offerings up to $5M and $75M
The Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled a proposal to exempt certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements …
Sources: Situational Awareness offered part of its $5B Anthropic stake at a 20% discount and gave a 12-hour deadline as it scrambled for cash at the end of July
From whispers of an Anthropic stake sale to strange options moves, traders sensed trouble and swung into action
Sources: Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel phone, smartwatch, and wireless earbud manufacturing out of China in 2027 amid US-China tensions
TAIPEI — Google has told suppliers it plans to have all of its Pixel smartphones, watches and wireless earbuds produced outside …
Microsoft says the outage affecting GitHub's API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services has been mitigated, three hours after it first confirmed the outage
Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility
Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals
Baidu Inc.'s revenue fell for a fifth consecutive quarter, reflecting a weakening position in ads as well as AI development against rivals like Moonshot.
Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models
Alibaba Group said its new small-size AI model that customers can run on their own personal computers has been downloaded …
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials
A German regulator says Apple will make changes to ATT, after finding Apple gave its apps more favorable consent prompts than those of third-party developers
Reddit launches an early experiment to create short videos featuring AI voices reading select text posts and comments, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android
Reddit's latest experiment creates videos with AI voices reading posts and comments out loud.
Sources: Anthropic prepares to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure; Amodei owns ~2% of Anthropic
Anthropic has been preparing to give CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders a class of stock with extra voting power to help insulate …
Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts to reduce warming due to contrails
Operation Blue Skies is the world's first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace …
Klarna says CFO Niclas Neglén and CMO David Sandström plan to step down in early 2027, and lowers its full-year GMV guidance to $149B-$151B; KLAR falls 20%+
The payments company tempered its outlook for the year, even as it swung to a profit and logged higher revenue in the second quarter
Uber and Zipline partner to launch Uber Eats drone deliveries in Dallas and Houston by late 2026, aiming to scale nationwide and hit 1M daily deliveries in 2029
Rogue Studio, which calls itself a “playground for creative ethical mischief”, launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool for making Hollywood-quality adult content
Rogue Studios, a new cinematic adult AI-generator, is betting big on the future of “sophisticated” spicy content.
Sources: China orders some state-linked entities to uninstall a government-tailored version of Windows 10, ahead of its plan to retire the OS in February 2027
China is pulling the plug on an older version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows tailored for government agencies, taking another step toward rooting …
African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed from 8VC, Nova, and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts
As sweeping US crypto legislation stalls, the SEC and CFTC are moving to write new rules; the SEC is set to exempt certain token offerings from securities laws
Meta ran ads for a nudify app; one ad showed a porn video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician; Apple removed the app from the App Store
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician.
In filings, Apple acknowledges App Store regulatory changes are weighing on its $100B+ services business; US App Store spend fell 6% YoY in Q2, per Sensor Tower
Court rulings and new App Store rules are beginning to weigh on one of the iPhone maker's profitable growth engines
Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue down 6.1% YoY to ~$16.2B and net income down 21% to ~$1.4B, above est., amid a persistent memory shortage and weaker smartphone demand
Xiaomi Corp. posted profit that fell less than expected, raising hopes it can weather a persistent memory shortage that's weakened demand for smartphones.
Google quietly rolled out a new program to let verified political campaigns more easily bypass Gmail's spam filter, after years of complaints from the GOP
Republicans previously sued Google claiming its spam filter was biased, but the case was dismissed.
Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a $20M Series A, following a $10M seed in January 2025
Artificial intelligence startup Palona AI, which is building an intelligence operating layer for physical businesses, is ready to show …
In opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejected the claims
to hold Meta accountable for the harm they've caused.Mike Swift /@swiftstories:“Time and time again, @Meta chose profits” over wellbeing of users, Megan O'Neill tells jury, getting into “beauty” filte...
Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging “a hundred million people” from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more
Proton's CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?
Harvey announces Harvey Tenet, its first in-house, proprietary model for legal work, trained on mock disputes and case files using its own version of Kimi K3
Harvey built an $11 billion legal-software business on top of other companies' AI models. Now it's trying to prove it can build one of its own.
AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July
Etched, founded by Harvard dropouts, has its own in-office data center and has signed quant-trading firm Jane Street as its first customer.
Pornhub parent company Aylo agrees to pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from CSAM
Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to $105B to support SB Energy's new Ohio data center campus OpenAI is set to lease; Nvidia agrees to invest $1.5B in SB Energy
‘Now Is The Time To Scale The AI Infrastructure That Will Power The Next Industrial Revolution’Thomas Barrabi /New York Post:Nvidia provides $105B in financing toward OpenAI's massive Ohio data center...
Qwen3.8-27B shows an open-weight general purpose model can have a long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation
Sources: Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B
Trump-backed WLF is working with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw; 43 of the 90 AI models on WorldClaw are from Chinese companies flagged as security risks
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 with max reasoning scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 but below Opus 5 at 63 and Fable 5 at 62
Velaura AI, which makes low-power chips and software for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation
Alibaba's Alipay launches a new “all-in-one” platform aimed at helping businesses use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock is up 40%+ since a June low
Sources: OpenAI's Q2 revenue grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B, but its operating margin sank further; Anthropic more than doubled its revenue to $11.6B in the same period
The ChatGPT-maker's revenue disappointed some investors, although the company told them its growth accelerated in the third quarter
Monzo Chair Gary Hoffman is leaving after some of Monzo's biggest shareholders called for his removal following the board removing TS Anil as CEO in December
Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021
Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for approximately $650 million, the companies announced Tuesday.
Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident “a watershed moment” and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses
Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations
Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers
ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, an autonomous control appliance for retrofitting onto excavators
VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024
Funding to physical AI companies is booming in 2026. — Venture investors appear to increasingly see physical AI as the next leg of the broader AI boom.
Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they “could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information”
Groq raised $350M led by Disruptive at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.9B in September 2025 before Nvidia struck a licensing deal and hired much of its talent
The EU says it “welcomes Apple's changes”; Apple will reduce its fees in the EU, charging 26% for apps with IAP, 20% for alt payments, and 15% for link-outs
Apple Inc. has agreed to a set of sweeping changes for its App Store in Europe, including dropping per-install fees …
Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing “various degrees of misalignment”
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Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC references unreleased products: a Home Hub, home accessories, two new Beats, AirPods Pro 4, Apple Intelligence in China, and more
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How a bipartisan coalition of US states fought to present a united case against Meta; District Judge Rogers adopted a hybrid structure for the multiweek trial
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