Apple reverses its plan to move iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses to private.icloud.com after user backlash; the feature will continue using the icloud.com domain
Apple today said it is reversing its decision and will not change the email domain used for the iCloud+ Hide My Email feature.
The UK backs Ofcom to take “tough action” under the OSA against social media sites failing to remove dangerous driving videos, after a crash killed seven people
Downing Street condemns ‘utterly disgraceful’ clips and says sites are legally obliged to take them down
Nvidia says its inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has entered full production, with Nebius signing on as the first customer, and SpaceX will deploy Vera CPUs
Chipmaker Nvidia Corp. says its dedicated artificial intelligence inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has now entered full production …
The Trump administration proposes a $103,265 fee on H-1B applicants hired within the US after a court blocked a more limited fee on workers from outside the US
The Trump administration wants to add an expansive $100,000 fee on the H-1B program, applying it to individuals hired within …
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency than Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T
Jalapeño outperformed Nvidia's superchips on an AI inference benchmark test.
Alabama AG Steve Marshall launches an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures following the Hugging Face breach in July
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall launched an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures after one of its AI agents escaped a testing environment and hacked AI firm Hugging Face in July.
Australia's ARIA says songs created mostly or entirely by AI will be excluded from its charts; a song that used AI became the most-played song on radio in July
In short: — Australia's main music charts have announced a ban on AI-generated music to start this week.
Sources: Apple plans to launch a new Mac mini, its first refresh in two years, potentially before its September iPhone event; Apple tested M5 and M6 versions
Apple Inc. is gearing up to launch a new version of its Mac mini desktop computer for the first time in almost two years, according to people familiar with the matter.
IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications
IBM is announcing today at the annual Hot Chips conference what may be the most consequential change to mainframe architecture in decades …
Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export 74 high-end AI servers to China
Taiwan prosecutors said on Monday they had indicted nine people, including employees of Nvidia (NVDA.O) and Super Micro (SMCI.O) …
Mercury Research: AMD's share of x86 client CPU shipments tops 30% for the first time, hitting 30.3% in Q2, up from 21.1% in Q2 2024, below Intel's 69.7% share
For the first time, AMD's share of the x86 client CPU market, covering both mobile and desktop, has crossed 30% …
Q&A with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on lessons from Apple's Beats acquisition, creativity, being pro-AI music creation, AI as a tool like drum machines, and more
The hit-making duo turned tech moguls also have thoughts about why corporate America isn't collaborative enough.
Tim Cook is set to step down on September 1, and a source says Apple hosted an intimate farewell party; sources say Cook's assistant will work with John Ternus
Next Tuesday, Tim Cook will officially pass the baton as Apple CEO to his successor, John Ternus.
Apple unveils a Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, up to 4.3x faster AI performance, up to 1.8x faster graphics, and up to 512GB of unified memory for $2,499+
Apple announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and the all-new M5 Ultra, delivering a monumental leap in AI performance and even faster graphics.
Bitcoin rises above $80K after jumping 20%+ last week, its biggest three-day gain since 2023; US spot bitcoin ETFs had $1.92B in net inflows last week
Bitcoin extended gains on Tuesday, as renewed inflows into spot bitcoin ETFs and improving risk appetite extended the cryptocurrency's recent rally.
Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey
Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) on Tuesday expanded its Gemini Enterprise artificial intelligence platform with new tools for lawyers and law firms …
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil the $250 Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety band, set to ship in early 2027
Luffu, a new startup from Fitbit's co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman, on Tuesday launched Luffu Link …
WhatsApp upgrades its two-step verification, letting users replace the six-digit PIN with a longer alphanumeric password, and adds support for multiple passkeys
WhatsApp announced Tuesday that it's launching new security features and updates to help users keep their accounts secure …
The UK becomes the first foreign nation to gain access to Ukrainian combat data used to train AI models to strike Russian targets, as part of an AI partnership
Sources: smart ring maker Oura and some of its backers seek to raise up to $3B in a US IPO that could take place as soon as September and value it at over $16B
Oura Health Oy, a maker of smart rings that track health, fitness and sleep, and some of its backers are seeking to raise …
Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June
Generalist has quietly raised around $200 million in new funding, just two months after the robotics AI startup raised $400 million.
Sources detail how Trump intervened to get a settlement before the DOJ's antitrust trial against Live Nation, after CEO Michael Rapino met White House officials
The US FTC settles its lawsuit against Zillow, resolving claims that Zillow violated antitrust law by paying Redfin $100M to stop competing in rental listings
Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cyberattacks across many Chinese state-linked groups, primarily using open-weight models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek
Chinese hackers are ramping up attacks after integrating DeepSeek and other open-source artificial intelligence models into their operations …
Asus opens pre-orders for the standalone Xbox Ally X20 at $1,300+, with shipments from October 15; a $2,500 bundle includes the X20 and ROG Xreal R1 glasses
Is the best handheld screen worth an extra $300 to you? … The Asus Xbox Ally X20 looked like it could be one of the best handheld gaming PCs yet …
Qustodio: 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 were on TikTok in July, just one percentage point below pre-ban levels, and 10-to-12-year-olds' usage is up
Eight months after implementing a ban on under-16s accessing social media services like TikTok, Australia finds its younger users …
A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots
Engineers and investors pile into world models, aka ‘large action models,’ to do for robotics what ChatGPT did for writing and coding
OpenAI bans a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to evade restrictions and run an influence operation, including creating social media comments
OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating in Russia that it said were being used to support a covert online influence campaign to spread misinformation.
Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out
ZDNET's key takeaways — Claude chat and Cowork now share one memory system. — Memory updates as you chat, with sensitive-data controls.
Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed in 2024
Optical interconnect startup Quintessent Inc. today announced that it has raised $40 million in funding to ramp up production of its hardware.
Uber launches an optional safety feature allowing parents or guardians to watch a livestream of their teen's ride via the driver's front-facing phone camera
Uber Technologies Inc. is rolling out a new safety feature that lets parents or guardians view a video livestream of their teenager's ride.
Sources: neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation, and its 2026 revenue is expected to reach $1.5B+; Lambda raised $1.5B+ in 2025
Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., is in talks to raise as much as $3 billion in a round that could tee …
Autonomous trucking startup Gatik raised $200M, two months after striking a multi-year commercial agreement with PepsiCo, bringing its total funding to ~$500M
Gatik, the autonomous vehicle startup known for its self-driving box trucks, has raised $200 million just two months after striking …
Canada-based logistics software company Descartes acquires Tai, a California-based transportation management system provider, for $100M in cash
Logistics software giant Descartes has acquired transportation management system provider Tai for $100 million in cash, the companies announced today.
Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus
Chris Malone joins a string of recent high-level executive departures as the AI giant heads toward an IPO and ramps up its spending on computing power
At his first Cursor all-hands, Elon Musk says Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic leads the AI race, and more
Earlier this month, on the day SpaceX announced it had completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, Elon Musk called …
Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning
UNSEEN TASKS10-MINUTE HORIZONSONE VIDEO PROMPTNO POST-TRAINING — The evolution of language modeling provides a blueprint …
Apple unveils a Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, up to 4x faster AI performance, and up to 2x faster storage and graphics, for $899+ with M6 and $1,699+ with M5 Pro
Mac mini delivers up to 4x faster AI performance, up to 2x faster graphics and storage, along with enhanced connectivity — all in its ultracompact footprint
UK filing: in FY 2025, OnlyFans paid out $6.3B to creators, net revenue rose 10% YoY to $1.55B, and creator accounts hit 5M; 5,076 creators made $1M+ since 2016
A sizable bunch of top OnlyFans creators have taken home seven-figure checks from the fan-monetization site.
The EPA plans to eliminate a federal rule that US states must publicize and solicit public input on air pollution permit applications for data centers
Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects.
Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M
Airbound, an Indian startup building autonomous drones, has raised $37 million in fresh capital as it pushes to make moving goods through …
OpenAI restores five-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute
Following several weeks during which ChatGPT users were subject only to a weekly usage cap, OpenAI announced today that it is restoring …
Google is rolling out Motion Assist, a feature to reduce motion sickness by showing visual cues on the screen, to Android 17, starting with select Pixel devices
Pixel phones appear to be the first devices to get Google's Motion Assist feature. — • … TL;DR
Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October
Meta Platforms plans to launch its consumer version of the OpenClaw AI agent, dubbed Hatch internally, as soon as the next several weeks …
Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019
The AI startup is likely to top SpaceX's eye-popping potential revenue estimate — SpaceX's record-breaking IPO tested the limits of an obscure financial metric.
Nvidia unveils the Jetson Orin Nano 2 edge AI computer that it says doubles inference performance, with 78 TOPS of AI compute and an eight-core Arm CPU
As AI models become more efficient, more devices can become autonomous, but developers need compact, energy-efficient computers built for edge AI …
Xiaomi unveils the Xring O100, a 6nm AI accelerator to boost its MiMo models when paired with its O3 mobile chip, and the 3nm Xring D100 for autonomous driving
Chinese tech giant's Xring O3 3nm AI processor scheduled to debut aboard folding smartphone in September
Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $1.28B, vs. $1.27B est., enterprise revenue up 7.8% to $787.5M, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS below estimates
Zoom Communications Inc. gave a sales outlook for the current quarter that was about in line with analysts' estimates …
Unitree shares fell 45% after surging more than 5x in their August 19 Shanghai debut, cutting its valuation from $66B to $36B, raising robotics bubble concerns
A roughly 45% slump in the shares of Unitree, China's best-known humanoid robot maker, since a more than fivefold jump …
Temu and Pinduoduo owner PDD reports Q2 revenue up 8.1% YoY to ~$16.72B, missing est. of ~$17.17B, and net profit down 12% YoY to ~$4.04B, above ~$3.63B est.
Accelerated Understanding launches an enterprise-focused physics AI model that uses neural operators and handled 5T pieces of data in a single prompt in tests
A research duo, once pitched to lead the Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus, on Tuesday unveiled what they've built on their own …
Sources: Netflix has discussed adding streamers like Peacock and Fox One as it seeks to compete with YouTube and Roku in becoming a one-stop shop for TV content
Mexico-based Primero, which aims to modernize legacy software used by Latin American companies with AI, raised a $12M seed co-led by Kaszek and General Catalyst
Mexican startup Primero launched publicly on Tuesday with a $12 million seed round co-led by Kaszek and General Catalyst …
Tel Aviv- and NYC-based Alice, which works to protect AI models from misuse and rogue behavior, raised $140M led by Apax Digital at a valuation “close to $1B”
An Israeli startup that works to protect artificial intelligence models from misuse and rogue behavior has raised $140 million …
Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform running fully on-device with zero token costs, starting with Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX Linux PCs
Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic “Computer” platform that runs entirely …
Waymo plans to offer ride-hailing services in Germany, starting with Munich, by the end of 2027, marking its third international market and the first in the EU
Waymo is planning to offer driverless ride-hailing services in Germany by the end of next year, marking its third planned international market …
Xiaomi launches the Xring O3, a 3nm SoC for its mobile devices, as it seeks to reduce reliance on foreign chips from longtime suppliers Qualcomm and MediaTek
UK filings: OnlyFans parent Fenix paid late owner Leonid Radvinsky $709M in the months leading up to his death in March; FY 2025 revenue rose 10% YoY to $1.55B
OnlyFans, the platform known for adult content, paid its billionaire owner $709 million in dividends over several months prior to his death in March.
Apple unveils M6, a 2nm chip with a 12-core CPU and GPU, and up to 32GB of unified memory, saying it provides “the world's fastest single-threaded performance”
Apple is introducing the M6 chip with a new Mac Mini. It's also launching a new M5 Ultra alongside an upgraded Mac Studio.
A profile of French software maker ChapsVision, which won a contract to replace Palantir at France's domestic intel agency in June and targets an IPO by 2030
ChapsVision pursues defence and intelligence contracts across the region as governments look to reduce reliance on US technology
Stability AI, which has deals with UMG, WMG, and EA to build AI models from their IP, raised a $76M Series B from them, Sony Music, and others
Stability AI, the AI startup backed by the likes of James Cameron and Sean Parker, has raised $76 million in a Series B funding round from a roster …
Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are $899+ and $1,699+, $100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is $5,499+, up $200
the M5 UltraKaren Haslam /Macworld:New Mac Studio M5 Max and M5 Ultra: Everything you need to knowTim Hardwick /MacRumors:Apple's New Mac Mini and Mac Studio Are Now Available to Pre-OrderAndrew E. Fr...
Keenable, which is building a web search index for AI agents and says several AI labs are using its API, raised a $26M seed led by Accel
Search engines were built and optimized for people, who can't spare the time or attention required to scan entire webpages.
Apple says M5 Ultra uses a quad-die 3nm architecture, “a first for Apple silicon”, with inter-die bandwidth of 4.4TB/s+ and up to a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU
The M6 has also arrived with all-new 2nm process technology. — With the launch of the latest Mac mini and Mac Studio computers …
The UK's Office for National Statistics: UK digital infrastructure investment crossed £11B in 2025, hitting dot-com boom levels, amid an AI data center surge
Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline
An ex-Meta staffer testified that less than 1% of teens used Instagram's opt-in “Take a Break” tool when it launched; the feature is now on by default for teens
A former data scientist at Meta Platforms Inc. testified that less than 1% of teenagers were early adopters …
Intuit reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.35B, vs. $4.27B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue growth of 9% to 10%, below ~11% est.; INTU drops 8%+ after hours
China's Bilibili relaunches its international app and plans an English-language website, after already pushing MrBeast and others to post on its Chinese website
Emerald AI, which uses AI to optimize data center power consumption based on grid demands, raised $150M led by DCVC and Energize Capital at a $1.05B valuation
Emerald AI, now valued at $1.05 billion, uses software to keep power demand at the computing facilities from getting out of control.
Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking services across Asia and other emerging markets, raised $68M at a $1B valuation, after raising $51M in May
Alibaba debuts Wan3.0, an AI video generation model that can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages, after an August beta
Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG Capital at a $6.3B+ valuation; Gaorong Ventures, Tencent, and Alibaba also invested
Global central banks are pushing CBDCs to defend monetary sovereignty against USD stablecoins, but are struggling to find demand for their digital currencies
A detailed look at Jalapeño, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-weight models
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Irish lawmakers reconsider the country's 1999 nuclear power ban, as data centers' growing power demands account for nearly 25% of the country's electricity use
Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX racks delivered 3,400 tokens per second in an Artificial Analysis benchmark running Gemma 4 31B with a 100,000-token input sequence
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