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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel cancelled planned fab projects in Germany and Poland, and will consolidate its testing and assembly operations in Vietnam and Malaysia — Intel reported second-quarter results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations on revenue, as the company's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced significant cuts in chip factory construction.
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue flat YoY at $12.9B, vs. $11.9B est., a $2.9B loss due to restructuring and impairment charges, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates — US chipmaker posts positive revenue and forecast as it cuts jobs — Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan pushed ahead …
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| Reuters: |
Intel plans to cut its workforce from 96,400 that it reported at the end of June to 75,000, or about 15%, through attrition and “other means” by the end of 2025 — Intel (INTC.O) is going to end the year with a workforce that is over a fifth smaller than last year, it said on Thursday …
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Hands-on with macOS 26: the interface is a mess, like a poorly imported iOS design, but the power of Spotlight and Shortcuts will delight many longtime users — For many years, Apple's annual operating-system cycle seemed to be all about the iPhone, with the occasional bone thrown to the Mac or iPad.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26, with its new Liquid Glass design language — The public betas for iOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and more are here. … Apple has officially released the first public betas for its next major software updates.
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| Dan Moren / Six Colors: |
Hands-on with iOS 26: Liquid Glass is impressive but can also be distracting, Camera redesign is solid, Call Filtering feature in the Phone app is great, more — iOS 26! It feels like just last year we were here discussing iOS 18. How time flies. — After a year that saw the debut …
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Starlink experienced a network outage for about 2.5 hours on Thursday; NetBlocks reports that connectivity dropped to “16% of ordinary levels” — SpaceX's satellite internet service experienced a ‘network outage’ that cut off internet for users around the world.
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| Shane Hickey / The Guardian: |
A UK court sentences a 21-year-old student who created phishing kits that mimicked government, bank, and charity websites, linked to £100M of fraud — Ollie Holman created kits that mimicked charity and bank webpages so criminals could harvest victims' personal details
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query — Google on Thursday is launching a new AI-powered feature called Web Guide for organizing Google Search results.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch GPT-5 in early August, with the main and mini versions available via ChatGPT and the API, and the nano version via the API only — OpenAI's open language model is still arriving ahead of GPT-5. … Earlier this year, I heard that Microsoft engineers …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
In a memo, Satya Nadella addresses the “enigma” of layoffs while “Microsoft is thriving”, saying the transition into the AI era “might feel messy at times” — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addressed the growing internal unease inside the tech giant Thursday morning …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The US Treasury sanctions three senior North Korean officials accused of tricking companies into hiring North Koreans using stolen identities as IT workers — Three senior North Korean officials involved in IT schemes have been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department.| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Walmart consolidates its AI agents into four “super agents”, for customers, staff, engineers, and sellers/suppliers, using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol — Walmart built so many AI agents, things started to get confusing. Now the retail giant is looking to simplify.
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: US and UK entry-level graduate job listings have plunged since 2022, but there's only tentative evidence of AI-related disruption in some occupations — Tech is blamed for destroying entry-level roles but economic uncertainty and offshoring are playing a part| Reuters: |
Sources: repair demand in China for Nvidia's banned AI chips, including H100 and A100, surges as ~12 firms now repair chips that made their way into the country — Demand in China has begun surging for a business that, in theory, shouldn't exist: the repair of advanced Nvidia (NVDA.O) …
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Tether says it has ~250K Tether Gold tokens in circulation as of Q2 2025, backed 1:1 by a troy ounce of physical gold; the stablecoin was launched in Jan. 2020 — - Tether says it now has nearly 250,000 Tether Gold (XAU₮) tokens in circulation backed by the equivalent of more than 7.66 tons of gold in total, as of Q2 2025.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Aidoc, which uses AI to help doctors make real-time clinical decisions, raised $150M led by General Catalyst and Square Peg, bringing its total funding to $370M — New funding fuels rapid expansion of medical AI tools for hospitals worldwide. — Healthcare — Aidoc — FundingSponsor Posts
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