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| Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg: |
White House official: President Trump plans to announce today that Apple will commit to spending another $100B on US manufacturing; Tim Cook is set to attend — President Donald Trump plans to announce that Apple Inc. will commit to spending another $100 billion on domestic manufacturing …
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Forums: r/intelstock, r/politics, and MacRumors Forums
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney says it is “fully integrating” Hulu into Disney+, plans to launch a “unified” Disney+ and Hulu app in 2026 and migrate Hulu's live TV subscribers to Fubo — Hulu will replace the Star brand on Disney+ internationally this fall
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X: @nyasimoneg, @brianstelter, @madamefowler, and @sourceryan
LinkedIn: James Faris and Augustus Christensen
Forums: r/technology, r/Hulu, and r/cordcutters
| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
Disney plans to launch its new flagship sports streaming service ESPN on August 21 for $29.99 per month, or $35.99 per month when bundled with Disney+ and Hulu — ESPN will launch its new flagship streaming service — also named ESPN — on August 21. — Disney's ESPN has been working …
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X: @sherman4949, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, and @pkafka
| Reuters: |
Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 31% YoY to $2.68B, above $2.55B est., GMV up 31% YoY to $87.84B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SHOP jumps 20%+ — Shopify (SHOP.TO), forecast third-quarter revenue above market estimates on Wednesday, as its AI features and platform upgrades boosted demand …
More: The Information, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Proactive, Benzinga, BetaKit, CNBC, Investor's Business Daily, Rolling Out, Shopify, and Bloomberg
X: @harleyf, @amitisinvesting, @economyapp, @harleyf, and @harleyf
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to hold a secondary share sale for current and former staffers at a ~$500B valuation; OpenAI was valued at $300B in March 2025 — OpenAI is in early talks about a potential sale of stock for current and former employees at a valuation of about $500 billion …
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X: @sawyermerritt, @quantian1, @silvermanjacob, @alexrkonrad, and @morqon
Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/singularity
| Financial Times: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.7B, Gross Bookings up 17% to $46.8B, trips up 18% to 3.3B, income up 82% to $1.5B, and authorizes a $20B share buyback — Ride-hailing app announces plans after posting upbeat outlook for gross bookings — Uber has announced plans to buy back $20bn …
More: Benzinga, Mercury News, Proactive, Neowin, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, Investor's Business Daily, Business Wire, Reuters, Sherwood News, CNBC, and Rolling Out
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| David Reber Jr / NVIDIA: |
Nvidia says its GPUs do not contain backdoors, kill switches, or spyware, and hard-coded, single-point controls like kill switches undermine trust in US tech — NVIDIA GPUs are at the heart of modern computing. They're used across industries — from healthcare and finance to scientific research …
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X: @dnystedt, @tomwarren, and @reuters
Forums: r/hardware and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI offers ChatGPT for enterprise to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 per year, to boost its adoption after the US GSA approved OpenAI as a vendor — OpenAI is providing access to its ChatGPT product to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 a year as part of a push to get its AI chatbot more widely adopted.
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Bluesky: @edzitron.com and @fagankara
| Liz Reid / The Keyword: |
Google says total organic click volume from Search to websites has been “relatively stable” YoY and it's sending “slightly more quality clicks” than a year ago — We continue to send billions of clicks to the web every day and are committed to prioritizing the web in our AI experiences in Search.
More: 9to5Google, The Verge, Search Engine Land, and Search Engine Journal
X: @nickleroy, @btabke, and @kasey__moore
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers demonstrate a novel Gemini attack using poisoned Google Calendar invitations to trigger smart home devices; Google fixed the flaws earlier in 2025 — For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real-world havoc …
More: Ars Technica and Android Authority
Bluesky: @couts, @katie-drummond, and @mattburgess1
Forums: r/technews and r/artificial
| Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to make OpenAI's new gpt-oss open-weight models available on Bedrock and SageMaker, the first time it has offered OpenAI's models to AWS customers — Amazon.com Inc. plans to make OpenAI's latest artificial intelligence models available to customers, the first time the cloud computing giant … | Reece Rogers / Wired: |
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LinkedIn: Cristian Moga, Alok Ranjan, Durga Malladi, Soren Larsen, and Atul Deo
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| The Guardian: |
Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system using Microsoft Azure that collects recordings of millions of phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank — Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians' phone calls on Microsoft's servers in Europe
More: Engadget, Metacurity, and WinBuzzer
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Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange and @natematias@social.coop
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ireland, r/france, r/worldnews, r/technology, r/Palestine, r/InternationalNews, r/anime_titties, r/DevelEire, and r/microsoft
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Grok's new “spicy” option on its generative AI video tool Imagine produces nude deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift, even without explicit user prompting — Safeguards? What safeguards? … The “spicy” mode for Grok's new generative AI video tool feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, San Francisco Chronicle, WinBuzzer, CleanTechnica, Mashable, GreenBot, Music Ally, Digit, and MEDIANAMA
Bluesky: @nickfisherau, @kattenbarge, and @esqueer.net
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News, r/nottheonion, r/technews, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and Ars OpenForum
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Instagram now lets users repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts, collected in a designated tab, and adds a Snapchat-like, opt-in maps feature — The platform is adding a TikTok-like reposting feature. … Instagram is getting several new features that pull from competitors …
More: Meta Newsroom, TechCrunch, PCMag, Engadget, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, The Independent, Adweek, Digital Trends, PetaPixel, and Mashable
| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Google unveils a Guided Learning mode within its Gemini chatbot to help students and commits $1B over three years to AI education and training efforts in the US — Just in time for the new school year, Google has introduced a tool called Guided Learning within its Gemini chatbot.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google launches its asynchronous coding agent Jules out of beta, with a free plan capped at 15 daily tasks and higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra users — Google on Wednesday launched its AI coding agent, Jules, out of beta, just over two months after its public preview debut in May.
More: The Keyword, XDA Developers, ZDNET, Tom's Guide, WinBuzzer, and The AI Economy. Forums: Hacker News
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft unveils Project Ire, a prototype AI system that can reverse engineer and identify malicious software autonomously, without human assistance — Microsoft says it has created an advanced AI system that can reverse-engineer and identify malicious software on its own, without human assistance.| Wall Street Journal: |
How Palantir won over US lawmakers, leveraging geopolitical crises, technological trends, and DC connections, as CEO Alex Karp adopts a persona not unlike Trump — The onetime Silicon Valley upstart has emerged as a power player in Trump's second term—and adopted his persona| Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports; Uber only disclosed 12,522 reports during the period — Uber received a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the United States almost every eight minutes on average between 2017 and 2022 …
More: The Verge, AM New York, WALV-TV, PR Daily, and Sherwood News
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| Bloomberg: |
A US jury finds Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm guilty of conspiring to run an unlicensed money-transfer operation that laundered $1B+ via Tornado Cash — A co-founder of Tornado Cash was convicted of conspiring to run an unlicensed money-transfer operation that laundered …
More: DL News, CoinDesk, Blockworks, The Block, Business Insider, Cointelegraph, Reuters, and Bitcoinist.com
| Reuters: |
Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts from March 2024 to June 2025, as X and Modi's government clash over content rules — In January, an old post on Elon Musk's social media platform, X, became a concern for police in the Indian city of Satara.| Reuters: |
Sources: Singapore-based used car online marketplace Carro is preparing for a US IPO as soon as 2026, aiming to raise up to $500M at a $3B+ valuation — Singapore-based Carro, Southeast Asia's largest used-car online marketplace, is preparing for a U.S. initial public offering as early …
More: TNGlobal
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Smartsheet says Mark Mader will retire as CEO and from the board of directors at the end of September, and names Apptio co-founder Sunny Gupta as acting CEO — After leading Smartsheet for nearly two decades, Mark Mader is leaving the Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software giant.
More: Smartsheet
| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
OpenMind, which is developing an OS for humanoid robots, raised $20M led by Pantera and unveils Fabric, a protocol that lets robots share info with one another — Many companies are focused on building robots, or the hardware components to help them move, grip objects, or interact with the world around them.
More: The Robot Report, OpenMind, The Block, CoinGape, Robotics & Automation News, crypto.news, Coinspeaker, and Blockchain News. LinkedIn: Jan Liphardt
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The Trump administration warns states that they risk losing access to grants from a $42.45B broadband deployment fund if they cap prices on low-cost ISP plans — The Trump administration is telling states they will be shut out of a $42 billion broadband deployment fund if they set the rates …
More: Engadget, Fierce Network, and The Colorado Sun
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $7.69B, vs. $7.43B est., net income down 31% YoY to $781M, and diluted EPS of $0.48, vs. $0.49 est.; AMD drops 5%+ — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares fell on Wednesday after the company failed to deliver a clear outlook for resuming sales in China …
More: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., HotHardware, CNBC, Motley Fool, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @moogle.dev. X: @benbajarin, @gordongekko420, @yxinsights, @economyapp, @theaustinlyons, @benbajarin, @thetranscript_, and @benbajarin
Forums: r/hardware, r/stocks, r/wallstreetbets, and r/AMD_Stock
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image, an open-source AI image generation model focused on accurately rendering text, with support for alphabetic and logographic scripts — After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models …
More: Qwen, Qwen on Hugging Face, Simon Willison's Weblog, Implicator.ai, Alizila, WebProNews, Tech in Asia, and Qwen
Bluesky: @xeiaso.net, @to3no7, @jaydub, and @timkellogg.me
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