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August 6, 2025, 6:10 PM

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Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Apple commits to spending another $100B on US manufacturing and announces a new manufacturing program designed to bring more of Apple's supply chain to the US  —  Apple Inc. committed to spending another $100 billion on domestic manufacturing ahead of an event with President Donald Trump …
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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.
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.
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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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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
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.
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.

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