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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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| 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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| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
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| 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.
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| 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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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $3.1B, vs. $3.03B est., net income of $642M, vs. $599.3M est., Q3 outlook above est., and authorizes a $6B share buyback — Airbnb Inc. issued a better-than-expected outlook for the third quarter as it saw encouraging summer travel demand …
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| Juveria Tabassum / Reuters: |
DoorDash reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $3.28B, vs. $3.16B est., total orders up 20% YoY to 761M, and forecasts Q3 gross order value above estimates — Doordash (DASH.O) forecast third-quarter gross merchandise value above Wall Street expectations after topping estimates on Wednesday … | 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.
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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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/singularity
| Laura Benitez / Bloomberg: |
Apollo Global agrees to acquire a majority stake in Stream Data Centers, which builds, leases, and operates data center campuses, in its first such acquisition — Takeaways by Bloomberg AI — Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The NHTSA certifies Amazon's Zoox self-driving vehicles for demonstration use and closes a probe from 2022 into whether they complied with federal requirements — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday it has certified Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) self-driving unit Zoox vehicles …
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| 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.
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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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Forums: r/technews and r/artificial
| 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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| 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
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X: @ruairi_casey, @shibleytelhami, and @mrjamesmack
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| 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.
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/nottheonion, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $70M Series A led by Menlo Ventures via its co-investment vehicle with Anthropic, valuing it at ~$550M — Start-up has attracted investment from Menlo Ventures and Yuri Milner's DST Global Partners — OpenAI-backed start-up Chai Discovery …
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| 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 …
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