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| Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg: |
At a White House event, Apple commits to spending another $100B on US manufacturing and aims to bring more of its supply chain to the US to avoid iPhone tariffs — Apple Inc. committed to spending another $100 billion on domestic manufacturing ahead of an event with President Donald Trump …
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Forums: r/business, r/apple, r/technology, r/intelstock, r/politics, and MacRumors Forums
| Apple: |
Apple commits $2.5B to produce all iPhone and Apple Watch glass at Corning's Kentucky facility, as part of its plan to invest $600B+ in the US over four years — The new $2.5 billion commitment from Apple is part of the company's expanded plan to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years
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Threads: @joannastern. X: @repjamescomer, @mgsiegler, @gartenberg, @markgurman, @whitehouse, @markgurman, and @ericldaugh
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Samsung plans to produce iPhone 18 image sensors in Austin, Texas; an expert says Apple chose Samsung as a supplier because Sony doesn't have US plants — Deal suggests South Korean company's US investments are paying off as Trump dials up his tariff policies
More: Engadget, MacRumors, Reuters, AppleInsider, CHOSUNBIZ, Korea Joongang Daily, iPhone in Canada, The Verge, Digit, The Korea Herald, SammyGuru, Watcher Guru, and DigiTimes
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A now-deleted GitHub blog post reveals GPT-5, available as gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, and gpt-5-chat with “major improvements” in reasoning, code, and more — GPT-5 will have ‘enhanced agentic capabilities’ and handle ‘complex coding tasks with minimal prompting.’| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: |
| Bloomberg: |
President Trump says he will impose a “tariff of approximately 100% on chips and semiconductors”, exempting firms like Apple that “committed to build” in the US — Donald Trump declared plans to slap a 100% tariff on semiconductor imports yet promised to exempt companies …
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| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Peter Elstrom / Bloomberg: |
President Trump calls on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to “resign, immediately” and says he “is highly CONFLICTED”, after Senator Cotton asked about Tan's ties to China — President Donald Trump called on the chief executive officer of Intel Corp. to resign …
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
GOP Senator Tom Cotton sends a letter to Intel's board chair with questions about CEO Lip-Bu Tan's ties to China and subpoenas when he was Cadence Design's CEO — U.S. Republican Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter to Intel's (INTC.O) board chair on Wednesday with questions about the chipmaker's … | Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Sony reports Q1 revenue up 2.2% YoY to ~$17.8B, net profit up 23% YoY to ~$1.8B, 2.5M PS5s sold, up from 2.4M in Q1 2024, and expects a lower FY tariff impact — The company expects uncertainty over the economy to increase due to U.S. tariffs — Sony Group reported higher quarterly net profit …
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Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, and r/Marathon
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple has lost around a dozen of its AI staff, including top researchers, to rivals in recent months; its core foundation models team has ~50-60 people — The iPhone maker has lost around a dozen of its AI staff to rivals since the start of the year| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Tokyo Electron says it fired an employee in Taipei and is cooperating with Taiwan's investigation after Taiwan arrested six people over alleged TSMC IP theft — Tokyo Electron Ltd. said it's fired an employee at its Taipei unit, making its first public statement since the island's government …
More: Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, Tokyo Electron Ltd., Focus Taiwan, Reuters, DigiTimes, Nikkei Asia, Tech in Asia, and Benzinga
| Politico: |
Sources: the US federal judiciary's electronic case filing system was hit in a sweeping hack, potentially compromising the identities of confidential informants — It is not immediately clear who is behind the hack, though nation-state-affiliated actors are widely suspected, the people said.| Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters: |
State Department cable: Marco Rubio orders diplomats in Europe to lobby against the DSA, arguing it stifles free speech and imposes costs on US tech companies — President Donald Trump's administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition … | Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers reveal how a weakness in OpenAI's Connectors let them extract sensitive data from a Google Drive account using an indirect prompt injection attack — Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI's Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services …
More: Zenity Labs, Zenity on YouTube, Embrace The Red, Ukrainian National News, and WinBuzzer. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $3.1B, vs. $3.03B est., net income up 16% YoY to $642M, and warns revenue growth may moderate in H2 2025; ABNB drops 6%+ — Airbnb Inc. shares slid in Thursday trading after the short-term rental company warned that sales growth may moderate in the second half of the year.
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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.
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X: @google and @sundarpichai
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
| Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
Trump Media says it is beta testing Truth Search AI, a new search feature powered by Perplexity, on the web version of Truth Social — Donald Trump's media company is teaming up with Perplexity to bring AI search to Truth Social, the President's X.com alternative.
More: Trump Media & …, PCMag, Financial Express, Moneycontrol, The Independent, The Hans India, The Crypto Times, Decrypt, Business Insider, Axios, Benzinga, and Barron's Online
Forums: r/technology and r/perplexity_ai
| 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 merchandise value above est. — DoorDash (DASH.O) forecast third-quarter gross merchandise value above Wall Street expectations after topping estimates on Wednesday …
More: MarketWatch, Fortune, CNBC, and DoorDash
| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Ripple plans to acquire stablecoin payments platform Rail for $200M, set to close in Q4 2025; Rail says it handles 10% of all global stablecoin payment activity — Ripple will buy stablecoin payments platform Rail for $200 million, the company said on Thursday, weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump signed …
More: Business Wire, PYMNTS.com, The Block, CoinDesk, Finextra, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, Crypto Briefing, TheStreet, and The Defiant
X: @bgarlinghouse and @ripple
| Reuters: |
SMIC reports Q2 revenue up 16.2% YoY to $2.2B, in line with expectations, and profit down 19.5% YoY to $132.5M, below $183.35M est. — Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (0981.HK) ，China's largest contract chip maker, reported on Thursday a 19.5% year-on-year decline in second-quarter profit.| Liz Reid / The Keyword: |
Google says total organic click volume from Search to websites is “relatively stable year-over-year” and it is sending “slightly more quality clicks” than 2024 — 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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Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Sources: NIST withheld publishing an AI safety report and several other AI documents at the end of Biden's term to avoid clashing with the Trump administration — The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump's second term … | Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
DJI, which is facing an end of 2025 deadline to keep its US business alive, says its lobbying efforts are struggling; DJI controls 70%+ of the US drone market — Chinese-owned and operated DJI Technologies is up against an end-of-year deadline to keep its US business alive …
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