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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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| 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: |
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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.’
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| 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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| 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: |
Senator Tom Cotton sends a letter to Intel's board chair with questions about CEO Lip-Bu Tan's China ties and subpoenas during his tenure as Cadence Design 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, PS5 sales at 2.5M, 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 … | 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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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
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| 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 …
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple lost around a dozen of its AI staff, including top researchers, to rivals in recent months; its core foundation models team has ~50 to 60 people — The iPhone maker has lost around a dozen of its AI staff to rivals since the start of the year| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $3.1B, vs. $3.03B est., Q3 outlook above est., warns growth rates may not keep up this year; ABNB drops 6%+ — Airbnb Inc. shares slid in early Thursday trading after the short-term rental company warned that sales growth may moderate in the second half of the year.| Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters: |
State Department cable: Marco Rubio orders diplomats in Europe to lobby against the DSA, arguing it imposes free speech restrictions and high compliance costs — President Donald Trump's administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition … | Juveria Tabassum / Reuters: |
DoorDash reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $3.28B vs. $3.16B est., total orders up 20%, and forecasts Q3 gross order value above est.; DASH jumps 8%+ — DoorDash (DASH.O) forecast third-quarter gross merchandise value above Wall Street expectations after topping estimates on Wednesday …
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| 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.
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| 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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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers show how a weakness in OpenAI's Connectors let sensitive data be extracted 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, Ukrainian National News, WinBuzzer, and Embrace The Red. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| 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: CoinDesk, The Block, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Insider, Reuters, Ars Technica, Business Insider, and The Block
Forums: r/Buttcoin and Slashdot
| 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.| 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 … | 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| Wall Street Journal: |
Index Ventures is set to receive $11B+ in proceeds after Figma's IPO, Google's Wiz acquisition, and Meta's investment in Scale AI, which paid out shareholders — Index Ventures was among the first investors in startup hits Figma, Scale AI and Wiz — Index Ventures, a venture firm …
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