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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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Forums: r/technology, r/malaysia, and r/AMD_Stock
| 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 …
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Bluesky: @carnage4life. X: @sentomcotton. Forums: r/worldnews, r/hardware, r/intel, and r/intelstock
| 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: |
| 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 …
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| 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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| 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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X: @shinobi602, @genki_jpn, and @oliver_drk
Forums: r/gaming, r/Games, r/Marathon, and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| 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
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Forums: r/technology, r/intelstock, r/hardware, 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, @gartenberg, @markgurman, @whitehouse, @markgurman, @ericldaugh, and @mgsiegler. LinkedIn: Ed Schlesinger
Forums: r/Kentucky, r/apple, r/AppleWatch, and MacRumors Forums
| 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| 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.
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Bluesky: @aricohn.com, @ericjgeller.com, @free.law, and @joshuajfriedman.com. LinkedIn: Jason Kravitz
Forums: r/FedEmployees and r/law
| 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 … | 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 …
More: The Register, Euractiv, and Benzinga
| 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: Futurism, Zenity Labs, Zenity on YouTube, Ukrainian National News, WinBuzzer, and Embrace The Red. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
Trump Media says it is public beta testing Truth Search AI, a Perplexity-powered search feature, initially on Truth Social for web and coming to Android and iOS — 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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Forums: r/technology, r/perplexity_ai, and Beehaw
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Sources: NIST didn't publish an AI safety report and several other AI documents near the end of Biden's term for fear of 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 … | Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Tether acquires a minority stake in MiCA-licensed Spanish crypto exchange Bit2Me and is leading a €30M funding round that will close in the coming weeks — - Tether buys a minority stake and leads a 30 million-euro round in MiCA-licensed Bit2Me to fund EU and Latin-American growth.
More: Tether, Tech.eu, CoinDesk, Crypto Briefing, crypto.news, The Crypto Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, Blockonomi, and BTC Times. LinkedIn: Koh Onozawa Martínez
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Framework Desktop review: the $1,099+ desktop is compact and easy to assemble with solid performance and power efficiency, but CPU, GPU, and RAM are soldered — Size matters most for Framework's first stab at a desktop workstation/gaming PC. — Framework's main claim to fame is its commitment to modular …
More: PCWorld, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, Engadget, PCMag, PC Gamer, Wired, Tom's Guide, and Phoronix. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| 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.| 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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X: @jonerlichman, @meghanbobrowsky, and @fiscal_ai
| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
SoftBank reports Q1 net profit of $2.87B, vs. ~$850M est., boosted by its Nvidia investment, and says Vision Funds had a “late-stage portfolio valued at $45B” — Masayoshi Son's technology group has been making aggressive AI investments — SoftBank made a net profit of $2.9bn …
More: PitchBook, Reuters, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, and CNBC
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI awards bonuses to ~1,000 research and engineering employees, or ~30% of its staff, ranging from several hundred thousand to millions of dollars — OpenAI is paying bonuses to around 1,000 employees on its technical research and engineering teams, or about a third of the company …
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