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August 10, 2025, 1:40 PM
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing upgraded App Intents with Uber, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, WhatsApp, and other apps to transform Siri into a true voice-first interface  —  Apple's upcoming voice-control feature for the new Siri could be an under-the-radar hit — if it works.
Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Bo Hines, the head of the White House Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, says he is stepping down and returning to the private sector  —  Bo Hines, the head of the White House Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, said he was stepping down and returning to the private sector.
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Sources: Chinese officials have urged the Trump administration to relax HBM chip export controls during trade talks, after the Biden administration ban in 2024  —  Experts warn dropping restrictions would give Beijing a competitive advantage in artificial intelligence
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
CS grads struggle to land jobs as tech companies lay off workers and embrace AI; CS majors face a 6.1% unemployment rate in the US among grads aged 22 to 27  —  Manasi Mishra recently graduated from Purdue University with a degree in computer science.Madeleine Hordinski for The New York Times
Stevie Bonifield / PC Gamer:
AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers “in the low thousands” in 2021  —  Dial-up's days are numbered, after 34 years of service.  —  On September 30, AOL's dial-up hold-outs will need to finally move on to another internet service.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Hands-on with Alexa+: fun to talk to and good at handling multistep requests, but it is buggy, unreliable, and worse at some basic tasks than the original Alexa  —  Alexa+ processes language in a more fluid way.  Users can speak to it as they would to a human.Graham Dickie/The New York Times
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New York Times:
An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and ChatGPT shows how chatbots can lead ordinarily rational people to spiral into delusion  —  Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero.
Bloomberg:
Investors are increasingly divesting from companies they fear are at risk of AI disruption, like Wix and Shutterstock, which are down at least 30% in 2025  —  Artificial intelligence's imprint on US financial markets is unmistakable.  Nvidia Corp. is the most valuable company in the world at nearly $4.5 trillion.
More: Benzinga
Bloomberg:
AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits  —  At a rooftop bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side, roughly 150 quant researchers met with employees at the artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Advocates for net neutrality say they won't appeal a ruling against the policy, saying they don't trust the US Supreme Court to rule fairly on the issue  —  Advocacy groups that tried to defend federal net neutrality rules in court won't file an appeal, saying they don't trust the Supreme Court to rule fairly on the issue.

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