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August 18, 2025, 5:40 PM

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Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:

Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service will get RTX 5080 GPUs in September, letting users of its $20/month Ultimate tier stream in 5K at up to 120fps — It'll support up to 5K at 120fps and DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation. — NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service is leveling …

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X: @comcast, @maxwinebach, @nvidiagfn, and @tomwarren

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Nvidia, Discord, and Epic Games are testing game demos on Discord servers, letting users try a game without downloading it or signing up, starting with Fortnite — Try before you try before you buy. … Nvidia's GeForce Now is getting a big upgrade next month — and it's also part of an intriguing new experiment.

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Nvidia announces Install-to-Play for GeForce Now, letting users install games opted into Valve's Steam Cloud Play, without waiting for Nvidia to curate them — More games, more power, more AI-generated frames. … It's been two and a half years since Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service got …

More: PC Guide

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nvidia's app gets global DLSS override and more control panel features, including anisotropic filtering, anti-aliasing, and ambient occlusion — You won't need to switch to Nvidia's older control panel app as much anymore. … The Nvidia app is getting improvements to DLSS override …

More: VideoCardz.com, How-To Geek, Club386, PC Gamer, TechPowerUp, and KitGuru. X: @tomwarren

Bloomberg:

Sources: the Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of ~10% in Intel, converting some or all of Intel's $10.9B CHIPS Act grants into equity — The Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of about 10% in Intel Corp., according to a White House official …

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Bluesky: @paulsemenza. Threads: @tomgara. X: @hedgedirty. LinkedIn: Patrick Moorhead. Forums: Hacker News, r/DeepStateCentrism, r/wallstreetbets, and r/intelstock

Samantha Subin / CNBC:

Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.54B, vs. $2.5B est., and Q1 and FY 2026 guidance above estimates; PANW jumps 4%+ after hours — Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected quarterly results and issued upbeat guidance for the current period.

More: Palo Alto Networks, Reuters, Benzinga, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, Constellation Research, Yahoo Finance, Proactive, and Associated Press

Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal:

Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires and steps down as CTO and board member; Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich becomes CTO and joins the board — Cybersecurity company says Nir Zuk has also stepped down as a board member and will be succeeded as CTO by Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich

More: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Joseph Cox / 404 Media:

Grok's website is exposing the underlying prompts for its AI personas, including one for a “crazy conspiracist” persona that spends “a lot of time on 4chan” — The website for Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is exposing the underlying prompts for a wealth of its AI personas …

More: TechCrunch. Bluesky: @brasidas, @seanokane, @emanuelmaiberg, and @josephcox

X: @whoisgallifrey and @xlr8harder

Katelyn Chedraoui / CNET:

Google says users created 100M videos using its AI filmmaking tool Flow since its May launch; Flow leverages Veo 3 and focuses on maintaining visual consistency — Google confirmed the 100 million milestone exclusively to CNET. Here's what's coming next for Flow and its AI-assisted creators.

More: The Economic Times and Moneycontrol

X: @joshwoodward and @sundarpichai

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

E.W. Scripps' board unanimously rejects Sinclair's unsolicited acquisition proposal of $7 per share in cash and stock, offered in November

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Vic Hood / GamesIndustry.biz:

A survey by Google Cloud and The Harris Poll finds 87% of game developers are using AI agents in their workflows; 63% expressed concerns about data ownership

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:

Grammarly debuts AI agents for writing and grading assistance, like an AI grader agent and a citation finder agent, available to Grammarly Free and Pro users

More: Grammarly, Tom's Guide, TechCrunch, Thurrott, WinBuzzer, SiliconANGLE, and ZDNET

X: @glenngabe and @shishirmehrotra

Financial Times:

Digital bank Monzo, which has 13M UK customers, plans to launch a mobile phone service; Revolut and Klarna, each with ~11M UK customers, announced similar plans

More: PYMNTS.com, The Guardian, Tech.eu, Sifted, Finextra, and BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

X: @sarthakgh. LinkedIn: Tom Rebbeck and Kieran Smith. Forums: r/monzo

Amy Feldman / Forbes:

Medallion, which automates health care back-office operations and compliance, raised $43M led by Acrew at a ~$440M valuation, bringing its total raised to $130M

More: Mobi Health News, Medallion, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, and Becker's Hospital Review. LinkedIn: Sangeen Zeb

Yan Zhuang / New York Times:

Humanoid Robot Games highlighted robotics advancements but also limitations, with robots tripping over each other; one robot ran faster than many amateur humans

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Financial Times:

Sources: the EU and the US have delayed formalizing their trade deal partly over “non-tariff barriers”, like relaxing the DSA, which the EU sees as a red line

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LinkedIn: Massimo Donna and Deborah Elms

Debby Wu / Bloomberg:

SoftBank buys Foxconn's Ohio EV plant; Foxconn will still run the plant and make AI servers as part of Softbank's $500B Stargate project with OpenAI and Oracle

More: Reuters, HotHardware, Nikkei Asia, RCR Wireless News, Tom's Hardware, Taipei Times, The American Bazaar, WinBuzzer, Tech in Asia, and Benzinga. Bluesky: @edzitron.com

Edward White / Financial Times:

China's podcast audience is projected to reach 150M in 2025, up from <700K five years ago, driven by grassroots hosts instinctively navigating China's red lines

Bluesky: @mranthropology and @yaqiu

X: @patrickc and @edwardwhitenz

LinkedIn: Yi Yang and Edward White

Jordyn Holman / New York Times:

As boards and executives mandate using AI to make their businesses more efficient and competitive, many have yet to fully integrate it into their own workdays

Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @raistolo, and @quinnypig.com. LinkedIn: Chuck Whitten. Forums: r/business

Himanshi Akhand / Reuters:

Australia's ACCC says Google agreed to pay a AU$55M fine over deals with Telstra and Optus to preinstall only Google Search on Android phones from 2019 to 2021

Politico:

A look at OpenAI's campaign over the past year to turn its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation, led by a team of Democratic insiders in California

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