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SoftBank agrees to invest $2B in Intel, buying ~2% of Intel's outstanding shares for $23 per share, becoming Intel's fifth-biggest shareholder; INTC jumps 5%+ — Intel and SoftBank announced on Monday that the Japanese conglomerate will make a $2 billion investment in the embattled chipmaker.
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Forums: r/Economics, r/technology, r/hardware, r/intel, r/WallStreetbetsELITE, r/wallstreetbets, r/intelstock, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank acquiring Intel's faltering foundry business in the weeks before announcing SoftBank's $2B investment — Japanese group's approach comes as US manufacturer struggles to attract customers and compete with rival TSMC
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| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says the UK has dropped its mandate requiring Apple to provide a backdoor for accessing users' encrypted data — U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Monday the UK had agreed to drop its mandate for iPhone maker Apple …
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| Sheryl Estrada / Fortune: |
An MIT report finds that 95% of GenAI pilots at companies have little to no financial impact, due to the “learning gap” for both the tools and the companies — Good morning. Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line.
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| Kashish Tandon / Reuters: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go, a new India-only plan priced at Rs. 399, or ~$4.57, per month, its most affordable yet, to grow users in its second-largest market — ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Tuesday launched ChatGPT Go, a new India-only subscription plan priced at 399 rupees ($4.57) per month …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia debuts Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer model, saying it achieves comparable or better accuracies than Qwen3-8B on reasoning benchmarks — Small models are having a moment. On the heels of the release of a new AI vision model small enough to fit on a smartwatch …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
A US federal appeals court rejects T-Mobile's bid to overturn a $92M fine for illegally selling customer location data without consent, after a 2024 FCC ruling — A federal appeals court rejected T-Mobile's attempt to overturn $92 million in fines for selling customer location information to third-party firms.| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia is developing a new Blackwell-based AI chip for China, tentatively known as the B30A, that will be more powerful than its H20 model for China — Nvidia (NVDA.O) is developing a new AI chip for China based on its latest Blackwell architecture that will be more powerful …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in India ahead of debut, a first, as it expands to five factories to cut reliance on China for US-bound units — Apple Inc. is expanding iPhone production in India at five factories, including a pair of recently opened plants … | Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek releases V3.1, adding a longer context window, with few other details; Chinese local media blames CEO Liang Wenfeng's perfectionism for R2's delay — DeepSeek announced what appeared to be an update to its older V3 artificial intelligence model on Tuesday, declaring an enhanced version ready for testing.
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| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Blockchain-based lender Figure files for a US IPO, reporting H1 2025 revenue up 22% YoY to $191M and a $29M net income, compared with a $13M net loss in H1 2024 — Figure Technology Solutions' revenue surged 22% in the first half of 2025, the blockchain lender disclosed on Monday …
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Eight Sleep, which makes the AI-powered Pod smart mattress cover for measuring sleep, raised $100M from HSG and others, after an $86M Series C in 2021 — Roughly one in three adults in the U.S. regularly gets insufficient sleep, driving demand for tools that can monitor, analyze, and enhance rest.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Tim Sweeney says the UK's mobile app store regulation lags “well behind” other countries, and calls the CMA's iPhone sideloading decision delay a “blunder” — Competition and Markets Authority delayed decision over fees Apple and Google charge developers
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| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
The US FTC sues Key Investment Group, operator of sites like TotalTickets.com, for skirting ticket limits to buy up and resell live event tickets at a markup — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued ticket reseller Key Investment Group for evading purchasing limits to buy up thousands … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Texas AG Ken Paxton probes Meta and Character.AI over claims they deceptively market chatbots as mental health tools, misleading kids and other vulnerable users — Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for …
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