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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 — Britain has dropped its demand for the iPhone maker Apple (AAPL.O) to provide a “backdoor” that would have enabled access …
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Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk, @glynmoody, @paulbernal, @jjaron, and @billstewart
Mastodon: @jwildeboer@social … and @carnage4life@mas.to
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Forums: r/ukpolitics and r/DeclineIntoCensorship
| 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.
More: Computerworld, Implicator.ai, The Overspill, Tech in Asia, and Axios
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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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| 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 … | 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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| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek releases V3.1, adding a longer context window, with few other details; Chinese media blames CEO Liang Wenfeng's perfectionism and bugs 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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| Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters: |
Tether hires Bo Hines, who stepped down as White House Crypto Council Executive Director earlier in August, as an adviser to help it expand in the US — Cryptocurrency firm Tether has appointed former White House crypto policy executive Bo Hines as a strategic adviser to help steer its expansion …
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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 … | 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.
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Bluesky: @karlbode.com. Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/technews, r/technology, r/tmobile, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.
More: Axios, Crunchbase News, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @fagankara
| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Databricks is finalizing a Series K at a $100B valuation, up 61% from its December 2024 round; sources say it is co-led by Thrive and a16z plans to participate — The data analytics company, fueled by the AI boom, was valued at $62 billion less than a year ago| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
What to expect from Google's “Made by Google” Pixel hardware event on August 20: four Pixel 10 phones, including a 10 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 4, and Pixel Buds 2A — Four phones, a smartwatch, and a pair of earbuds are likely launching at tomorrow's Pixel hardware event.
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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 …
More: NVIDIA ADLR and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me. X: @natolambert, @kuchaev, @benbajarin, @ctnzr, @jeremyphoward, @teknium1, and @scaling01
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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X: @lessin, @comcast, @maxwinebach, @nvidiagfn, and @tomwarren
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Reuters: |
A survey of 4,446 US adults on AI: 71% are concerned AI will put “too many people out of work permanently”, 61% worry about electricity consumption, and more — Americans are deeply concerned over the prospect that advances in artificial intelligence could put swaths of the country …
Forums: r/technology
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Tim Sweeney says the UK's mobile app store regulation lags “well behind” other countries, and calls the CMA delaying its iPhone sideloading decision a “blunder” — Competition and Markets Authority delayed decision over fees Apple and Google charge developers
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