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| Mike Allen / Axios: |
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first US chief design officer, says he wants to update federal websites to an “Apple Store-like experience” — Joe Gebbia — a co-founder of Airbnb who was named by President Trump this week to be the first U.S. chief design officer …
More: The Hill, Reuters, RedState, Federal News Network, and Inc.com
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| New York Times: |
Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity — The deal is among the largest government interventions in a U.S. company since the rescue of the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis.
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| Reuters: |
Some experts say Trump's extraordinary intervention is unlikely to save Intel, which faces challenges with poor yields and competition from TSMC and Nvidia — U.S. President Donald Trump is injecting nearly $9 billion into Intel(INTC.O) in exchange for a 9.9% equity stake.
More: New York Times, Motley Fool, and Associated Press
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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| The Guardian: |
Sources: in a meeting with UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, Sam Altman proposed giving ChatGPT Plus to everyone in the UK, a deal that would have cost £2B — Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam Altman
More: Digital Trends. X: @cartwheelprint, @stokel, @natalieben, @ednewtonrex, @mrewanmorrison, @ioangrillo, and @luetin09
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Forums: r/artificial, r/ukpolitics, r/unitedkingdom, r/OpenAI, r/BetterOffline, and r/singularity
| Eric Benson / Rolling Stone: |
A look at the collapse of narrative podcasts, facing high production costs and limited ad revenue, despite overall podcast listenership reaching all-time highs — When a new longform medium sprung up in the mid-2010s, journalists flocked to it. Then almost as quickly as it appeared, it was gone
More: Bloomberg, New York Times, and Barrett Media
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI warns investors against “unauthorized opportunities” to gain exposure to its equity, including through special purpose vehicles — In a new blog post, OpenAI warns against “unauthorized opportunities to gain exposure to OpenAI through a variety of means,” including special purpose vehicles, known as SPVs.| Business Insider: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nvidia has shown new versions of its Blackwell-based AI chips for Chinese customers to US officials, including one with ~80% of the peak performance — Chip designer hopes Trump will approve new design for sale in China, after Beijing tells its companies not to buy older product| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
How AI is increasingly being used to replace human content moderators, who say that the tech is not yet capable of reliably identifying harmful content — Kevin decided on a career in content moderation after his YouTube recommendations took a bewildering swerve.
More: The Times, AzerNews, Cord Cutters News, Sky News, and Financial Times
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Foxconn recalled ~300 Chinese engineers from its Indian plant making iPhone parts, replacing them with Taiwanese staff, its second such move in months — Apple Inc. assembly partner Foxconn Technology Group has recalled about 300 Chinese engineers from a factory in India … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Q&A with David Luan, head of Amazon's AGI research lab, on leaving Adept in a reverse acquihire deal, why he believes progress on AI models has slowed, and more — Why Amazon AGI Labs chief David Luan thinks solving agents is the next ‘S-curve’ for AI.
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| The Hindu: |
Major real-money gaming platforms in India halted cash games after President Murmu signed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, into law — Most major platforms over August 21 and August 22 stopped offering cash games, in compliance with the Promotion and Regulation of Gaming Act …
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| Andy Mukherjee / Bloomberg: |
| Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: |
FanDuel partners with CME Group to offer event-based contracts, letting users wager “yes” or “no” on financial events and benchmarks, starting later this year — The sports-betting platform's deal with CME Group might ultimately lead it to making markets for sports-related events| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
A look at Texas Instruments' new 300mm wafer fab in Sherman, Texas, a part of its $60B US investment megaproject where some chips for iPhones will be made — When Texas Instruments announced a $60 billion manufacturing megaproject in July, it was a bold bet that companies …
More: AppleInsider and MacDailyNews
| Ephrat Livni / New York Times: |
An interview with Alex Kachkine, who shook the art world in June with a research paper in Nature on restoring paintings using AI, as he works to refine the tech — Alex Kachkine spends his days working on microchip research — a skill set surprisingly similar to that needed for restoration.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification — Social networking startup Bluesky has made the decision to block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with a new age assurance law.
More: Bluesky, Wired, Tedium, Mashable, Mississippi Free Press, The Verge, Engadget, PCMag, Chronology, Tom's Guide, P.V. Poseur, PC Gamer, Six Colors, Simon Willison's Weblog, Reclaim The Net, and TheDesk.net
X: @paul_taske, @loudmouthjulia, @loudmouthjulia, and @klonick
Bluesky: @krassotkin, @andytseng, @edgeoerin.com, @levikornelsen, @rhutabhayga, @malketchupstain, @racebannon, @bsky.app, @catalystmeow, @ike55, @acvalens.net, @waxy.org, @peark.es, @klonick, @donmoyn, @poopraven, @ajbauer, @blackamazon, and @kattenbarge
Mastodon: @joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org and @thenexusofprivacy …
Forums: r/privacy, r/BlueskySocial, r/privacy, r/DeclineIntoCensorship, r/BlueskySocial, r/technology, r/technology, and Slashdot
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