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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 …
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5 and plans to do the same for Grok 3 in about six months, with Grok 2's weights now available on Hugging Face — The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source. Grok 3 will be made open source in about 6 months. https://huggingface.co/...
| 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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| 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
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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
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Forums: r/artificial, r/OpenAI, r/BetterOffline, r/ukpolitics, r/unitedkingdom, and r/singularity
| Rick Whiting / CRN: |
Tel Aviv-based Seemplicity, whose AI-based tech automates enterprise vulnerability and exposure management, raised a $50M Series B led by Sienna Venture Capital — Remediation operations startup Seemplicity has raised $50M in a Series B funding round.
More: Seemplicity, SiliconANGLE, SecurityWeek, VC News Daily, FinTech Global, Unite.AI, FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, and Tech Funding News
| 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: |
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| Liz Young / Wall Street Journal: |
Austin-based Overhaul, an in-transit supply chain risk management company, raised a $105M Series C led by Springcoast Partners and Edison Partners — The company, which helps shippers track shipments and fight cargo theft, plans more acquisitions — Supply-chain risk management company …
More: Supply Chain Dive, Overhaul, Overhaul, PYMNTS.com, VC News Daily, Austin Business Journal, and Pulse 2.0
| Jessica Hagen / Mobi Health News: |
Twin Health, which uses AI-based digital twin tech to provide personalized diabetes and metabolic health guidance, raised a $53M Series E at a $950M valuation — The company plans to expand partnerships with health plans and employers to provide more individuals with digital twin technology designed to improve metabolic health.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
KnowledgeLake, which uses AI and RPA to help organizations automate their work with documents, raised $65M in a majority growth round led by Edison Partners — Self-styled “synthetic labor” startup KnowledgeLake Inc. has become the latest “agentic” artificial intelligence platform to attract millions in funding.
More: Business Wire, Pulse 2.0, Axios, and St. Louis Business Journal
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
A journalist recounts shipping code as a vibe coding engineer during a two-day stint at Notion, working alongside engineers using AI tools like Cursor — I spent two days at Notion and saw an industry in upheaval. I also shipped some actual code. — I asked my editors if I could go work at a tech startup.| 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.| 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
| 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 … | 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, Financial Times, Cord Cutters News, and Sky News
| 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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