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August 28, 2025, 1:30 PM
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers, dropping the Game Pass Ultimate requirement, and tests more PC game access  —  Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers are also getting access to some PC games.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 56% YoY to $46.74B, Data Center revenue up 56% to $41.1B, below $41.34B est., and approves an additional $60B in share buybacks  —  Nvidia reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue on Wednesday, and said sales growth this quarter will remain above 50% …
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Nvidia says it had no new H20 sales to China in Q2 and assumes the same for Q3, but could realize $2B-$5B in H20 sales in Q3 if geopolitical issues are resolved
Bloomberg:
The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini  —  The US government on Thursday began distributing gross domestic product data on public blockchains, marking the latest Trump administration endorsement of the crypto industry.
Chris Vallance / BBC:
Apple says the UK CMA's proposed “EU-style” regulation is “bad for users and bad for developers”, “undermines” privacy and security, and “hampers” innovation  —  Apple has warned that “EU-style rules” proposed by the UK competition watchdog “are bad for users and bad for developers”.
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Two House Republicans open a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias into Wikipedia, citing an ADL report about anti-Israel bias on the site  —  Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias …
Everything Typepad:
Typepad is shutting down on September 30 and users' “account and all related services will be permanently deactivated”; users can export content before then  —  We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025.  What Does This Mean for You?
More: Engadget and Ars Technica
X: @typepad.  Bluesky: @andy.baio.net and @ernie.tedium.co.  Mastodon: @jwildeboer@social …
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Samsung rolls out Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in its 2025 lineup of TVs and monitors, letting users ask for movie suggestions, plot recaps, and more  —  An animated version of the AI assistant can provide movie recommendations or summarize the latest episode of your favorite show.
Danny Park / The Block:
Google Cloud says its Universal Ledger, a layer-1 blockchain for financial products, is in a private testnet, and plans to reveal more details at a later date  —  Start trading crypto Get a crypto rewards card 1inch: Swap Sol ↔ EVM  — Google Cloud is developing its own blockchain …
Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google:
Google launches Pixel Care+, replacing Preferred Care and Fi Device Protection in the US, with upgrades but slightly higher pricing than the previous offering  —  Google's post-purchase support for Pixel has never been fantastic — a quick glance at r/GooglePixel will make that abundantly clear …
Anthropic:
Anthropic requires users to accept new terms by September 28, including choosing whether new chats and coding sessions can be used to train AI models  —  Today, we're rolling out updates to our Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy that will help us deliver even more capable, useful AI models.
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
A review of the Honor Magic V5, the world's thinnest foldable phone at 8.8mm when folded, as it launches in Europe for €1,999, following a July launch in China  —  Honor's Magic V5 is the thinnest book-style foldable in the world, but you probably couldn't tell.
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in under a second on a single GPU, and a text model called MAI-1-preview  —  On Thursday, Microsoft announced two powerful AI models it built that it says perform at the level of the world's top offerings …
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:
Dutch web design automation startup Framer raised $100M led by Meritech and Atomico with Accel participation at a $2B valuation, after raising $27M in 2023  —  Framer, a Dutch company that makes tools for automating web design, has raised a funding round at a $2 billion valuation.
Michelle Kim / Rest of World:
How ChatGPT-powered companionship dolls from Hyodol are helping ease loneliness among older adults in South Korea, as the company aims for a US debut in 2026  —  ChatGPT-powered robotic seven-year-olds are taking over some work from caregivers, to the delight of seniors who treat them like grandchildren.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI and Anthropic publish findings from joint safety tests of each other's models, aimed at surfacing blind spots in their internal evaluations  —  OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the world's leading AI labs, briefly opened up their closely guarded AI models to allow for joint safety testing …
Hayden Field / The Verge:
Anthropic's Threat Intelligence report for August says Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Financial Times:
OpenAI hopes the Disney deal boosts Sora, which has high costs and limited traction; Sensor Tower: users average 13 minutes per day on Sora vs. 90 on TikTok

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