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At a White House dinner, tech CEOs thanked Trump for promoting chip and AI investments, while Trump promised an easy energy permitting process for data centers — Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman salute president's leadership on innovation as industry seeks his favor
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Code.org, IBM, OpenAI, and other companies pledged new commitments for AI in education as part of Melania Trump's White House event — Teaching students AI literacy from an early age is key to American success, First Lady Melania Trump said at a White House event …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: major design upgrades for the iPhone, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, three Apple Watch models, and the AirPods Pro 3 — Company is readying a slew of updated devices for the holidays. — Apple Inc.'s biggest product launch event of the year takes place …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI is set to produce an AI chip co-designed with Broadcom, to ship in 2026, and has committed $10B in orders; the chip will only be used internally — ChatGPT maker's deal with US chip group signals industry shift towards custom alternatives to Nvidia
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| Financial Times: |
Anthropic says it will stop selling AI services to majority Chinese-owned groups; a source says the policy is partly aimed at Chinese subsidiaries in Singapore — Policy will also apply to US adversaries including Russia, Iran and North Korea — Anthropic will stop selling artificial intelligence services … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Baseten, which helps companies launch open-source or custom AI models, raised a $150M Series D led by Bond at a $2.15B valuation, up from $825M in February — The Baseten founding team. — BASETEN — In some sense, Baseten started with building blocks—literally.| Binaj Gurubacharya / Associated Press: |
Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after the companies failed to register with the government — Nepal's government said Thursday it is blocking most social media platforms including Facebook, X and YouTube because the companies failed …
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| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Researchers from UCL, Google DeepMind, and Intrinsic unveil RoboBallet, an AI system designed to help teams of industrial robots work together without colliding — System potentially allows machine troupes to work faster and reduce collisions — Scientists have used artificial intelligence …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute develop a large behavior model that enables more natural-seeming movement and “emergent skills” in humanoid robots — Atlas, Boston Dynamics' dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward general-purpose robot algorithms.
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match employers to candidates with AI skills, and a certification program for teaching AI in the coming months — OpenAI plans to launch a new AI-powered jobs platform next year to help match employers with candidates who have artificial intelligence skills …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils Legion Go 2, with an 8.8" OLED screen and an AMD Ryzen Z2 or Z2 Extreme chip, arriving in October for $1,099+, or $400 more than the Legion Go — Bigger, heavier, almost certainly better. … Lenovo's Legion Go was a polarizing handheld gaming PC, and that won't change …
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Conversational AI company Cerence sues Apple in Texas over virtual keyboards and “Hey Siri” infringing its patents, saying it first contacted Apple in 2021 — Once part of Nuance Communications (which powered Siri's speech recognition in its early years), Cerence is now a subsidiary that … | Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
WBD files a copyright lawsuit that accuses Midjourney of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Superman and Batman — The lawsuit against Midjourney was filed as a growing contingent of Hollywood steps into the fight over generative artificial intelligence.
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| Katie Roof / The Information: |
Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received investment offers valuing it as high as $10B, just six months after raising $100M at a $2B valuation — The frothiness of the artificial intelligence boom is starting to look like 1999...or 2021. Startups are again receiving unsolicited … | Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
How Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack from Musk, conservative groups, the Trump administration, and other governments — WhenWhen armies invade, hurricanes form, or governments fall, a Wikipedia editor will typically update the relevant articles seconds after the news breaks.
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| Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: |
How Synthesia is combining AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent, intonation, and expressiveness preservation — Earlier this summer, I walked through the glassy lobby of a fancy office in London, into an elevator, and then along a corridor into a clean, carpeted room.
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| Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
ProRata.ai, which lets publishers embed custom AI search on their websites with a 50/50 revenue split, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total raised to $75M+ — - Existing investors Mayfield Fund, MVP Ventures, Revolution Ventures, SBI Investment, BOLD Capital, XPV-Exponential Ventures and Idealab Studio also participated.Sponsor Posts
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