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Sources: OpenAI is recruiting from Apple's hardware, design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams, as it targets late 2026 or early 2027 for its first devices  —  As OpenAI's plans to make devices infused with its artificial intelligence get closer to reality, the company is increasingly plucking talent …
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Report: OpenAI has considered building glasses, a digital voice recorder, and a pin, and has signed a deal with Luxshare to assemble at least one of its devices  —  A few months ago, OpenAI teamed up with Jony Ive to build the next generation of AI-powered hardware, under the brand io.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mastodon, the nonprofit that maintains the social network, plans to offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations joining the fediverse  —  Mastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative to social networks like Threads and X …
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump claims he and Xi Jinping approved a deal for TikTok's US operations; Chinese media's readout only says that China respects the wishes of businesses  —  President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke about a TikTok deal Friday, but details on the social media platform's U.S. future remain unclear.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Sources: Nvidia is in advanced discussions to invest $500M in UK self-driving car startup Wayve, as part of a £2B pledge for UK startups; Wayve is evaluating  —  AI chipmaker's chief tells London audience that UK's first trillion-dollar company will be an AI business
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
Nvidia plans to invest £2B to support the UK's AI industry in partnership with Accel, Air Street Capital, Balderton Capital, Hoxton Ventures, and Phoenix Court
New York Times:
Inside xAI's chaotic summer: Musk reorganized xAI on the fly, researchers left because xAI abandoned science in favor of attention-grabbing products, and more  —  Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI.  The result was chaos.
Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg:
Neuralink plans a US clinical trial in October to test a brain implant that translates thoughts into text, hoping to put its device in a healthy person by 2030  —  Neuralink Corp., Elon Musk's brain implant company, plans to launch a clinical trial in the US in October aiming to use its device …
More: Inc.com
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demos of its new smart glasses were due to a self-inflicted DDoS and a bug that put Zuckerberg's glasses to sleep  —  Meta ran into some spectacularly embarrassing technical issues during the live demos of its new smart glasses this week, and now we know why.
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
The Ray-Ban Display glasses are Zuckerberg's latest attempt to reframe Meta, now on “personal superintelligence”, but they face tech and societal challenges
Bloomberg:
Meta files an application for authorization “to sell energy, capacity, and certain ancillary services” in the US amid rising energy demand for AI datacenters  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is pushing to break into the wholesale power-trading business so it can better manage the massive electricity needs of its data centers.
Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
The US DOJ charges a UK teen allegedly tied to Scattered Spider over 120+ cyberattacks and the UK charged him and another teen over a Transport for London hack  —  The 19-year-old is alleged to have extracted $115mn in ransom payments from victims  —  A British teenager has been charged …
Alex Wickham / Bloomberg:
MI6 launched Silent Courier, an online portal on the dark web and designed to let potential spies from Russia and elsewhere to send the agency messages securely  —  The UK's foreign intelligence service, MI6, launched a new online portal which it says will allow potential spies in Russia …
CNBC:
Sources: Nvidia spent $900M+ in cash and stock to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and others at the AI hardware startup and to license its GPU-connecting tech  —  Nvidia has just shelled out over $900 million to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and other employees at the artificial intelligence …

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From Mediagazer

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a major OpenAI client

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
President Trump told reporters “it's imperative” for CNN to be sold: “Any deal it should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it or sold separately”

Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:
Jack Posobiec, a new Pentagon press corps member, seems to be working in coordination with the Pentagon to threaten a journalist writing about a DoD official

More News

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt:
Canadian law enforcement seizes ~$40.5M in digital assets after shutting down the crypto exchange TradeOgre, making it Canada's biggest crypto seizure to date
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Notion launches customizable agents that can create documents and perform other actions in the background, and says it has passed $500M in annualized revenue

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
Netskope closes up 18.37% at $22.49 per share in its Nasdaq debut, giving it an $8.6B market value, after the cybersecurity company raised $908.2M in its IPO
Yusuf Khan / Wall Street Journal:
UK renewable energy startup Octopus Energy spins off its AI arm, Kraken, in what could create a standalone entity worth $15B; Octopus was last valued at $9B+
Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy / Sherwood News:
Rex-Osprey launches the first spot dogecoin and XRP ETFs in the US, after the SEC approved the Generic Listing Standards, paving the way for speedier listings
Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority:
Samsung rolls out a software update as part of a pilot to display promotions and ads on the Cover Screens of some $1,800+ Family Hub refrigerators in the US
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google unveils new AI features for Chrome, including a Gemini button and AI Mode for US desktop users, and plans to add agentic features in the next few months
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
The US FTC and seven states sue Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use of ticketing bots and large-scale resale operations
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