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Sources: OpenAI's restructuring, approved by California's AG, paves the way for an IPO as soon as 2027; Sam Altman says an IPO is likely but gave no timeframe — Company assured state officials that it would stay in California as it continues global expansion, which could include a public offering as soon as 2027
More: OpenAI, Financial Times, New York Times, International Business Times, WinBuzzer, and Benzinga
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Bloomberg: |
After Nvidia GTC, Jensen Huang says “I don't believe we're in an AI bubble” and that Nvidia expects to sell 20M Blackwell chips, up from 4M Hopper chips — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang announced a flurry of new partnerships and dismissed concerns about an AI bubble … | Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
Foxconn says it plans to deploy Nvidia's Isaac GR00T N model of humanoid robots at its factory in Houston, Texas, which produces AI servers for Nvidia — Foxconn (2317.TW), the world's largest electronics maker and Nvidia's (NVDA.O) key AI server maker, said on Tuesday it will deploy humanoid robots … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: Amazon makes “significant role reductions” to its game division and will cut down on big budget titles, as it focuses on Luna and casual games — Tech giant will reduce game development work and eliminate jobs — Amazon.com Inc. is gutting its video-game division …
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| The Verge: |
Grokipedia hands-on: many articles clone Wikipedia, but deviate significantly on topics conflicting with Elon Musk's worldview; at times, it is overtly racist — xAI's Wikipedia-like website offers a generous take on Musk's worldview. … On Monday, a new online “encyclopedia” sputtered to life.
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot, controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset, available now for preorder, with delivery expected in 2026 — 1X's Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $17.02B, below $17.22B est., and operating profit up 62% YoY to a record $7.92B, boosted by demand for its HBM chips — South Korea's SK Hynix on Wednesday posted record quarterly revenue and profit, boosted by a strong demand for its high bandwidth memory used in generative AI chipsets.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPad Air with OLED screens; the iPad mini will likely arrive first, as early as 2026 — Apple Inc. is preparing major changes to its MacBook Air, iPad mini and iPad Air lines, with a plan to give the popular devices higher-end displays.
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| Adobe Newsroom: |
A survey of 16K+ creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more — - 76 percent of creators say creative generative AI has helped grow their business and personal brand| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
GitHub updates VS Code with Plan Mode for building step-by-step project approaches, MCP Registry integration, definable project rules via AGENTS.md, and more — GitHub is making a bold bet that enterprises don't need another proprietary coding agent. They need a way to manage all of them.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models ranging from 350M to 1.5B parameters, designed to run on consumer hardware and even in web browsers — In an industry where model size is often seen as a proxy for intelligence, IBM is charting a different course … | OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-safeguard, its open-weight reasoning models for safety classification tasks, available in 120B and 20B parameters, under Apache 2.0 — New open safety reasoning models (120b and 20b) that support custom safety policies. — Today, we're releasing a research preview … | Corporate Europe Observatory: |
Big Tech's EU lobbying hit €151M in 2025, up from €113M in 2023 and €97M in 2021; between January and June 2025, Big Tech had 146 meetings with EU officials — The EU's digital rulebook is under unprecedented pressure from the Trump administration and a homegrown deregulation wave.| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, below $1.88B est., and says it will no longer issue forward-looking financial guidance due to its $55B sale — Along with the issuing of the financial details Tuesday, the maker of “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” “The Sims” and “Apex Legends” … | Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies are laying off tens of thousands of white collar workers, as executives hope AI can handle their workload — Layoffs at companies ranging from Amazon to Target are sending young and experienced workers alike into an unwelcoming market
More: Fortune, Axios, Business Insider, and Raw Story
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Forums: r/technology and r/jobs
| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after its acquisitions of Superhuman Mail in June and Coda in December 2024; the standalone writing tool Grammarly still exists — ChatGPT changed the game on Grammarly, but now it's adding more AI to pull users back into its sidebar.
More: 9to5Mac, Thurrott, San Francisco Business Times, SiliconANGLE, ZDNET, PCWorld, TechCrunch, and Fast Company
| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience — Advertisers are increasingly putting their digital ad spend into Reddit, drawn by the platform's growing audience and its influence …
X: @ellynbriggs and @trishlaostwal
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
USC sues Google in Texas federal court, alleging that Google Earth, Maps, and Google Street View violate its patents for overlaying 2D images onto 3D models — The University of Southern California has sued Google (GOOGL.O) in Texas federal court, alleging that the tech giant's Google Earth … | Politico: |
French lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation — PARIS — French lawmakers are moving ahead with plans to double a tax on big tech firms — backing away from a more aggressive push amid fears …
More: Bloomberg Law
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
All three major South Korean telcos, SK Telecom, KT Telecom, and now LG Uplus, have reported cybersecurity incidents to the government over the past six months — LG Uplus, one of the largest telecom operators in South Korea, has confirmed to TechCrunch that it has reported a suspected data breach …
More: The Korea Herald and Korea Joongang Daily
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Celebrity video shoutout app Cameo sues OpenAI for trademark infringement, alleging Sora's “cameo” feature is likely to cause confusion and dilute its brand — The maker of celebrity video platform Cameo sued OpenAI in a California federal court on Tuesday, arguing that the new … Sponsor Posts
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