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August 25, 2026, 6:20 PM
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Apple:
Apple unveils a Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, up to 4x faster AI performance, and up to 2x faster storage and graphics, for $899+ with M6 and $1,699+ with M5 Pro  —  Mac mini delivers up to 4x faster AI performance, up to 2x faster graphics and storage, along with enhanced connectivity — all in its ultracompact footprint
Apple:
Apple unveils a Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, up to 4.3x faster AI performance, up to 1.8x faster graphics, and up to 512GB of unified memory for $2,499+  —  Apple's most powerful Mac raises the bar for local AI with up to 4.3x faster performance, more advanced graphics, up to 512GB of unified memory, and extensive connectivity
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Apple unveils M6, a 2nm chip with a 12-core CPU and GPU, and up to 32GB of unified memory, saying it provides “the world's fastest single-threaded performance”  —  Apple is introducing the M6 chip with a new Mac Mini.  It's also launching a new M5 Ultra alongside an upgraded Mac Studio.
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Apple says M5 Ultra uses a quad-die 3nm architecture, “a first for Apple silicon”, with inter-die bandwidth of 4.4TB/s+ and up to a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU
Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal:
Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are $899+ and $1,699+, $100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is $5,499+, up $200
Emma Roth / The Verge:
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency than Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T  —  Jalapeño outperformed Nvidia's superchips on an AI inference benchmark test.
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A detailed look at Jalapeño, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-weight models  —  OpenAI's self-designed ASIC compared with Rubin, Jalapeño's TCO, throughput per MW, and spicy deets
Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019  —  The AI startup is likely to top SpaceX's eye-popping potential revenue estimate  —  SpaceX's record-breaking IPO tested the limits of an obscure financial metric.
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus  —  Chris Malone joins a string of recent high-level executive departures as the AI giant heads toward an IPO and ramps up its spending on computing power
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform running fully on-device with zero token costs, starting with Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX Linux PCs  —  Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic “Computer” platform that runs entirely …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp upgrades its two-step verification, letting users replace the six-digit PIN with a longer alphanumeric password, and adds support for multiple passkeys  —  WhatsApp announced Tuesday that it's launching new security features and updates to help users keep their accounts secure …
Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:
An ex-Meta staffer testified that less than 1% of teens used Instagram's opt-in “Take a Break” tool when it launched; the feature is now on by default for teens  —  A former data scientist at Meta Platforms Inc. testified that less than 1% of teenagers were early adopters …
Adamya Sharma / Android Authority:
Google is rolling out Motion Assist, a feature to reduce motion sickness by showing visual cues on the screen, to Android 17, starting with select Pixel devices  —  Pixel phones appear to be the first devices to get Google's Motion Assist feature.  —  • … TL;DR
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Asus opens pre-orders for the standalone Xbox Ally X20 at $1,300+, with shipments from October 15; a $2,500 bundle includes the X20 and ROG Xreal R1 glasses  —  Is the best handheld screen worth an extra $300 to you? … The Asus Xbox Ally X20 looked like it could be one of the best handheld gaming PCs yet …
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Claude chat and Cowork now share one memory system.  — Memory updates as you chat, with sensitive-data controls.
Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
The EPA plans to eliminate a federal rule that US states must publicize and solicit public input on air pollution permit applications for data centers  —  Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects.
Aaron Tilley / The Information:
Tim Cook is set to step down on September 1, and a source says Apple hosted an intimate farewell party; sources say Cook's assistant will work with John Ternus  —  Next Tuesday, Tim Cook will officially pass the baton as Apple CEO to his successor, John Ternus.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil the $250 Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety band, set to ship in early 2027  —  Luffu, a new startup from Fitbit's co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman, on Tuesday launched Luffu Link …
Skild AI:
Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning  —  UNSEEN TASKS10-MINUTE HORIZONSONE VIDEO PROMPTNO POST-TRAINING  —  The evolution of language modeling provides a blueprint …
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey  —  Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) on Tuesday expanded its Gemini Enterprise artificial intelligence platform with new tools for lawyers and law firms …
Sri Muppidi / New York Times:
Emerald AI, which uses AI to optimize data center power consumption based on grid demands, raised $150M led by DCVC and Energize Capital at a $1.05B valuation  —  Emerald AI, now valued at $1.05 billion, uses software to keep power demand at the computing facilities from getting out of control.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Former hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller says he used AI to write a WSJ op-ed, likening it to using a calculator for math problems

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Cam Wilson / ABC:
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