Apple reverses its plan to move iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses to private.icloud.com after user backlash; the feature will continue using the icloud.com domain  —  Apple today said it is reversing its decision and will not change the email domain used for the iCloud+ Hide My Email feature.

Nvidia says its inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has entered full production and Nebius has signed on as the first customer, and SpaceX will deploy Vera CPUs  —  Chipmaker Nvidia Corp. says its dedicated artificial intelligence inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has now entered full production …

Sources: Apple is about to launch a new Mac mini, potentially before its September iPhone event; Apple has tested versions with M5 and M6  —  Apple Inc. is gearing up to launch a new version of its Mac mini desktop computer for the first time in almost two years, according to people familiar with the matter.

Alabama AG Steve Marshall launches an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures following the Hugging Face breach in July  —  Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall launched an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures after one of its AI agents escaped a testing environment and hacked AI firm Hugging Face in July.

Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cyberattacks across many Chinese state-linked groups, primarily using open-weight models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek  —  Chinese hackers are ramping up attacks after integrating DeepSeek and other open-source artificial intelligence models into their operations …

Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June  —  Generalist has quietly raised around $200 million in new funding, just two months after the robotics AI startup raised $400 million.

Mercury Research: AMD's share of x86 client CPU shipments tops 30% for the first time, hitting 30.3% in Q2, up from 21.1% two years earlier, vs. Intel's 69.7%  —  For the first time, AMD's share of the x86 client CPU market, covering both mobile and desktop, has crossed 30% …

Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation; its revenue this year is estimated to reach $1.5B+  —  Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., is in talks to raise as much as $3 billion in a round that could tee …

The Trump administration proposes a $103,265 fee on H-1B applicants hired within the US after a court blocked a more limited fee on workers from outside the US  —  The Trump administration wants to add an expansive $100,000 fee on the H-1B program, applying it to individuals hired within …

Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export 74 high-end AI servers to China  —  Taiwan prosecutors said on Monday they had indicted nine people, including employees of Nvidia (NVDA.O) and Super Micro (SMCI.O) …

The UK backs Ofcom to take “tough action” under the OSA against social media sites failing to remove dangerous driving videos, after a crash killed seven people  —  Downing Street condemns ‘utterly disgraceful’ clips and says sites are legally obliged to take them down

Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in 2024  —  Optical interconnect startup Quintessent Inc. today announced that it has raised $40 million in funding to ramp up production of its hardware.

Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October  —  Meta Platforms plans to launch its consumer version of the OpenClaw AI agent, dubbed Hatch internally, as soon as the next several weeks …

Sources: smart ring maker Oura and some of its backers seek to raise up to $3B in a US IPO that could take place as soon as September and value it at over $16B  —  Oura Health Oy, a maker of smart rings that track health, fitness and sleep, and some of its backers are seeking to raise …

IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications  —  IBM is announcing today at the annual Hot Chips conference what may be the most consequential change to mainframe architecture in decades …

OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute  —  Following several weeks during which ChatGPT users were subject only to a weekly usage cap, OpenAI announced today that it is restoring …

Canada-based logistics software company Descartes acquires Tai, a California-based transportation management system provider, for $100M in cash  —  Logistics software giant Descartes has acquired transportation management system provider Tai for $100 million in cash, the companies announced today.