A short video in Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence and Siri  —  Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate.

Opening arguments begin on Tuesday in the US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be “astronomical”  —  If New Mexico created the blueprint for taking on Meta, California could determine the company's fate when it comes …

Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May, $19B in March, $9B in December 2025, and $4B in July 2025  —  Anthropic PBC is on track to generate annualized revenue of more than $65 billion based on its current performance, according to people familiar …

Sources: the US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies  —  Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of a Justice Department antitrust probe over whether its investment partners …

Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more  —  Cursor can now host your code.  —  Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all paid plans.

BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023  —  The rapid growth of pay-later loans raises questions about whether their popularity is driven by consumer preference or desperation.

David Sacks says “Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize” after Amodei shared policy ideas  —  Some thoughts on Dario's post: 1. Dario does not actually address Gavin Baker's account of what he said - something he could easily deny if it were inaccurate. 2. Dario claims his critics live in a “bubble” where all regulation equals regulatory capture. He calls this an overly

Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals  —  Baidu Inc.'s revenue fell for a fifth consecutive quarter, reflecting a weakening position in ads as well as AI development against rivals like Moonshot.

YouTube plans to start counting a view as soon as a video plays from August 24, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos  —  By tracking views from the instant a video starts to play, YouTube's new counter works more like TikTok, X, and Instagram.

Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch  —  Congressional lawyers are struggling to manage a flood of legislative proposals generated using artificial intelligence tools …

AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July  —  Etched, founded by Harvard dropouts, has its own in-office data center and has signed quant-trading firm Jane Street as its first customer.

Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts  —  Operation Blue Skies is the world's first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace …

Sources: Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel phone, smartwatch, and wireless earbud manufacturing out of China in 2027 amid US-China tensions  —  TAIPEI — Google has told suppliers it plans to have all of its Pixel smartphones, watches and wireless earbuds produced outside …

Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android  —  Reddit's latest experiment creates videos with AI voices reading posts and comments out loud.

Sources: China orders some state-linked entities to uninstall a government-tailored version of Windows 10, ahead of its February 2027 retirement timeline  —  China is pulling the plug on an older version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows tailored for government agencies, taking another step toward rooting …

Sources: Situational Awareness offered part of its $5B Anthropic stake at a 20% discount as it scrambled for cash; word of its trouble left it “being hunted”  —  From whispers of an Anthropic stake sale to strange options moves, traders sensed trouble and swung into action

OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center  —  Agreement with SoftBank's SB Energy caps weeks of negotiations over the largest data-center project announced to date