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At a White House event, Apple commits to spending another $100B on US manufacturing and unveils a new program to bring more of its supply chain to the US — Apple Inc. committed to spending another $100 billion on domestic manufacturing ahead of an event with President Donald Trump …
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| Apple: |
Apple commits $2.5B to produce all iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass at Corning's Kentucky facility, part of its plan to invest $600B in the US over four years — The new $2.5 billion commitment from Apple is part of the company's expanded plan to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years
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| Bloomberg: |
President Trump says he will impose a “tariff of approximately 100% on chips and semiconductors”, exempting firms like Apple that “committed to build” in the US — Donald Trump declared plans to slap a 100% tariff on semiconductor imports yet promised to exempt companies …
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Google unveils a Guided Learning mode within its Gemini chatbot to help students and commits $1B over three years to AI education and training efforts in the US — Just in time for the new school year, Google has introduced a tool called Guided Learning within its Gemini chatbot.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google launches its asynchronous coding agent Jules out of beta, with a free plan capped at 15 daily tasks and higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra users — Google on Wednesday launched its AI coding agent, Jules, out of beta, just over two months after its public preview debut in May.
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $3.1B, vs. $3.03B est., Q3 outlook above est., warns growth rates may not keep up this year; ABNB drops 6%+ — Airbnb Inc. issued a better-than-expected outlook for the third quarter as it saw encouraging summer travel demand, but warned that growth rates …
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| Juveria Tabassum / Reuters: |
DoorDash reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $3.28B vs. $3.16B est., total orders up 20%, and forecasts Q3 gross order value above est.; DASH jumps 8%+ — DoorDash (DASH.O) forecast third-quarter gross merchandise value above Wall Street expectations after topping estimates on Wednesday …
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| Liz Reid / The Keyword: |
Google says total organic click volume from Search to websites is “relatively stable year-over-year” and it is sending “slightly more quality clicks” than 2024 — We continue to send billions of clicks to the web every day and are committed to prioritizing the web in our AI experiences in Search.
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| Bloomberg: |
A US jury finds Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm guilty of conspiring to run an unlicensed money-transfer operation that laundered $1B+ via Tornado Cash — A co-founder of Tornado Cash was convicted of conspiring to run an unlicensed money-transfer operation that laundered …
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| Laura Benitez / Bloomberg: |
Apollo Global agrees to acquire a majority stake in Stream Data Centers, which builds, leases, and operates data center campuses, in its first such acquisition — Takeaways by Bloomberg AI — Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI is offering ChatGPT Enterprise to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 per year, to boost its adoption after the GSA approved OpenAI as a vendor — OpenAI is providing access to its ChatGPT product to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 a year as part of a push to get its AI chatbot more widely adopted.
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| Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
Trump Media says it is beta testing Truth Search AI, a new search feature powered by Perplexity, on the web version of Truth Social — Donald Trump's media company is teaming up with Perplexity to bring AI search to Truth Social, the President's X.com alternative.
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| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Lyft reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $1.59B vs. $1.61B est., gross bookings up 12% to $4.5B, rides up 14% to 234.8M vs. 235.9M est.; LYFT drops 4%+ — Lyft (LYFT.O) missed second-quarter revenue estimates on Wednesday, pressured by mounting competition from Uber and softening U.S. travel demand … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The NHTSA certifies Amazon's Zoox self-driving vehicles for demonstration use and closes a probe from 2022 into whether they complied with federal requirements — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday it has certified Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) self-driving unit Zoox vehicles …
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| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
Rillet, which is building AI ledger software to automate accounting tasks, raised a $70M Series B co-led by a16z and Iconiq, a source says at a ~$500M valuation — Rillet, a startup developing AI-powered accounting software, has raised $70 million in a fundraise co-led by venture capital … | John Collison / Cheeky Pint: |
Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Anthropic's growth to ~$5B in ARR, focusing on B2B, AI talent wars, open-source models, safety regulations, and more — Dario Amodei joins John Collison to talk about Anthropic's growth to almost $5 billion in ARR, how AI models show capitalistic impulses … | Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Senator Tom Cotton sends a letter to Intel's board chair with questions about CEO Lip-Bu Tan's China ties and subpoenas during his tenure as Cadence Design CEO — U.S. Republican Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter to Intel's (INTC.O) board chair on Wednesday with questions about the chipmaker's …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers show how a weakness in OpenAI's Connectors let sensitive data be extracted from a Google Drive account using an indirect prompt injection attack — Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI's Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services …
More: Zenity on YouTube, Zenity Labs, and Embrace The Red
| Politico: |
Sources: the US federal judiciary's electronic case filing system was hit in a sweeping hack, potentially compromising the identities of confidential informants — It is not immediately clear who is behind the hack, though nation-state-affiliated actors are widely suspected, the people said.
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| Alex Riehl / BetaKit: |
Toronto-based Blue J, which provides AI-powered tax research software, raised a $122M Series D led by Oak HC/FT and Sapphire Ventures at a $300M+ valuation — Funding to bolster Toronto startup's team expansion, product development, and market reach. — Toronto-based Blue J … | Will Knight / Wired: |
Sources: NIST withheld publishing an AI safety report and several other AI documents at the end of Biden's term to avoid clashing with the Trump administration — The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump's second term … | Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple lost around a dozen of its AI staff, including top researchers, to rivals in recent months; its core foundation models team has ~50 to 60 people — The iPhone maker has lost around a dozen of its AI staff to rivals since the start of the year| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney says it is “fully integrating” Hulu into Disney+, plans to launch a “unified” Disney+ and Hulu app in 2026 and migrate Hulu's live TV subscribers to Fubo — Hulu will replace the Star brand on Disney+ internationally this fall
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| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM — The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, represent a major shift for the AI company. — OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models in over five years.
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