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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing upgraded App Intents with Uber, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, WhatsApp, and other apps to transform Siri into a true voice-first interface — Apple's upcoming voice-control feature for the new Siri could be an under-the-radar hit — if it works.
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, Wccftech, Cult of Mac, and The Mac Observer
| Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg: |
Bo Hines, the head of the White House Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, says he is stepping down and returning to the private sector — Bo Hines, the head of the White House Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, said he was stepping down and returning to the private sector.
More: Cointelegraph, Reuters, crypto.news, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, DL News, Bitcoin Insider, Cryptonews, Crypto Briefing, Blockonomi, The Hill, and The Block
X: @bohines, @silvermanjacob, @sriramk, and @davidsacks47
| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese officials have urged the Trump administration to relax HBM chip export controls during trade talks, after the Biden administration ban in 2024 — Experts warn dropping restrictions would give Beijing a competitive advantage in artificial intelligence
More: Gizmodo, Semafor, CNBC, Taipei Times, Tech in Asia, RTHK, Channel NewsAsia, Implicator.ai, and Wccftech
X: @jukanlosreve and @rwang07
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Copilot 3D, a free AI-powered tool allowing users to transform 2D images into 3D models without a text prompt, available in Copilot Labs — Copilot 3D can convert 2D images into 3D models that can be used in design tools. … It's a free-to-use feature …
More: Copilot Labs, Thurrott, Windows Report, Neowin, Windows Central, and The Indian Express
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
CS grads struggle to land jobs as tech companies lay off workers and embrace AI; CS majors face a 6.1% unemployment rate in the US among grads aged 22 to 27 — Manasi Mishra recently graduated from Purdue University with a degree in computer science.Madeleine Hordinski for The New York Times
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Threads: @alexia and @carnage4life
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| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Coding bootcamps, a Silicon Valley mainstay for over a decade, are facing decline as AI eliminates the kind of entry-level roles for which they trained people — Coding bootcamps have been a mainstay in Silicon Valley for more than a decade. Now, as AI eliminates the kind of entry-level roles … | Stevie Bonifield / PC Gamer: |
AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers “in the low thousands” in 2021 — Dial-up's days are numbered, after 34 years of service. — On September 30, AOL's dial-up hold-outs will need to finally move on to another internet service.
More: AOL Help, Tom's Hardware, AppleInsider, ISPreview UK, TheGamer, New York Sun, PCMag, XDA Developers, twitchy.com, and OSnews
Bluesky: @mranthropology, @jswatz, and @twoyutes. Mastodon: @chris@mastodon …. Threads: @petershankman
X: @anothercohen, @morningbrew, and @stevecase
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Hands-on with Alexa+: fun to talk to and good at handling multistep requests, but it is buggy, unreliable, and worse at some basic tasks than the original Alexa — Alexa+ processes language in a more fluid way. Users can speak to it as they would to a human.Graham Dickie/The New York Times
More: Implicator.ai, 9to5Mac, and About Amazon
| New York Times: |
An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and ChatGPT shows how chatbots can lead ordinarily rational people to spiral into delusion — Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero.
More: Futurism, Links I Would Gchat …, The Verge, Implicator.ai, Moneycontrol, and Ubergizmo
Bluesky: @doubleemmartin, @jmberger.com, @normative, @gilduran.com, @beijingpalmer, @bosh.worstpossible.world, @kashhill, and @zachseward.com. Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon …. Threads: @alexia
LinkedIn: Helen Toner, Dylan Freedman, and Kashmir Hill
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/technology, and r/Longreads
| Bloomberg: |
Investors are increasingly divesting from companies they fear are at risk of AI disruption, like Wix and Shutterstock, which are down at least 30% in 2025 — Artificial intelligence's imprint on US financial markets is unmistakable. Nvidia Corp. is the most valuable company in the world at nearly $4.5 trillion.
More: Benzinga
| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on GPT-5, its dynamic reasoning, defining AGI, scaling vs. post-training, hallucinations, enterprise adoption, and more — A conversation about what OpenAI's long-anticipated flagship model tells us about different forms intelligence and AI's trajectory from here.
More: Business Insider, PhoneArena, and Bloomberg
| Bloomberg: |
AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits — At a rooftop bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side, roughly 150 quant researchers met with employees at the artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic …
More: Financial Times. Bluesky: @niedermeyer.online and @parsnip
X: @iaindunning, @daniellefong, and @brunellaism
| New York Times: |
A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from Trump for his money-laundering charges, including via lobbying and a business deal with the Trump family — A sophisticated operation is pushing President Trump to forgive Changpeng Zhao, which would boost the chances for his company, Binance, to break into the U.S. market.
More: Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Joe.My.God.
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Advocates for net neutrality say they won't appeal a ruling against the policy, saying they don't trust the US Supreme Court to rule fairly on the issue — Advocacy groups that tried to defend federal net neutrality rules in court won't file an appeal, saying they don't trust the Supreme Court to rule fairly on the issue.
More: Free Press Action Fund Feed and MediaPost
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