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Sources: the Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of ~10% in Intel, converting some or all of Intel's $10.9B CHIPS Act grants into equity — The Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of about 10% in Intel Corp., according to a White House official …
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Bluesky: @paulsemenza. Threads: @tomgara. X: @patrickmoorhead, @stevesi, @scottlincicome, and @hedgedirty. LinkedIn: Patrick Moorhead
Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/DeepStateCentrism, r/wallstreetbets, and r/intelstock
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service will get RTX 5080 GPUs in September, letting users of its $20/month Ultimate tier stream in 5K at up to 120fps — It'll support up to 5K at 120fps and DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation. — NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service is leveling …
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X: @lessin, @comcast, @maxwinebach, @tomwarren, and @nvidiagfn
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Texas AG Ken Paxton probes Meta and Character.AI over claims they deceptively market chatbots as mental health tools, misleading kids and other vulnerable users — Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for … | Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.54B, vs. $2.5B est., and Q1 and FY 2026 guidance above estimates; PANW jumps 4%+ after hours — Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected quarterly results and issued upbeat guidance for the current period.| Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: |
Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires and steps down as CTO and board member; Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich becomes CTO and joins the board — Cybersecurity company says Nir Zuk has also stepped down as a board member and will be succeeded as CTO by Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich
More: MarketWatch and Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Google increases its stake in bitcoin miner and datacenter operator TeraWulf from 8% to 14%, bringing its total investment to ~$3.2B; WULF jumps 10%+ — TeraWulf stock rallied more than 4% after Google hiked its stake in the bitcoin miner and data center operator as it funds an expansion of its Lake Mariner, New York, facility.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Grok's website is exposing the underlying prompts for its AI personas, including one for a “crazy conspiracist” persona that spends “a lot of time on 4chan” — The website for Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is exposing the underlying prompts for a wealth of its AI personas …
More: Social Media Today and TechCrunch
Bluesky: @brasidas, @seanokane, @emanuelmaiberg, and @josephcox
X: @whoisgallifrey and @xlr8harder
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Source: Arm has hired Amazon AI chip director Rami Sinno to help develop its own chips; he previously worked on Amazon's Trainium and Inferentia chips — Arm Holdings has hired Amazon.com (AMZN.O) artificial intelligence chip director Rami Sinno to bolster its plans to develop its own complete chips …
More: Benzinga
| Katelyn Chedraoui / CNET: |
Google says users created 100M videos using its AI filmmaking tool Flow since its May launch; Flow leverages Veo 3 and focuses on maintaining visual consistency — Google confirmed the 100 million milestone exclusively to CNET. Here's what's coming next for Flow and its AI-assisted creators.| Kia Kokalitcheva / PitchBook: |
American Exceptionalism Acquisition, a SPAC led by Chamath Palihapitiya, files for a US IPO, seeking to raise $250M — Silicon Valley investor Chamath Palihapitiya has filed documents with the SEC for a new special purpose acquisition company, this time mainly focused on energy, AI, decentralized finance and defense.
More: Form S-1, MarketWatch, and Crypto Briefing
| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Sources: Anthropic asked Menlo to use the VC firm's own capital for investment in the startup and not an SPV, as Menlo did in a previous funding round — - Anthropic is raising about $5 billion at a $170 billion valuation, BI confirmed. — The AI startup is being picky about the types …
Bluesky: @edzitron.com. X: @michlimlim, @jason, @thebenbergman, @bgurley, @thebenbergman, @saranormous, and @davemcclure
| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Blockchain-based lender Figure files for a US IPO, reporting H1 revenue up 22.4% YoY to $191M and a profit of $29M, compared with a loss of $13M in H1 2024 — Figure Technology Solutions' revenue surged 22% in the first half of 2025, the blockchain lender disclosed on Monday … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson, who joined in 1988 and became the company's first CSO, is leaving as part of a recent reorganization — Oracle Corp.'s longtime chief security officer, one of the highest ranking women in the cybersecurity industry …
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
HR giant Workday says hackers stole an unspecified amount of personal information, such as names and email addresses, from one of its third-party CRM platforms — Workday, one of the largest providers of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breach that allowed hackers …
More: Workday Blog, BleepingComputer, Gizmodo, Engadget, Tech in Asia, Livemint, The Register, The Record, TechInformed, TechRadar, Entrepreneur, Security Affairs, and Cyber Security News
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