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xAI launches Grok Code Fast 1, a “speedy and economical” agentic coding model, available for free for a limited time on GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, more — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, on Thursday released a new “speedy and economical” agentic coding model … | Financial Times: |
Intel CFO says the US deal aims to deter Intel from selling its foundry; it lets the US buy 5% more at $20/share if Intel's stake in the unit falls below 51% — US chipmaker has faced pressure to sell lossmaking foundry business struggling to compete with TSMC
More: Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Reuters, Proactive, The Straits Times, TipRanks Financial, and Oregonian
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Intel CFO David Zinser says the company received $5.7B from the US government on Wednesday evening; the White House says the deal is still “being ironed out” — Intel CFO David Zinser said that the semiconductor giant received $5.7 billion from the U.S. government on Wednesday evening.| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in under a second on a single GPU, and a text model called MAI-1-preview — On Thursday, Microsoft announced two powerful AI models it built that it says perform at the level of the world's top offerings … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Dell reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $29.78B, vs. $29.17B est., and forecasts Q3 EPS of $2.45, below $2.55 est.; DELL drops 5%+ after hours — Despite beating on its top and bottom lines, shares of Dell Technologies fell more than 5% Thursday in extended trading after giving third-quarter … | Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI makes its Realtime API generally available with features like MCP support and debuts gpt-realtime, its most advanced speech-to-speech model, in the API — - OpenAI's Realtime API is now optimized and generally available. — You can try its latest speech-to-speech model, got-realtime.
More: OpenAI, Implicator.ai, The Decoder, Inc, and WinBuzzer
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic requires users to accept new terms by September 28, including choosing whether new chats and coding sessions can be used to train AI models — Today, we're rolling out updates to our Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy that will help us deliver even more capable, useful AI models.
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| Bloomberg: |
The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini — The US government on Thursday began distributing gross domestic product data on public blockchains, marking the latest Trump administration endorsement of the crypto industry.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Filing: credit reporting giant TransUnion discloses a data breach affecting 4.4M+ customers' personal info but claims “no credit information was accessed” — Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers' personal information.
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| Emily Brooks / The Hill: |
Two House Republicans open a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias into Wikipedia, citing an ADL report about anti-Israel bias on the site — Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias …
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| Everything Typepad: |
Typepad is shutting down on September 30, and users' “account and all related services will be permanently deactivated”; users can export content before then — We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025. What Does This Mean for You?
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers, dropping the Game Pass Ultimate requirement, and tests more PC game access — Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers are also getting access to some PC games.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Trump's threat of “substantial” tariffs on countries imposing digital taxes came after Zuckerberg raised concerns about the taxes in a private meeting — President Donald Trump threatened to inflict “substantial” tariffs on countries that impose digital taxes just days …
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| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress says the US hasn't outlined its plan for a 15% China commission, Nvidia won't pay until it has it, and it can sell AI chips without it — An unconventional plan by the Trump administration to charge a 15% commission on Nvidia Corp. AI chip sales to China … | Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: |
Sources: Meta aims to launch its next-gen Llama AI model, Llama 4.X, by the end of 2025; the TBD team developing Llama 4.X is also trying to fix Llama 4 bugs — - Meta aims to release its next AI model, Llama 4.X, by year-end, according to two sources. — The release of Llama 4 models …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Samsung rolls out Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in its 2025 lineup of TVs and monitors, letting users ask for movie suggestions, plot recaps, and more — An animated version of the AI assistant can provide movie recommendations or summarize the latest episode of your favorite show.
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| Hans Nichols / Axios: |
In a letter, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail; Google says its spam filters are not biased — The Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission is warning Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail …
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| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 33% YoY to $876.4M, above $837M est., GMV up 43% to $10.4B, and EPS of $0.20, above $0.12 est.; AFRM jumps 13%+ after hours — The buy now, pay later company saw gross merchandise volume at its top five merchants and platform partners increasing 41%
More: MarketWatch, CNBC Television on YouTube, and Affirm
| Reuters: |
Didi reports Q2 revenue up 10.9% YoY to ~$7.8B, overseas revenue up 28% YoY, and a ~$350M net loss, driven by a one-off ~$740M charge in a shareholder lawsuit — Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global reported on Thursday a second-quarter net loss of 2.5 billion yuan ($350 million) …
More: Bloomberg and The Business Times
| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Maisa AI, which offers an enterprise agentic automation service that uses a proprietary system to limit hallucinations, raised a $25M seed led by Creandum — A staggering 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, according to a recent report published by MIT's NANDA initiative.
More: SiliconANGLE, The American Bazaar, Pulse 2.0, Unite.AI, EU-Startups, Maisa AI, and Tech in Asia. Forums: r/technology
| Yueqi Yang / The Information: |
Rain, a stablecoin-backed Visa card issuer, raised a $58M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures, after raising a $24.5M Series A led by Norwest in March — Rain, a stablecoin-backed card issuer that works with Visa, said it raised $58 million in Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures …
More: Rain, AlleyWatch, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, The Block, VC News Daily, Venture Capital Journal, and The Defiant
| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Apple says the UK CMA's proposed “EU-style” regulation is “bad for users and bad for developers”, “undermines” privacy and security, and “hampers” innovation — Apple has warned that “EU-style rules” proposed by the UK competition watchdog “are bad for users and bad for developers”.| Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Pixel Care+, replacing Preferred Care and Fi Device Protection in the US, with upgrades but slightly higher pricing than the previous offering — Google's post-purchase support for Pixel has never been fantastic — a quick glance at r/GooglePixel will make that abundantly clear … Sponsor Posts
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