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At a White House dinner, tech CEOs thanked Trump for promoting chip and AI investments, while Trump promised an easy energy permitting process for data centers — Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman salute president's leadership on innovation as industry seeks his favor
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Code.org, IBM, OpenAI, and other companies pledged new commitments for AI in education as part of Melania Trump's White House event — Teaching students AI literacy from an early age is key to American success, First Lady Melania Trump said at a White House event …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI is set to produce an AI chip co-designed with Broadcom, to ship in 2026, and has committed $10B in orders; the chip will only be used internally — ChatGPT maker's deal with US chip group signals industry shift towards custom alternatives to Nvidia
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $16B, vs. $15.8B est., AI revenue up 63% to $5.2B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; AVGO up 10%+ pre market — Broadcom Inc. is helping OpenAI design and produce an artificial intelligence accelerator from 2026, getting into a lucrative sphere dominated by Nvidia Corp.
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| Financial Times: |
Anthropic says it will stop selling AI services to majority Chinese-owned groups; a source says the policy is partly aimed at Chinese subsidiaries in Singapore — Policy will also apply to US adversaries including Russia, Iran and North Korea — Anthropic will stop selling artificial intelligence services … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: major design upgrades for the iPhone, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, three Apple Watch models, and the AirPods Pro 3 — Company is readying a slew of updated devices for the holidays. — Apple Inc.'s biggest product launch event of the year takes place …
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match employers with candidates with AI skills, and a certification program for AI roles in the coming months — OpenAI plans to launch a new AI-powered jobs platform next year to help match employers with candidates who have artificial intelligence skills …
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| Binaj Gurubacharya / Associated Press: |
Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after they failed to register with the government — Nepal's government said Thursday it is blocking most social media platforms including Facebook, X and YouTube because the companies failed …
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| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
WBD files a copyright lawsuit that accuses Midjourney of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Superman and Batman — The lawsuit against Midjourney was filed as a growing contingent of Hollywood steps into the fight over generative artificial intelligence.
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| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Researchers from UCL, Google DeepMind, and Intrinsic unveil RoboBallet, an AI system designed to help teams of industrial robots work together without colliding — System potentially allows machine troupes to work faster and reduce collisions — Scientists have used artificial intelligence …
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Conversational AI firm Cerence sues Apple in Texas for infringing patents tied to virtual keyboards and “Hey Siri”, says it raised the issues with Apple in 2021 — Once part of Nuance Communications (which powered Siri's speech recognition in its early years) …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by “hundreds of millions” — Bret Taylor's artificial intelligence startup Sierra has just joined an exclusive club: The company sports …
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
How Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack from Musk, conservative groups, the Trump administration, and other governments — WhenWhen armies invade, hurricanes form, or governments fall, a Wikipedia editor will typically update the relevant articles seconds after the news breaks.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, building upon the 500-character text limit for posts — Blogging is back. … Meta is adding a new feature to let you add a bunch of extra text to Threads posts — no screenshots of text blocks required.
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| Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
ProRata.ai, which lets publishers embed custom AI search on their sites with a 50/50 revenue share, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total raised to $75M+ — - Existing investors Mayfield Fund, MVP Ventures, Revolution Ventures, SBI Investment, BOLD Capital, XPV-Exponential Ventures and Idealab Studio also participated.| Will Knight / Wired: |
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute have developed a large behavior model that enables more natural movement and “emergent skills” in humanoid robots — Atlas, Boston Dynamics' dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward general-purpose robot algorithms.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils Legion Go 2, with an 8.8" screen and AMD Ryzen Z2 or Z2 Extreme chip, available in October, starting at $1,099, costing $400 more than Legion Go — Bigger, heavier, almost certainly better. … Lenovo's Legion Go was a polarizing handheld gaming PC, and that won't change …
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| Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: |
How Synthesia is combining multiple AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent preservation — Earlier this summer, I walked through the glassy lobby of a fancy office in London, into an elevator, and then along a corridor into a clean, carpeted room.| The Information: |
Source: Nvidia agreed to rent 10,000 of its own AI chips from Lambda for $1.3B over four years, the latest example of Nvidia's circular financial arrangements — A small cloud provider for artificial intelligence that's preparing to go public has secured a major boost from its most important supplier: Nvidia.
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| Katie Roof / The Information: |
Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received investment offers valuing it as high as $10B, just six months after raising $100M at a $2B valuation — The frothiness of the artificial intelligence boom is starting to look like 1999...or 2021. Startups are again receiving unsolicited … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is revamping its classic Poke feature to be easier to use and include gamification elements similar to Snapchat and TikTok as it courts younger users — Technically, the poke never really left Facebook. — The classic feature from Facebook's early days lets users get a friend's attention with a virtual nudge of sorts.
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