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Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch has left to join Meta; he reportedly declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B+ package in August — Andrew Tulloch is the latest big-name AI researcher to join the social-media giant — A co-founder of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab …
More: The Information, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, and Channel NewsAsia
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple discontinues Clips, a video editing app it launched in 2017, removing it from the App Store for new users, and says Clips will no longer be updated — Apple has essentially discontinued Clips, its video-editing app designed to allow users to combine video clips, images …
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra 100% tariff on China, triggering $19.1B+ in liquidations, 10x+ the liquidations during the FTX crash — Trump's 100% tariff warning on China ignited a global sell-off that wiped out $16 billion in leveraged crypto longs and pushed Ethena's USDe to a rare sub-$1 print.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables browser notifications from websites users haven't interacted with recently, on Android and desktop — Google's Chrome web browser is about to become much less noisy. — On Friday, the technology giant announced a new feature …
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| Stephen Witt / New York Times: |
Interviews with security researchers about AI's potential for large-scale destruction, as experts remain divided and global regulatory frameworks lag — How much do we have to fear from A.I., really? It's a question I've been asking experts since the debut of ChatGPT in late 2022.
X: @dw2, @janzilinsky, @robinhanson, @yoshua_bengio, @stephenwitt, and @unplugaiuk
LinkedIn: Alec Crawford, Yoshua Bengio, and Jaime Yassif, Ph.D.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments, is in talks to go public via a SPAC started by Cantor Fitzgerald at a $1B+ valuation — Securitize, a blockchain firm that tokenizes investments, is in talks to go public via a blank-check company started by Cantor Fitzgerald LP … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's AI Mode and Google Lens, on Android in the US for those with an account opted into Search Lab — Nano Banana has been a hit in the Gemini app, and Google is now bringing the model's (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) … | Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
AMD's SVP of AI Vamsi Boppana says the company's AI software, designed with input from OpenAI, helped secure the multi-billion dollar deal with OpenAI — Chips aren't the only star of the massive agreement. AMD's software efforts have slowly turned it into a more formidable competitor to Nvidia.| Nikkei Asia: |
SEMI: US chip fab investment to outpace China, Taiwan, and South Korea from 2027, driven by AI demand and US policies, rising from $21B in 2025 to $43B in 2028 — PHOENIX, Arizona — U.S. semiconductor investment is set to outpace that of major chip economies China, Taiwan and South Korea … | Linda Yulisman / Rest of World: |
Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 — Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia's homegrown industry.
More: Los Angeles Times. X: @rinachandran and @alexnguyen65
Threads: @ben.makinen, @rebeltechx, and @restofworld
| Billy Perrigo / Time: |
A look at Figure AI's new robot, Figure 03, which the company claims will be its first mass-producible humanoid capable of domestic chores and industrial labor — A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company's Silicon Valley headquarters.
More: Dexerto, The Robot Report, and Inc.com
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
How TBPN's daily livestream became the preferred news show of tech insiders, as it taps into the “who's up, who's down” part of Silicon Valley culture — Inside a film studio lot in Hollywood on a Tuesday morning in August, Jordi Hays, a 29-year-old entrepreneur, ran into the frame of a live shot, waving a giant red flag.| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: in 2025, tech companies have raised about $157B in the US bond markets, up 70% from last year, as debt seeps into every corner of the AI economy — Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world.| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
An index of Chinese chip stocks is outperforming global peers, surging 50% since the end of June, amid rising investor caution about soaring valuations — China's chip stocks have staged a world-beating rally in the past few months on the nation's self-sufficiency push …
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