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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 — OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans.
More: OpenAI, Appleosophy, CNET, AppleInsider, The Verge, Digital Trends, Mashable, The Decoder, WeRSM, SiliconANGLE, MacRumors, iClarified, 9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, Engadget, RuntimeWire, Neowin, and Gizmodo
| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Microsoft is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions for the games users own; ads play “before sessions begin” — The free streaming option is still in testing, and limited to one-hour sessions for ‘select’ games.
More: XBOX Wire, Gizmodo, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Pure Xbox, Polygon.com, CNET, Dexerto, Digital Trends, Kotaku, Thurrott, Neowin, This Week in Videogames, PCMag, DayOne, VideoCardz.com, and GamesBeat
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter in a deal potentially worth around $10B; PitchBook: OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May — Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, a buzzy startup that helps developers choose between artificial intelligence models, according to people familiar with the matter.| Jack Ewing / New York Times: |
Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving — In a first, Apple Maps will influence the way a new line of electric vehicles made by Ford Motor operates, and other automakers may follow.
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LinkedIn: Moritz Gimbel and Anders Truelsen
Forums: r/cars, r/F150Lightning, and r/apple
| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Germany-based Black Forest Labs debuts Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models that can be used for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI — Black Forest Labs, a German artificial intelligence research lab, is trialing its first model that can be used in robotics …
More: Black Forest Labs, Black Forest Labs, Decrypt, The Decoder, VentureBeat, RuntimeWire, and Unite.AI
| Corbin Bolies / Variety: |
Patreon lays off 20% of its employees, or 93 people, citing a “painful” restructuring due to “profound” changes in the creator economy — Patreon, the creator-focused monetization platform, said on Thursday it was laying off 20% of its employees as it changed how its internal structure operates.
More: 404 Media, Engadget, Business Insider, San Francisco Business Times, TechCrunch, and The Wrap
| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD unveils the Venice-X CPU, with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and up to 5.15 GHz clock speeds, available in H2 2027 — It's the same cache amount and core count as Genoa-X, but with far faster cores. … AMD's Venice-X CPU is launching in the second half of 2027, the company revealed Thursday at its Advancing AI event.
More: The Register, GamesBeat, Wccftech, VideoCardz.com, TechCrunch, and The Deep View
| The Information: |
Amazon shutters its AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February — Amazon this week closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco-based research and product team that was developing software to improve the usefulness of AI agents, according to an Amazon spokesperson.
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $16.1B, vs. $14.42B est., its fastest sales growth in ~15 years on “unprecedented” demand; INTC jumps 10%+ after hours — Intel reported better-than-expected second-quarter results on Thursday, notching its fastest revenue growth rate … | The Information: |
Sierra acquires Takeoff, which develops “long-horizon” agents, for an undisclosed sum; founded in 2025, Takeoff neared $10M in annualized revenue in early July — In 2020, 22-year-old Aakash Thumaty was a product manager at Salesforce when he wrote an essay …
More: RuntimeWire
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion — Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT's voice mode, rival Anthropic is making …
More: The New Stack, Claude, The Verge, Engadget, RuntimeWire, The Deep View, Unite.AI, 9to5Mac, and CNET
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Google adds a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, using tools like liveness detection to safeguard against deepfake attacks, rolling out globally — The next time you're locked out of your Google account, you can use your face as part of the account recovery process.
More: Google, Ars Technica, Google Help Center, TechCrunch, CNET, Android Police, Engadget, Bloomberg, Techaeris, Fast Company, Dexerto, TechEBlog, Inc, BGR, and How-To Geek
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Tesla stock closed down 14.52% and Alphabet closed down 6.89% after they signaled increased AI spending, amid worries about the mounting costs of the AI boom — Shares of Alphabet and Tesla fell on Thursday after both companies signaled increased AI spending, unnerving investors worried … | Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models — This week, Trump administration officials have taken to the airwaves and X to blast Chinese open source AI companies like Moonshot … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft replaces OpenAI's image-generating models with its MAI models in its products; Mustafa Suleyman says MAI models are ~85% cheaper to run in PowerPoint — Microsoft Corp. is replacing OpenAI's image-generating models with its own technology in popular products like PowerPoint and Bing.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' “dystopian” ideas — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday laid out an optimistic view of the agentic future, arguing the company's focus …
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| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Filing: the value of Alphabet's investments in unidentified private companies was ~$124.3B as of June 30, source says driven primarily by its Anthropic stake — The value of Alphabet Inc.'s stake in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC has soared to around $124 billion … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tells third-party sellers to label product ads with AI-generated people to comply with a NY law requiring the disclosure of “synthetic performers” in ads — Amazon is requiring that third-party sellers label any product images or videos that contain “AI-generated people” …
Bluesky: @fckelnmskthnzbllnr
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Google says it has $811B in contracted future spending commitments as of June, up ~$500B from March, covering chips, data centers, electricity, and more — Alphabet Inc.'s Google had $811 billion in contracted future spending commitments at the end of June, up nearly $500 billion from just three months earlier.
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV — The Amazon Luna gaming platform, which had been included in the larger Prime offering, will now be baked into Prime Video too.
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| Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: |
Adam Mosseri says Instagram will now take down “pickup line” and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of other people in public places — Instagram is cracking down on videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of strangers in public places …
More: Mashable and Gizmodo
Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @vmcntosh, @davelee.me, @samleecole, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, and @katienotopoulos
Forums: r/inthenews, r/popculture, and r/Instagram
| Sam Meredith / CNBC: |
Ukraine ratchets up its attacks on warehouses of Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries, signaling a new phase in the war as it seeks to hamper Russia's economy — Ukraine has ratcheted up its attacks on Russia's Amazon-style retail giant Wildberries, signaling a new phase in the war as Kyiv seeks …
More: The Economist, The Kyiv Independent, ABC17NEWS, and Forbes
| Josh Boak / Associated Press: |
Trump says 200 additional stakeholders, including major utilities, joined a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high energy bills from AI data centers — President Donald Trump on Thursday had governors and electricity companies join a voluntary pledge to shield U.S. consumers …
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| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Singapore-based Ropedia, which captures real-world human experience via video and converts it into model-ready multimodal datasets, raised a $22M pre-Series A — Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced it raised $22 million in Pre-Series A funding …
More: Ropedia, The Robot Report, FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, Tech in Asia, and Ventureburn. X: @brianroemmele
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots — Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down from the top leadership post after nearly three decades, just as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots.
More: Reuters, CTech, The Times of Israel, RuntimeWire, and Globes
| Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: |
A Google study of millions of de-identified Google AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and AI use is “shallow” in most occupations — One of the looming worries about artificial intelligence is that it will automate away jobs.
More: Google, PPC, American Enterprise Institute, Telegraph, Allwork.Space, and Business Insider
LinkedIn: Ray Smith and Arthur Turrell
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX started turning away satellite operators seeking dedicated Falcon 9 rides beyond 2028, and stopped building some non-reusable Falcon components — SpaceX has started to turn away satellite operators seeking dedicated rides to orbit aboard its staple Falcon 9 rocket beyond 2028 … | Akanksha Khushi / Reuters: |
Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will close on September 23 and tells users to withdraw assets; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for not implementing AML rules — Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX said on Thursday that it will shut down its operations, effective September 23 …
More: BitMEX Blog, Cointelegraph, The Information, The Coin Republic, ZyCrypto, and Blockchain.News
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| Carly Page / The Register: |
GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-generated reports — Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven huntersSponsor Posts
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