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| Diana Olick / CNBC: |
CBRE: NYC becomes the top tech talent market for the first time with 394,300 jobs, beating the Bay Area's 375,730, amid SF job cuts and NYC finance sector hires — It should come as no surprise that the number of artificial intelligence-specific tech workers is growing rapidly …
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| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it “the largest ever by a Korean company” — Samsung Electronics has announced a shareholder return package, marking a blockbuster week for shareholder returns …
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| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests — DeepSeek unveiled an experimental AI model that can understand visual prompts, saying the tool nears the performance of an advanced model by US rival Anthropic PBC.
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| Financial Times: |
A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services — Some drivers are considering skulduggery in an attempt to show the limits of autonomous vehicles.
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LinkedIn: Daniel Rosenband, Jyotika Athavale, Paul Cho, Michael Kuperstein, and Satish Jeyachandran
| CNBC: |
How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho: new millionaires, job growth, traffic, soaring housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution — Dave Petso has been a wealth manager in Boise, Idaho since the 1980s. His business has survived multiple recessions …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI debuts an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT Work and Codex read, search, and analyze chats, draft and send messages, and more — Well, this seems interesting. ChatGPT's latest update adds a new Mac integration: the ability to work with conversations from Apple's Messages app.
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Rider Harris, Karina Taveras, and Taylor Lorenz
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition — Nvidia Corp. is in early discussions with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about possible collaborations … | Kristin Robinson / Billboard: |
Email: Apple Music tells industry partners that songs tagged as “materially generated using AI” by content providers will be visibly labeled on the service — The news builds on Apple's recent announcement of AI Transparency Tags for songs. Now, the service will soon make those disclosures visible to users.| Newcomer: |
Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive $6B Nvidia licensing deal; Nvidia invested $1B at a $12B pre-money valuation and offered jobs to 109 Poolside employees — EXCLUSIVE TO NEWCOMER: Poolside AI, the artificial intelligence model-building startup, has struck a non-exclusive licensing deal …
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M — Starcloud, a startup developing satellites that can perform AI inference in orbit, told TechCrunch that it has added a $250 million extension to its March $170 million Series A funding round.
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| Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center — An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability. — On August 17, GitHub experienced an outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise $60B+ in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies — Broadcom Inc. is in talks with a group of lenders to raise more than $60 billion in debt for an AI chip financing deal … | Reuters: |
Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a new company tentatively named KakaoAI, which it expects to relist in Korea in 2027 — South Korea's dominant chat app operator Kakao Corp (035720.KS) said on Friday it plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business …
| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
China grants Geely a two-year permit for the country's first private satellite IoT trial, letting Geely offer connectivity to sectors like transport and energy — Geespace secures a two-year satellite IoT trial from MIIT, the first approval for a private Chinese firm
More: CnEVPost
| Reuters: |
Filings: China-based chipmaker YMTC's application to list its shares on Shanghai's STAR Market has been accepted, setting the stage for a $4.9B share sale — China's leading flash memory chipmaker YMTC plans to raise 33 billion yuan ($4.91 billion) in its Shanghai IPO …
More: Reuters and Caixin Global
| Dawn Kopecki / Reuters: |
How crypto, AI, and online betting companies emerged as the biggest industries shaping the 2026 US midterm races, as corporate spending reaches a record $517M — A handful of billionaires and companies are driving corporate spending in U.S. midterm elections this year …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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