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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple reverses its plan to move iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses to private.icloud.com after user backlash; the feature will continue using the icloud.com domain  —  Apple today said it is reversing its decision and will not change the email domain used for the iCloud+ Hide My Email feature.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia says its inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has entered full production and Nebius has signed on as the first customer, and SpaceX will deploy Vera CPUs  —  Chipmaker Nvidia Corp. says its dedicated artificial intelligence inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has now entered full production …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is about to launch a new Mac mini, potentially before its September iPhone event; Apple has tested versions with M5 and M6  —  Apple Inc. is gearing up to launch a new version of its Mac mini desktop computer for the first time in almost two years, according to people familiar with the matter.
Cassandre Coyer / Bloomberg Law:
Alabama AG Steve Marshall launches an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures following the Hugging Face breach in July  —  Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall launched an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures after one of its AI agents escaped a testing environment and hacked AI firm Hugging Face in July.
Dan Primack / Axios:
Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June  —  Generalist has quietly raised around $200 million in new funding, just two months after the robotics AI startup raised $400 million.
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Mercury Research: AMD's share of x86 client CPU shipments tops 30% for the first time, hitting 30.3% in Q2, up from 21.1% two years earlier, vs. Intel's 69.7%  —  For the first time, AMD's share of the x86 client CPU market, covering both mobile and desktop, has crossed 30% …
Andrew Kreighbaum / Bloomberg:
The Trump administration proposes a $103,265 fee on H-1B applicants hired within the US after a court blocked a more limited fee on workers from outside the US  —  The Trump administration wants to add an expansive $100,000 fee on the H-1B program, applying it to individuals hired within …
Reuters:
Unitree shares fell 45% after surging more than 5x in their August 19 Shanghai debut, cutting its valuation from $66B to $36B, raising robotics bubble concerns  —  A roughly 45% slump in the shares of Unitree, China's best-known humanoid robot maker, since a more than fivefold jump …
Reuters:
Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export 74 high-end AI servers to China  —  Taiwan prosecutors said on Monday they had indicted nine people, including employees of Nvidia (NVDA.O) and Super Micro (SMCI.O) …
Raphael Boyd / The Guardian:
The UK backs Ofcom to take “tough action” under the OSA against social media sites failing to remove dangerous driving videos, after a crash killed seven people  —  Downing Street condemns ‘utterly disgraceful’ clips and says sites are legally obliged to take them down
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications  —  IBM is announcing today at the annual Hot Chips conference what may be the most consequential change to mainframe architecture in decades …
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute  —  Following several weeks during which ChatGPT users were subject only to a weekly usage cap, OpenAI announced today that it is restoring …
Colin Campbell / Axios:
Canada-based logistics software company Descartes acquires Tai, a California-based transportation management system provider, for $100M in cash  —  Logistics software giant Descartes has acquired transportation management system provider Tai for $100 million in cash, the companies announced today.

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From Mediagazer

Laurel Rosenhall / New York Times:
California AG cancels a meeting with Paramount, accusing the company of acting in bad faith by leaking and misrepresenting earlier settlement discussions

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
An arbitrator orders the Washington Post to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired for “gross misconduct” last year over posts made after Charlie Kirk's shooting

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Memo: Disney offers longtime US-based executives across Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and corporate divisions early retirement packages amid cost-cutting efforts

More News

Financial Times:
The UK becomes the first foreign nation to gain access to Ukrainian combat data used to train AI models to strike Russian targets, as part of an AI partnership
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots
Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail how Trump intervened to get a settlement before the DOJ's antitrust trial against Live Nation, after CEO Michael Rapino met White House officials
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
The US FTC settles its lawsuit against Zillow, resolving claims that Zillow violated antitrust law by paying Redfin $100M to stop competing in rental listings

Earlier Picks

John Koblin / New York Times:
Sources: Netflix has discussed adding streamers like Peacock and Fox One as it seeks to compete with YouTube and Roku in becoming a one-stop shop for TV content
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking services across Asia and other emerging markets, raised $68M at a $1B valuation, after raising $51M in May
Reuters:
Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG Capital at a $6.3B+ valuation; Gaorong Ventures, Tencent, and Alibaba also invested
Gao Yuan / Bloomberg:
Xiaomi launches the Xring O3, a 3nm SoC for its mobile devices, as it seeks to reduce reliance on foreign chips from longtime suppliers Qualcomm and MediaTek
Reuters:
Alibaba debuts Wan3.0, an AI video generation model that can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages, after an August beta
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