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Apple unveils a Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, up to 4x faster AI performance, and up to 2x faster storage and graphics, for $899+ with M6 and $1,699+ with M5 Pro — Mac mini delivers up to 4x faster AI performance, up to 2x faster graphics and storage, along with enhanced connectivity — all in its ultracompact footprint
More: MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Engadget, The Verge, Macworld, 9to5Mac, Tao of Mac, The Gadgeteer, iClarified, BGR, TidBITS, Inquirer Technology, Phandroid, Michael Tsai, CIO Dive, iDrop News, SiliconANGLE, Research & Development World, and SlashGear
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/macmini, r/LocalLLM, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Apple: |
Apple unveils a Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, up to 4.3x faster AI performance, up to 1.8x faster graphics, and up to 512GB of unified memory for $2,499+ — Apple's most powerful Mac raises the bar for local AI with up to 4.3x faster performance, more advanced graphics, up to 512GB of unified memory, and extensive connectivity
More: 9to5Mac, Livemint, The Register, ZDNET, Implicator.ai, 9to5Mac, TechEBlog, Forbes, Barchart.com, Michael Tsai, MacRumors, Times of India, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, and Tom's Guide
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/hardware, r/LocalLLaMA, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple unveils M6, a 2nm chip with a 12-core CPU and GPU, and up to 32GB of unified memory, saying it provides “the world's fastest single-threaded performance” — Apple is introducing the M6 chip with a new Mac Mini. It's also launching a new M5 Ultra alongside an upgraded Mac Studio.
More: Apple, AppleInsider, PCMag, Yanko Design, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, Michael Tsai, and TechSpot
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Forums: r/mac, r/hardware, r/StableDiffusion, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/apple
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
More: Ars Technica, MacRumors, iClarified, and AppleInsider
X: @aschilling, @mkbhd, @ashxhart, @julianharris, @hesamation, and @elliotarledge
| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
| Reuters: |
State AGs' trial: Adam Mosseri denies Instagram stalled by not making its “Take a Break” teen safety feature the default until nearly three years after launch — The top executive at Instagram said few teenagers used a key safety feature to limit their use before it was turned on by default … | Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: |
More: Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Android Authority, and Moneycontrol
X: @swiftstories, @law360, @swiftstories, and @swiftstories
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency than Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T — Jalapeño outperformed Nvidia's superchips on an AI inference benchmark test.
More: OpenAI, The Information, Business Today, The Register, Digit, Chip Briefing, TechTechPotato on YouTube, International Business Times, and The Deep View
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| SemiAnalysis: |
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/AMD_Stock, and r/NVDA_Stock
| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, has left the company amid a broader exodus — Chris Malone joins a string of recent high-level executive departures as the AI giant heads toward an IPO and ramps up its spending on computing power
More: Bloomberg, The Asia Business Daily, TechCrunch, and CNBC
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/wallstreetbets, r/technology, and r/VCX_Fundrise
| Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019 — The AI startup is likely to top SpaceX's eye-popping potential revenue estimate — SpaceX's record-breaking IPO tested the limits of an obscure financial metric.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/redditstock, r/literaciafinanceira, r/BetterOffline, and r/wallstreetbets
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans — Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday.| Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill: |
Pennsylvania's AG sues Snap, alleging Snapchat fails to protect teens from compulsively using the app, two weeks after filing a similar lawsuit against TikTok — Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday (R) announced a lawsuit Tuesday, accusing Snap, the parent company of Snapchat …
More: Fox Business and WHYY
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out — ZDNET's key takeaways — Claude chat and Cowork now share one memory system. — Memory updates as you chat, with sensitive-data controls.
More: Claude, The Register, iClarified, Motley Fool, TechCrunch, Engadget, Digital Trends, SiliconANGLE, Blockchain.News, The Mac Observer, Android Authority, The New Stack, CNET, The Verge, and 9to5Mac
X: @engadget, @claudeai, @theamolavasare, and @techcrunch. LinkedIn: Sean Strong. Bluesky: @econreporter
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a fully local version of Perplexity Computer with support for Qwen3.8-27B and Perplexity's PPLX 27B on Nvidia's DGX Spark — Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic “Computer” platform that runs entirely …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Intuit reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.35B, vs. $4.27B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue growth of 9% to 10%, below ~11% est.; INTU drops 8%+ after hours — The company expects revenue to increase 9% to 10% for fiscal 2027, down from 14% this year — Intuit forecast slower sales growth …
More: Reuters, Intuit, Investor's Business Daily, RuntimeWire, Barron's Online, and Seeking Alpha. X: @quinnypig
| Financial Times: |
Sources: YMTC, which seeks to raise $5B in an IPO, told investors in IPO prep meetings that it aims to become the largest NAND flash supplier by the end of 2027 — YMTC sets out Nand production ambitions in investor meetings for $5bn Shanghai IPO — YMTC aims to overtake Samsung and SK Hynix …
More: The Asia Business Daily and Seoul Economic Daily
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline — Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app …
More: Gizmodo. X: @xjosh and @cryptocyberia
Bluesky: @pfrazee.com and @patak.cat
Forums: r/stupidpol, r/france, and r/technology
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $1.28B, vs. $1.27B est., enterprise revenue up 7.8% to $787.5M, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS below estimates — Zoom Communications Inc. gave a sales outlook for the current quarter that was about in line with analysts' estimates … | Skild AI: |
Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning — UNSEEN TASKS10-MINUTE HORIZONSONE VIDEO PROMPTNO POST-TRAINING — The evolution of language modeling provides a blueprint … | Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Digs, which is building AI software for residential construction, raised a $25.3M Series A led by building materials giant Builders FirstSource — Digs, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup building AI software for residential construction, raised $25.3 million in Series A funding led …
More: Business Wire, Portland Business Journal, RuntimeWire, HousingWire, and Portland Oregon startups …
LinkedIn: Ryan Fink, Digs, Builders FirstSource, and Digs
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
HP signs a multi-year global agreement with Huawei to license certain standard essential Wi-Fi patents, a sign of adoption of Huawei's technology outside China — BEIJING — U.S.-based personal computing and printing firm HP has signed a multi-year global agreement for licensing certain WiFi patents …
More: Reuters, Nikkei Asia, South China Morning Post, Huawei, Seeking Alpha, The Fast Mode, KrASIA, and ip fray
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence orders 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and plans to offer 1GW of computing capacity as part of an $8B project — AM Intelligence, an Indian AI infrastructure company, has ordered 9,000 Nvidia Corp. Vera Rubin systems, seeking to become …
More: The Economic Times and SiliconANGLE
| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Keenable, which is building a web search index for AI agents and says several AI labs are using its API, raised a $26M seed led by Accel — Search engines were built and optimized for people, who can't spare the time or attention required to scan entire webpages.| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
Intel reveals that Xeon 7, aimed at HPC and debuting in 2027, will support up to 256 cores and 22 chiplets, with 16 built on its bleeding-edge 18A-P process — Delayed, flawed, yet still beautiful — DEEP DIVE Intel's Xeon 7 platform, better known by its codename Diamond Rapids … | Maxine Joselow / New York Times: |
The EPA plans to eliminate a federal rule that US states must publicize and solicit public input on air pollution permit applications for data centers — Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects.
More: Center for Biological …, Gizmodo, Techstrong IT, and Talking Points Memo
| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
South Korean AI services platform Wrtn raised a ~$72.2M Series C at a $722M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$166M — South Korean AI services platform Wrtn Technologies said on Wednesday it had raised around 100 billion won ($72.2 million) in a Series C funding round that valued …
More: Bloomberg and The Chosun Daily
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