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Apple:
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
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
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.
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Apple says M5 Ultra uses a quad-die 3nm architecture, “a first for Apple silicon”, with inter-die bandwidth of 4.4TB/s+ and up to a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU
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:
An ex-Meta staffer testified that less than 1% of teens used Instagram's opt-in “Take a Break” tool when it launched; the feature is now on by default for teens
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
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.
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.
SemiAnalysis:
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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.
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
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 …
Financial Times:
The US AI data center buildout is posing complex challenges to major lenders as they stretch themselves to finance, insure, and underwrite a novel asset class  —  Wall Street players extending themselves to underwrite this colossal new asset class are looking to limit exposure.
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 …
Laura Bicker / BBC:
A look at China's push to automate manufacturing, which employs 120 million people, amid a shrinking population and aging workforce, raising job loss concerns  —  “I take a nap and the world changes,” says Chen Tianyu.  —  His world certainly does.  The 28-year-old keeps up with the latest technology …
Forums: r/neoliberal
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 …
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 …
Corbin Bolies / Variety:
Stability AI, which has deals with UMG, WMG, and EA to build AI models from their IP, raised a $76M Series B from them, Sony Music, and others  —  Stability AI, the AI startup backed by the likes of James Cameron and Sean Parker, has raised $76 million in a Series B funding round from a roster …

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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
WSJ opinion editor Paul Gigot defends Stanley Druckenmiller's use of AI to write an op-ed, saying “nobody can doubt that his op-ed is his genuine opinion”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Forbes and Shook Research suspend their joint rankings and events as they review a $6M payment from founder RJ Shook to former top editor Randall Lane

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
A federal appeals court sets aside an FCC notice that would have let political parties and joint fundraising committees qualify for lowest broadcast ad rates

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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
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
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Sri Muppidi / New York Times:
Emerald AI, which uses AI to optimize data center power consumption based on grid demands, raised $150M led by DCVC and Energize Capital at a $1.05B valuation
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Google is rolling out Motion Assist, a feature to reduce motion sickness by showing visual cues on the screen, to Android 17, starting with select Pixel devices
Aaron Tilley / The Information:
Tim Cook is set to step down on September 1, and a source says Apple hosted an intimate farewell party; sources say Cook's assistant will work with John Ternus
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