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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils an updated iPad mini with A17 Pro, Apple Intelligence, and the same 8.3" display, starting at $499 with 128GB of storage, available to pre-order — Apple today announced a significant update to the iPad mini, featuring the powerful A17 Pro chip and support for the company's new Apple Intelligence system.
More: Apple, The Verge, Six Colors, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, Six Colors, 9to5Mac, GSMArena.com, MacSparky, Press Start, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, mjtsai.com, TechSpot, TidBITS, TechEBlog, BGR, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, 9to5Toys, Small Business Trends, nextpit, Scripps News, Spyglass, The Apple Post, Appleosophy, Cult of Mac, CRN, Expert Reviews, MacRumors, MusicRadar, CGMagazine, SlashGear, HotHardware, Liliputing, How-To Geek, International Business Times, NewsBytes, CNET, Wccftech, PCMag, MacStories, Engadget, and TechCrunch
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ipad, r/ipad, r/ipad, and MacRumors Forums
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Android 15 to Pixel devices, adding privacy features like a “private space” for apps, security tools, and foldable and tablet improvements — Android 15 is now rolling out to Pixel devices, bringing them new privacy features, security tools, and improvements for foldables and tablets.
More: The Keyword, The Keyword, 9to5Google, ASUS, Android Faithful, Android Faithful, Android Authority, SammyGuru, Forbes, Android Headlines, Android Faithful, Pocket-lint, Redmond Pie, Android Authority, Sammy Fans, Thurrott, Phone Scoop, Liliputing, iPhone in Canada Blog, AndroidGuys, nextpit, Neowin, Pocketables, Android Police, Android Faithful, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, The Shortcut, CNET, PCMag, How-To Geek, HotHardware, Engadget, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, and Wccftech
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
YouTube rolls out a new “captured with a camera” label, using the C2PA standard to detect if the video came from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound — YouTube is rolling out new labels that tell if uploaded videos come from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound.
More: 9to5Google, Truepic on YouTube, and Truepic
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube rolls out new features: granular playback speed controls, an improved miniplayer on iOS and Android, updated playlists, a sleep timer, and more — YouTube is making official a number of updates that it's been testing in recent months, like the new miniplayer and several design updates.| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Elon Musk poured ~$75M into his pro-Trump America PAC, making seven donations between July 3 and September 5; Musk was the PAC's only donor — - Disclosure is first look into Musks' donations to Trump group — Super PAC spent $69 million to bolster Trump's ground game
More: Financial Times, Reuters, Forbes, Business Insider, and Federal Election Commission
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel and AMD forge an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture moving forward, amid competition from Arm and RISC-V — Cats and dogs, living together! — In a rare public-facing display of cooperation between two of the industry's fiercest rivals …
More: AMD, DatacenterDynamics, Forbes, The Next Platform, The Register, Phoronix, Reuters, Engadget, Neowin, Computerworld, PCMag, How-To Geek, ServeTheHome, Techstrong.ai, CRN, PC Gamer, Thurrott, PCWorld, Runtime, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, HotHardware, Techaeris, TechTechPotato on YouTube, Nikkei Asia, OC3D, The Verge, Digital Trends, VideoCardz.com, Benzinga, and Capital Brief
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| CoinDesk: |
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial crypto project gets off to a bumpy start, as its website crashes and WLFI token sales fall far short of the $300M target — A blockchain wallet connected to the token holds nearly $4 million worth of ether (ETH), $1.2 million of tether (USDT) and around $250,000 USD Coin (USDC) tokens.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out “activity status” to Threads that shows a green dot next to a user's profile picture to show the user is online, if they have the feature enabled — Meta is adding an “activity status” to Threads so that you can see who's actively online as you're scrolling your feed.
More: Protechbro, 9to5Mac, Social Media Today, and TechCrunch
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X: @gateklons and @markgurman
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, setting benchmarks for when an AI model's abilities reach a point where additional safeguards are necessary — Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the popular Claude chatbot, today announced a sweeping update …
More: Anthropic and Platformer
Threads: @crumbler. X: @david_kasten, @michael05156007, @adonis_singh, @jasondclinton, @cfgeek, and @kimmonismus
Forums: Hacker News and r/ClaudeAI
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A teardown of Microsoft's diskless Xbox Series X, which was released today, shows a redesigned motherboard, a 6nm chip, and a new cooling system — Microsoft's discless Xbox Series X goes on sale today, and while it looks slightly different on the outside thanks to a white paint job and lack …
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Forums: r/xbox, r/hardware, and r/gadgets
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Chrome begins disabling uBlock Origin as part of Google's plan to phase out Manifest V2 extensions; uBlock Origin has 39M+ downloads on the Chrome Web Store — The browser is doing so as part of Google's plan to phase out older Manifest V2 extensions to bolster Chrome's security.
More: The Verge, Android Police, Boing Boing, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, WinBuzzer, and PCWorld
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out a personalized Shopping feed based on recent searches and YouTube history, coming to mobile first, and adds AI-generated shopping tips — Google Shopping is rolling out a personalized feed that shows you a stream of products you might like.
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Los Angeles-based Ghost, a B2B marketplace for surplus inventory with more than 6,000 members, raised a $40M Series C led by L Catterton — Ghost cofounders Josh Kaplan and Dee Murthy. — MATT CLERKIN AT CLERK CREATIVE — At Ghost, all product development groups are named after, well, ghosts.
More: PR Newswire, PYMNTS.com, and FinSMEs
X: @rick_zullo and @ashleymayer
LinkedIn: Eric Donado and Brian Schwarzbach
| Bloomberg: |
Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5M to pro-Trump super PAC Right For America; Andreessen also gave ~$844K to the GOP and Trump campaign — - Horowitz later said he would also donate to Democrat Harris — Apollo's Marc Rowan also contributed to pro-Trump super PAC
More: The Hill, Business Insider, and Bitcoin Insider
| Wired: |
A review of Character.AI finds several instances of AI personas being created without a person's consent, seemingly violating the company's terms of service — Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.
Threads: @laurengoode, @cwarzel, and @kylie.robison
| New York Times: |
Trump signaled he wouldn't break up Google if he regained the presidency, saying “China is afraid of Google” and questioning if it might “destroy the company” — The former president also said he would do “something” to make Google “more fair” if he regained the presidency.
More: The Verge, The Information, New York Magazine, CBS News, and Business Insider
X: @justinbaragona, @viacristiano, @acyn, and @kamalahq
| Prarthana Prakash / Fortune: |
Amsterdam-based Tebi, a payments app aimed at independent businesses like bars and cafes, raised a €20M Series A led by Index Ventures — Tebi was founded in 2021. — One of the founders of Dutch fintech star Adyen, Arnout Schuijff, has been quietly building out his next startup since leaving …
More: Reuters, Tebi, Tech Startups, Silicon Canals, and Tech Funding News
LinkedIn: Michael Nugent, Tebi, and Johannes Michel
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Monogoto, which offers software-defined connectivity tools for enterprises, raised a $27M Series A led by Toyota Ventures, taking its total funding to $38M — Connectivity and connected networks are part and parcel of the way many devices and services operate today, thanks to innovations …
More: SiliconANGLE, Monogoto, and FinSMEs
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Xscape, which develops data center interconnects using silicon photonics, raised a $44M Series A led by IAG Capital Partners, taking its total funding to $57M — The GPUs and other chips used to train AI communicate with each other inside data centers through “interconnects.”
More: SiliconANGLE, Xscape Photonics, TMCnet, and Light Reading
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of Palantir, joins OpenAI as its CISO and will serve alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight — Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of analytics firm Palantir, has joined OpenAI as its newest CISO, serving alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight.
More: Bloomberg and Forbes
X: @bobmcgrewai, @nearcyan, @i_dg23, @jawwwn_, @basedbeffjezos, and @sama
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Customer service AI startup Neuron7 raised a $44M Series B led by Smith Point Capital, and says it had 300% growth in ARR in 2023 and 65 full-time employees — Five-year-old AI customer service startup Neuron7 just closed an oversubscribed $44 million series B round led by Keith Block …
More: Neuron7.ai, SiliconANGLE, Inc42 Media, FinSMEs, and YourStory.com
| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Galileo, a startup that helps companies fine tune, evaluate, observe, and protect their AI models, raised a $45M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners — Galileo, founded by former Google and Uber employees, helps companies to make sure their models are actually ready for primetime when they launch.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Port, which offers DevOps services, raised a $35M Series B led by Accel and says its revenue is up 7x in the last 12 months while its customer base grew 8x — DevOps platform startup Port IO Ltd. has closed on its biggest funding round to date, raising $35 million in an investment led by Accel.
More: CTech, Wall Street Journal, and FinSMEs
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