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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
A short video in Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence and Siri — Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate.
More: 9to5Mac, Moneycontrol, The Verge, MacRumors, Engadget, Business Today, SoundGuys, Mashable, Gizchina, GSMArena.com, Times of India, Gizmodo, Digit, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Notebookcheck, Appleosophy, TechSpot, AppleInsider, Macworld, iThinkDifferent, and Daring Fireball
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Forums: r/apple, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Opening arguments begin on Tuesday in the US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be “astronomical” — If New Mexico created the blueprint for taking on Meta, California could determine the company's fate when it comes …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May, $19B in March, $9B in December 2025, and $4B in July 2025 — Anthropic PBC is on track to generate annualized revenue of more than $65 billion based on its current performance, according to people familiar …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of a Justice Department antitrust probe over whether its investment partners …
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Bluesky: @masnick.com and @carnage4life
| Cursor: |
Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more — Cursor can now host your code. — Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all paid plans.
More: VentureBeat, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, Vercel, RuntimeWire, and Notebookcheck
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| Stacy Cowley / New York Times: |
BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023 — The rapid growth of pay-later loans raises questions about whether their popularity is driven by consumer preference or desperation.
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| David Sacks / @davidsacks: |
David Sacks says “Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize” after Amodei shared policy ideas — Some thoughts on Dario's post: 1. Dario does not actually address Gavin Baker's account of what he said - something he could easily deny if it were inaccurate. 2. Dario claims his critics live in a “bubble” where all regulation equals regulatory capture. He calls this an overly
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
YouTube plans to start counting a view as soon as a video plays from August 24, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos — By tracking views from the instant a video starts to play, YouTube's new counter works more like TikTok, X, and Instagram.
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Forums: r/technology and r/youtube
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Situational Awareness offered part of its $5B Anthropic stake at a 20% discount as it scrambled for cash; word of its trouble left it “being hunted” — From whispers of an Anthropic stake sale to strange options moves, traders sensed trouble and swung into action| Lauly Li / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel phone, smartwatch, and wireless earbud manufacturing out of China in 2027 amid US-China tensions — TAIPEI — Google has told suppliers it plans to have all of its Pixel smartphones, watches and wireless earbuds produced outside … | Jason Parham / Wired: |
Rogue Studio, which calls itself a “playground for creative ethical mischief”, launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool to make adult content of Hollywood quality — Rogue Studios, a new cinematic adult AI-generator, is betting big on the future of “sophisticated” spicy content.| Associated Press: |
Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil, after the country's data protection authority ordered it last week, saying Discord failed to protect children and teens — Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, said on Monday it suspended its livestreams in Brazil after criticism …
More: Seoul Economic Daily, Discord, BBC, and Discord Blog
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
In filings, Apple acknowledges App Store regulatory changes are weighing on its $100B+ services business; US App Store spend fell 6% in Q2, per Sensor Tower — Court rulings and new App Store rules are beginning to weigh on one of the iPhone maker's profitable growth engines
More: Bloomberg
| Owen Dahlkamp / Politico: |
Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch — Congressional lawyers are struggling to manage a flood of legislative proposals generated using artificial intelligence tools …
More: Townhall and The Lever
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| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center — Agreement with SoftBank's SB Energy caps weeks of negotiations over the largest data-center project announced to date
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