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August 24, 2026, 10:00 PM
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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 …
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.
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.
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) …
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 …
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 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 …
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% …
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
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.
Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October  —  Meta Platforms plans to launch its consumer version of the OpenClaw AI agent, dubbed Hatch internally, as soon as the next several weeks …
More: RuntimeWire
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  —  Engineers and investors pile into world models, aka ‘large action models,’ to do for robotics what ChatGPT did for writing and coding
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  —  Trove of combat imagery used to train AI models to identify and strike Russian targets  —  Britain will become the first foreign country …
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  —  Xiaomi Corp. launched a mobile processor for its marquee devices, putting pressure on Qualcomm Inc. and MediaTek Inc. …
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  —  Antitrust case started out aiming to force concert giant to sell Ticketmaster.  After two White House meetings, a deal kept the company intact.

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From Mediagazer

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
David Ellison and other Skydance executives rang the NYSE opening bell Thursday, celebrating the WBD acquisition; SKYD shares rose 4.5% after a two-day slump

CNN:
A federal judge briefly extends access for CNN, MS Now, and Politico to the White House while he considers a longer-term ruling on President Trump's press ban

Fiona Riley / Forbes:
USA Today Co. sues OpenAI for over $250M in New York federal court, claiming OpenAI willfully infringed copyrights from 19 publications to train its models

More News

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
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
Ina Fried / Axios:
Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from Thinking Machines Lab in January, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs, reporting to Alexandr Wang
The Information:
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity's round that would value it at $30B+; Nvidia considered a tech licensing deal and hiring some of its staff
Telegraph:
At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot built by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records
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