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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.

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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 …

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The Register:

Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX racks delivered 3,400 tokens per second in an Artificial Analysis benchmark running Gemma 4 31B with a 100,000-token input sequence

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: Apple is about to launch a new Mac mini, potentially before its September iPhone event; Apple has tested versions with M5 and M6 — Apple Inc. is gearing up to launch a new version of its Mac mini desktop computer for the first time in almost two years, according to people familiar with the matter.

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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.

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Mark Anderson / Bloomberg:

Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cyberattacks across many Chinese state-linked groups, primarily using open-weight models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek — Chinese hackers are ramping up attacks after integrating DeepSeek and other open-source artificial intelligence models into their operations …

More: Implicator.ai and en.people.cn

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.

More: SiliconANGLE and RuntimeWire

Bloomberg:

Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation; its revenue this year is estimated to reach $1.5B+ — Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., is in talks to raise as much as $3 billion in a round that could tee …

More: RuntimeWire and DatacenterDynamics

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:

Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in 2024 — Optical interconnect startup Quintessent Inc. today announced that it has raised $40 million in funding to ramp up production of its hardware.

More: Pulse 2.0, The Fast Mode, RuntimeWire, Ventureburn, FinSMEs, and VC News Daily

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% …

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:

Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M — Airbound, an Indian startup building autonomous drones, has raised $37 million in fresh capital as it pushes to make moving goods through …

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 …

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 …

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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

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Bloomberg:

Sources: smart ring maker Oura and some of its backers seek to raise up to $3B in a US IPO that could take place as soon as September and value it at over $16B — Oura Health Oy, a maker of smart rings that track health, fitness and sleep, and some of its backers are seeking to raise …

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Reuters:

Unitree shares fell 45% after surging more than 5x in their August 19 Shanghai debut, cutting its valuation from $66B to $36B, raising robotics bubble concerns — A roughly 45% slump in the shares of Unitree, China's best-known humanoid robot maker, since a more than fivefold jump …

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:

OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute — Following several weeks during which ChatGPT users were subject only to a weekly usage cap, OpenAI announced today that it is restoring …

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) …

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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.

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