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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to launch a new Mac mini, its first refresh in two years, potentially before its September iPhone event; Apple tested M5 and M6 versions  —  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.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia says its inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has entered full production, with Nebius signing 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 …
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.
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.
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.
Cam Wilson / ABC:
Australia's ARIA says songs created mostly or entirely by AI will be excluded from its charts; a song that used AI became the most-played song on radio in July  —  In short:  —  Australia's main music charts have announced a ban on AI-generated music to start this week.
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% …
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI restores five-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 …

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount, California AG Rob Bonta, and the WGA schedule a two-day meeting for settlement discussions about the WBD deal, starting October 14

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen: 60 Minutes' season premiere drew 7.94M viewers, down 21% from 10.02M for last season's premiere; viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 fell 33%

NPR:
NPR acquires Hard Fork co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton's video-first show Machine Gods, debuting as a podcast from October and as a radio program in 2027

More News

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
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
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
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

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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
Reuters:
Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export 74 high-end AI servers to China
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
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
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