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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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| 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 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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| 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 …
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| 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.
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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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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
| 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 … | 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 … | 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: RuntimeWire, Pulse 2.0, The Fast Mode, Ventureburn, FinSMEs, and VC News Daily
| 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 … | 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.
More: FreightWaves, Descartes, and Seeking Alpha
| Grace Kay / The Information: |
At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more — Earlier this month, on the day SpaceX announced it had completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, Elon Musk called … | 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
More: TechCrunch, RuntimeWire, PYMNTS, and Decrypt
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