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Apple unveils a Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, up to 4x faster AI performance, and up to 2x faster storage and graphics, for $899+ with M6 and $1,699+ with M5 Pro — Mac mini delivers up to 4x faster AI performance, up to 2x faster graphics and storage, along with enhanced connectivity — all in its ultracompact footprint
More: MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Engadget, TechCrunch, Macworld, Inquirer Technology, 9to5Mac, iClarified, SiliconANGLE, CIO Dive, Gizmodo, Tao of Mac, Michael Tsai, Mashable, PetaPixel, iPhone in Canada, ITPro, PCMag, Neowin, The Mac Observer, SlashGear, PCWorld, BGR, Tom's Hardware, Research & Development World, How-To Geek, Moneycontrol, Barron's Online, and International Business Times
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/macmini, r/LocalLLM, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Apple: |
Apple unveils a Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, up to 4.3x faster AI performance, up to 1.8x faster graphics, and up to 512GB of unified memory for $2,499+ — Apple's most powerful Mac raises the bar for local AI with up to 4.3x faster performance, more advanced graphics, up to 512GB of unified memory, and extensive connectivity
More: 9to5Mac, The Register, ZDNET, 9to5Mac, TechEBlog, MacRumors, MacStories, Forbes, Michael Tsai, PCMag, iThinkDifferent, Neowin, Mashable, Proactive, XDA Developers, Barchart.com, Times of India, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, and Tom's Guide
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/hardware, r/LocalLLaMA, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple unveils M6, a 2nm chip with a 12-core CPU and GPU, and up to 32GB of unified memory, saying it provides “the world's fastest single-threaded performance” — Apple is introducing the M6 chip with a new Mac Mini. It's also launching a new M5 Ultra alongside an upgraded Mac Studio.
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Forums: r/mac, r/hardware, r/StableDiffusion, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/apple
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
More: Macworld, Ars Technica, MacRumors, iClarified, Moneycontrol, Computerworld, Mashable, PetaPixel, iPhone in Canada, and BGR
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| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency than Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T — Jalapeño outperformed Nvidia's superchips on an AI inference benchmark test.
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| SemiAnalysis: |
A detailed look at Jalapeño, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-weight models — OpenAI's self-designed ASIC compared with Rubin, Jalapeño's TCO, throughput per MW, and spicy deets
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/NVDA_Stock, and r/AMD_Stock
| Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019 — The AI startup is likely to top SpaceX's eye-popping potential revenue estimate — SpaceX's record-breaking IPO tested the limits of an obscure financial metric.
More: Marcus on AI, Reuters, Bitcoin Insider, Quartz, Barchart.com, and Gizmodo
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Forums: Hacker News, r/wallstreetbets, r/redditstock, r/literaciafinanceira, and r/BetterOffline
| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, has left the company amid a broader exodus — Chris Malone joins a string of recent high-level executive departures as the AI giant heads toward an IPO and ramps up its spending on computing power
More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, CNBC, and The Asia Business Daily
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| Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: |
An ex-Meta staffer testified that less than 1% of teens used Instagram's opt-in “Take a Break” tool when it launched; the feature is now on by default for teens — A former data scientist at Meta Platforms Inc. testified that less than 1% of teenagers were early adopters …
More: Associated Press, Moneycontrol, Android Authority, and Agence France-Presse
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a fully local version of Perplexity Computer with support for Qwen3.8-27B and Perplexity's PPLX 27B on Nvidia's DGX Spark — Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic “Computer” platform that runs entirely …
More: Perplexity, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, The New Stack, RuntimeWire, The Deep View, and ZDNET
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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out — ZDNET's key takeaways — Claude chat and Cowork now share one memory system. — Memory updates as you chat, with sensitive-data controls.
More: Claude, The Register, TechCrunch, Engadget, Digital Trends, SiliconANGLE, Blockchain.News, The Mac Observer, Android Authority, The New Stack, CNET, The Verge, and 9to5Mac
X: @engadget, @claudeai, @theamolavasare, and @techcrunch. LinkedIn: Sean Strong. Bluesky: @econreporter
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans — Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday.| Wall Street Journal: |
Intuit reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.35B, vs. $4.27B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue growth of 9% to 10%, below ~11% est.; INTU drops 8%+ after hours — The company expects revenue to increase 9% to 10% for fiscal 2027, down from 14% this year — Intuit forecast slower sales growth …
More: Reuters, Intuit, Investor's Business Daily, Barron's Online, Seeking Alpha, and RuntimeWire. X: @quinnypig
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $1.28B, vs. $1.27B est., enterprise revenue up 7.8% to $787.5M, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS below estimates — Zoom Communications Inc. gave a sales outlook for the current quarter that was about in line with analysts' estimates … | Sri Muppidi / New York Times: |
Emerald AI, which uses AI to optimize data center power consumption based on grid demands, raised $150M led by DCVC and Energize Capital at a $1.05B valuation — Emerald AI, now valued at $1.05 billion, uses software to keep power demand at the computing facilities from getting out of control.
More: SiliconANGLE, Implicator.ai, Reuters, Pulse 2.0, Washington …, and Ground Level AI
LinkedIn: Katie McClain, Rob Toews, Caie Kelley, Isaac Brown, and Lauren Densham
| Skild AI: |
Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning — UNSEEN TASKS10-MINUTE HORIZONSONE VIDEO PROMPTNO POST-TRAINING — The evolution of language modeling provides a blueprint … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber launches an optional safety feature allowing parents or guardians to watch a livestream of their teen's ride via the driver's front-facing phone camera — Uber Technologies Inc. is rolling out a new safety feature that lets parents or guardians view a video livestream of their teenager's ride.
More: Engadget, Digital Trends, ABC News, Gizmodo, NewsNation, Business Insider, The Verge, CNET, and Straight Arrow
LinkedIn: Sachin Kansal and Natalie Lung
| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Keenable, which is building a web search index for AI agents and says several AI labs are using its API, raised a $26M seed led by Accel — Search engines were built and optimized for people, who can't spare the time or attention required to scan entire webpages.| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Waymo plans to offer ride-hailing services in Germany, starting with Munich, by the end of 2027, marking its third international market and the first in the EU — Waymo is planning to offer driverless ride-hailing services in Germany by the end of next year, marking its third planned international market …
More: Waymo, New York Post, Malay Mail, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, Quartz, Reuters, CNBC, Engadget, Autoweek, and Financial Times
Forums: r/europe and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp upgrades its two-step verification, letting users replace the six-digit PIN with a longer alphanumeric password, and adds support for multiple passkeys — WhatsApp announced Tuesday that it's launching new security features and updates to help users keep their accounts secure … | Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
Google is rolling out Motion Assist, a feature to reduce motion sickness by showing visual cues on the screen, to Android 17, starting with select Pixel devices — Pixel phones appear to be the first devices to get Google's Motion Assist feature. — • … TL;DR
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Asus opens pre-orders for the standalone Xbox Ally X20 at $1,300+, with shipments from October 15; a $2,500 bundle includes the X20 and ROG Xreal R1 glasses — Is the best handheld screen worth an extra $300 to you? … The Asus Xbox Ally X20 looked like it could be one of the best handheld gaming PCs yet …
More: ASUS Pressroom, ASUS eShop USA, @ROG, 9to5Toys, VideoCardz.com, Insider Gaming, Engadget, DayOne, PCMag, Windows Central, Kotaku, MobileSyrup, IGN, Digital Trends, GamingBolt, ROG ALLY Life, and Video Games Chronicle
Forums: r/SBCGaming, r/xbox, r/ROGAlly, r/technology, r/videogames, and r/Handhelds
| Maxine Joselow / New York Times: |
The EPA plans to eliminate a federal rule that US states must publicize and solicit public input on air pollution permit applications for data centers — Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects.| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey — Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) on Tuesday expanded its Gemini Enterprise artificial intelligence platform with new tools for lawyers and law firms …
More: Google Cloud, Google Cloud Blog, LAW.com, Docusign, Inc., Above the Law, Business Insider, The American Bazaar, Blockonomi, and Quartz
X: @zackkorman. LinkedIn: Thomas Kurian, Satish Thomas, Tarek Fleihan, Daniël Rood, and Carrie Tharp. Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline — Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app …
X: @xjosh and @cryptocyberia
Bluesky: @pfrazee.com and @patak.cat
Forums: r/stupidpol, r/france, and r/technology
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