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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.
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| 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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| 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 … | Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Tim Cook is set to step down on September 1, and a source says Apple hosted an intimate farewell party; sources say Cook's assistant will work with John Ternus — Next Tuesday, Tim Cook will officially pass the baton as Apple CEO to his successor, John Ternus.
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| Lee Ying Shan / CNBC: |
Bitcoin rises above $80K after jumping 20%+ last week, its biggest three-day gain since 2023; US spot bitcoin ETFs had $1.92B in net inflows last week — Bitcoin extended gains on Tuesday, as renewed inflows into spot bitcoin ETFs and improving risk appetite extended the cryptocurrency's recent rally.
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| Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: |
Qustodio: 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 were on TikTok in July, just one percentage point below pre-ban levels, and 10-to-12-year-olds' usage is up — Eight months after implementing a ban on under-16s accessing social media services like TikTok, Australia finds its younger users … | Jordyn Holman / New York Times: |
Q&A with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on lessons from Apple's Beats acquisition, creativity, being pro-AI music creation, AI as a tool like drum machines, and more — The hit-making duo turned tech moguls also have thoughts about why corporate America isn't collaborative enough.| 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, 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 …
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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.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation, and its 2026 revenue is expected to reach $1.5B+; Lambda raised $1.5B+ in 2025 — 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 …
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| 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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| Adrienne Klasa / Financial Times: |
A profile of French software maker ChapsVision, which won a contract to replace Palantir at France's domestic intel agency in June and targets an IPO by 2030 — ChapsVision pursues defence and intelligence contracts across the region as governments look to reduce reliance on US technology
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| Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Xiaomi unveils the Xring O100, a 6nm AI accelerator to boost its MiMo models when paired with its O3 mobile chip, and the 3nm Xring D100 for autonomous driving — Chinese tech giant's Xring O3 3nm AI processor scheduled to debut aboard folding smartphone in September| 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.
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| 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 … | Shona Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
UK filings: OnlyFans parent Fenix paid late owner Leonid Radvinsky $709M in the months leading up to his death in March; FY 2025 revenue rose 10% YoY to $1.55B — OnlyFans, the platform known for adult content, paid its billionaire owner $709 million in dividends over several months prior to his death in March.
More: Wall Street Journal, Telegraph, and Financial Times
| 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 … | 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, Ventureburn, and RuntimeWire
| 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 in 2024 — Optical interconnect startup Quintessent Inc. today announced that it has raised $40 million in funding to ramp up production of its hardware.
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