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August 26, 2026, 1:15 AM
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Apple:
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
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
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.
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Apple says M5 Ultra uses a quad-die 3nm architecture, “a first for Apple silicon”, with inter-die bandwidth of 4.4TB/s+ and up to a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU
Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal:
Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are $899+ and $1,699+, $100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is $5,499+, up $200
Reuters:
State AGs' trial: Adam Mosseri denies Instagram stalled by not making its “Take a Break” teen safety feature the default until nearly three years after launch  —  The top executive at Instagram said few teenagers used a key safety feature to limit their use before it was turned on by default …
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
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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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.
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
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.
Financial Times:
Sources: YMTC, which seeks to raise $5B in an IPO, told investors in IPO prep meetings that it aims to become the largest NAND flash supplier by the end of 2027  —  YMTC sets out Nand production ambitions in investor meetings for $5bn Shanghai IPO  —  YMTC aims to overtake Samsung and SK Hynix …
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 …
More: Gizmodo.  X: @xjosh and @cryptocyberia
Bluesky: @pfrazee.com and @patak.cat
Forums: r/stupidpol, r/france, and r/technology
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 …
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 …
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:
Digs, which is building AI software for residential construction, raised a $25.3M Series A led by building materials giant Builders FirstSource  —  Digs, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup building AI software for residential construction, raised $25.3 million in Series A funding led …
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.
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 …
Joyce Lee / Reuters:
South Korean AI services platform Wrtn raised a ~$72.2M Series C at a $722M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$166M  —  South Korean AI services platform Wrtn Technologies said on Wednesday it had raised around 100 billion won ($72.2 million) in a Series C funding round that valued …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Skydance stock fell 22.2% after it distributed ~471M warrants to Paramount Skydance Class B shareholders, giving them the option to buy stock in the new company

Bloomberg:
A judge extends an earlier order to ban taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads until Nov. 8, past Election Day; she'll hold a hearing on a more permanent order Nov. 4

Jem Aswad / Variety:
Sources: UMG is executing extensive layoffs across the US and UK, with several top executives, including Def Jam Records Chairman-CEO Tunji Balogun, leaving

More News

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
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

Earlier Picks

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
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil the $250 Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety band, set to ship in early 2027
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
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
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
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