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| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO and Tim Cook becomes executive chair; sources say Laura Legros, an Apple hardware VP who retired in 2022, has rejoined Apple — Big technology and management changes are greeting John Ternus, whose long-serving predecessor, Tim Cook, will stay on as executive chair.
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Enthusiast, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, The Fine Print*, MacRumors, CNBC, San Francisco Examiner, UPI, Moneycontrol, MacStories, The Hans India, The Verge, and The American Conservative
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| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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LinkedIn: Illai Gescheit, Felix Richter, and Susan Li
Forums: r/business, r/apple, r/technology, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Deepa Seetharaman / Reuters: |
Filing: OpenAI denies Apple's allegations of trade secret theft, saying “this dispute is a mess of Apple's own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else” — OpenAI denied Apple's allegations of trade secret theft on Monday, saying the iPhone maker failed to show … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Nvidia says it will launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March — DLSS 5 is almost here, but only for NBA 2K27, and only officially for 50-series RTX GPUs.
More: NVIDIA, PCWorld, NVIDIA GeForce on YouTube, Thurrott, T3, Moneycontrol, VICE, Metro.co.uk, Tom's Hardware, Polygon.com, Engadget, PCMag, Deal N Tech, VideoCardz.com, IGN, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Club386, Neowin, GamesRadar, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, Tech4Gamers, The Shortcut, KitGuru, and Video Games Chronicle
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Forums: r/pcmasterrace, r/MicrosoftFlightSim, r/nvidia, r/RTX5080, and r/pcgaming
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Mozilla launches built-in ad blocking for Firefox on iOS, using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker and the EasyList filter to block third-party ads and trackers — Mozilla is using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker technology and the EasyList filter to block ads in Firefox.
More: The Mozilla Blog, Thurrott, Linuxiac, iPhone in Canada, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, and WeRSM. Forums: r/technology
| Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: |
PSI, which aims to use AI “to industrialize the discovery of new physics” including cracking interstellar travel, emerges from stealth with a $58M seed — AI is best known for transforming coding. Now, one startup is making the case for physics.
More: Physical Superintelligence, PCMag, Unite.AI, RuntimeWire, Metro.co.uk, Pulse 2.0, and TechCrunch
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward, who oversaw the Saudi Arabian government's $38B investment in the video game industry since 2021, is stepping down — Savvy Games Group Chief Executive Officer Brian Ward, who oversaw the Saudi Arabian government's $38 billion investment in the video-game industry … | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Dyson unveils the $499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images — Dyson Ltd. introduced a $499 toothbrush that uses artificial intelligence and a built-in camera to give real-time feedback …
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LinkedIn: Nathan Brown, Chris Howard, Amy Johnson, and Hao Yi Gan
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents — As the company opens its platform to AI assistants, Chief Executive Officer Tom Conrad wants to reposition Sonos as something bigger than a speaker brand.
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| Alex Harring / CNBC: |
LLM Token Expenditure Index: average cost per million tokens has fallen to 97 cents, part of a sharp months-long decline since hitting a high of $2.07 on May 28 — A closely followed measure of artificial intelligence token prices touched fresh lows this week, the latest sign of deflating prices … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft confirms it has restored core Exchange Online functionality, including mail flow and search, after a day-long outage from around 11:30AM ET on Monday — Snow day? Microsoft on Monday confirmed a widespread, multi-hour outage affecting Outlook users, leading to email delays and failures …
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| Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters: |
Starman Optical agrees to acquire GoPro for $285M in cash, a 29.5% premium to GPRO's last close; GoPro hit a $4B market cap on its first trading day in 2014 — Action camera maker GoPro (GPRO.O) said on Tuesday it is being acquired by Starman Optical in an all-cash deal valued at $285 million.| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
John Deere is testing JD, an AI assistant for farmers, to help with best practices and find trends based on farmers' “field, machine, and operational data” — The new ‘JD’ AI uses farmers' own data to answer questions about their operations and equipment.
More: Bloomberg and Ground Level AI
| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anthropic has signed a $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda; Nvidia will hold the lease on, and supply chips to, a Hut 8-built Texas data center — Nvidia will supply chips to Texas data center and hold the lease, another example of the company using its financial might to boost a customer
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Forums: r/technology, r/NVDA_Stock, and Slashdot
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards — We're introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. They're the world's most advanced models for coding and knowledge work … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Google Pics, a creative design suite powered by Gemini and Nano Banana to compete with Canva and Adobe Express, available as a Workspace app — This new image generation and editing app is bringing graphic design to Google Workspace.
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Google, Google, MakeUseOf, and Android Authority
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Waymo starts offering driverless rides to customers in San Diego, Tampa, Florida, and Denver; Amazon's Zoox says it will start testing in Houston and San Diego — Alphabet's Waymo is expanding its commercial service, and Amazon's Zoox said it plans to test in more U.S. cities, as the nascent robotaxi market gains momentum.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Empirik, which uses AI to predict and prevent IT outages by analyzing system changes and their effects, raised a $21M seed and spins out from Sequoia Capital — Before joining Sequoia Capital in 2020 as chief digital and information officer, Avon Puri spent over a decade running infrastructure at Rubrik and VMware.| Jon Ronson / New York Times: |
How lawn care YouTuber Greg Chism scaled his family channel to 13B views thanks to YouTube's advice, before YouTube banned it in 2017 following online backlash — - - 1k — I promised Greg Chism I wouldn't reveal anything about where he lives because there are people out there obsessed with him, convinced he's a monster.| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute, which splits a task between a frontier, cloud model and a local LLM to handle sensitive info, for all users of its Mac app — And local processing could keep costs down too. — Back in February, debuted Perplexity Computer.
More: AppleInsider, VentureBeat, MacStories, MacTech.com, MacDailyNews, and The Deep View
X: @aravsrinivas, @aravsrinivas, and @aravsrinivas
LinkedIn: Jerry Ma, Aravind Srinivas, and Perplexity
| CTech: |
DataAgent, which is developing AI agents that autonomously fix failures inside companies' own cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $10M pre-seed — The Israeli startup is taking aim at the cost and complexity of observability by putting autonomous agents directly inside production environments.
More: FinSMEs, RuntimeWire, and SiliconANGLE
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt — Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform for Latino immigrants, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $200 million …
More: Refresh Miami
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Salesforce is leading a $160M+ raise for HR software company HiBob at a $3.2B+ valuation, up from $2.66B in 2023; HiBob has raised $700M+ since 2015 — Salesforce Inc. is investing in human resources software company HiBob as part of a more than $160 million funding round that values …
More: Unite.AI, CTech, Globes, and Startup.eu
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Amazon says the FTC's complaint over Sponsored Ads cites no evidence of consumer price increases or advertiser harm, and misunderstands how advertisers operate — The FTC today filed a misguided lawsuit claiming Amazon misled advertisers about its Sponsored Ads pricing and auction.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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