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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.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
On his last day as CEO, Tim Cook sends a memo to Apple employees reflecting on his time and says he takes “enormous comfort in handing the helm” to John Ternus — Today is Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO, with John Ternus set to take over tomorrow.
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LinkedIn: Illai Gescheit, Susan Li, and Felix Richter
Forums: r/business, r/apple, r/technology, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
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| 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.
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| 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: |
| 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, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, 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: PCMag, Physical Superintelligence, Unite.AI, RuntimeWire, Metro.co.uk, Pulse 2.0, and TechCrunch
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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.
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| 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.| 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
| 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.| 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: Engadget, 9to5Google, Google, and Android Authority
| Gina Heeb / Wall Street Journal: |
A consortium of 21 banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs, says it will establish a company and launch its stablecoin venture in H1 2027 — Twenty-one firms, including several megabanks, plan to establish a company that would help guard against competition from digital assets| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details security efforts after three Claude cyber evaluation incidents, including a weeks-long pause on higher-risk RL and work to curb reward hacking — On July 30, we reported three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems.
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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.
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