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Sources: Xi Jinping is unlikely to bring corporate executives to his DC summit with Trump; industry officials expected them at a dinner with top US tech CEOs — Expectations for major business deals fade, although preparations are continuing — WASHINGTON—Chinese leader Xi Jinping … | Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay — Shopify plans to allow Meta's personal AI agent to complete purchases on behalf of users with the e-commerce platform's roster of stores
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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Forums: r/cybersecurity and Ars OpenForum
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| David Phelan / Forbes: |
Apple unveils Apple Music Hall, a 600-person live music venue built in its London headquarters at Battersea Power Station with two recording and mixing studios — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … Apple has just announced a new live music venue, built into its London headquarters at Battersea Power Station.
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Forums: r/apple, r/unitedkingdom, r/london, and r/Music
| Xiaomi: |
Xiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs “on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks” — Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public. Today, we are releasing and open-sourcing the MiMo-V2.6 series.
More: SiliconANGLE, Forkast, Hugging Face, Latent.Space, and Unite.AI
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
MiMo-V2.6-Pro ties Grok 4.7 (xHigh) and beats GLM-5.3 (Max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, making it the benchmark's top-scoring open-weight model — That puts Xiaomi's new flagship ahead of proprietary models including xAI's Grok 4.6, currently at 44, and Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash … | Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: |
Finnish neocloud startup Verda raised $189M led by Emergence at a $1B+ valuation and aims to raise up to $1.5B in equity and debt in 2026 and up to $10B in 2027 — Cloud startup Verda has raised $189 million in fresh financing, underscoring continued investor appetite for the infrastructure powering the artificial intelligence boom.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft lays off 268 Xbox staffers across Halo and other studios, as part of an ongoing gaming “reset”; Activision will take over Halo and two other games — Deals to sell off Ninja Theory fell through over the summer. … Microsoft is laying off around 260 Xbox employees today …
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| Reuters: |
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu says the company plans to train a 5T- to 10T-parameter AI model, as it lays out a sweeping push across AI models, chips, and data centers — Alibaba Group (9988.HK) said on Tuesday it was developing an AI model up to four times larger than the company's flagship model … | Bloomberg: |
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| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
DoorDash agrees to a $131.5M settlement with NYC's DCWP to resolve a year-plus investigation into its compliance with the city's 2023 delivery driver pay law — DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to settle an investigation by New York City regulators into the company's compliance with pay laws for food-delivery workers.
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| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
a16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute — Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz spending $35 million to back two-year academy, with other Bay Area tech giants on board| Financial Times: |
Sources: multiple staff at the UK's AISI have been signed off work with stress, as tight model release schedules and AI fears lead to low morale and burnout — Top researchers at Aisi, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind report burnout and stress over developing powerful AI
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
US startup Firebird is building a 300MW data center in Armenia, set to host 70K+ Nvidia chips by 2027; sources: Trump pledged Nvidia export approvals to Armenia — During the Cold War, the Soviet Union's smallest republic was an electronics and tech center for the Communist superpower.| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple quietly updates its press release to say new Photographic Styles texture and grain controls are limited to iPhone 18 Pro models and the iPhone Duo — Apple's new Texture and Grain controls for Photographic Styles are not available on iPhones other than the latest iPhone 18 Pro models …
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Sources: the Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot over alleged data leaks to Anthropic via Claude and has questioned staff — China's internet regulator is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic alleged both companies had been routing sensitive user data …
X: @juliangewirtz and @jingyanghk
| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
Sources: after a deadly school strike in Iran, US Central Command changed its targeting process, integrated open-source data, and upgraded Palantir's Maven — The changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement.| Will Oremus / The Atlantic: |
Some universities have barred using AI detectors due to student-instructor distrust over false positives; some educators have just cancelled writing assignments — Professors are tearing their hair out over AI detectors. — Timothy Paustian has tried everything to stop his students from writing essays with AI.
X: @marc__watkins. Bluesky: @ouij, @willoremus.com, and @bakerdphd
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| John Higgins / The Verge: |
Apple announces new $350 Beats 360 headphones, with IPX4 rating, swappable ear cups, a replaceable battery, ANC, Find My support, and more — Everyone has seen someone at the gym or running around their neighborhood wearing headphones that were never designed for workouts. Quite often those headphones are Beats.
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| Juliet Macur / New York Times: |
Amazon, Walmart and other companies are using drones for fast deliveries in Richardson, Texas, but residents complain about noise and clumsy package drops — In Richardson, a fleet of drones has started to deliver goods quickly. But the noise is drowning out life for some residents: 'We can't live like this.'
More: Wall Street Journal. X: @peteuk001. Bluesky: @carlquintanilla, @debmcalister, @thedotcity, and @blindeke
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| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
The Austrian Academy of Science, Mistral, and Sail Reply plan to launch Apollo, an Ancient Greek LLM trained on ~600M historical Greek words, available for free — In the hope of uncovering new details about ancient life, researchers have developed a large language model that fills in the gaps in papyrus fragments.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, an open-source framework designed to classify and analyze AI-integrated malware by tracking AI metadata and behavioral fingerprints — Cisco Talos researchers created a new framework for identifying malware and hacking tools that rely on AI chatbots—and quickly discovered something unusual.| CoinDesk: |
Binance acquires a $100M stake in Circle, and both companies sign a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform — Binance bought $100 million of Circle shares as the companies signed a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform.| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Snorkel AI, which offers an “agentic data development platform” with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation — Data startup Snorkel AI has raised $350 million in fresh funding at a $3.5 billion valuation, its CEO Alex Ratner told Reuters …
More: Finimize and RuntimeWire
| Davis Giangiulio / CNBC: |
Kalshi Klear, the company's internal clearing house, files for CFTC approval to add margin trading as it seeks to attract institutional liquidity — Prediction market platform Kalshi filed on Tuesday with federal regulators to seek approval to offer leverage on event contracts …
More: The Crypto Times, CoinGape, and Quartz
| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Adobe launches its free Premiere video editing app on Android, nearly a year after its iOS launch, to replace Premiere Rush, set to lose support on September 30 — The Android version of Premiere has unique layouts on candy bar phones and foldable devices. It's free to use and available today.
More: 9to5Google, Thurrott, Engadget, CNET, The Adobe Blog, Livemint, Digit, Phandroid, Trusted Reviews, DPReview, and New Atlas
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