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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
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.
SemiAnalysis:
A detailed look at Jalapeño, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-weight models  —  OpenAI's self-designed ASIC compared with Rubin, Jalapeño's TCO, throughput per MW, and spicy deets
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
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.
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 …
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
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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 …
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 …
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  —  WhatsApp announced Tuesday that it's launching new security features and updates to help users keep their accounts secure …
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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  —  Emerald AI, now valued at $1.05 billion, uses software to keep power demand at the computing facilities from getting out of control.
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  —  Is the best handheld screen worth an extra $300 to you? … The Asus Xbox Ally X20 looked like it could be one of the best handheld gaming PCs yet …
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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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Pennsylvania's AG sues Snap, alleging Snapchat fails to protect teens from compulsively using the app, two weeks after filing a similar lawsuit against TikTokFind
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta and state AGs have discussed a possible mid-trial settlement of the social media addiction lawsuit, which is currently in its second week of trialFind
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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humansFind
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Joyce Lee / Reuters:
South Korean AI services platform Wrtn raised a ~$72.2M Series C at a $722M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$166MFind
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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 launchFind
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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 offlineFind
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Wall Street Journal:
Intuit reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.35B, vs. $4.27B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue growth of 9% to 10%, below ~11% est.; INTU drops 8%+ after hoursFind
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
WSJ opinion editor Paul Gigot defends Stanley Druckenmiller's use of AI to write an op-ed, saying “nobody can doubt that his op-ed is his genuine opinion”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
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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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