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Qualcomm acquires Italian open-source electronics platform Arduino for an undisclosed sum and will retain the Arduino brand; Arduino releases a Pi-like board (www.theverge.com)
4 days ago Italy

Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands (www.theinformation.com)
4 days ago Tesla Robot Elon Musk

Docs: Oracle generated ~$900M from its Nvidia cloud server rental business, with a $125M gross profit, or a 14% margin, vs. its ~70% overall gross profit margin (www.theinformation.com)
4 days ago Oracle Nvidia

California Law Forces Netflix, Hulu To Turn Down Ad Volumes (entertainment.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Netflix California

FurtherAI, which uses AI to automate insurance tasks such as claims processing, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $30M (www.axios.com)
4 days ago AI Insurance

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics (science.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Quantum Nobel

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago AI JPMorgan

India's Grid Cannot Keep Up With Its Ambitions (hardware.slashdot.org)
4 days ago India

EvenUp, which makes AI tools for personal injury law firms, raised a $150M Series E led by Bessemer at a $2B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $385M (fortune.com)
4 days ago AI

Dell says it now expects annual revenue to grow between 7% and 9%, up from its prior forecast of 3% to 4%, citing demand for AI infrastructure (www.cnbc.com)
4 days ago AI

Senate Dem Report Finds Almost 100 Million Jobs Could Be Lost To AI (politics.slashdot.org)
4 days ago AI Senate

Meanwhile, a Bermuda-regulated bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $82M from Apollo, Bain Capital, Haun Ventures, and others, after a $40M Series A in April (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Bitcoin Insurance

10 Shocking Crimes Where the Perpetrator Walked Free (listverse.com)
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OpenAI's recent deals with Oracle, Nvidia, Samsung, AMD, SK Hynix, and others, plus its DevDay announcements, show it is making a play to be the Windows of AI (stratechery.com)
4 days ago Samsung AI Oracle Nvidia AMD

Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on social media algorithms, studying music at Stanford, music streaming economics, creators, TikTok, influencers, AI, and more (www.wired.com)
4 days ago AI Algorithm

Anthropic and IBM partner to make Anthropic's Claude models available in IBM's latest IDE, and IBM aims to make Claude available in more products soon (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago IBM

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming platforms like Netflix, the first such law in the US, modeled on a 2010 law (www.politico.com)
4 days ago Netflix California

How Israel's war in Gaza engulfed the entertainment industry, including popular TV shows produced in Israel going dark on US streaming platforms like Netflix (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago Israel Netflix

At OpenAI's DevDay, Sam Altman and Jony Ive spoke in vague terms about the “family of devices” currently under development; Altman says “it will take a while” (www.wired.com)
4 days ago

Microsoft Is Plugging More Holes That Let You Use Windows 11 Without an Online Account (tech.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Microsoft

Sources: NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange is in talks to invest $2B in Polymarket in a deal that could value it at between $8B and $10B (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago

A look at the OpenAI-AMD partnership, which added ~$78B to AMD's market cap and shows OpenAI is good at deals; OpenAI deals also boosted Shopify and Etsy stocks (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago AMD Shopify

UK police dismantle an international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40K stolen smartphones from the UK to China, arrest 18 suspects, and recover 2,000 phones (www.bbc.com)
4 days ago China

Jaguar Land Rover plans to resume some UK production after a cyberattack in August; an analyst says the hack wiped out £5M in daily profit and delayed 30K+ cars (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago

Black Holes Might Hold the Key To a 60-Year Cosmic Mystery (science.slashdot.org)
4 days ago

10 Representations of Death from Myth, Legend, and Folktale (listverse.com)
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OpenAI's computing deals with Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and others have topped $1T, commitments that dwarf its revenue and raise questions about how it can fund them (t.co)
4 days ago Oracle Nvidia AMD

Quarter of UK University Physics Departments At Risk of Closing, Survey Finds (science.slashdot.org)
4 days ago

MrBeast, who earned an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it “scary times” for the industry (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago AI

CBS News Was Just Taken Over By a Substack (news.slashdot.org)
4 days ago

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