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TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be ~400% higher than a year prior but Apple won't pass on the full cost to customers (9to5mac.com)
17 days ago iPhone Apple

Microsoft says KB5120998 Windows update resets desktop settings (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
17 days ago Microsoft

Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest purchase after it paid $20B for Groq assets at the end of last year (www.cnbc.com)
17 days ago Nvidia Asset

PlusAI, which is operating autonomous freight routes in Texas with trucking company Ryder, plans to go public in a SPAC deal at an $800M pre-money valuation (www.reuters.com)
17 days ago Texas

Plex warns users to patch security vulnerabilities immediately (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
17 days ago

Stop paying monthly: 1TB of Koofr cloud storage is $129.97 for life (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
17 days ago

Sources: neocloud Fluidstack closed a $1.5B round led by Jane Street at an $18B+ valuation; in July, the company announced a $750M round at a $7.5B valuation (www.forbes.com)
17 days ago

Israeli startup Guardio, which offers a subscription consumer security service to protect digital accounts like emails, raised $40M at a $1.1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Israel Startup

The Trump administration imposes tariffs of up to 100% on foreign drones, including 100% on models over 55lbs or with thermal imaging, in a bid to thwart China (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago Trump China Drone

Modern venture capital has transformed into an unchecked oligarchy, or “Cancer Capital”, where mega-firms managing $50B+ live off fees and shift risk elsewhere (anildash.com)
18 days ago

US federal courts have consistently shown a wariness in demanding structural remedies against Big Tech despite finding antitrust liability, as tech races ahead (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago

How some parents, mostly mothers, use AI to help them organize their families' schedules and automate mundane household tasks via apps like Ollie and Cozi Max (www.ft.com)
18 days ago AI

Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage (www.theverge.com)
18 days ago AI

All G20 nations unanimously endorse the non-binding Carolina Principles, a US-proposed framework advocating for a lighter-touch, sector-specific AI regulation (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago AI G20

Microsoft Teams, Outlook fail to launch on ARM-based Windows PCs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
18 days ago Microsoft

At the G20 summit, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk joined Trump officials in lobbying policymakers against heavy AI regulations (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago Trump AI Elon Musk Zuckerberg G20

Instrument Clusters Are Now Paid Extras In Two Hyundai Models (tech.slashdot.org)
18 days ago

How organized opposition that toppled a $100B data center project in Virginia's Prince William County became a blueprint for data center backlash in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Virginia

Several international law firms are seeking to build bespoke AI tools to gain an edge and protect their IP, while using off-the-shelf AI for everyday tasks (www.ft.com)
18 days ago AI

Taiwan investigated 166 cases in six years involving companies allegedly hiding China ties while pursuing chip talent and tech, alongside 67 trade-secret probes (restofworld.org)
18 days ago China Taiwan

Uber is aligning with drivers' unions in a bid to slow the rollout of robotaxis across the US, as it faces a technological disruption to its core business (www.ft.com)
18 days ago Uber

Global Heating Will Hit At Least 1.8C, UN Warns, and There Are 'No Good Outcomes' (news.slashdot.org)
18 days ago

A survey of 21,000 internet-using children aged 12 to 17 across 21 countries finds almost one in five experienced tech-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse (www.unicef.org)
18 days ago

Equinix, whose stock is up 33% YTD, pushing its market cap to $100B, inks a deal with Nvidia to let customers run their AI models on the Together AI platform (www.cnbc.com)
18 days ago AI Nvidia

The LA Unified School District bars ~378,000 students from using AI tools on district-provided laptops and tablets as officials review AI's role in classrooms (lamag.com)
18 days ago AI

Sources: ByteDance has secured a $29.6B loan in Asia's second-largest USD-denominated borrowing this year, behind SoftBank's $40B bridge loan signed in March (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Asia

South Korean semiconductor exports surged 209% YoY to a record $46.65B in August, accounting for 47.5% of the country's goods exports, according to officials (www.cnbc.com)
18 days ago Korea

China-based Moonshot filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO; source: the company is in talks to raise a pre-IPO funding round at a $50B valuation (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago China Hong Kong IPO

Sources: Meta adjusts employee review language around “AI-driven impact” and token usage, easing off on tokenmaxxing, while promoting the use of AI agent Hatch (www.wired.com)
18 days ago AI

A look at Loudoun County, Virginia, dubbed “Data Center Alley”, which hosts ~250 data centers and offers a glimpse into data centers' impact on communities (www.theverge.com)
18 days ago Virginia

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