Tech

A look at the 2025 AI Film Festival, backed by Runway AI and screened by Imax, as some cinephiles deride it while others praise the quality of its short films (www.wired.com)
2025-8-20 AI

Grok's “share” button generates a unique URL that makes private chats searchable on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo; Google has indexed 370K+ Grok conversations (www.forbes.com)
2025-8-20 Google

Microsoft reportedly fixing SSD failures caused by Windows updates (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-20 Microsoft

Sources: Oracle is on the hook for tens of billions to build unprecedentedly large data centers, including $1B per year on a gas-powered megasite in West Texas (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-20 Oracle Texas

This $120 refurb Chromebook touchscreen deal is ready for work or play (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-20

CERT-In flags serious vulnerabilities in Microsoft products, urges users to update immediately (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-20 Microsoft

Sources: Elon Musk is quietly pumping the brakes on his plans to start a US political party, telling allies he wants to focus his attention on his companies (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-20 Elon Musk

YouGov: 59% of US adults use smart assistants to check the weather, 51% for music, 47% to get answers on the web, and 40% for timers, mirroring usage in 2018 (sherwood.news)
2025-8-20

Kick says it is “urgently reviewing” the circumstances of the death of a French livestreamer who was subjected to violence and sleep deprivation during streams (www.bbc.com)
2025-8-20 France

Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$4.6B, slightly below est., and online ad revenue down 15% YoY to ~$2.3B, as China's ad market remains weak (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-20 China

Best AI subscription plans 2025: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Grok compared (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-20 AI

US Tech Stocks Hit By Concerns Over Future of AI Boom (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-20 AI

Microsoft releases emergency updates to fix Windows recovery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-20 Microsoft

Microsoft fixes Windows upgrades failing with 0x8007007F error (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-20 Microsoft

Analysis: Intel's stock, up 28% in August, is trading at a 53 forward P/E ratio, its highest since early 2002, reflecting its declining profits in recent years (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-20 Intel

US federal prosecutors charge an Oregon man with operating the Rapper Bot, one of the most powerful DDoS botnets ever, which knocked X offline earlier in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-20

Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expects stablecoins to drive demand for Treasuries, as talks with Tether and Circle help inform issuance decisions (t.co)
2025-8-20

Meet Adobe Studio, a new platform that transforms your PDFs into presentations, study guides and visuals (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-20 Adobe

Google Pixel 10 Launch LIVE Updates: Google's latest line of Pixel devices is almost here (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-20 Google

PE firm Advent International agrees to acquire U-blox, a SIX Swiss Exchange-listed wireless and positioning chipmaker, for about $1.3B via public tender offer (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-20 Switzerland

Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus and an earlier product called Monica, says its annual revenue run rate has hit $90M, with Manus contributing the most (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-20 Startup

India's Got Time (news.slashdot.org)
2025-8-20 India

Canva launches employee stock sale to new and existing investors at a $42B valuation, up 30%+ from $32B in 2024, reports $3.3B+ annualized sales and 240M+ MAUs (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-20

Sources: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is exploring government equity stakes in return for CHIPS Act funding from Micron, TSMC, Samsung, and others (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-20 Samsung Equity

EliseAI, which provides AI tools for healthcare and housing industries, raised a $250M Series E led by a16z, doubling its valuation to $2.2B from August 2024 (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-20 Real Estate AI

Shares of SoftBank plunged as much as 9.17% on Wednesday, as tech stocks in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong fall after US tech stocks dropped overnight (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-20 Japan Korea Hong Kong Taiwan

Google tweaks Google Play conditions following EU pressure (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-20 Google

Google settles YouTube children's privacy lawsuit (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-20 Google YouTube

US examines equity stake in chip makers for CHIPS Act cash grants (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-20 Equity

The Nasdaq fell 1.4%, with Nvidia down 3.5%, Palantir down 9.4% and Arm down 5%, with AI enthusiasm cooling after a critical MIT report and warning from Altman (www.ft.com)
2025-8-20 AI Nvidia

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