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Google debuts Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that powers Gboard Rambler and is coming to Chrome, in public preview for developers and enterprises (9to5google.com)
27 days ago Google Chrome

New GPUThor attack defeats NVIDIA ECC protection for root access (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago Nvidia

Amazon to Acquire DuckLabs, Adding the Team Behind DuckDB (developers.slashdot.org)
27 days ago Amazon

Get a refurbished iPhone 16e for $359.99, down from $599 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago iPhone

Meta agrees to pay up to $18B to settle US states' claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers, and more (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago Facebook Instagram

Sources: Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45B over six years to rent about 460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago Nvidia Virginia

Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction (yro.slashdot.org)
27 days ago Social Media

Meta agrees to $18 billion settlement over teen social media harms (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago

The Trump administration has struck data-sharing deals with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other tech companies to track how AI is affecting jobs and hiring (www.axios.com)
27 days ago Trump Google Amazon AI

Apple announces a “Surprise and shine” event on September 9 at 10am PT at Apple Park, where its first foldable iPhone, iPhone 18 Pro, and more are expected (9to5mac.com)
27 days ago iPhone Apple

Deep Cogito, which develops open-weight models and helps companies build their own specialized AI models, raised a $43M Series A led by TQ Ventures (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago AI

Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy (yro.slashdot.org)
27 days ago China AI

Firefox 157 Will Include JPEG XL By Default On All Platforms (tech.slashdot.org)
27 days ago Firefox

Amazon agrees to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind open-source database DuckDB, for an undisclosed sum; DuckDB will remain open source (www.geekwire.com)
27 days ago Database Amazon

Banks are warming up to launching their own stablecoins as nonbank companies enter the market; sources: JPMorgan Chase evaluated launching its own stablecoin (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago JPMorgan

Interviews with OpenAI leaders, employees, and others on the company's reboot; Sam Altman says OpenAI would have a system he would call AGI by the end of 2026 (time.com)
27 days ago

Bengaluru-based Runable, whose AI agents let small businesses find customers, run ad campaigns, and more, raised a $21M Series A at a $65M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago AI

Boston Scientific says cyberattack disrupted operations globally (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago

Xbox announces a disc-to-digital feature that will allow users to digitize their existing physical games, rolling out for Xbox Insider testers on August 31 (www.theverge.com)
27 days ago Xbox

Hackers target Microsoft SharePoint RCE chain with PoC exploit (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago Microsoft

The US DOJ says it disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins at the DOJ, NASA, the Fed, Senate, and others, seizing two platforms' domains (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago China Senate NASA

In Q2, Apple's base iPhone 17 was the global best-selling smartphone, with a 6% share, followed by the iPhone 17 Pro Max; Apple and Samsung had all 10 top spots (www.counterpointresearch.com)
27 days ago iPhone Samsung Apple

Sources: Sword Health plans to acquire mental health company Headspace for between $200M and $300M in cash, far below its ~$3B valuation in 2021 (www.axios.com)
27 days ago

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal GLM-5 series model, with 320B parameters, saying it outperforms GLM-5.2 at “one-tenth the price” (z.ai)
27 days ago AI

Vanguard agrees to acquire RIA software startup Altruist, a source says for $4.6B in cash; Altruist raised $600M and had a $1.9B valuation in early 2025 (www.axios.com)
27 days ago Startup

Amazon's Ring unveils a new proprietary encryption architecture called TAKE, set to begin rolling out in September as the default encryption for all cameras (www.theverge.com)
27 days ago Amazon

Snowflake ends service-account passwords. Now comes the hard part (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago

FBI disrupts proxy network enabling Chinese espionage operations (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago China FBI

Meta's AG settlement will be distributed to the 48 signing states and four jurisdictions in annual installments over a 10-year period based on their populations (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago

Meta says its AG deal requires it to create an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, with a false positive rate no higher than 10% (www.theverge.com)
27 days ago

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