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Sources: Devoted Health, which uses AI to help coordinate medical care for those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, is raising new funding at a $25B valuation (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-22 AI Medicare

Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels (developer.nvidia.com)
2026-8-22 Nvidia

American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22 U.S.

Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-22 Google

DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others (omarchy.org)
2026-8-22 Linux

AI Boosted Homework Scores, Then Exam Scores Dropped (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22 AI

The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 (www.axios.com)
2026-8-22

Source: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, prompting others on the sales team to consider resigning (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-22

Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-22 AI Apple

Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22

Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools (claude.com)
2026-8-22

New SynkLoader malware pushed in Microsoft Teams phishing campaign (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-22 Microsoft

Micron Unveils $10 Billion AI Memory Research Lab In Boise (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22 AI

Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, 'Enormously Helped' By AI (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22 AI

Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-22 IPO Startup AI London

Sources: US Department of Energy is investigating whether Chinese lidar sensors might pose a security risk if they become widely used on vehicles in the US (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-22 China Energy

Walmart To Finally Start Accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22 Google Apple Apple Pay Walmart

Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-22

Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says it will soon start rolling out the tech, which supports Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-22 Google Apple Apple Pay Walmart

Filings: Apple paid Ireland $17B in taxes last year, after an EU court ordered it to pay €13B in back taxes; Apple paid $43B in corporate income taxes globally (www.ft.com)
2026-8-22 Tax Apple Ireland

Uber is set to be fined €825M by the Dutch data watchdog over its use of automated systems to deactivate driver accounts, in the second largest fine under GDPR (www.ft.com)
2026-8-22 Uber Netherlands GDPR

Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-22 Startup Nvidia

Google Gives Publishers a 'Preferred Sources' Button to Fight AI-Driven Traffic Losses (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22 Google AI

Microsoft blames Windows gaming issues on RGB lighting devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-22 Microsoft

Microsoft rolls out Classic Outlook theme for New Outlook users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-22 Microsoft

Is Online Privacy Possible? How Digital Identities Can Help (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-22

Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a new company tentatively named KakaoAI, which it expects to relist in Korea in 2027 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-21 Korea

Filings: China-based chipmaker YMTC's application to list its shares on Shanghai's STAR Market has been accepted, setting the stage for a $4.9B share sale (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-21 China Shanghai

DeepSeek unveils an experimental version of its V4 Flash model that can understand visual prompts, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-21

CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited TrueConf Server flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-21

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