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Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a $20M Series A, following a $10M seed in 2025 (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-19 AI

OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens, a mode that limits high-risk chats about self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and more, and has studying tools and guardrails (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-19

Google quietly rolled out a new program to let verified political campaigns more easily bypass Gmail's spam filter, after years of complaints from the GOP (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-19 Google Republican

Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-19 AI Robot

Your Controls Block Known Attacks. What About the Behavior? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-19

Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging “a hundred million people” from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more (www.wired.com)
2026-8-18 Google AI

As sweeping US crypto legislation stalls, the SEC and CFTC are moving to establish rules; the SEC is set to exempt certain token offerings from securities laws (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-18 CFTC

Klarna says CFO Niclas Neglén and CMO David Sandström plan to step down in early 2027, and lowers its full-year GMV guidance; KLAR falls 19%+ pre-market (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-18

In filings, Apple acknowledges App Store regulatory changes are weighing on its $100B+ services business; US App Store spend fell 6% YoY in Q2, per Sensor Tower (www.ft.com)
2026-8-18 Apple Sensor

How a bipartisan coalition of US states fought to present a united case against Meta; Judge Rogers established a hybrid structure for the multi-week trial (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-18

Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Facial Recognition

Dutch company Fairphone launches its $650 flagship repairable Fairphone (Gen 6+) in the US and plans to keep launching new phone generations every two years (www.wired.com)
2026-8-18 Netherlands

Microsoft tests faster Windows File Explorer, new context menu (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-18 Microsoft

Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue down 6.1% YoY to ~$16.2B and net income down 21% to ~$1.4B, above est., amid a persistent memory shortage and weaker smartphone demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 Xiaomi

Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-18 Alibaba

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens, a new mode that limits high-risk chats around self-harm, eating disorders, and other topics, adds studying tools, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-18

Get 5 years of AdGuard VPN on 10 devices for just $35 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-18 VPN

Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-18 Android IOS AI Reddit

CISA: Windows Task Host flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-18

Alibaba's Alipay launches a new “all-in-one” platform for businesses to use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock jumps 5%+ and is up 40%+ since June (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 Alibaba AI Alipay

10 Historical Figures Behind Epic Broadway Flops (listverse.com)
2026-8-18

AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-18 Startup AI

Microsoft confirms outage affecting search in Microsoft 365 apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-18 Microsoft

Sources: China orders some state-linked entities to uninstall a government-tailored version of Windows 10, ahead of its February 2027 retirement timeline (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 China

Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts (www.newscientist.com)
2026-8-18 Google AI

Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 AI

Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC has references to unreleased products: a Home Hub, home accessories, new Beats, AirPods Pro 4, Apple Intelligence in China, and more (www.macrumors.com)
2026-8-18 China Apple Intelligence

Solar Power and Batteries Have Been Keeping Europe's Grid Stable (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Europe Solar

Microsoft starts removing WMIC tool used by cybercriminals (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-18 Microsoft

In filings, Apple acknowledges App Store regulatory changes are weighing on its $100B+ services business; US App Store spend fell 6% in Q2, per Sensor Tower (www.ft.com)
2026-8-18 Apple Sensor

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