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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 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google debuts Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-t...

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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 (Reuters)

Meta agrees to pay up to $18B to settle US states'...

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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 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Sources: Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45B o...

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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 (Courtenay Brown/Axios)

The Trump administration has struck data-sharing d...

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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 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Apple announces a "Surprise and shine" event on Se...

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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 (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)

Deep Cogito, which develops open-weight models and...

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Amazon agrees to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind open-source database DuckDB, for an undisclosed sum; DuckDB will remain open source (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Amazon agrees to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam c...

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Banks are warming up to launching their own stablecoins as nonbank companies enter the market; sources: JPMorgan Chase evaluated launching its own stablecoin (Wall Street Journal)

Banks are warming up to launching their own stable...

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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 (Alex Heath/Time)

Interviews with OpenAI leaders, employees, and oth...

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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 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Bengaluru-based Runable, whose AI agents let small...

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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 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Xbox announces a disc-to-digital feature that will...

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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 (Reuters)

The US DOJ says it disrupted a Chinese hacking ope...

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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 (Counterpoint Research)

In Q2, Apple's base iPhone 17 was the global best-...

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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)

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively mu...

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Sources: Sword Health plans to acquire mental health company Headspace for between $200M and $300M in cash, far below its ~$3B valuation in 2021 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

Sources: Sword Health plans to acquire mental heal...

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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 (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Amazon's Ring unveils a new proprietary encryption...

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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 (Dan Primack/Axios)

Vanguard agrees to acquire RIA software startup Al...

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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 (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

Meta's AG settlement will be distributed to the 48...

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