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Motorola's 2027 Flagships Will Officially Support GrapheneOS (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-26

A detailed look at Jalapeño, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-source models (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-8-26 Google Nvidia AMD

Mexico-based Primero, which aims to modernize legacy software used by Latin American companies with AI, raised a $12M seed co-led by Kaszek and General Catalyst (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-26 U.S. Mexico AI Latin America

Uber launches an optional safety feature allowing parents or guardians to watch a livestream of their teen's ride via the driver's front-facing phone camera (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26 Uber

Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform running fully on-device with zero token costs, starting with Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX Linux PCs (venturebeat.com)
2026-8-26 Linux AI Nvidia

Tel Aviv and NYC-based Alice, which works to protect AI models from misuse and rogue behavior, raised $140M led by Apax Digital at a valuation “close to $1B” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26 AI

Waymo plans to offer ride-hailing services in Germany, starting with Munich, by the end of 2027, marking its third international market and the first in the EU (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26 Germany Munich

Autonomous trucking startup Gatik raised $200M, two months after striking a multi-year commercial agreement with PepsiCo, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-26 Startup

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency vs. Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-26 AI Nvidia

Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are $899+ and $1,699+, $100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is $5,499+, up $200 (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-25 Apple

WhatsApp upgrades its two-step verification, letting users replace the six-digit PIN with a longer alphanumeric password, and adds support for multiple passkeys (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-25 WhatsApp

Apple says M5 Ultra uses a quad-die 3nm architecture, “a first for Apple silicon”, with inter-die bandwidth of 4.4TB/s+ and up to a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU (www.engadget.com)
2026-8-25 Apple

Apple unveils M6, a 2nm chip with a 12-core CPU and GPU, and up to 32GB of unified memory, saying it provides “the world's fastest single-threaded performance” (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-25 Apple

Apple unveils a Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, with up to 4x faster AI performance and up to 2x faster graphics, for $899+ with M6 and $1,699+ with M5 Pro (www.apple.com)
2026-8-25 AI Apple

Asus opens pre-orders for the standalone Xbox Ally X20 at $1,300+, with shipments from October 15; a $2,500 bundle includes the X20 and ROG Xreal R1 glasses (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-25 Xbox

Apple updates the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, with up to 4.3x faster AI performance, faster graphics, and up to 512GB of unified memory for $2,499+ (www.apple.com)
2026-8-25 AI Apple

Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-25 Google AI

Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil the $250 Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety band, set to ship in early 2027 (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-25

Emerald AI, which uses AI to optimize data center power consumption based on grid demands, raised $150M led by DCVC and Energize Capital at a $1.05B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-25 AI

OpenAI bans a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to evade restrictions and run an influence operation, including creating social media comments (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-25 Russia

Accelerated Understanding launches an enterprise-focused physics AI model that uses neural operators and handled 5T pieces of data in a single prompt in tests (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-25 AI

Xiaomi unveils the Xring O100, a 6nm AI accelerator to boost its MiMo models when paired with its O3 mobile chip, and the 3nm Xring D100 for autonomous driving (www.scmp.com)
2026-8-25 Mobile AI Xiaomi

10 Laws Written for Exactly One Person (listverse.com)
2026-8-25

A profile of French software maker ChapsVision, which won a contract to replace Palantir at France's domestic intel agency in June and targets an IPO by 2030 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-25 France Intel IPO

Google is rolling out Motion Assist, a feature to reduce motion sickness by showing visual cues on the screen, to Android 17, starting with select Pixel devices (www.androidauthority.com)
2026-8-25 Android Google

Windows Backdoor 'Sleepwalker' Hides in Memory Until Activated by a 'Magic Packet' (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-25

Qustodio: 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 were on TikTok in July, just one percentage point below pre-ban levels, and 10-to-12-year-olds' usage is up (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-25 Australia Ban

Tim Cook is set to step down on September 1, and a source says Apple hosted an intimate farewell party; sources say Cook's assistant will work with John Ternus (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-25 Apple Tim Cook

Q&A with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on lessons from Apple's Beats acquisition, creativity, being pro-AI music creation, AI as a tool like drum machines, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-25 AI Apple

UK filings: OnlyFans parent Fenix paid late owner Leonid Radvinsky $709M in the months leading up to his death in March; FY 2025 revenue rose 10% YoY to $1.55B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-25

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