Tech

IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications (venturebeat.com)
2026-8-25 IBM

Nvidia says its inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has entered full production and Nebius has signed on as the first customer; SpaceXAI will adopt Vera CPUs (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-25 Nvidia

Sources: Netflix has discussed adding streamers like Peacock and Fox One as it seeks to compete with YouTube and Roku in becoming a one-stop shop for TV content (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-25 YouTube Netflix

China's Bilibili relaunches its international app and plans an English-language site; it has been pushing MrBeast and others to post on its Chinese site (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-25 China

Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export AI servers to China (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-25 China Taiwan AI Nvidia

Minimus, a cybersecurity startup started by Twistlock founders, shuts down after failing to gain enough commercial momentum; Minimus raised a $51M seed in 2023 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-8-25 Startup

Sources detail how the Trump admin bypassed the DOJ trial team and pushed to settle the Live Nation case, after CEO Michael Rapino met White House officials (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-25 Trump

The FTC is settling its lawsuit against Zillow, resolving claims that Zillow violated antitrust law by paying Redfin $100M to stop competing in rental listings (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-24

Sources: Netflix discussed adding streamers like Peacock and Fox One as it seeks to compete with YouTube and Roku in becoming a one-stop shop for TV content (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-24 YouTube Netflix

After 50 Years, Physicists May Have Finally Found a Particle Made of Pure Force (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24

Irish lawmakers reconsider the country's 1999 ban on nuclear power as data centers' growing power demands account for ~25% of the country's electricity use (www.ft.com)
2026-8-24 Ban

Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking services across Asia and other emerging markets, raised $68M at a $1B valuation, after raising $51M in May (www.coindesk.com)
2026-8-24 Asia

Sources: ByteDance is merging coding platform Trae and agent-building tool Coze into Doubao, and plans to launch Doubao Work to compete with Tencent's WorkBuddy (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-24 Tencent

Ukraine says Russia used an Nvidia Jetson Orin computing module in its autonomous AI-guided drones; Nvidia says they are widely available on resale markets (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-24 Russia AI Drone Ukraine Nvidia

Ukrainian officials say an AI-guided, fully autonomous Russian drone killed three Ukrainians in a strike on a gas station in the city of Zaporizhzhia (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-24 Russia AI Drone Ukraine

Xiaomi launches the Xring O3, a 3nm SoC for its mobile devices, as the company seeks to reduce reliance on longtime suppliers Qualcomm and MediaTek (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-24 Mobile Xiaomi

Alibaba launches Wan3.0, a video generation model that can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-24 Alibaba

Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures at a $6.3B valuation, with Tencent and Alibaba participating (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-24 China Alibaba Tencent Robot IDG

US business schools are racing to prepare students to become chief AI officers, even as companies are still figuring out what the newest C-suite role entails (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-24 AI

Global central banks are pushing CBDCs to defend monetary sovereignty against USD stablecoins, but are struggling to find demand for the digital currencies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-24 Monetary Central Bank

SCO Successor Xinuos Asks Court to Rehear Its Claims Against IBM/Red Hat Over Project Monterey (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 IBM

A look at the collapse of Zondacrypto, Eastern and Central Europe's biggest crypto exchange, which went dark in April and is facing money laundering allegations (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-24 Europe

Oxford Economics: US corporate spending on equipment and facilities is set to rise 40% between 2021 and 2027, over 3x faster than Europe, driven by the AI race (www.ft.com)
2026-8-24 Europe AI

New Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for under-16s, requiring “high risk” platforms to check user ages or face penalties of up to 10% of global revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-24 New Zealand Ban

One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research (slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 AI

Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang (www.axios.com)
2026-8-24 AI

Sources: Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury's CFIUS national security review of its $80M deal to buy US clothing retailer Everlane, an unusual move (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-24

Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity valuing it at $30B+, after weighing a tech licensing deal and staff hires, as Perplexity hits $750M+ in ARR (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-24 Nvidia

At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records (www.telegraph.co.uk)
2026-8-24 China Robot

Could Mecha Comet's Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones? (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 Linux

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