Tech

Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it “the largest ever by a Korean company” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-21 Korea Samsung

Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-21 Korea AI Nvidia

China grants Geely a two-year permit for the country's first private satellite IoT trial, letting Geely offer connectivity to sectors like transport and energy (www.scmp.com)
2026-8-21 IoT China Energy

10 Remarkable Archaeological Sites Hidden in the Desert (listverse.com)
2026-8-21

How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho, with new millionaires, job growth, rising housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-21 Real Estate

China Is About to Launch Its Most Ambitious Moon Mission Yet (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 China

How crypto, AI, and online betting companies emerged as the biggest industries shaping the 2026 US midterm races, as corporate spending reaches a record $517M (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-21 AI

Are You Sure You Want a Car With a Giant Touch Screen? (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21

Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-21 China AI Brazil

Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at $150M-$200M (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-21 Startup AI

Nevada approves permits letting Tesla deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in the Las Vegas area over the next year, while Waymo and Uber are each allowed up to 1,000 (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-21 Uber Tesla Vegas

Source: Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year to use trillions of AI tokens weekly via Azure, quietly becoming one of Microsoft's largest AI customers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-21 Microsoft AI

A NJ teenager drops her lawsuit against Meta, Google, and Snap over alleged social media addiction, without any payment; TikTok previously settled her claims (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-21 Google

Webinar: How AI broke the Pyramid of Pain (pushsecurity.com)
2026-8-21 AI

A US judge tosses part of the conviction of ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, who was found guilty of stealing AI trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-21 China Google AI

China's YouTube Rival Bilibili Is Going Global (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 China YouTube

OpenAI rolls out an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT read, search, and analyze chats, prepare and send messages, and more (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-21 Apple

Super Micro says its independent probe found no evidence its CEO or senior management knew of an alleged scheme to smuggle $2.5B worth of Nvidia chips to China (fortune.com)
2026-8-21 China Nvidia

Watching TikTok Videos and Instagram Reels Deactivates the Brain's Cognitive Control Network (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 Instagram

Email: Apple Music tells industry partners that songs tagged as “materially generated using AI” by content providers will be visibly labeled on the service (www.billboard.com)
2026-8-21 AI Apple

Ukrainian Publishers Call For Support After Russian Attacks Destroy 10 Million Books (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 Russia Ukraine

GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center (github.blog)
2026-8-21 GitHub

Sources: Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise $60B+ in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-21 AI

Google rolls out an embeddable “Preferred Sources” button, natural language Discover controls, and custom audio briefings in the Google News app on Android (www.searchenginejournal.com)
2026-8-21 Android NLP Google

San Mateo-based Twin1 AI, which creates professional digital twins that integrate with tools like Slack, launches from stealth with a $20M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-8-21 AI Slack

Voters Aren't Waiting For November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers (politics.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21

Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive $6B licensing deal with Nvidia, plus a $1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation; 109 staffers get Nvidia job offers (www.newcomer.co)
2026-8-21 Nvidia

Charter closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition, announced in May 2025, uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband providers, and completes its Liberty deal (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-8-21

Does Using AI to Edit an Op-Ed on Students' Math Skills Undermine the Argument? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 AI Mathematics

Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after launching it in Brazil last month (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-21 Brazil

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