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Apple sets September 9 event, teases first foldable iPhone
The "Surprise and shine" keynote will also be incoming CEO John Ternus's public debut, two days after Tim Cook steps aside for Apple's biggest boardroom change in over a decade.
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Hackers Used SpaceX's Cursor AI Tool to Breach Seven Companies, Researchers Find
A Russian-speaking ransomware affiliate spent weeks coaxing Cursor's AI coding agent into helping breach manufacturers, insurers and a pharmaceutical distributor across nine countries, according to two security firms whose findings were independently reviewed by Reuters.
CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Critical Gitea Flaw Under Active Attack
A maximum-severity code injection bug in the open-source Git hosting platform Gitea lets attackers who merely register an account seize control of a server; U.S. officials say hackers are already exploiting it.
OpenAI's first custom chip claims to outperform Nvidia's Blackwell on inference
Independently verified benchmarks show OpenAI's Jalapeño chip, built with Broadcom, beating Nvidia's current AI processors on speed and efficiency — a rare feat for a first-generation chip.
Amazon to shut down Mechanical Turk, the platform that quietly trained the AI boom
The 21-year-old crowdsourced labor marketplace, once dismissed by Jeff Bezos as "artificial artificial intelligence," will close September 30 as newer AI-focused data-labeling startups take its place.
Meta agrees to pay up to $16.68 billion in landmark teen safety settlement
The company will overhaul default settings on Facebook and Instagram for minors under a proposed consent judgment reached mid-trial with attorneys general from 51 states, ending a case that put its internal safety research before a federal jury.
Security researchers find flaw letting any website hijack NVIDIA's local AI agent tool
A misconfiguration in NVIDIA's NemoClaw agent framework let a single malicious webpage seize unauthenticated control of a developer's local AI model and implant instructions that persisted across every future conversation, researchers at Oasis Security disclosed.
Robotics startup Generalist hits $3 billion valuation just two months after its last raise
A regulatory filing confirms the scale of a roughly $200 million round led by 8VC, extending Generalist's Series B to about $600 million as investors bet on foundation models for robots reaching their own "ChatGPT moment."
Apple unveils new Mac mini and Mac Studio chips in a rare August product launch
The M6 and M5 Ultra processors arrive in redesigned desktops built for running AI models locally, in what is likely Tim Cook's last major hardware unveiling before he steps down as chief executive on September 1.
Nvidia's New Inference Chip, Born of Its $20 Billion Groq Deal, Enters Full Production
The Groq 3 LPX accelerator, built to speed up how fast AI agents generate answers, has begun shipping with Nebius as its first cloud customer, Nvidia said, eight months after it paid $20 billion to license Groq's chip technology.
OpenAI Says It Dismantled Russian Network That Built a Fake Think Tank With ChatGPT
The company banned a cluster of accounts it said used its chatbot to generate a fabricated Israeli research institute, plagiarized scholarship and a pro-Russia scoring index distributed across five social platforms.
Uber to let parents watch teens' rides live via in-car video
Uber has begun streaming live video from teen riders' trips to a linked parent's phone, the biggest addition to its teen-safety tools since 2023 and a response to growing state pressure to record rideshare trips involving minors.
New Zealand government revives bill to ban under-16s from Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat
The Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill would force Meta, TikTok and Snap to verify users are 16 or older or face fines of up to 10% of global revenue — but two of the government's own coalition partners have already vowed to vote it down.
XPeng spins off robotics unit, raises $900 million at $6.3 billion valuation
The Chinese automaker carved its humanoid-robot business into a new company, Dogotix, in the largest private funding round yet for China's embodied-AI industry — hours after reporting weaker-than-expected car sales.
Alibaba raises record $10.2 billion in Hong Kong share sale to fund AI buildout
Alibaba priced the largest share placement in Hong Kong's history and unveiled its newest AI video model on the same day, doubling down on a multibillion-dollar bet on AI infrastructure even as capital spending crushes profit.
Google secures $12.2 billion Marvell stock warrant in expanded AI chip deal
A securities filing shows Google agreed to a custom-silicon partnership with Marvell that could be worth up to $120 billion through 2033, paying its supplier largely in equity as it diversifies its AI chip supply chain beyond Broadcom.
CISA orders federal agencies to patch four actively exploited flaws within three days
The vulnerabilities affect widely used Windows, VMware vCenter, SharePoint and macOS software; one has been tied to a suspected China-nexus campaign that has compromised hundreds of servers worldwide.
AI chip startup Etched doubles its valuation to $21 billion in a month
Etched, which builds specialized chips for running AI models rather than training them, raised $700 million led by Jane Street — which is also the four-year-old startup's first paying customer.