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- Helcim, a payments processor for SMBs, raised a CA$53M Series C led by Business Development Bank of Canada's Growth Venture Fund at a CA$250M valuation (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit) [1d]
- OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico) [2d]
- Gurman: as part of Vision Pro cuts, Apple is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming and reducing the size of a unit producing immersive video content (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) [2d]
- Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites (Rashika Singh/Reuters) [2d]
- OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters) [2d]
- Sources: Devoted Health, which uses AI to help coordinate medical care for those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, is raising new funding at a $25B valuation (Katie Roof/Business Insider) [2d]
- Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels (Terry Chen/NVIDIA Technical Blog) [2d]
- Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) [2d]
- DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others (Omarchy News) [2d]
- Source: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, prompting others on the sales team to consider resigning (Laura Bratton/The Information) [2d]
- The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 (Ashley Gold/Axios) [2d]
- Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools (Claude) [2d]
- Taiwan taps US startup Vatn for modular S12 undersea drones – Washington’s ally turns to cheaper underwater systems [2d]
- $16,000 Quad AI Geekom mini PC cluster gets DeepSeek V4 Flash treatment with 512GB RAM — reaches 14.61 tokens per second [2d]
- ‘Better move would be to ban it’: Apple Music steps up plan for AI-generated song labels, but some users think it doesn’t go far enough [2d]
- Experts warn expired credit cards can be brought back from the dead to make contactless payments [2d]
- Insidious: Out of the Further review — the new horror movie is the franchise's scariest yet, but that doesn't mean it's good [2d]
- This 9-in-1 USB dock with a Blu-ray drive just smashed its Kickstarter goal by 300x—as backers succumb to dongle fatigue and physical media nostalgia [2d]
- 'Took me months to work this out': Redditor explains how Windows 11 can end up stripping out the GPU driver on your gaming laptop [2d]
- 'We're offering gamers not just two more headsets, but two different ways to experience their games' — Audio specialist beyerdynamic announces two new, affordable wireless headsets, the MMX 100 and MMX 130 [2d]
- No driver, no problem — devs use Claude AI to craft native macOS tool for an 'obscure' Windows-only printer [2d]
- Back to school on a budget: Our top 5 mini PCs under $600 for work and study [2d]
- I spent six months with the Poco F8 Ultra, and it delivers a mobile streaming experience ‘that simply can’t be matched by any phone of a similar price’ [2d]
- Even dead websites aren't safe — experts warn hackers are spending millions on expired domains to enable malware scams [2d]
- Canon's Pixma TS6520 wireless all-in-one inkjet is a true back-to-school printer pick for $79 [2d]
- The 5 best 4K Blu-rays for showing off your TVs vibrant colors — with titles from Disney, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros [2d]
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