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Alibaba releases Qwen&Image&Edit, the image editing version of Qwen&Image, supporting modifications of Chinese and English text while preserving font and style (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Alibaba releases Qwen&Image&Edit, the image editing ver...

Aug 20, 2025

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing ...

Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in India ahead of debut, a first, as it expands to five factories to cut reliance on China for US&bound units (Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in I...

Aug 19, 2025

Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in India ahead of ...

Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip&Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank acquiring Intel's faltering foundry business in the weeks before announcing SoftBank's $2B investment (Financial Times)

Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip&Bu Tan to discuss SoftBa...

Aug 19, 2025

Financial Times: Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank acqui...

Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding round that would value it at $100B, up 61% from December 2024, co&led by Thrive Capital; a16z is set to participate (Angel Au&Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding round that ...

Aug 19, 2025

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Databricks is finalizing a fundin...

Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires and steps down as CTO and board member; Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich becomes CTO and joins the board (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires and steps do...

Aug 19, 2025

Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires and ...

Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.54B, vs. $2.5B est., and Q1 and FY 2026 guidance above estimates; PANW jumps 4%+ after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $2....

Aug 19, 2025

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.54...

Source: Arm has hired Amazon AI chip director Rami Sinno to help develop its own chips; he previously worked on Amazon's Trainium and Inferentia chips (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Source: Arm has hired Amazon AI chip director Rami Sinn...

Aug 19, 2025

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Source: Arm has hired Amazon AI chip director Rami Sin...

SoftBank buys Foxconn's Ohio EV plant; Foxconn will produce AI servers at the plant as part of Softbank's $500B Stargate project with OpenAI and Oracle (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

SoftBank buys Foxconn's Ohio EV plant; Foxconn will pro...

Aug 18, 2025

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: SoftBank buys Foxconn's Ohio EV plant; Foxconn will produc...

Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their trade deal over "non&tariff barriers", including relaxing the DSA, which the EU sees as a red line (Financial Times)

Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their t...

Aug 18, 2025

Financial Times: Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their trade dea...

China's podcast audience is projected to reach 150M in 2025, up from ~700K five years ago, driven by grassroots hosts instinctively navigating China's red lines (Edward White/Financial Times)

China's podcast audience is projected to reach 150M in ...

Aug 18, 2025

Edward White / Financial Times: China's podcast audience is projected to reach 1...

NYC&based Protege, which prepares and sells real&world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M Series A led by Footwork (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

NYC&based Protege, which prepares and sells real&world ...

Aug 18, 2025

Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sel...

How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netflix in Southeast Asia through original productions and free, ad&supported services (Nikkei Asia)

How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gain...

Aug 18, 2025

Nikkei Asia: How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netfl...

Interview with Trent Brunson, R&D director at cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, which won $3M and 2nd place in DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge, behind Team Atlanta (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)

Interview with Trent Brunson, R&D director at cyber...

Aug 18, 2025

Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg: Interview with Trent Brunson, R&D director a...

Ex&Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two years' probation and a $34K+ fine for stealing trade secrets and sharing them with his new employer Microsoft (Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian)

Ex&Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two year...

Aug 17, 2025

Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian: Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two...

Big Tech's reverse acquihires for AI talent are hollowing out startups and eroding the culture that has made Silicon Valley an unparalleled source of innovation (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

Big Tech's reverse acquihires for AI talent are hollowi...

Aug 17, 2025

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: Big Tech's reverse acquihires for AI talent are...

Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, whose books helped shape the philosophical conversation about human intelligence and AI, passed away on July 18 at age 88 (Michael S. Rosenwald/New York Times)

Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, whose books helped ...

Aug 17, 2025

Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times: Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, whose...

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