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The Chinese tech giant is offloading Lingxi Games and its 1,200 employees as CEO Eddie Wu doubles down on AI and cloud computing, targeting $100 billion in AI revenue within five years.
The South Korean chipmaker controls 58% of the HBM market and is tripling capacity by 2034, backed by long-term supply agreements with Nvidia and $22 billion in government support.
The data and AI platform crossed a $7 billion annualized revenue run rate and posted 80% year-over-year growth, as investors bet big on its three new AI agent products.
Apple has developed a proprietary large language model for the Chinese market with assistance from Alibaba, according to sources cited by Reuters — a departure from its earlier approach of relying entirely on a domestic partner's model.
Uber and Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai are expanding their partnership to bring more than 2,000 self-driving vehicles to Europe, building on their initial Zagreb launch, with additional cities to follow in phases.
Nintendo is increasing the Switch 2's US price from $449.99 to $499.99 starting September 1, joining the PS5, Xbox Series X, and Steam Deck OLED in passing along costs from an AI-driven memory shortage.
Atmospheric researchers are calling for a formal environmental study before regulators approve SpaceX's plan to deploy up to a million orbital AI data-center satellites, citing new evidence that reentries are already changing the stratosphere's chemistry.
Twitch now lets streamers block Amazon from using their broadcasts to train generative AI — but the new control is opt-out, not opt-in, and the company's product chief admitted why.
Microsoft is folding its consumer and business Copilot apps into one unified application and discontinuing Group Chats, AI podcasts, Deep Research, and its Mico mascot by August 18.
OpenAI has previewed Ultrafast, a new inference tier powered by Cerebras that makes GPT-5.6 Sol run 14 times faster than standard mode — without any drop in quality.
A presidential memorandum signed August 12 lets vetted US companies carry out surveillance and disruptive cyber operations against foreign transnational criminal organizations, under direct DOJ and DHS oversight, marking a major reversal of the long-standing ban on private hack-back activity.
Australia introduced revamped media bargaining legislation to parliament on August 13, raising the minimum number of news outlets large platforms must strike deals with from six to eight and funneling 5% of proceeds to the Australian Associated Press.