OpenAI Reportedly Eyeing $500 Billion Valuation in New Share Sale

AMD posts record $7.685 billion revenue despite massive inventory charge — $800 million MI308 write-off not enough to stop biggest ever quarter

AMD’s earnings fall short from China chip ban despite good traction in AI

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s stock headed lower in extended trading today after it delivered mixed financial results, with earnings coming up short of Wall Street’s targets. The chipmaker reported second-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stoc…

#china #chips #earnings #amd

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AMD hits record Q2 revenue despite AI chip curb to China

7 months / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

AMD’s AI datacenter revenue dived due to US ban on China GPU exports

7 months / theregister / Simon Sharwood

AMD’s earnings fall short from China chip ban despite good traction in AI

7 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

AMD reports weaker-than-expected earnings even as revenue tops estimates

7 months / cnbc

Some Sonos Speakers Are Getting So Hot That the USB-C Port Melts

James Pero / gizmodo - Sonos may be in hot water for even hotter speakers.

#hardware #usb

A 'very low' number of original Sonos Roam speakers are overheating

7 months / engadget / Anna Washenko

Early Sonos Roam speakers are overheating, with enough complaints of melted charging cables, jackhammer-type noises, and even a burning plastic smell coming from affected devices forcing the company to respond.

7 months / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

Some Sonos Speakers Are Getting So Hot That the USB-C Port Melts

7 months / gizmodo / James Pero

Some Sonos first-gen Roam speakers are overheating and melting

7 months / appleinsider

OpenAI Finally Lives Up to Its Name, Drops Two New Open Source AI Models

Lucas Ropek / gizmodo - The AI company is looking to get back in the business of transparency.

#ai #opensource #openai #aiethics

OpenAI's Open Source Strategy

7 months / substack / John Hwang

OpenAI Finally Lives Up to Its Name, Drops Two New Open Source AI Models https://gizmodo.com/openai-finally-lives-up-to-its-name-drops-two-new-open-source-ai-models-2000639136

7 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

OpenAI Finally Lives Up to Its Name, Drops Two New Open Source AI Models

7 months / gizmodo / Lucas Ropek

OpenAI Takes on Rivals Meta, DeepSeek With 2 New Models

7 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

OpenAI Releases Lower-Cost Models to Rival DeepSeek, Meta, Mistral

Jon Swartz / techstrong - OpenAI on Tuesday released two text-only models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, as lower-cost options for developers, researchers, companies, and governments. The open-weight language models, the first from OpenAI since it introduced GPT-2 in 2019, comes a…

#ai #cloud #amazon #openai

For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS

OpenAI and AWS Forge Landmark Partnership to Bring New gpt-oss AI Models to the Cloud

For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS

7 months / techcrunch / Julie Bort

OpenAI Releases Lower-Cost Models to Rival DeepSeek, Meta, Mistral

7 months / techstrong / Jon Swartz

OpenAI’s Latest AI Models Land on AWS—And They’re Free to Use

7 months / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

OpenAI Releases New 'Open Models' To Rival DeepSeek And Meta

7 months / bgr

OpenAI releases a free GPT model that can run right on your laptop

Alex Heath / theverge - OpenAI is releasing a new open-weight model dubbed GPT-OSS that can be downloaded for free, be customized, and even run on a laptop. The model comes in two variants: 120-billion-parameter and 20-billion-parameter versions. The bigger version can run on a …

#ai #ml #openai #genai

Added an extra section with interesting details from the model card about how the models were trained simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/g...

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OpenAI, Anthropic release new reasoning-optimized language models

7 months / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

The new open-source AI model from the company behind ChatGPT is free

7 months / mobilesyrup / Brad Bennett

Microsoft Brings OpenAI’s gpt-oss Models to Windows with New Azure AI Foundry Local Platform

OpenAI makes good on its name, launches first open weights language models since GPT-2

7 months / theregister / Tobias Mann

Cerebras delivers blazing speed for OpenAI’s new open-model with 3,000 tokens/s

7 months / siliconangle / Kyt Dotson

OpenAI’s New gpt-oss-20b AI Model Runs On-Device with Snapdragon, But There’s a Catch

OpenAI Returns to Open-Weight AI with New gpt-oss Models #AI #OpenAI #OpenSource #LLM #GptOSS #OpenSourceAI #OpenWeight #GenAI winbuzzer.com/2025/08/05/o...

7 months / bsky / @winbuzzer.com / winbuzzer.com

NEW: OpenAI is releasing two free open models today, ahead of the GPT-5 launch. One of the open-weight "GPT-OSS" models is small enough to run on a laptop. More from @alexeheath.com

7 months / bsky / @tomwarren.co.uk / tomwarren.co.uk

The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, represent a major shift for the AI company. www.wired.com/story/openai...

7 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

7 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

#OpenAI Just Released Its First #Open-Weight #Models Since #GPT-2 www.wired.com/story/openai...

7 months / bsky / @rod2ik.bsky.social / rod2ik.bsky.social

OpenAI returns to open source roots with new models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-returns-to-open-source-roots-with-new-models-gpt-oss-120b-and-gpt-oss-20b/ #AI #OpenSource

7 months / bsky / @nic221.bsky.social / nic221.bsky.social

OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models

OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good

7 months / simonwillison / Simon Willison

OpenAI's New Models Aren't Really Open: What to Know About Open-Weights AI

7 months / cnet / Katelyn Chedraoui

OpenAI Releases ‘Harmony,’ a Mandatory New Format for its gpt-oss Models

OpenAI Returns to Open-Weight AI with New gpt-oss Models

OpenAI releases a free GPT model that can run right on your laptop

7 months / theverge / Alex Heath

OpenAI releases its first open-weight language models since GPT-2 with GPT-oss

7 months / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

OpenAI announces two “gpt-oss” open AI models, and you can download them today

7 months / arstechnica / Ryan Whitwam

OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2

7 months / wired / Reece Rogers

OpenAI's first new open-weight LLMs in six years are here

7 months / engadget / Igor Bonifacic

OpenAI launches new open models, rivaling offerings by DeepSeek and Meta - Semafor

7 months / google

OpenAI launches open-source models

7 months / tech / John Reynolds

OpenAI has finally released open-weight language models

7 months / technologyreview / Grace Huckins

OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models

7 months / techcrunch / Maxwell Zeff

Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.1, A Measured Upgrade Focused on Coding and Safety

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anthropic has officially released its new flagship AI, Claude Opus 4.1, an incremental upgrade designed to boost coding and reasoning performance. Launched on August 5, the model is now available to paid users and developers through Anthropic’s API, Amazo…

#ai #software #anthropic #aiethics

Anthropic Unveils Claude Opus 4.1 in Dueling Releases With OpenAI

7 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Claude Opus 4.1 Pushes Prices Higher While Progress Stalls

7 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Notes and a pelican for Claude Opus 4.1 simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/c...

7 months / bsky / @simonwillison.net / simonwillison.net

Anthropic prepares for GPT-5 by releasing its upgraded Claude Opus 4.1 model

7 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.1, A Measured Upgrade Focused on Coding and Safety

Anthropic’s Claude 4.1 Surfaces in Leaks, Hinting at Enhanced AI Problem-Solving

Claude Opus 4.1

7 months / simonwillison / Simon Willison

Backing up your Mac is not just something you do when testing betas like macOS Tahoe, it is an everyday essential if you are not to risk losing irreplaceable work.

Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS Tahoe to Developers

Juli Clover / macrumors - Apple today provided developers with the fifth beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming two weeks after the fourth beta.Registered developers can download the new beta software through the System Settings app.macOS Tahoe feature…

#software #apple #apps

7 months / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

How to back up your Mac under macOS Tahoe

7 months / appleinsider

macOS Tahoe quietly retires the old Mac drive icon in favor of a sleeker, SSD-inspired design.

7 months / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

Macintosh HD Gets a New Look in Latest macOS Tahoe Beta

7 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025

7 months / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

Apple Seeds macOS Sequoia 15.7 Release Candidate to Developers

7 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

macOS 26 says goodbye to the classic hard drive icon

7 months / appleinsider

Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS Tahoe to Developers

7 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Macintosh HD Gets a New Look in Latest macOS Tahoe Beta

7 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

macOS Tahoe Beta 5 Now Available With New iPhone Apps And More

7 months / bgr

Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS Tahoe to Developers

7 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Apple Seeds Fifth Developer Betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26

Juli Clover / macrumors - Apple today provided developers with the fifth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the fourth betasRegistered developers can download the new beta software using the Software Update section…

#software #apple #ios #ipad

Everything New in iOS 26 Beta 5

7 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

The fifth developer beta of iOS 26 has arrived, and it brings an additional setting for the Camera app, along with some hidden details about a future Apple Watch Ultra.

7 months / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

The iOS 26 Beta Just Unveiled New Details About the Apple Watch Ultra 3

7 months / cnet / Tyler Graham

Everything New in iOS 26 Beta 5

7 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

iOS 26 Beta Reveals Apple Watch Ultra 3 Display Size

7 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

The fifth developer beta round has arrived for the milestone operating systems, with fresh builds available for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26.

7 months / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

Apple Seeds Fifth Developer Betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26

7 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Apple Seeds Fifth watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 Developer Betas

7 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

New in iOS 26 beta 5: Camera and Mail toggles, Apple Watch display leak, more

7 months / appleinsider

iOS 26 Beta Reveals Apple Watch Ultra 3 Display Size

7 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Apple Releases visionOS 26 Beta 5 To Vision Pro Developers

7 months / bgr

tvOS 26 Beta 5 Now Available With Major Improvements For Apple TV

7 months / bgr

Apple Releases watchOS 26 Beta 5 With These New Features

7 months / bgr

iPadOS 26 Beta 5 Now Available With New Multitasking Features

7 months / bgr

Apple seeds fifth developer betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26

7 months / appleinsider

iOS 26 Beta 5 Now Available With 14 New Features

7 months / bgr

iOS 26 Beta 5 Download and More Released for Developers

7 months / iphoneincanada / Gary Ng

Apple Seeds Fifth Developer Betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26

7 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Apple Seeds Fifth watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 Developer Betas

7 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Report: Intel struggles with new 18A process as it cuts workers and cancels projects

Andrew Cunningham / arstechnica - Intel says it's still on track to launch its first 18A Core Ultra chips in 2025.

#semiconductors #chips #intel #manufacturing

Intel's 18A process hit by low yields and quality issues, putting manufacturing comeback in doubt

7 months / techspot

Intel's next-gen manufacturing process is reportedly still struggling

7 months / engadget / Will Shanklin

Report: Intel struggles with new 18A process as it cuts workers and cancels projects

7 months / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

Intel’s Comeback in Peril as 18A ‘Panther Lake’ Chip Production Plagued by Critical Yield Issues

WhatsApp Declares War on Scams with New ‘Safety Overview’ for Group Chats

WhatsApp Bans 6.8 Million Scam Accounts in Global Crackdown

John Quintet / iphoneincanada - WhatsApp says it blocked more than 6.8 million accounts linked to global scam operations in the first half of this year, part of a growing crackdown on criminal networks that often rely on forced labour and organized crime in Southeast Asia. ers. Tech sca…

#cybersecurity #internet #apps #scam

WhatsApp Bans 6.8 Million Scam Accounts in Global Crackdown

7 months / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

WhatsApp adds new warning about potential group chat messaging scams

7 months / engadget / Anna Washenko

WhatsApp Adds Tools to Save You From Scams

7 months / cnet / Omar Gallaga

WhatsApp adds new features to protect against scams

7 months / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers’ personal information

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / techcrunch - Cisco disclosed a data breach including customer names, organization names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of Cisco.com users.

#cybersecurity #dataprivacy #infosec

Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

7 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

7 months / arstechnica / Dan Goodin

Cisco Confirms Data Breach After Voice Pishing Attack on Employee Compromises CRM

Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers’ personal information

7 months / techcrunch / Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

Cisco discloses data breach impacting Cisco.com user accounts

7 months / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Roku is launching a cheap, ad-free subscription service of its own

Charles Pulliam-Moore / theverge - Today, Roku announced the forthcoming arrival of Howdy, a new monthly subscription service that will give its users access to a massive catalog of on-demand films and series. Like other streamers, Howdy will feature a selection of programming licensed fro…

#streaming #entertainment #apps

Roku gets frugal with the content and price of its new streaming service

7 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

7 months / arstechnica / Scharon Harding

Roku just launched a new $3 ad-free streaming service

7 months / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service

Roku is launching a cheap, ad-free subscription service of its own

7 months / theverge / Charles Pulliam-Moore

Roku's new Howdy service offers ad-free streaming for $3 per month

7 months / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service

7 months / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Roku Just Launched Howdy, a $3 Ad-Free Streaming Platform

7 months / cnet / Kourtnee Jackson

Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 3, an AI That Generates Playable 3D Worlds in Real Time

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google DeepMind has released Genie 3 preview to researchers, a real-time AI world model that generates interactive 3D environments from text, aiming to accelerate AGI research.The post Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 3, an AI That Generates Playable 3D Worl…

#ai #deeptech #3dprinting

Google DeepMind’s Genie 3 Can Build 3D Worlds in Seconds

7 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

DeepMind reveals Genie 3, a world model that could be the key to reaching AGI

Google Deepmind's Genie 3 creates interactive 3D worlds that stay consistent for "multiple minutes"

7 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

7 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 3, an AI That Generates Playable 3D Worlds in Real Time

DeepMind reveals Genie 3, a world model that could be the key to reaching AGI

7 months / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

Google DeepMind's Genie 3 can dynamically alter the state of its simulated worlds

7 months / engadget / Igor Bonifacic

DeepMind reveals Genie 3 “world model” that creates real-time interactive simulations

7 months / arstechnica / Ryan Whitwam

Google’s new AI model creates video game worlds in real time

7 months / theverge / Jay Peters

Apple Support gears up to roll out generative AI assistant

appleinsider - Apple's new AI-powered Support Assistant still hasn't launched yet, but a new legalese terms and conditions page suggests that it may be close.Credit: AppleIn July, we learned that there was a strong likelihood that Apple would soon launch a ChatGPT-style…

#ai #apple #techsupport #genai

Apple Launches Early Preview of ChatGPT-Like Support Assistant

7 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Apple Rolls Out ChatGPT‑Style AI Support Assistant

7 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Apple Support App to Offer New ChatGPT-Like Feature

7 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Apple Launches Early Preview of ChatGPT-Like Support Assistant

7 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Apple close to launching an AI-powered assistant for technical support

7 months / idownloadblog / Christian Zibreg

Apple Support gears up to roll out generative AI assistant

7 months / appleinsider

Apple Support App to Offer New ChatGPT-Like Feature

7 months / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

ElevenLabs Enters AI Music Fray With Licensed Data, Challenging Legally Embattled Rivals Suno and Udio

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Voice AI startup ElevenLabs launches Eleven Music, a generative AI service built on licensed data, avoiding the copyright lawsuits faced by competitors Suno and Udio.The post ElevenLabs Enters AI Music Fray With Licensed Data, Challenging Legally Embattle…

#ai #startups #aiethics #music

ElevenLabs launches AI music generator

7 months / sifted

ElevenLabs launches its own royalty-free AI music service

7 months / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

ElevenLabs launches Eleven Music, an AI music generator "cleared for broad commercial use"

7 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

ElevenLabs launches an AI music generator, which it claims is cleared for commercial use

computer rapping about growing up poor in compton : techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/e...

7 months / bsky / @amanda.omg.lol / amanda.omg.lol

ElevenLabs launches an AI music generator, which it claims is cleared for commercial use

7 months / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

ElevenLabs Sidesteps Lawsuits With Rare Licensing Deal in AI Music Launch

7 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

ElevenLabs Enters AI Music Fray With Licensed Data, Challenging Legally Embattled Rivals Suno and Udio

Voice Startup ElevenLabs Launches AI Music Service

7 months / wsj / Belle Lin

Cloudflare Blocks Perplexity for Skirting Web Scraping Rules: What’s at Stake?

Azdhan / medianama - Cloudflare blocks Perplexity AI bots for violating anti-scraping rules and masking crawler identity.The post Cloudflare Blocks Perplexity for Skirting Web Scraping Rules: What’s at Stake? appeared first on MEDIANAMA.

#cybersecurity #infosec #cloudsec #internet

Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare's claims its bots are bad

7 months / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity of Skirting No-Crawl Rules

7 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity of Stealth-Crawling Blocked Sites

7 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it

7 months / techcrunch / Julie Bort

Cloudflare vs. Perplexity, ChatGPT Break Warnings, and the $75B SEO Collapse

7 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Cloudflare Blocks Perplexity for Skirting Web Scraping Rules: What’s at Stake?

7 months / medianama / Azdhan

Cloudflare de-lists Perplexity, alleges stealth scraping

7 months / siliconrepublic / Ann O’Dea

Apple iPhone 17 Event Set for September 9, German Sources Claim

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Apple's iPhone 17 event this year appears to be scheduled for Tuesday, September 9, according to internal information from German mobile phone providers, as reported by iphone-ticker.de.The timing lines up with a recent prediction by Bloomberg's Mark Gurm…

#mobiletech #apple #iphone

Carrier leaks iPhone 17 event on September 9, release September 19

7 months / mobilesyrup / Dean Daley

Apple May Announce Entire iPhone 17 Family on September 9 https://gizmodo.com/apple-may-announce-entire-iphone-17-family-on-september-9-2000638948

7 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

iPhone 17 Event Date Might Have Leaked, And It's Happening Soon

7 months / bgr

Apple appears to have scheduled iPhone 17 keynote for Tuesday, September 9

7 months / idownloadblog / Christian Zibreg

Apple May Announce Entire iPhone 17 Family on September 9

7 months / gizmodo / Raymond Wong

iPhone 17 Pro Launching Next Month With These 12 New Features

7 months / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

Carrier Document Suggest Apple’s iPhone 17 Event Slated for September 9

7 months / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

iPhone 17 launch date may have been leaked by German wireless carriers

7 months / appleinsider

Apple iPhone 17 Event Set for September 9, German Sources Claim

7 months / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

xAI’s Grok Imagine AI Video Generator Offers Controversial ‘Spicy Mode’ for NSFW Video

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Elon Musk’s xAI offically entered the generative video race this week, launching its Grok Imagine tool on the X platform. Available to premium subscribers, the new image and video generator aims to compete directly with rivals like OpenAI’s Sora and Googl…

#ai #aiethics #genai

Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked

7 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Surprising no one, Grok's image and video generator now has an NSFW 'spicy' mode

7 months / engadget / Matt Tate

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes

7 months / theverge / Jess Weatherbed

Elon Musk's Grok AI gets "Spicy" mode so users can generate explicit videos

7 months / techspot

xAI’s new Grok image and video generator has a ‘spicy’ mode

7 months / theverge / Jess Weatherbed

xAI’s Grok Imagine AI Video Generator Offers Controversial ‘Spicy Mode’ for NSFW Video