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Apple has launched M6, its first chip built on a 2-nanometer process, inside a refreshed Mac mini, featuring a 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU and a Dual 16-core Neural Engine. Alongside it, the new Mac Studio gets M5 Ultra, Apple's first quad-die SoC, offering up to 36 CPU cores, 80 GPU cores and 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth.
Nothing has unveiled Nothing OS 5.0, a major redesign of its Android skin built on Android 17, featuring a new Geist typeface, translucent UI layering, wallpaper-based adaptive theming, and dedicated apps for the Glyph Interface and Essential Apps Builder. Open Beta testing begins for the Nothing Phone 3 tomorrow, with a stable release planned for mid-October, but the Phone 1, Phone 2, and CMF Phone 1 will not get the update.
Startup Keenable, founded by former Yandex search executive Andrey Styskin and AI scientist Matthias Petri, has emerged from stealth with $26 million in seed funding led by Accel, with participation from Conviction Partners and angel investors. The company has built a search index spanning over 100 billion documents designed specifically for AI systems rather than human users, and its API is already being used by AI labs and inference providers for training and live retrieval, including a new partnership with voice AI company Gradium.
Nothing has unveiled OS 5.0, built on Android 17, introducing adaptive color tints for icons and widgets that pull hues from the user's wallpaper while keeping the brand's monochrome look intact. The update also bundles a standalone Glyph Interface app centralizing lighting controls, plus new lockscreen clockfaces and homescreen customization tools.
France's General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) confirmed that hackers accessed a file containing 678,000 records of individuals and businesses, including names, family quotients, reference tax income and withholding tax rates. Some leaked samples also reportedly included addresses, phone numbers, emails and dependent counts. The attacker's access was cut off in late June, but the breach itself was only discovered in mid-August after the stolen data appeared for sale online.
Fiat Ventures announced it is unifying its growth consultancy, previously known as Fiat Growth, with its venture investing arm under one new brand called FGV Capital. Alongside the rebrand, the firm closed a $35 million second fund focused on fintech's overlap with AI, healthcare and commerce, backed by LPs including Reinsurance Group of America, MassMutual and Bank of America. General partners Marcos Fernandez and Drew Glover said the two businesses will remain operationally separate despite sharing a brand.
Dick's Sporting Goods shares dropped 15% pre-market after the retailer missed second-quarter earnings expectations and cut its full-year outlook for Foot Locker, whose comparable sales fell 3.6%. Meanwhile, Nvidia announced its Groq 3 LPX rack is entering full production later this year, the first commercial payoff from its $20 billion Groq acquisition, even as its stock posted a seventh straight day of losses ahead of Wednesday's earnings report.
On August 25, 1991, Finnish student Linus Torvalds posted to a Usenet group that he was building a free operating system for 386/486 machines, calling it just a hobby project unlikely to rival GNU. Thirty-five years later, that hobby has grown into the dominant force in computing, powering most major websites, cloud platforms, and all of the world's fastest supercomputers.
A public showcase event in Shanghai let visitors interact directly with humanoid robots, part of China's broader effort to promote and accelerate its robotics industry. Organizers say such events matter because hands-on exposure builds public familiarity, even as humanoid robot development globally remains slow and uneven.
At Hot Chips 2026, Intel disclosed full specifications for its Crescent Island AI accelerator, including 32 Xe3P cores, 256 XMX engines, 32MB of L2 cache, PCIe Gen5 x16, and a 350W TDP. Shipping units will carry 160GB of LPDDR5X memory, though ODM designs can scale up to 480GB of VRAM.
DuckDuckGo's new survey of nearly 2,000 U.S. adults found that almost a third of respondents have confided something to an AI chatbot they wouldn't tell friends, family or doctors, with the figure jumping to 56% among self-identified AI enthusiasts. The survey also found that most respondents didn't know chatbot conversations are typically used for training by default, and only a quarter knew such chats could be subpoenaed by law enforcement.
Nvidia reports fiscal second-quarter results Wednesday, with investors closely watching how much of its revenue still comes from a handful of hyperscale cloud giants versus a broader base of AI cloud, industrial and enterprise customers. The company recently began splitting its reporting into hyperscaler revenue and a separate category it calls ACIE, covering thousands of other buyers. CEO Jensen Huang has acknowledged that hyperscalers remain the easiest customers to sell to because there are only a handful of them, compared with roughly 250,000 other companies in the broader market.