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Leaks ahead of Apple's confirmed September 9 event point to a foldable iPhone Ultra launching seven years after Samsung's first foldable phone. Reports describe a nearly crease-free inner display, an ultra-thin body powered by the A20 Pro chip and a vapor chamber for cooling, and a liquid-metal hinge built on technology Apple licensed more than 15 years ago.
A Korean leaker claims Samsung built several Galaxy S27 Ultra prototypes, including one with a 7,000mAh battery and versions that dropped the S Pen to fit it. Samsung is said to have abandoned that extreme option, instead settling on a 5,700mAh to 6,000mAh target, possibly using silicon-carbon battery technology.
More than 15 candidates for state and federal office, including Nebraska Senate independent Dan Osborn, have signed the AI Pact, a five-point pledge covering mandatory AI safety reviews, worker dividends from AI profits, and legal accountability for AI-caused harms. The pact grew out of the Political Integrity Project, an anti-money-in-politics group, and is funded by a progressive PAC rather than tech companies or AI safety organizations. Nearly all current signers are Democrats, though organizers say they hope to attract Republican candidates too.
Jim Cramer said Meta's $18 billion settlement with attorneys general over youth social media addiction claims is a favorable outcome for the company, ending a federal trial that could have exposed Meta to $200 billion in fines. Under the deal with 48 states, D.C., and three territories, Meta agreed to daily time limits, better parental controls, age-verification tools, and fewer notifications during school hours for young users.
Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and implement new child-safety measures on Facebook and Instagram to resolve a major legal fight over teen social media addiction. The deal, announced by state attorneys general, settles claims brought by 47 states and averts a continuation of the trial.
The Justice Department announced it has seized domains used by a Chinese state-linked botnet known as QTFY, run by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Tech, disrupting its command-and-control infrastructure. The botnet reportedly enabled hackers tied to China's Ministry of State Security to infiltrate U.S. government and private-sector networks, including NASA, the Federal Reserve, several federal departments, and, as recently as this year, the Senate. Lumen, a network provider that assisted the FBI, said it had tracked the group profiling government, defense, and aerospace targets for roughly a year before the takedown.
An Entrepreneur contributor recounts a client who was told during an MBA admissions interview that her family conglomerate background made an MBA unnecessary and that the program 'isn't interested in family businesses.' Despite the discouraging exchange, the applicant was later admitted to that program and several top MBA programs. The author uses the episode to argue family businesses are wrongly stereotyped as lesser entrepreneurial pursuits.
An Entrepreneur opinion piece argues that choosing an HR and payroll provider is no longer just about comparing software features and price, since AI has become nearly universal across human capital management platforms. Instead, small and growing businesses—especially those with fewer than 75 employees lacking dedicated HR staff—are now weighing providers based on how well they support scaling, evolving regulations and long-term needs.
Capital F, an all-female-led venture firm founded by Margaret Coblentz and Dawn Dobras, has closed its first fund at $17 million. The firm plans to invest in women's health, digital commerce, and AI tools, sectors it says are shaped heavily by women's needs and behavior. Nearly 80% of the fund's limited partners are women, including former retail executives like Jenny Ming and Marta Benson.
A veteran developer describes how coding assistance has evolved from tab-completion to agentic coding to full harness-managed workflows over the past eighteen months. He argues that with a shared skills file and unified tooling across Cursor, Claude, and Pi, the choice of underlying AI model has become largely commoditized, and he now relies heavily on the cheaper Deepseek-v4-flash model for routine work.
Microsoft is rolling out a new feature, starting with Xbox Insiders on August 31, that lets players convert eligible Xbox One and Xbox Series X discs into permanent digital entitlements simply by inserting the disc and launching the game. Once claimed, the game becomes playable without the disc and gains access to Xbox Play Anywhere and Cloud Gaming, though the physical disc still works as before. Each disc carries only one revocable license, meaning reselling or lending it can transfer the digital entitlement to whoever uses it next.
Perplexity and Nvidia have released Portable Computer, a locally-run version of Perplexity's Computer AI platform that performs agentic workloads directly on a user's PC or workstation instead of relying on cloud servers. The app mirrors the original Computer interface, supports Qwen 3.8 and PPLX local models (both scaling to 27 billion parameters), and will soon add Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model, while asking users for permission before sending any data to cloud-based frontier models for harder tasks.