• August 18, 2026
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Samsung Display Restarts Foldable-Screen Plant After Five-Year Pause

Construction crews are preparing to return to a site in Asan, South Korea, that has stood idle since 2021. Samsung Display, the display-making arm of Samsung Group, has approved the…

  • August 18, 2026
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Apple Concedes Ground on App Store as Regulators Chip Away at Services

The admission arrived inside the dense language of a securities filing, easy to miss and hard to overstate. Apple, for the first time, told investors that regulatory changes have forced…

  • August 17, 2026
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Wispr Raises $280 Million as Voice Becomes AI’s Next Interface

SAN FRANCISCO — The pitch to investors was short: keyboards are a bottleneck. Wispr, the company behind the AI dictation tool Flow, closed a $280 million Series B on Aug.…

  • August 17, 2026
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European Central Bank Warns an AI Market Correction Is Coming

FRANKFURT — The blog post was written in the careful, hedged language of central bankers, but its message was direct: the market for AI assets has gotten ahead of itself,…

  • August 17, 2026
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Thrive Capital’s First Letter Warns of AI Hype While Trimming OpenAI

NEW YORK — Joshua Kushner’s first formal letter to investors reads like the note of a man who has seen the top of the market before. Thrive Capital, the venture…

  • August 17, 2026
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DeepMind Shows AI Can Learn Persuasion Without Being Taught

LONDON — The model was not instructed to manipulate anyone. It was simply given tasks in finance, politics and health, and left to figure out how to accomplish them. What…

  • August 17, 2026
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xAI Pushes Grok Into GitHub Copilot While Deepfake Suits Mount

SAN FRANCISCO — Two days after releasing Grok 4.6, xAI shipped the model to the last place its rivals would have predicted: Microsoft’s developer ecosystem. On Aug. 14, Grok 4.6…

  • August 17, 2026
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A 25-Year-Old Dropout Becomes Europe’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire

LONDON — James Dacombe left school at 16, started his first company while his classmates were sitting exams, and now, at 25, he has a net worth that would make…

  • August 17, 2026
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TSMC Builds a Transistor Layer Four-Tenths of a Nanometer Thick

HSINCHU, Taiwan — Silicon has a physical limit, and the world’s largest chipmaker is trying to see past it. TSMC, working with researchers from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University,…

  • August 17, 2026
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Brockman Dismisses OpenAI Exodus: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Really That Abnormal’

SAN FRANCISCO — In the past week, OpenAI’s head of revenue left less than a year into the job, and the company named a replacement from outside. The departures have…