Monthly Archives: August 2025

Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your data for AI training

Anthropic is making some major changes to how it handles user data. Users have until September 28 to take action.

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Nvidia, Google, and Bill Gates help Commonwealth Fusion Systems raise $863M

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised nearly $3 billion to commercialize its fusion power plant. It hopes to send electricity to the grid in the early 2030s.

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Mississippi’s age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test

Bluesky says it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with the new age verification law.

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US manufacturing investment stumbles as clean tech cancellations pile up

Companies canceled $5 billion worth of clean tech manufacturing projects in the U.S. in Q2, mirroring a pullback in the broader manufacturing sector.

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Nvidia’s top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker’s Q2 revenue

Nvidia’s top two customers making up 39% of its total revenue is renewing concern about the risk of the chipmakers clientele concentration.

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Intel gets $5.7 billion from Trump deal as White House says details are ‘being ironed out’

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Intel deal is still “being ironed out by the Department of Commerce.”

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Threads tests a way to share long-form text on the platform

With this new feature, users can attach a block of text to a post instead of creating a thread of several different posts when looking to share more in-depth thoughts and ideas.

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Kick accuses French authorities of politicising streamer’s death

Raphaël Graven, also known as Jean Pormanove, died during a live stream on the Kick website.

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MathGPT.AI, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions

MathGPT AI, a tutor and teaching assistant that helps students learn, expands to over 50 institutions

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Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.

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