Techmeme

David Sacks says "Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize" after Amodei shared policy ideas (David Sacks/@davidsacks)
Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, will pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from child abuse material (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
Sources: Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B (Alan Neuhauser/Axios)
Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be "astronomical" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023 (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)
Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May and $9B in late 2025 (Bloomberg)
African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
Sources: the US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies (Bloomberg)
Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more (Cursor)
YouTube will start counting a view as soon as a video starts to play, from August 24, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models (James Nani/Bloomberg Law)
Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations (Tobias Burns/CNBC)
Monzo Chair Gary Hoffman is leaving after some of Monzo's biggest shareholders called for his removal following the board removing TS Anil as CEO in December (Simon Foy/Financial Times)
A German regulator says Apple will make changes to ATT, after finding Apple gave its apps more favorable consent prompts than those of third-party developers (Reuters)
Microsoft says the outage affecting GitHub's API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services has been mitigated, three hours after it first confirmed the outage (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

Wired

What Is El Niño? Here’s What It Means for Weather, Water, and Global Economy
This R-Rated Film Studio Wants to Be the HBO of AI
7 Best Cheap Laptops to Buy in 2026 (and Some to Avoid)
CookUnity Prepared Meal Delivery Review (2026): Chef-Centric Meals
Skylight Buddy Review (2026): Kid Routines Just Got Easy
El Niño and Saharan Dust Silence Atlantic Hurricane Season
Election Officials Are Preparing for Prediction Markets to Sow Chaos in the Midterms
There’s a New Link Between Gut Health and Alzheimer’s Disease
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 and Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra Review: The Right Shape
It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning for the Next Two Solar Eclipses
Someone Finally Fixed Installing Apps on a Mac
TerraMow V1000 Review: Show Your Lawn Some Love
Inside the Experimental Traps Scientists Set for Ghostly Neutrinos
The Best Cat Water Fountains of 2026: Petlibro, Petkit, Oneisall
Retrospec Joe Rev 2 Review (2026): Putting the ‘Joy’ in Joyride
This Beautifully Weird Necklace Is Secretly a USB Drive
6 Best Apple Watch Accessories to Upgrade Your Watch (2026)
Instapaper, the Original Read-It-Later App, Just Got a Huge Upgrade
Auk Mini 2 Indoor Smart Garden Review: Better Where It Counts
Zyzz Was the Original Looksmaxxer. His Rise and Untimely Death Feel More Relevant Than Ever
5 Best Apple Watch Bands: Nike, Nomad, and Hermés (2026)
Puerto Rico Is Rationing Water. It Could’ve Avoided It by Harvesting Rainwater
Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out
Google Workspace Promo Codes: 14% Off for August 2026
New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG
The Best Movies to Stream This Month (August 2026)
The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China
Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
Best Wireless Chargers (2026): My Picks After Testing 100+
The 4 Best Planners of 2026: Roterunner, Hobonichi, Cloth & Paper
FTC Strikes Deals to Ignore Unlawful Credit Discrimination
These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI
Best Pixel 10 Cases and Accessories (2026): Mous, dbrand, Bellroy
I Wore an Electrical Muscle Stimulation Body Suit to Zap Myself Into Fitness
People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them
Inside WIRED’s Brain Week
Best Computer Monitors (2026): The Home Office Upgrade You Need
Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed With Sound—Not a Scalpel
This Art Project Slows Down Citi Bikes to Make NYC’s Rent Crisis Feel Real
Dell XPS 13 Review: Move Over, Neo
The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty
Layla Sleep Coupon: Save Up to $600 in August 2026
Office Depot Coupons: Save With Promo Codes in August 2026
HelloFresh Promo Codes: 55% Off for August 2026
Columbia Promo Codes: 15% Off | August 2026
Pura Promo Codes: $20 Off August 2026
Babbel Promo Code: Up to 65% Off in August 2026
Acer Promo Codes: 40% Off
The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI

Engadget

Why flash drive capacity keeps increasing (and why small drives are rarely sold today)
What are your retro game consoles worth?
YouTube public view counts will likely get higher starting next week
Reddit is experimenting with video and audio versions of posts
Sonos put speaker controls on your iPhone's lock screen (again)
Why curved TVs failed but curved gaming monitors thrived
Apple is forced to stop favoring its own apps in personal data collection prompts
Why 4K Blu-ray always beats 4K streaming for picture quality
Apple is reportedly expanding Apple Wallet IDs to four more states
Samsung might be making a new foldable that's even wider than the Galaxy Z Fold 8
ByteDance agrees to reel in its AI models to protect Hollywood IPs
If you're ignoring iPhone focus modes, you're missing out on Apple's best productivity tool
Uber aims for 1 million daily drone deliveries with Zipline partnership
Is an iPhone 15 still worth your money in 2026?
That Apple Screen Sharing bug has now been seen in the wild, so please update macOS
GitHub was down for most of the day
How to get the best audio out of your PC
Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning in latest trial over social media addiction
What are the two types of Bluetooth and what are they used for?
HP Omnibook X (2026) review: Nailing the basics

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