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The AI data center boom has led to surging demand for power transformers, with average lead times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years (Financial Times)
A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% (Emma Whitford/Inside Higher Ed)
Companies are mobilizing internal groups of "AI champions" to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025 (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
Shanghai-based GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX raised ~$902M in a Hong Kong share sale; the company's stock has soared 257% since its January IPO, which raised $473M (Bloomberg)
Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds of millions at a $9B valuation; source: founder Marc Lore indicated he'll contribute $200M to the round (The Information)
Cognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7 and available at 1,000 tokens/second, claiming it nears GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on benchmarks at a lower cost (Cognition)
Block agrees to pay $45M and offer live customer support for Cash App to settle claims by 46 US states that the company failed to protect users from fraud (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)
Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~$750M in two phases, at valuations of $3.5B in the first tranche and ~$5B in the second (Bloomberg)
The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark (OpenAI)
Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens (Axios)
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to "handle difficult, long-running" legal, finance, and coding tasks (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time (OpenAI)

Wired

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Engadget

Volkswagen is employing 100 sheep at a solar farm in Poland
Elon Musk says X will DM you about posts that receive a Community Note
Judge approves $1.5 million SEC-Musk settlement over Twitter investment
Microsoft reportedly cancels Avowed sequel as Obsidian focuses on a Fallout game
FTC reaches settlement that brings right-to-repair to John Deere farm equipment
PC shipments just fell for the first time in two years, thanks to the memory shortage
Valve Steam Machine review: This would've been perfect five years ago
Apple's Widow's Bay has the most Emmy noms of any new show this year
Roku is the most popular streaming TV, but lacking more than you think
Waymo will soon go fully autonomous in four more cities
Google announces new 'Video Remix' feature its for AI subscribers
ChatGPT's new voice mode will slow down if you tell it to
Amazon is reportedly working on a more powerful agentic Alexa assistant
Official renders for Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 8, Watch 9, Watch 2 Ultra and Z Fold 8 leak
Nintendo will shut down Mario Kart Tour on September 30
Apple pledges to buy $30 billion of Broadcom's US-made chips
The best Roku feature for night owls you probably aren't using
Fi Ultra pet tracker uses T-Mobile's Starlink satellite service for coverage
DuckDuckGo Browser can now block video ads, including YouTube's
Apple loses legal fight over its App Store 'gatekeeper' status in Europe

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