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Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.

Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion in overall revenue in the past quarter, a jump of over $10 billion from the previous quarter. Its data center revenue alone more than doubled year-over-year to a record $89 billion, and the company's profits more than doubled to $59.7 billion. Nvidia's "edge computing" category, which includes its consumer gam … Read the full story at The Verge.

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

OpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are. | Image: The Verge In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to find out about any of it. Over a month later, two new reports offer nearly 130 pages of details on the incident and OpenAI's response, many of them previously unreleased. One was written by OpenAI itself, the other by two third-party AI research nonprofits, METR and Redwood Research, which OpenAI allowed to jointly investigate the inciden … Read the full story at The Verge.

Salesforce just put its entire CRM inside Claude — and says you’ll never need its app again

Salesforce and Anthropic announced Tuesday a sweeping expansion of their partnership, called Claudeforce, that pushes the world s largest customer relationship management platform directly inside Claude — a tacit acknowledgment that the future of enterprise software may not involve enterprise software s own screens at all.The centerpiece of the announcement is Salesforce in Claude, a plugin for Anthropic s Claude CoWork that ships with 37 pre-built sales skills — covering meeting preparation, deal health reviews, and pipeline analysis — and lets sellers query, update, and act on live CRM data without ever opening Salesforce itself. The product is available to select pilot customers today, with an open beta planned for September and additional skills for other business functions beginning to launch in the third quarter.Marc Benioff, Salesforce s chair and CEO, and Dario Amodei, Anthropic s CEO, were scheduled to appear on television together Tuesday afternoon, hours before Salesforce re

VentureBeat·Aug 26, 2026

All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times. The settlement stems from a nationwide lawsuit alleging Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap failed to protect children and made their platforms "addictive" by design. A group of 51 US states and territories signed the agreement, including New York, New Jersey, California, Nevada, South Carolina, Washington, Illino … Read the full story at The Verge.

Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

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Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)

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Hacker News·Aug 26, 2026

Amazon knocks $150 off Pixel 11 phones, with up to $200 in gift cards

The Pixel 11 in hibiscus. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been on the fence about Google’s latest Pixel phones, this might be your best chance to save some cash. Amazon is offering an extra $150 off the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL when you use the coupon code PIXEL11 at checkout. While the discounted price appeared at checkout for most phone and watch combinations, it didn’t apply to the Pixel Pro Fold. That deal stacks with the introductory offer running at several retailers, where you can choose between a gift card that scales with the model of phone you’re buying, or additional credit towards a Pixel Watch 5. For example, the base model Pixel 11 would normally cost $899, but the introductory bundle, which ends on August 27th, includes a $100 gift card, and with the code, you’ll pay just $749. The Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL bundles include either a $200 gift card, or $250 towards the cost of a Pixel Watch 5. Google Pixel 11 Where to Buy: $899 at Amazon (with $100 gift card)

Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

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Hacker News·Aug 26, 2026

Apple Maps has ads now

Ads have started popping up in Apple Maps, following Apple's announcement in March that it would let businesses pay for top spots. They're appearing on my iPhone as the first entry in the "suggested places" section in search, but Apple says they'll also show up at the top of search results. According to 9to5Mac, the ads began rolling out this week, and more users in the US and Canada will start seeing them over the next few weeks. They're marked with a blue "ad" icon, similar to the ads Google's had in its Maps app for years now. I was also greeted with a pop-up warning me about the ads when I launched the Maps app this morning: Maps may … Read the full story at The Verge.