It sounds like President Trump no longer thinks Intel’s CEO should resign. Trump has revealed on Truth Social that he met with Lip-Bu Tan, Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, and Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of the Treasury. He didn’t discuss the details of their meeting, but he described it as “a very interesting one.” Trump added: “His success and rise is an amazing story.” If you’ll recall, Trump alleged that Tan was “highly conflicted” due to his investments in hundreds of Chinese firms and should resign. Reuters had previously reported that some of those companies had links to the Chinese military. “Mr. Tan and my Cabinet members are going to spend time together, and bring suggestions to me during the next week,” Trump said in his post.
According to a report by the Financial Times, Tan wrote a letter to Intel employees about the issue, telling that there had been a lot of misinformation about the roles he’d held. “I wanted to be absolutely clear… I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards,” he reportedly wrote in the letter. He also said that Intel was communicating with the White House “to address the matters that have been raised and ensure they have the facts.”
Trump’s call for Tan to resign reportedly came about due a letter from Tom Cotton, the Republican head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to the Intel CEO. Cotton apparently expressed concerns aout the “security and integrity of Intel’s operations” due to Tan’s ties with China. Tan was named the CEO of Intel in March, taking over a company that was losing money due to its foundry business being unable to secure big customers and lagging behind rivals like Taiwan Semiconductor. Since taking over, Tan has enforced several cost-cutting measures, including cutting jobs with the goal of reducing its workforce by 22 percent by the end of the year. He also recently told investors that Intel could abandon the development of its next-gen manufacturing technology if it fails to secure a large client.
The monthly “Google System Release Notes” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across Android phones/tablets, Wear OS, Google/Android TV, Auto, and PC. Some features apply to end users, while others are aimed at developers.
The following first-party apps comprise the “Google System”:
A feature appearing in the changelog does not mean it’s widely available. Some capabilities take months to fully launch.
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Sheila Jordan, one of the great underappreciated voices in jazz, has died at the age of 96.
Her longtime bassist Harvie S told NPR that Jordan died Monday at her apartment in New York City.
Despite a career that unfolded in fits and starts due to racial tensions, a troubled marriage and the challenges of single motherhood, Jordan recorded one of the most beloved vocal jazz records of the 1960s, Portrait of Sheila on Blue Note Records, and was recognized 50 years later by the National Endowment of the Arts as a Jazz Master, the genre’s highest honor.
Jordan’s discography grew exponentially as she aged; she recorded at least 19 albums after the turn of the century, including this year’s Portrait Now. It was released on the day of her final live performance: Valentine’s Day.
Born Sheila Jeanette Dawson to a financially struggling family in Detroit, she was raised by alcoholic grandparents in Pennsylvania coal country. Jordan told NPR in 2014 that she was unhappy as a child, and the only thing she could do about it was sing. Then one day, she spotted something intriguing on a jukebox: Charlie Parker’s Reboppers.
“And I put my nickel in, and up came Bird, playing ‘Now is the Time,’ and I said that’s the music,” she said. “That’s the one I’ll dedicate my life to.”
Jordan, who was white, became good friends with Parker — he called her “the lady with the million dollar ears.” In 1952, she married one of his close collaborators, Duke Jordan, and went on to work with many Black jazz artists, often facing prejudice from other white people because of it.
Duke Jordan was a gifted pianist who was part of Parker’s quintet in the late 1940s. But in a 2009 NPR piece, Sheila Jordan said her husband’s heroin addiction led him to abandon her and their small daughter, Traci. She struggled to support herself by working as a secretary while still keeping music in her life.
“You find a way because the music is very important,” she said. “That’s how I survived, knowing that once or twice a week I’d get a sitter for Traci, and I’d go and sing in this club, and then I’d get up the next morning and go do my day gig.”
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Many have said her voice was unlike any other.
Jordan never hit the big time, but she was a distinguished educator. For decades, she taught jazz vocal workshops at the City College of New York as well as many other institutions. In 2012, the National Endowment for the Arts named her a Jazz Master. And Sheila Jordan kept performing — even into her 90s.
“The people that respect what I do and hire me, that’s all I need,” she told NPR. “I just need to keep doing this music as long as I live. “
Most organizations say they aren’t fully prepared to use generative AI in a safe and responsible way, according to a recent McKinsey report. One concern is explainability — understanding how and why AI makes certain decisions. While 40% of respondents view it as a significant risk, only 17% are actively addressing it, per the report.
Seoul-based Datumo began as an AI data labeling company and now wants to help businesses build safer AI with tools and data that enable testing, monitoring, and improving their models — without requiring technical expertise. On Monday the startup raised $15.5 million, which brings its total raised to approximately $28 million, from investors including Salesforce Ventures, KB Investment, ACVC Partners, and SBI Investment, among others.
David Kim, CEO of Datumo and a former AI researcher at Korea’s Agency for Defense Development, was frustrated by the time-consuming nature of data labeling so he came up with a new idea: a reward-based app that lets anyone label data in their spare time and earn money. The startup validated the idea at a startup competition at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). Kim co-founded Datumo, formerly known as SelectStar, alongside five KAIST alumni in 2018.
Even before the app was fully built, Datumo secured tens of thousands of dollars in pre-contract sales during the customer discovery phase of the competition, mostly from KAIST alumni-led businesses and startups.
In its first year, the startup surpassed $1 million in revenue and secured several key contracts. Today, the startup counts major Korean companies like Samsung, Samsung SDS, LG Electronics, LG CNS, Hyundai, Naver, and Seoul-based telecom giant SK Telecom among its clients. Several years ago, however, clients began asking the company to go beyond simple data labeling. The 7-year-old startup now has more than 300 clients in South Korea and generated about $6 million in revenue in 2024.
“They wanted us to score their AI model outputs or compare them to other outputs,” Michael Hwang, co-founder of Datumo, told TechCrunch. “That’s when we realized: We were already doing AI model evaluation — without even knowing it.” Datumo doubled down on this area and released Korea’s first benchmark dataset focused on AI trust and safety, Hwang added.
“We started in data annotation, then expanded into pretraining datasets and evaluation as the LLM ecosystem matured,” Kim told TechCrunch.
Datumo shares some similarities with companies like Scale AI in pretraining dataset provisioning, and with Galileo and Arize AI in AI evaluation and monitoring. However, it differentiates itself through its licensed datasets, particularly data crawled from published books, which the company says offers rich structured human reasoning but is notoriously difficult to clean, according to CEO Kim.
Unlike its peers, Datumo also offers a full-stack evaluation platform called Datumo Eval, which automatically generates test data and evaluations to check for unsafe, biased or incorrect responses without the need for manual scripting, Kim added. The signature product is a no-code evaluation tool designed for non-developers like those on policy, trust and safety, and compliance teams.
When asked about attracting investors like Salesforce Ventures, Kim explained that the startup had previously hosted a fireside chat with Andrew Ng, founder of DeepLearning.AI, at an event in South Korea. After the event, Kim shared the session on LinkedIn, which caught the attention of Salesforce Ventures. Following several meetings and Zoom calls, the investors extended a soft commitment. The entire funding process took about eight months, Hwang said.
The new funding will be used to accelerate R&D efforts, particularly in developing automated evaluation tools for enterprise AI, and to scale global go-to-market operations across South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. The startup, which has 150 employees in Seoul, also established a presence in Silicon Valley in March.
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending lower tariffs with China for another 90 days, CNBC reports. The new executive order was signed before the previous agreement was set to end on August 12 at midnight.
The extension will maintain the current 30 percent tariff on goods from China while representatives from both countries negotiate a new trade deal. The previous agreement lowered US tariffs down from 145 percent to 30 percent, and Chinese tariffs down from 145 percent to 10 percent.
At the time, it was unclear how the move would impact the price of electronics manufactured in China, but for at least some companies, it’s still led to higher costs. While the price of the Switch 2 is remaining the same, Nintendo announced at the beginning of August that the price of the Switch 1 would increase by $40 or more. Sonos has said that some of its products would increase in price, but hasn’t shared details. Both DJI and Microsoft announced price hikes on some of their products back in May, too.
For companies manufacturing products abroad, the sudden swerves in Trump administration trade policy seem almost as difficult to deal with as the tariffs themselves. That erratic protectionism is reshaping global trade, and it’s also won concessions from companies trying to do business as normal. Apple committed to spending an extra $100 billion on US manufacturing last week to avoid being subjected to tariffs. And early today, both AMD and NVIDIA reportedly agreed to pay the US 15 percent of their profits to be allowed to sell GPUs in China.
Townsend police want residents to know that a 400-pound black bear was spotted in one neighborhood on Sunday, and they should be on alert.
The bear was spotted several times in the area of Mason and Greenville roads, with the last sighting reported while a group of people were grilling outside at around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, the police department said in a statement on Monday.
For this week, police ask that people keep themselves, children and pets safe by removing all bird feeders, securing and storing trash and closing all doors, including garage doors.
The bear is expected to move on to another area if it does not find food for a week, the department said, citing Massachusetts Environmental Police.
Environmental Police advise that if the bear can’t find food for a week, it should move on to another area.
“Let’s work together to help encourage the bear to move along to a safer place!” police said
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The AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it’s about tariffs: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of the revenue they make from sales of high-end AI chips to China in exchange for licenses to sell to those chips in the country, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources.
According to the FT’s government source, Nvidia will share revenues from sales of its H20 AI chips in China, and AMD would share a cut of MI308 chip sales. The government has also started issuing licenses for the sale of the two companies’ chips, the report said.
The Trump administration in April had restricted sales of certain high-performance AI inference chips to China, but paused the ban a couple of months later, when Nvidia promised to make up to $500 billion worth of data center investments stateside. Then in July, the company said it would resume sales of its H20 AI chips to China, which it had designed specifically for sale in the country following restrictions by the Biden administration.
“We follow rules the U.S. government sets for our participation in worldwide markets,” an Nvidia spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “While we haven’t shipped H20 to China for months, we hope export control rules will let America compete in China and worldwide.”
According to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Nvidia’s change of course was related to trade discussions with China regarding rare-earth elements, which are necessary for making components, like rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles.
The administration’s decision to approve the sale of Nvidia’s H20 chips has its critics: national security experts and former government officials wrote to Lutnick last month, urging the government to reverse course.
Note: This story was updated to add a statement by Nvidia.
Sure, you’ve remembered to pack the most important things as you prep to go back to campus for the new semester. But the little things can get you in college. It’s not uncommon to discover that, a few days into your new class schedule, you forgot to pack small things like an extra charger, a portable battery pack or a beater pair of earbuds. These unassuming things can make a big difference in how you work and play while at college, so do yourself a favor and think about all the small things you need to make this semester your best one yet. To prevent you from playing catch-up, we’ve compiled the best gadgets for school under $50 so you can cross the most crucial ones off your list before you even set foot on campus.
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