Friday, August 8, 2025

OpenStore is scaling back its e-commerce aggregation efforts, closing nearly all of its 40+ Shopify stores and rebranding under its Jack Archer menswear label (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC:
OpenStore is scaling back its e-commerce aggregation efforts, closing nearly all of its 40+ Shopify stores and rebranding under its Jack Archer menswear label  —  When venture capitalist Keith Rabois got into e-commerce, he couldn't stop buying brands.  Now, everything must go.



Sources: SoftBank purchased Foxconn's EV plant in Ohio for $375M, a move aimed at kickstarting its $500B Stargate data center project with OpenAI and Oracle (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: SoftBank purchased Foxconn's EV plant in Ohio for $375M, a move aimed at kickstarting its $500B Stargate data center project with OpenAI and Oracle  —  SoftBank Group Corp. is the buyer taking ownership of Foxconn Technology Group's electric vehicle plant in Ohio …



Apple says Apple Intelligence will use OpenAI's GPT-5 on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, with the system updates expected to arrive in September (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple says Apple Intelligence will use OpenAI's GPT-5 on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, with the system updates expected to arrive in September  —  Earlier today, OpenAI announced GPT-5, its latest model to power ChatGPT.  The new frontier model is a significant leap forward in a lot of areas.



A look at the impact of AI voice cloning on India's dubbing and voiceover sector, as artists demand consent, credit, and fair pay amid a lack of laws for AI use (Zico Ghosh/The Hollywood Reporter)

Zico Ghosh / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the impact of AI voice cloning on India's dubbing and voiceover sector, as artists demand consent, credit, and fair pay amid a lack of laws for AI use  —  As AI voice cloning in films becomes a reality, India's dubbing artists are demanding consent, credit and fair pay …



Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)

New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...