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AUGUST 16, 2026
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Gemini voice calling on Android Auto keeps failing me - and Google has until September to fix it

With Google Assistant shutting down this fall, Android users will be left with inferior voice calling, thanks to Gemini.

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AUGUST 15, 2026
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Bloomberg This Weekend | Conditions Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, Up Close with a Drone Swarm

The news doesnโ€™t stop when markets close. Hosts Joe Mathieu, Carol Massar and Lisa Mateo bring clarity, context and a bit of humor to the weekendโ€™s biggest headlines, LIVE from New York. Joined by Natalie Oliverio, Navy Veteran & Military Journalist, Nathan Bomey, Axios Business Reporter, Denver Riggleman, Former US Representative (R-VA), and Amanda Agati, PNC Chief Investment Officer. (Source: Bloomberg)

You can now turn off Google Geminiโ€™s visible watermarks
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You can now turn off Google Geminiโ€™s visible watermarks

Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of [โ€ฆ]

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OpenAIโ€™s Explosive Growth Continues | Bloomberg Tech 8/14/2026

Bloombergโ€™s Tim Stenovec takes a look at OpenAI, which is on track to generate annualized revenue of more than $40 billion, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025. Plus, how a New York City bill backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani could force Amazon to directly employ its delivery workers, and Meta's former chief AI scientist joins a new venture firm to invest in early AI startups. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Signs of a Slowing US Consumer | Open Interest 8/14/2026

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dave Gura on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Signs the consumer is finally slowing sown. Today, retail sales post their biggest drop in more than a year as confidence slides. Oil rises as Washington threatens more economic pressure on Iran. Plus, OpenAIโ€™s revenue surge ahead of a highly anticipated IPO. And weโ€™ll hear from Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley and LOVB Pro Commissioner Sandra Idehen on the $20 million boom in womenโ€™s volleyball. (Source: Bloombe

AUGUST 14, 2026
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Beyond Chatbots: The Next Wave of AI

224 Ventures is a new AI-native venture firm launched by former AIX Ventures co-founder Shaun Johnson, ex-Google DeepMind researcher Oriol Vinyals, and AI pioneer Yann LeCun. The trio plans to make seed-stage bets and launches with more than $100 million in assets under management. 224 Ventures General Partner Shaun Johnson discusses why the most compelling opportunities may be โ€œnonconsensusโ€ bets, with white space emerging in the future of work, robotics and infrastructure. He joins Tim Stenove

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OpenAI on Track to Double Revenue Ahead of IPO

OpenAI is on track to generate more than $40 billion in annualized revenue, roughly double its run rate at the end of 2025, according to sources. Bloombergโ€™s Rachel Metz explains how growth in paying ChatGPT users, enterprise adoption and coding assistant Codex are driving the surge, and why the enormous cost of computing power remains a key challenge for the AI company. She joins Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)

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AI Companies Work for Better Data, Not Better Models

Rudina Seseri, founder and managing partner of Glasswing Ventures, joins Businessweek to discuss latest AI-related headlines including reports that Anthropic is in talks to buy startup 'Decart' for $6 Billion. She argues that with many of the major AI companies operating today like OpenAI and Anthropic "their success is also their limitation, which is they're not efficient." (Source: Bloomberg)

Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba
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Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba

Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing and Washington. The China-focused large language model was developed in partnership with Alibaba and trained with the company's support, Reuters reports, citing three unnamed people familiar with [โ€ฆ]

Meta Open-Sources Muse Glimmer: A 30B Local Agentic Model Optimised for On-Device Execution
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Meta Open-Sources Muse Glimmer: A 30B Local Agentic Model Optimised for On-Device Execution

Meta AI Research has introduced Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local workflows. It enables autonomous agents and complex task execution on consumer GPUs without relying on cloud APIs. The model employs a multi-stage training approach for efficient performance and supports multimodal inputs, enhancing coding and automation tasks. By Olimpiu Pop