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Apollo, a major player in GPU-backed loans, hacked.

You may recall Apollo is majorly involved in AI infrastructure financing; it even is one of the “compute is an asset class” consortium. Sounds like the hackers stole a bunch of the usual things, like employees’ social security numbers. If they stole interesting things, like internal data on the AI deals Apollo has been making, that wasn’t disclosed in the breach notification. If you know anything about the hack, hit me up on Signal: lopatto.46. [Link: Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants | TechCrunch | https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/private-equity-firm-apollo-confirms-data-breach-amid-hacking-wave-targeting-financial-giants/ | TechCrunch]

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On today’s Vergecast: Nilay and Jen talk smart home voice assistants. Are they good yet?

For better or worse, Amazon Alexa and Google Home’s smart voice assistants have been imbued with new generative AI powers. The promise is you can use natural language with your smart speaker to adjust your thermostat, lock the doors, and find out what your pets have been up to. The reality is smart home voice assistants are going through an identity crisis. I invited Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel onto his own podcast to compare notes on life with Alexa Plus versus Gemini for Home. Watch | Listen | Get ad-free [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U-QtI-Cxxw&t=352s]

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You can now try Adobe’s AI audio generators.

The Generate Music, Speech, and Sound effects tools are generally available in Adobe Firefly following their beta launches last year. Adobe is also trying to attract more users for its Firefly AI Assistant, so now it has a “free experience with daily generations,” instead of limiting the feature to Firefly subscribers. [Link: Adobe Firefly expands its creative AI studio: generate music, speech, and sound effects in one place | https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2026/08/20/adobe-firefly-expands-its-creative-ai-studio-generate-music-speech-and-sound-effects-in-one-place | Adobe Blog]

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China’s robot ouroboros.

Humanoid robot makers are earning much of their revenue selling bots to government-backed training centers, which then sell training data back to the industry, the FT reports. It’s AI circularity all over again, stoking fresh humanoid bubble fears as Unitree soars in its stock market debut despite the US foreign robot ban. [Link: Who is really buying China’s humanoid robots? | https://www.ft.com/content/26735a23-315f-47ef-8cf2-6c6ea9713998?syn-25a6b1a6=1 | Financial Times]