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Financial Times:
Sources: Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay the US government 15% of revenues from H20 and MI308 chip sales in China to obtain export licenses granted last week  —  Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration  —  Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give …
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Sources: Chinese officials have urged the Trump administration to relax HBM chip export controls during trade talks, after the Biden administration ban in 2024  —  Experts warn dropping restrictions would give Beijing a competitive advantage in artificial intelligence
More: CNBC, CNBC, Semafor, Taipei Times, Gizmodo, Tech in Asia, and RTHK
Bluesky: @tbenner.  X: @jukanlosreve and @rwang07
LinkedIn: Wendy Cutler and Liza Tobin.  Forums: r/hardware
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing upgraded App Intents with Uber, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, WhatsApp, and other apps to transform Siri into a true voice-first interface  —  Apple's upcoming voice-control feature for the new Siri could be an under-the-radar hit — if it works.
Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:
GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI  —  A new release botched ... and new research paper that spells trouble  —  GenerativeAI had a truly bad week.
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
CS grads struggle to land jobs as tech companies lay off workers and embrace AI; CS majors face a 6.1% unemployment rate in the US among grads aged 22 to 27  —  Growing up near Silicon Valley, Manasi Mishra remembers seeing tech executives on social media urging students to study computer programming.
David Sacks / @davidsacks:
Doomer predictions of a rapid, monopolistic AGI were wrong, as recent AI model releases resemble a Goldilocks scenario with competitive, specialized models  —  A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a “rapid take-off” to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we
Stevie Bonifield / PC Gamer:
AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers “in the low thousands” in 2021  —  Dial-up's days are numbered, after 34 years of service.  —  On September 30, AOL's dial-up hold-outs will need to finally move on to another internet service.
Joanna Stern / Joanna Stern's Newsletter:
OpenAI says ChatGPT Pro users can select old models for now but plans to deprecate them in 60 days; Sam Altman says Plus users will be able to keep using GPT-4o
Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Bo Hines, the head of the White House Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, says he is stepping down and returning to the private sector  —  Bo Hines, the head of the White House Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, said he was stepping down and returning to the private sector.
Bloomberg:
Investors are increasingly divesting from companies they fear are at risk of AI disruption, like Wix and Shutterstock, which are down at least 30% in 2025  —  Artificial intelligence's imprint on US financial markets is unmistakable.  Nvidia Corp. is the most valuable company in the world at nearly $4.5 trillion.
More: Benzinga
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Hands-on with Alexa+: fun to talk to and good at handling multistep requests, but it is buggy, unreliable, and worse at some basic tasks than the original Alexa  —  Alexa+ processes language in a more fluid way.  Users can speak to it as they would to a human.Graham Dickie/The New York Times
More: Implicator.ai, 9to5Mac, and About Amazon
Bluesky: @taumuyi and @m3t4phy51c14n.  X: @kevinroose.  LinkedIn: Lomit Patel
Forums: r/alexa, r/alexa, and r/alexa
New York Times:
An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and ChatGPT shows how chatbots can lead ordinarily rational people to spiral into delusion  —  Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero.

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: Byron Allen sold his 10.7% Starz stake over August and September, netting a bit less than $45M; he acquired it from Steve Mnuchin's Liberty 77 for $25M

Wall Street Journal:
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