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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces an “Awe dropping” event on September 9 at 10AM PT at Apple Park, where the iPhone 17 lineup, new Apple Watch models, and more are expected — Apple will hold its annual iPhone-centric event on Tuesday, September 9 at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is behind the viral “nano-banana” image model and launches it as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with finer edit controls in the Gemini app, API, and more — Google is upgrading its Gemini chatbot with a new AI image model that gives users finer control over editing photos …
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
The family of a teen who died by suicide sues OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT gave him info about suicide methods and at times deterred him from seeking help — A photograph of Adam Raine taken not long before his death. His baby blanket, which his mother found in his bed, hangs over a corner.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Stanford researchers: over the past three years, employment has dropped 13% for entry-level workers just starting out in fields that are the most exposed to AI — Artificial intelligence is making it harder for entry-level workers in the US to find jobs in fields like software development …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Apple executives have discussed acquiring Mistral AI and Perplexity, with Eddy Cue as the most vocal champion within the company for such AI deals — This summer, investment bankers came knocking on Apple's door with a pitch: Was the iPhone maker interested in doing a major acquisition …
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Thurrott, iPhone in Canada, WinBuzzer, and Sherwood News
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| Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times: |
SSA's chief data officer files a whistleblower complaint that DOGE uploaded a database with every Social Security number ever issued to an insecure cloud server — DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The US taking a 10% equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea and a dangerous turn in US industrial policy, but also the least bad option to make Foundry viable — The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.| Chris Eudaily / CNBC: |
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| Bloomberg: |
AT&T agrees to buy spectrum licenses from EchoStar for ~$23B in cash, adding ~50MHz of spectrum, expected to close by mid-2026, pending regulatory approval — EchoStar Corp. has agreed to sell spectrum licenses to AT&T Inc. for about $23 billion in a deal that will help the company stay …
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LinkedIn: Jenifer Robertson and John Stankey
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| Annelise Levy / Bloomberg Law: |
Filing: Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded — Anthropic PBC reached a settlement with authors in a high-stakes copyright class action that threatened the AI company with potentially billions of dollars in damages.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Google pilots a new language practice feature on Google Translate with tailored listening and practicing sessions, and also adds AI-powered live conversations — The company also introduced improved AI-powered live translations. — Considering its popularity, Google Translate sure hasn't received much attention lately.
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| Miranda Devine / New York Post: |
Melania Trump says she hopes to become the “First Lady of Technology” as she leads the Presidential AI Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI — In an exclusive statement to the New York Post, first lady Melania Trump has revealed her next official project …
More: UPI, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, The Hill, IJR, and Axios
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources and docs: Microsoft worked with the FBI to track anti-Israel protests, flagged internal emails with words like “Gaza”, deleted posts, and fired staff — Twenty activists urging company to sever ties with Israeli military were arrested last week.| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Court filing: Tesla rejected a $60M settlement offer in a lawsuit over a fatal 2019 crash of a Model S with Autopilot, before a jury awarded a $243M verdict — Billionaire Elon Musk's electric vehicle company Tesla (TSLA.O) rejected a $60 million settlement proposal in a lawsuit …
More: The Verge, Silicon UK, Benzinga, and Jalopnik
Bluesky: @tonaarts and @tia4trees
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Trump Media and Crypto.com sign a deal to integrate Crypto.com's wallet and adopt the CRO token for Truth Social's rewards; Trump Media will buy $105M in CRO — Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT) said it agreed to form a joint venture with Crypto.com that will invest in the exchange's CRO token …
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| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Intel has partnerships with multiple Chinese surveillance companies sanctioned by the US for enabling human rights abuses, including Uniview and Hikvision — The U.S. government will take a 10% stake in the company, whose technology has been used by sanctioned Chinese surveillance …
Bluesky: @ebakerwhite
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 for $2,199+ — The second-gen Framework Laptop 16 is coming in November — but the bigger deal is an upgradable laptop GPU.
More: Gizmodo, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, VideoCardz.com, Phoronix, PCWorld, XDA Developers, Engadget, Ars Technica, GamesRadar, PC Gamer, Framework, Wired, and Mashable
| Politico: |
Meta plans to spend tens of millions to launch a super PAC that will back candidates for California state offices with a light-touch approach to AI regulation — The PAC is a show of Meta's deepening political presence in a state that has emerged as the most active and ambitious in attempting to regulate AI.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Polymarket raised “double-digit millions” from 1789 Capital, which Donald Trump Jr. joined as a partner in 2024; Trump Jr. will join Polymarket's advisory board — The world's largest predictions market has received an investment from Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital fund, Axios has learned exclusively.
More: Bloomberg, The Block, Polymarket, CoinDesk, Reuters, Blockworks, Blockchain News, The Crypto Times, Bitcoin Insider, ZeroHedge News, and Benzinga. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Reuters: |
Sources: Klarna seeks a $13B to $14B valuation in its IPO next month, selling shares for $34-$36 as early as this week; Klarna sought a ~$50B valuation in 2021 — Swedish fintech Klarna will restart its plan to go public in the United States next month with a valuation of between $13 billion …
More: Crunchbase News, Proactive, PYMNTS.com, and Tech Funding News
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Spotify launches a DM feature that lets users share audio and send text chats, available to mobile users aged 16 years and older in “select markets” this week — Both Free and Premium accounts can share audio content and send messages to each other.
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Forums: r/technology and r/truespotify
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