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Juby Babu / Reuters:
xAI launches Grok Code Fast 1, a “speedy and economical” agentic coding model, available for free for a limited time on GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, more  —  Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, on Thursday released a new “speedy and economical” agentic coding model …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Dell reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $29.78B, vs. $29.17B est., and forecasts Q3 EPS of $2.45, below $2.55 est.; DELL drops 5%+ after hours  —  Despite beating on its top and bottom lines, shares of Dell Technologies fell more than 5% Thursday in extended trading after giving third-quarter …
Financial Times:
Intel CFO says the US deal aims to deter Intel from selling its foundry; it lets the US buy 5% more at $20/share if Intel's stake in the unit falls below 51%  —  US chipmaker has faced pressure to sell lossmaking foundry business struggling to compete with TSMC
Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
The CFTC says non-US crypto exchanges have a path to bringing on US users, in an advisory clarifying how they can register as so-called foreign boards of trade  —  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has taken a step that could make it easier for some overseas crypto exchanges …
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in under a second on a single GPU, and a text model called MAI-1-preview  —  On Thursday, Microsoft announced two powerful AI models it built that it says perform at the level of the world's top offerings …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Filing: credit reporting giant TransUnion discloses a data breach affecting 4.4M+ customers' personal info but claims “no credit information was accessed”  —  Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers' personal information.
Anthropic:
Anthropic requires users to accept new terms by September 28, including choosing whether new chats and coding sessions can be used to train AI models  —  Today, we're rolling out updates to our Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy that will help us deliver even more capable, useful AI models.
Reuters:
Autodesk reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $1.76B, vs. $1.73B est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est., and raises its annual forecasts; ADSK jumps 10%+ after hours  —  Autodesk (ADSK.O) raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts on Thursday, betting on growing demand for its design and engineering software …
Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET:
OpenAI makes its Realtime API generally available with features like MCP support and debuts gpt-realtime, its most advanced speech-to-speech model, in the API  —  - OpenAI's Realtime API is now optimized and generally available.  — You can try its latest speech-to-speech model, got-realtime.
Bloomberg:
The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini  —  The US government on Thursday began distributing gross domestic product data on public blockchains, marking the latest Trump administration endorsement of the crypto industry.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Trump's threat of “substantial” tariffs on countries imposing digital taxes came after Zuckerberg raised concerns about the taxes in a private meeting  —  President Donald Trump threatened to inflict “substantial” tariffs on countries that impose digital taxes just days …
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Two House Republicans open a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias into Wikipedia, citing an ADL report about anti-Israel bias on the site  —  Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias …
Financial Times:
Court filing: the UK sought broad access to Apple user data, including bulk iCloud interception beyond ADP, and hasn't dropped the mandate as the US claimed  —  Document suggests British government's ‘back-door’ demand was not limited to the company's most secure iCloud service
Hans Nichols / Axios:
In a letter, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail; Google says its spam filters are not biased  —  The Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission is warning Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail …
The Information:
Sources: Pinecone, which provides an AI-compatible vector database, is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Pinecone was valued at $750M in 2023  —  When the artificial intelligence boom began a few years ago, investors flocked to startups that helped businesses transform …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers, dropping the Game Pass Ultimate requirement, and tests more PC game access  —  Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers are also getting access to some PC games.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
InstaLILY, whose industry-specific AI agents called InstaWorkers integrate with legacy systems, raised $25M from Insight Partners  —  InstaLILY Inc. said today it has raised $25 million exclusively from Insight Partners to fuel the growth of industry vertical-specific “AI Teammates” …

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From Mediagazer

Variety:
Sources: the legal team for Paramount President Jeff Shell has engaged in preliminary talks about a possible exit from the company, where he was hired in 2024

Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
WME is selling sports marketing agency 160over90 to Publicis Groupe for, sources say, $500M+; WME bought the agency in 2018 for about $200M

Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Judges have now cited verbal attacks on the press by Trump and appointees when ruling against the US government in at least three cases involving news outlets

More News

Will Wade / Bloomberg:
Commonwealth, which wants to build a fusion power plant, raised $863M from Nvidia's NVentures, Khosla Ventures, and Google, bringing its total raised to ~$3B
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
A review of the Honor Magic V5, the world's thinnest foldable phone at 8.8mm when folded, as it launches in Europe for €1,999, following a July launch in China
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:
Dutch web design automation startup Framer raised $100M led by Meritech and Atomico with Accel participation at a $2B valuation, after raising $27M in 2023
Bloomberg:
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress says the US hasn't outlined its plan for a 15% China commission, Nvidia won't pay until it has it, and it can sell AI chips without it
Chris Vallance / BBC:
Apple says the UK CMA's proposed “EU-style” regulation is “bad for users and bad for developers”, “undermines” privacy and security, and “hampers” innovation

Earlier Picks

Everything Typepad:
Typepad is shutting down on September 30, and users' “account and all related services will be permanently deactivated”; users can export content before then
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Samsung rolls out Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in its 2025 lineup of TVs and monitors, letting users ask for movie suggestions, plot recaps, and more
Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google:
Google launches Pixel Care+, replacing Preferred Care and Fi Device Protection in the US, with upgrades but slightly higher pricing than the previous offering
Danny Park / The Block:
Google Cloud says its Universal Ledger, a layer-1 blockchain for financial products, is in a private testnet, and plans to reveal more details at a later date
Hayden Field / The Verge:
Anthropic's Threat Intelligence report for August says Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme
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