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Anthropic:
Anthropic raised a $13B Series F led by Iconiq, Fidelity, and Lightspeed at a $183B valuation, up from $61.5B in March, and reports a $5B+ run-rate revenue  —  Anthropic has completed a Series F fundraising of $13 billion led by ICONIQ.  This financing values Anthropic at $183 billion post-money.
Megan Morrone / Axios:
OpenAI details its plan to add guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress by the end of 2025, including routing some conversations to GPT-5-thinking  —  ChatGPT guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress will roll out by the end of the year, OpenAI promised Tuesday.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Dolby launches Dolby Vision 2, adding AI-powered Content Intelligence and Authentic Motion, first on Hisense TVs, after debuting HDR format Dolby Vision in 2014  —  The updated format promises ‘authentically cinematic’ use of motion smoothing, and settings that automatically make content look the best depending on your TV and lighting.
Bloomberg:
TSMC says the US revoked its authorization to ship gear to its main Chinese chipmaking base in Nanjing, after the US revoked Samsung's and SK Hynix's waivers  —  The US has revoked Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s authorization to freely ship essential gear to its main Chinese chipmaking base …
New York Times:
An analysis of Grok's responses to 41 political questions in May and July shows it shifted to the right on 50%+ of them, often reflecting Elon Musk's priorities  —  Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI's chatbot to be “politically neutral.”  His actions say otherwise.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft says it is giving the US GSA $6B+ in potential savings on Office, Azure, Dynamics 365, and more over three years, including $3.1B in the first year  —  Microsoft has agreed to give the U.S. General Services Administration $3.1 billion in potential savings over the course of a year …
CoinDesk:
Winklevoss twins' Gemini plans to sell 16.67M shares at $17 to $19 each in its US IPO, seeking to raise $317M, which would value the crypto exchange at $2.22B  —  The Winklevoss-led company plans to sell 16.67M shares at $17-$19 each, tapping a hot IPO market.  —  What to know:
Nikou Asgari / Financial Times:
WLFI, run by the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, falls 25% to ~$0.21 on its first trading day, giving it a ~$6B market cap; Trump's WLFI is worth ~$3.6B  —  WLFI tokens in circulation have a total nominal value of $6.4bn  —  The crypto token of a project backed by US President Donald Trump fell …
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
US procurement records show the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order and reactivated an ICE contract for phone spyware from Tel Aviv-based Paragon  —  US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on track to gain access to controversial spyware designed to hack phones …
Kate Clark / Bloomberg:
A look at a16z's Speedrun, a YC-like accelerator targeting a more creative demographic and which has invested $180M into 150 companies over the past 18 months  —  Big VC funds are moving further upstream, placing bets on the youngest companies.  —  A few weeks ago, about 150 people gathered …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development tool, at WordCamp US; CEO Matt Mullenweg called it “V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress”  —  Web publishing platform WordPress is introducing an early version of an AI development tool, which CEO Matt Mullenweg described as a …
Bloomberg:
Sources: the EU delayed a planned September 1 fine against Google over its ad tech practices due to fears it could provoke Trump to unravel EU-US trade progress  —  The European Union paused its immediate plans to punish Alphabet Inc.'s Google for abusing its dominance over advertising technology amid fears …

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Gene Weingarten / The Gene Pool:
An H1B visa filing list indicates Will Lewis' base salary as WaPo CEO was $3M per year in 2025, or enough to pay ~27 of the 300+ reporters who were laid off

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
In a call, Tim Davie says the BBC plans to cut ~10% of its costs in the next three years, leading to job and programming cuts; 2025's operating costs hit £2B+

Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:
A CBS News producer quits, saying stories may now be evaluated “on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations”, causing self-censorship

More News

Bloomberg:
Filing: Klarna and some shareholders are selling 34.3M shares for $35-$37 each in its IPO, aiming to raise up to $1.27B and giving it an up to ~$14B market cap

Earlier Picks

Aidin Vaziri / San Francisco Chronicle:
Marc Benioff says Salesforce has cut its customer support staff from 9,000 to ~5,000 in 2025 after deploying AI agents to handle a growing share of its work
Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted:
UK-based Phasecraft, which develops algorithms for quantum computers, raised a $34M Series B co-led by Plural, Playground Global, and Novo Holdings
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Alibaba's stock jumped 19%+ in Hong Kong on September 1, after its August 29 report of cloud computing driving strong Q1 results and reports of its new AI chip
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