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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android but must share search data; GOOG jumps 8%+ after hours  —  A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the company can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts and must share search data.
Wall Street Journal:
A judge bars Google from paying to be the exclusive search engine on devices and browsers but allows payments for product distribution, including to Apple  —  Court-imposed limits aim to restore competition in search marketplace  —  A federal judge on Tuesday barred Alphabet's Google …
Hayden Field / The Verge:
OpenAI acquires product analytics company Statsig for $1.1B and shuffles executive roles, with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji becoming OpenAI's CTO of Applications  —  It was a big weekend for the ChatGPT-maker. … OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of a new group called OpenAI for Science to build an “AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery”
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 run rate of $5B+  —  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.
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 …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Cloudflare says attackers gained access to a Salesforce instance it uses for internal customer case management, as part of the Salesloft Drift breach  —  Cloudflare is the latest company impacted in a recent string of Salesloft Drift breaches, part of a supply-chain attack disclosed last week.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Dolby launches Dolby Vision 2, with AI tools that optimize TVs based on content and a feature for “authentically cinematic” smoothing, first on Hisense TVs  —  The updated format promises ‘authentically cinematic’ use of motion smoothing, and settings that automatically …
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 …
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 …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon says it will end the ability for Prime members to share their free shipping benefits with individuals outside their household, starting on October 1  —  Starting October 1st, Prime members can no longer share free shipping with someone who doesn't live with them.
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.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Disney agrees to pay $10M to settle an FTC complaint that alleges Disney failed to designate certain YouTube videos as being made for children  —  The Walt Disney Company on Tuesday said it has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a children's privacy lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission related …
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:
Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard:
OpenAI subpoenaed AI governance nonprofits Encode and CANI, alleging they are part of a conspiracy involving billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg  —  Two weeks ago, Nathan Calvin, the general counsel for a small AI governance nonprofit called Encode, was visiting family …
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 …
John Hendel / Politico:
A six-year US effort to counter Chinese telecom dominance took a hit after the One Big Beautiful Bill cut ~$1B from a program aimed at developing Open RAN tech  —  “To cut it came completely out of the blue,” said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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New York Times:
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia was forced out of her role on Friday, after five days on the job and hosting only one press briefing

Washington Post:
Israeli settlers attacked WaPo photographer Heidi Levine, who wore a “PRESS” vest, in the West Bank, kicking her repeatedly and taking her cameras and phone

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