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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 6%+ 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.
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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 …
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
The judge in US v. Google says allowing Google's payments is “more palatable now”, since GenAI companies “already are in a better position” to compete  —  Now, Google can finally appeal the case. … Google will not have to sell its Chrome browser in order to address …
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.
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.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple's lead AI researcher for robotics, Jian Zhang, has left for Meta's Robotics Studio; sources: three more researchers left Apple's Foundation Models team  —  Apple Inc.'s lead artificial intelligence researcher for robotics has departed the company to join Meta Platforms Inc.'s competing effort …
Megan Morrone / Axios:
OpenAI details its plan to add guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress by the end of 2025, including parental controls within the next month  —  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 …
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:
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  —  Klarna Group Plc and some of its shareholders are seeking to raise as much as $1.27 billion as the financial-technology company revives …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Disney pays $10M to settle an FTC complaint that alleges Disney collected children's data by failing to designate certain YouTube videos as being made for kids  —  The Walt Disney Company on Tuesday said it has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a children's privacy lawsuit …
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 …
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.
Ina Fried / Axios:
Source: Sierra, which builds AI customer service agents, nears a $350M raise at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in October 2024, and is set to top $100M in ARR  —  Sierra, which builds custom AI agents for enterprise customer service, is nearing a deal for a $350 million financing round …
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:

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70

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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”
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
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

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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
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
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
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