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US v. Google: a US federal judge rules that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android, but it must share search data; GOOG jumps 6%+ pre-market — 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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A US 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 …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg, Senator Amy Klobuchar, News / Media Alliance CEO Danielle Coffey, and others criticize the US v. Google ruling as too lenient — ‘Google will still be allowed to continue to use its monopoly to hold back competitors, including in AI search,’ said DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg.| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
US v. Google: Judge Amit Mehta 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 … | New York Times: |
As part of the US v. Google remedies ruling, a technical committee will be established to help enforce the final judgment, which will last six years — The judge's decision positions Google to keep its search business running largely without interruption. — Google Search is considered … | M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
US v. Google: the ruling that lets Google continue paying for traffic acquisition is a huge win for Apple and Mozilla, which relies heavily on Google's payments — I had a sneaking suspicion today might be the day where Judge Amit Mehta would come back with the remedies in Google's antitrust trial.| Lee-Anne Mulholland / Google: |
Google says it is reviewing the court's ruling on search and has “concerns” about how the requirements “will impact our users and their privacy” — Earlier today a U.S. court overseeing the Department of Justice's lawsuit over how we distribute Search issued a decision on next steps.
| 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 …
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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.
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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.
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
SK Hynix and ASML say they assembled the industry's first Twinscan NXE:5200B High-NA EUV lithography system at SK's M16 fab, initially to test next-gen tech — Initially for R&D use, until later this decade where it will transition to production — SK hynix and ASML early on Wednesday announced …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Study: Character.AI chatbots of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan, and Patrick Mahomes chatted inappropriately with teen accounts on topics like sex and drugs — The chatbots made by users of Character.AI used recognizable synthetic voices for the stars. — Just now
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's lead AI researcher for robotics, Jian Zhang, leaves for Meta's Robotics Studio; sources say 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 …
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| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
A reporter details how her mother, a kidney transplant patient who lives in China, bonded with DeepSeek's chatbot as her AI doctor, calling it “more humane” — In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI. — Every few months, my mother … | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Finnish quantum computing startup IQM raised a $320M Series B led by Ten Eleven at a $1B+ valuation, and plans a US expansion and to scale its data centers — IQM, a Finnish quantum computing startup, has raised €275 million ($320 million) in venture capital funding …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Utila, which is building an “operating system for stablecoins”, raised a $22M Series A extension led by Red Dot, taking its total funding to $51M+ — - Utila raised $22 million in a Series A extension round led by Red Dot Capital Partners, “nearly tripling” its valuation six months after its initial Series A.| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight operator communications, raised a $44M Series B led by Base10 Partners, a source says at a ~$500M valuation — HappyRobot, an artificial intelligence startup that automates communications including rate negotiation and appointment booking for freight operators …
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Acer unveils the $3,999+ Veriton GN100 AI Mini Workstation with a Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip to run AI models locally, its first Mini AI workstation — Acer Veriton GN100 is a mini AI workstation built on NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell — It looks like NVIDIA CPU/GPU hardware …
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| Bloomberg: |
AI search engine startup Exa Labs raised an $85M Series B led by Benchmark at a $700M valuation, up 10x on its 2024 Series A, and plans to grow its GPU cluster — The $85 million funding round values Exa at $700 million. — The venture capital firm Benchmark is backing a new type … | Ramon Royandoyan / Nikkei Asia: |
Philippines government data: online gambling revenue in the country overtook traditional casinos in H1 2025, generating ~$2B, or 53%+ of the industry's total — MANILA — The Philippines has long been a regional hub for gambling, but its fortunes are now being forged in the digital realm …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nintendo repeatedly pushed back Switch 2 launch plans after game designers asked for more time, believing a focus on gameplay trumped advanced hardware — Earlier this year, Nintendo Co. was under growing pressure. It had been eight long years since the release of the original Switch …
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| Financial Times: |
A look at issues facing AI companies, including LLMs' limited memory, as they tackle safety in chatbots engaging in conversations about suicide and self-harm — Design of popular tools makes harmful conversations difficult to avoid, leading to alarm from parents
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| 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 … | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Polar launches the $199 Polar Loop, a screen-free fitness band to track activity, sleep, and more without a subscription, in three colors, shipping September 10 — Finnish fitness-hardware brand Polar Electro Oy unveiled a screen-free fitness band that looks like — and directly competes with …
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| The Information: |
Nvidia acquires Solver, a three-year-old AI coding agent startup formerly known as Laredo Labs, which had raised $8M from Radical Ventures and other investors — Nvidia has acquired Solver, a three-year-old software development startup, The Information reported Tuesday.
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