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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610M in cash, set to close by December; founded in 2019, the startup beta launched the Dia browser in June — Atlassian said it has agreed to acquire The Browser Co., a startup that offers a web browser with artificial intelligence features, for $610 million in cash.
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LinkedIn: Jeff Weiner and Brian Duffy
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz and @carnage4life
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Despite a setback in the US DOJ's Google case, the Trump administration continues to pursue Big Tech antitrust cases while defending US tech companies overseas — Tough enforcement continues even as tech bosses court the president — Donald Trump has slapped down European tech rules and promised to slash regulation at home.
More: Pluralistic, Forbes, The Torment Nexus, Implicator.ai, Reuters, Implicator.ai, Wall Street Journal, Gizchina, and Bloomberg
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans AI web search, World Knowledge Answers, for a spring 2026 Siri revamp; Apple and Google this week agreed to test a Gemini model for Siri — Apple Inc. is planning to launch its own artificial intelligence-powered web search tool next year, stepping up competition with OpenAI and Perplexity AI Inc.
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X: @divestech, @rjonesy, @maxwinebach, @scobleizer, @davidclinchnews, @getpeid, @scobleizer, @benbajarin, @amitisinvesting, @scobleizer, and @markgurman
LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Bob Hutchins, Phd
Forums: r/singularity, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DeepSeek is developing an agentic AI model that can carry out multistep actions with little human intervention and can learn and improve, coming in Q4 — DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI … | Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Tencent releases HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, trained on 100K+ video clips — On Tuesday, Tencent released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a new open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image …
More: Tencent-Hunyuan on GitHub, Hugging Face, and WinBuzzer
X: @tencenthunyuan, @dylan_ebert_, @wildmindai, and @vickyinsf
Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roblox says it will expand age checks to all users of its communication tools by the end of 2025 using facial age estimation tech, IDs, and parental consent — Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it's expanding … | France 24: |
France's CNIL fines Google €325M and Shein €150M for using ad cookies without users' consent; Google says it is reviewing the decision, which involves Gmail — France's data protection authority on Wednesday issued record fines against search giant Google and fast-fashion platform Shein …
More: CNIL, The Register, The Hacker News, Computerworld, Reuters, noyb, UPI, Reuters, Politico, MediaNama, TechRadar, The Cyber Express, Morningstar, Inc., CNIL, and Bloomberg Law
| Bloomberg: |
Honeywell's Quantinuum raised $600M from Quanta, Nvidia's NVentures, and others at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in January 2024 — Nvidia Corp.'s venture capital arm is investing in Quantinuum for the first time, valuing the quantum computing company controlled … | Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon's Project Kuiper signs up JetBlue as its first airline customer to use its satellite internet for in-flight Wi-Fi in 25% of JetBlue's fleet from 2027 — JetBlue plans to use Kuiper satellite internet on 25% of its fleet, with some passengers gaining access to the service in 2027
More: PCMag, GeekWire, TechCrunch, About Amazon, The Verge, The Information, Reuters, UPI, Quartz, Bloomberg Law, Travel And Tour World, CNBC, and Business Wire
| The Hill: |
CEOs of Apple, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others are expected to attend an AI event hosted by Melania Trump and dinner at the White House Rose Garden on Thursday — President Trump on Thursday will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for the first event …
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Forums: r/intelstock and MacRumors Forums
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Switzerland launches Apertus, an open-source AI model trained on publicly available data across 1,000+ languages, in 8B- and 70B-parameter sizes on Hugging Face — Apertus was trained only on publicly available data, it said. — There's a new player in the AI race, and it's a whole country.
More: The Verge, The Decoder, GreenBot, SWI swissinfo.ch, ETH Zurich, Implicator.ai, AI News, Silicon Republic, CyberInsider, and heise online News
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and Slashdot
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the $650+ Galaxy S25 FE and the $800+ Tab S11 in 11" and 14.6" versions, offering thinner, lighter designs and modest spec bumps, shipping now — Oh, and did I mention they have AI? … If you've been eagerly awaiting Samsung's long-teased trifold phone …
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| Margaret Attridge / Courthouse News Service: |
A US jury orders Google to pay $425M+ to plaintiffs in a 2020 class action lawsuit for collecting data even after they turned off Web & App Activity tracking — A class of nearly 100 million Google users claimed the tech giant secretly collected data even after they disabled data collection … | Reuters: |
Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese tech companies remain keen on Nvidia's AI chips despite Beijing strongly discouraging them from such purchases — Alibaba (9988.HK), ByteDance and other Chinese tech firms remain keen on Nvidia's (NVDA.O) artificial intelligence chips despite regulators …
More: PC Gamer, Tom's Hardware, Benzinga, TipRanks Financial, Tech in Asia, and TechPowerUp. Forums: r/NVDA_Stock
| Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says Polymarket “has been given the green light to go live” in the US after the CFTC issued a no-action letter over event contracts — Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market, has the regulatory approvals needed to launch in the US …
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| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Sources: plans for X Money, a US payments service integrated into X, have stalled as executives leave and the DFS NY and other state regulators raise concerns — For decades, one of Elon Musk's biggest ambitions has been using technology to disrupt and replace traditional banks and payments processors.| Reuters: |
American Bitcoin closed up 16.5% in its Nasdaq debut on September 3, valuing Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.'s ~20% stake in the bitcoin mining company at $1.5B — A bitcoin company tied to President Donald Trump's two oldest sons more than doubled in value in its stock market debut on Wednesday …
More: New York Post, The Coin Republic, DL News, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, The Block, Washington Examiner, Sydney Morning Herald, Fortune, NBC News, CNBC, The Defiant, New Jersey Online, The Crypto Times, Bloomberg, Bitcoin Insider, Bitcoin Magazine, Proactive, Decrypt, CoinGape, Yahoo Finance, and The Crypto Basic
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
C3 AI reports Q1 revenue down 19% YoY to $70.3M, and names long-time tech executive Stephen Ehikian as CEO, replacing Thomas Siebel; C3 AI's stock drops 5%+ — Shares of the enterprise artificial intelligence company C3 AI fell 14% in extended trading on Wednesday after it announced fiscal … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: xAI CFO Mike Liberatore left the startup around the end of July, after joining in April; xAI has seen several high-profile departures in recent weeks — Mike Liberatore departs after only a few months on the job — The chief financial officer of xAI has left the company …
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| Reuters: |
Research and 25 experts, victims, and execs: North Korean hackers are saturating the crypto industry with credible-seeming job offers in a bid to steal crypto — North Korean hackers are saturating the cryptocurrency industry with credible-sounding job offers as part of their campaign to steal digital cash … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Ketryx, which is building an AI-native compliance platform to speed up medical device development, raised a $39M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M+ — Ketryx Corp., a company transforming product lifecycle development and compliance for medical device makers with artificial intelligence …
More: Tech.eu, Tech Funding News, Sourcery, and Boston Business Journal
| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Lead Bank, a 97-year-old Missouri bank rebuilt to serve fintech and crypto firms, raised $70M from a16z, Khosla Ventures, and others at a $1.47B valuation — Lead Bank, the 97-year old Missouri lender rebuilt to serve fintech and crypto firms, has raised $70 million at a $1.47 billion valuation … | Michael Hirsh / Politico: |
As the Pentagon rushes to deploy AI into its weapons systems, some experts fear humans can't keep pace with AI's aggressive tendency to escalate in a crisis — Jacquelyn Schneider saw a disturbing pattern, and she didn't know what to make of it. — Last year Schneider …
More: Techstrong.ai. X: @michaelphirsh, @patrickshafto, @daveedgr, and @politico
Bluesky: @charlotteclymer, @drewharwell.com, @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents …, @politico.com, @allybex, @michaelkruse, @gwbstr.com, and @johncarlbaker
Forums: r/politics and r/technews
| Echo Wong / Bloomberg: |
GSR fund documents: TikTok rival Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in the US, saw its valuation rise 19% to $31B from $26B in March during recent GSR transactions — Xiaohongshu's valuation surged 19% to $31 billion in just three months during recent transactions via a major fund …
More: Tech in Asia and TipRanks Financial
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Figma reports Q2 revenue up 41% YoY to $249.6M, vs. $248.8M est., $28.2M net income, and forecasts Q3 and FY 2025 revenue above est.; FIG drops 20%+ — Figma shares plunged 13% in extended trading on Wednesday after the design software company reported results for the first time since its IPO in July.| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Philips Hue unveils a major product refresh at IFA 2025, including a $90 Hue Bridge Pro, updated $25 smart bulbs, and the $169 Hue Secure doorbell, its first — The smart lighting company launches its most ambitious update yet, with a new Bridge Pro, more affordable smart bulbs …
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| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
The US Army awards a $98.9M contract to TurbineOne to deploy AI software that helps infantry identify drones and other threats locally on soldiers' devices — Infantry will use software from startup TurbineOne to identify drones and other threats, even when signals are jammed
More: RealClearDefense
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