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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 …
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| 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 … | 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 … | M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
The ruling that allows Google to continue paying for traffic acquisition is a huge win for Apple and for Mozilla, which relies heavily on payments from Google — Chrome stays. Payments stay. Default placement goes. Some Search data goes. — I had a sneaking suspicion today might …
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| 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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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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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 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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| 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 …
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| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
Plaud says it has sold 1M+ of its $159 NotePin AI recording devices since 2023, is profitable, and is on track to bring in $250M in annualized revenue this year — Nathan Xu's bootstrapped company has sold more than 1 million AI recording devices that transcribe and summarize the busy days of doctors … | 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 …
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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 … | Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: |
A deep dive into the state of the tech job market in 2025, including an increase in demand for AI engineers and a rising average tenure at Big Tech companies — A deepdive into today's tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more
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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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| Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: |
IDC: in Q1 2025, the world's top four robot vacuum makers, all from China, together accounted for 54.1% of shipments, as iRobot fell from first to fifth place — SHANGHAI — Chinese companies are tightening their grip on the global robotic vacuum cleaner market, as cutthroat domestic competition intensifies …
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| Alison Durkee / Forbes: |
Content creators and rideshare drivers are among the professions covered under the “no tax on tips” policy passed as part of the US spending bill signed in July — Topline — Influencers, rideshare drivers, performers, baristas and more will be covered under the “No Tax on Tips” … | Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
A US district judge rules that Amazon must face a class action lawsuit involving 288M customers over claims it overcharged for products sold by third parties — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) must face a class action on behalf of hundreds of millions of U.S. consumers over claims that the online retail … | Financial Times: |
How SK Hynix's rise as Nvidia's main HBM chip supplier, ahead of Samsung and Micron, disrupted the old order at the top end of the memory chip market — Innovation has helped push SK Hynix ahead of Samsung — and put chipmakers in the middle of growing US-China tensions| 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 …
More: The Economic Times
| Financial Times: |
BMW's iX3 electric SUV, debuting September 5, will be the first in a series of “software-defined vehicles” on its €10B+ Neue Klasse platform unveiled in 2021 — Legacy carmaker has spent €10bn developing ambitious technologies for ‘software-defined vehicles’| 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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| 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 …
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