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September 3, 2025, 3:50 AM

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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 …
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 …
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:
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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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