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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: Pramod Gosavi, Jeff Weiner, and Brian Duffy
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.| 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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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Bob Hutchins, Phd
Forums: r/singularity, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
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Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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 … | 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
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| 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
| 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.| 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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| 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
| 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 … | 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 … | Reuters: |
Research and 25 experts, victims, and execs: North Korean hackers are saturating the crypto industry with credible-sounding 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 … | 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 …
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| 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 … | 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
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is set to avoid a potentially hefty EU antitrust fine by agreeing to sell Teams separately from its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 packages — Microsoft Corp. is set to avoid a potentially hefty antitrust fine after the European Union got positive feedback … | Michael Hirsh / Politico: |
As the Pentagon races to deploy AI into its weapons systems, some experts fear humans can't keep up with models that prefer to escalate aggressively in a crisis — Jacquelyn Schneider saw a disturbing pattern, and she didn't know what to make of it. — Last year Schneider …
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Bluesky: @charlotteclymer, @drewharwell.com, @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents …, @politico.com, @allybex, @michaelkruse, @gwbstr.com, and @johncarlbaker
Forums: r/politics and r/technews
| 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 … | Echo Wong / Bloomberg: |
GSR fund documents: TikTok rival Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in the US, saw its valuation rise 19% from $26B in March to $31B 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
| The Information: |
Sources: Lambda, a cloud provider that rents out Nvidia GPUs, has hired banks to prepare for a US IPO as soon as H1 2026; Lambda was valued at $2.5B in February — Lambda, a cloud provider that rents out Nvidia graphics chips for artificial intelligence, has hired investment banks to prepare …
More: TechCrunch, DatacenterDynamics, and Finbold
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Philips Hue unveils a major product refresh at IFA 2025, including a $99 Hue Bridge Pro, updated $25+ smart bulbs, and the $170 Hue Secure, its first doorbell — The smart lighting company launches its most ambitious update yet, with a new Bridge Pro, more affordable smart bulbs … | Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
The US Army awards a $98.9M contract to TurbineOne to deploy AI software that helps identify drones and other threats, processing all data on soldiers' devices — Infantry will use software from startup TurbineOne to identify drones and other threats, even when signals are jammed
More: RealClearDefense
| 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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| John Kell / Fortune: |
Universities have begun appointing Chief AI Officers tasked with developing curricula, promoting tech partnerships, and integrating AI into faculty workflows — Amarda Shehu was happily leading George Mason University's Institute for Digital Innovation, which promotes research in AI …
More: The Decoder and San Francisco Chronicle
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