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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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X: @joshm, @browsercompany, @atlassian, @itsurboyevan, @vanlancker, @mcannonbrookes, @willdepue, @scottbelsky, @hursh, @vilinskyy, @jordihays, @brianrumao, @aidenybai, and @cpaik
LinkedIn: Or Eshed, Simon Vincent, Sean Mendy, Frederic Lardinois, Pramod Gosavi, Jeff Weiner, and Brian Duffy
Bluesky: @goose.art, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @carnage4life, and @keith.is
Mastodon: @ashley@wears.tigerpajamas.com and @amit@me.dm
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Stripe and Paradigm unveil Tempo, a Layer-1 blockchain for stablecoins; a source says Tempo will not launch with its own token and there is no launch timeline — Patrick Collison, chief executive officer and co-founder of Stripe, left, smiles as John Collison, president and co-founder of Stripe
More: Decrypt, Bloomberg, Blockworks, The Block, CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, Crypto Briefing, and The Defiant
X: @matthuang, @tempo, @zcabrams, @jackforestell, @canadakaz, @paulg, @dogetoshi, @ccatalini, @patrickc, and @matthuang
LinkedIn: Nick Martitsch and Georgios Konstantopoulos
| 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 …
More: CNET, Washington Times, and Implicator.ai
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, building upon the 500-character text limit for posts — Blogging is back. … Meta is adding a new feature to let you add a bunch of extra text to Threads posts — no screenshots of text blocks required.
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Meta Newsroom, Sherwood News, iPhone in Canada, and Mashable
| 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
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Adobe plans to launch a free version of its Premiere video editor for iPhone later this month, with one-tap exporting to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram — Adobe is bringing its video editor Premiere to iPhone, promising “pro-level” editing on the go for free.
More: The Adobe Blog, Engadget, MacRumors, Lifewire, Thurrott, PCMag, iPhone in Canada, Redmond Pie, Notebookcheck, 9to5Mac, PetaPixel, TechCrunch, iClarified, ZDNET, and AppleInsider. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
| 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, calgaryherald, Reuters, The Torment Nexus, Implicator.ai, Forbes, and Wall Street Journal
X: @johnreedwrites. Bluesky: @robertscotthorton, @mariafarrell, and @ccavaille. Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
More: The Verge, The Guardian, Blood in the Machine, Bloomberg, Adweek, Proactiveinvestors UK, Sydney Morning Herald, Financial Times, Barron's Online, The Information, Quartz, Business Insider, and BBC. Bluesky: @wavesblog
| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match employers with candidates with AI skills, and a certification program for AI roles in the coming months — OpenAI plans to launch a new AI-powered jobs platform next year to help match employers with candidates who have artificial intelligence skills … | 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 … | Reuters: |
ID.me, a digital ID service used by US agencies like the IRS, raised a $340M Series E led by Ribbit at a $2B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $580M+ — ID.me said on Wednesday it had raised $340 million across its latest funding round, combined with a credit facility …
More: Finextra, FinSMEs, PYMNTS.com, FinTech Global, ID.me, Inc., TipRanks Financial, Washington …, Tech in Asia, and Axios
| 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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LinkedIn: Jeff Kietzmann, Jason Presement, Steven M. Elinson, and Dr. Dylan Browne. Bluesky: @marypcbuk. Forums: r/Starlink
| 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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X: @elonmusk, @satyanadella, @bradsmi, @mgsiegler, @deitaone, @sachalouise, and @brett_samuels27. Bluesky: @sachalouise
Forums: r/intelstock and MacRumors Forums
| Resilience Media: |
Tel Aviv-based Sola, which develops AI-based no-code and low-code cybersecurity tools, raised a $35M Series A led by S32 and says it has ~2,000 customers — Earlier this year, Israeli cybersecurity startup Sola emerged from stealth with $30 million and ambitions to become the “Stripe for Security” …
More: New York Times, Tech Funding News, Globes, and GovInfoSecurity.com
| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
Google now lets US-based Google Photos users turn static images into silent four-second videos using its Veo 3 model — Free users of Google Photos can create silent 4-second videos from their images using Veo 3. … Google is adding Veo 3 software capabilities to its video generation feature for Google Photos.
More: 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Engadget, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Android Central, PetaPixel, Mashable, BGR, and Droid Life
| 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.| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by “hundreds of millions” — Bret Taylor's artificial intelligence startup Sierra has just joined an exclusive club: The company sports …
More: Sierra blog, Bloomberg, The Information, and SiliconANGLE
X: @sierraplatform and @peterfenton
LinkedIn: Greg Marsh, Melissa Diamond, and Bret Taylor
| 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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| Leen Al-Rashdan / Bloomberg: |
Roblox restricts some features in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, including its in-game chat tool, and improves Arabic content moderation due to child safety concerns — Roblox Corp. will restrict certain features on its popular video-game platform across the Middle East, including the United Arab Emirates … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Keith Laing / Bloomberg: |
The Trump administration plans to ease rules for self driving cars by removing some requirements designed for human drivers, such as windshield wipers — The Trump administration is taking steps to make it easier for automakers to deploy-self driving cars by removing some requirements designed specifically …
More: Sherwood News
| 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 …
More: SentinelOne, PYMNTS.com, Tom's Hardware, Inc.com, and Infosecurity
| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
A profile of Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, which is unique among AI companies in having a mandate to both evaluate its AI models and publicize findings widely — From left, Anthropic's Frontier Red Team leader Logan Graham; co-founder and head of policy Jack Clark; and Frontier Red Team member Keane Lucas.| Fortune: |
DOJ charges ex-IRL CEO Abraham Shafi with securities and wire fraud for allegedly misleading investors about user growth, concealing personal expenses, and more — Authorities charged the ex-CEO of a former unicorn, buzzy social media startup IRL (which stands for “in real life") …
X: @ajs
| 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 … | 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 … | 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 …
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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: TheStreet, PC Gamer, Benzinga, Tech in Asia, TipRanks Financial, Tom's Hardware, and TechPowerUp. Forums: r/NVDA_Stock
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