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Wall Street Journal:
At a White House dinner, tech CEOs thanked Trump for promoting chip and AI investments, while Trump promised an easy energy permitting process for data centers  —  Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman salute president's leadership on innovation as industry seeks his favor
Ashley Gold / Axios:
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Code.org, IBM, OpenAI, and other companies pledged new commitments for AI in education as part of Melania Trump's White House event  —  Teaching students AI literacy from an early age is key to American success, First Lady Melania Trump said at a White House event …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: major design upgrades for the iPhone, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, three Apple Watch models, and the AirPods Pro 3  —  Company is readying a slew of updated devices for the holidays.  —  Apple Inc.'s biggest product launch event of the year takes place …
Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI is set to produce an AI chip co-designed with Broadcom, to ship in 2026, and has committed $10B in orders; the chip will only be used internally  —  ChatGPT maker's deal with US chip group signals industry shift towards custom alternatives to Nvidia
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $15.95B, vs. $15.8B est., AI revenue up 63% YoY to $5.2B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; AVGO jumps 10%+
Financial Times:
Anthropic says it will stop selling AI services to majority Chinese-owned groups; a source says the policy is partly aimed at Chinese subsidiaries in Singapore  —  Policy will also apply to US adversaries including Russia, Iran and North Korea  —  Anthropic will stop selling artificial intelligence services …
Binaj Gurubacharya / Associated Press:
Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after the companies failed to register with the government  —  Nepal's government said Thursday it is blocking most social media platforms including Facebook, X and YouTube because the companies failed …
Michael Peel / Financial Times:
Researchers from UCL, Google DeepMind, and Intrinsic unveil RoboBallet, an AI system designed to help teams of industrial robots work together without colliding  —  System potentially allows machine troupes to work faster and reduce collisions  —  Scientists have used artificial intelligence …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Lenovo unveils Legion Go 2, with an 8.8" OLED screen and an AMD Ryzen Z2 or Z2 Extreme chip, arriving in October for $1,099+, or $400 more than the Legion Go  —  Bigger, heavier, almost certainly better. … Lenovo's Legion Go was a polarizing handheld gaming PC, and that won't change …
Bloomberg:
OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match employers to candidates with AI skills, and a certification program for teaching AI 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 …
Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review:
How Synthesia is combining AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent, intonation, and expressiveness preservation  —  Earlier this summer, I walked through the glassy lobby of a fancy office in London, into an elevator, and then along a corridor into a clean, carpeted room.
Bloomberg:
World Liberty Financial blocked Justin Sun's wallet after it transferred 50M WLFI tokens, worth ~ $9M, to HTX exchange; Sun called out the freezing of assets  —  A cryptocurrency project endorsed by Donald Trump's family saw its trading debut soured after billionaire backer Justin Sun …
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD files a copyright lawsuit that accuses Midjourney of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Superman and Batman  —  The lawsuit against Midjourney was filed as a growing contingent of Hollywood steps into the fight over generative artificial intelligence.
Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
How Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack from Musk, conservative groups, the Trump administration, and other governments  —  WhenWhen armies invade, hurricanes form, or governments fall, a Wikipedia editor will typically update the relevant articles seconds after the news breaks.

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From Mediagazer

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Henry Blodget / Regenerator:
Bari Weiss' 60 Minutes decision may have been a way to both signal that she's serious about shifting CBS' sensibility to the right and “improve” a story

Alex Ritman / Variety:
In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

More News

The Information:
Source: Nvidia agreed to rent 10,000 of its own AI chips from Lambda for $1.3B over four years, the latest example of Nvidia's circular financial arrangements
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in October 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are used by “hundreds of millions”

Earlier Picks

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+
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, giving users a way to build upon posts' 500-character text limit
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Adobe plans to launch a free version of Premiere for iOS later this month, giving the video editor one-tap exporting to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and more
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Stripe and Paradigm unveil Tempo, a Layer 1 blockchain for stablecoins; a source says Tempo will not debut with its own token and there's no launch timeline yet
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
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
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
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