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Brian Barrett / Wired:
At the White House dinner on Thursday night, Big Tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump by taking turns praising his leadership  —  At a White House dinner Thursday night, America's tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.
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 …
Kalley Huang / The Information:
At the White House dinner, Zuckerberg said Meta plans to spend “something like at least $600B” through 2028 on data centers and other infrastructure in the US
Wall Street Journal:
The EU fines Google €2.95B for abusing its dominance in digital ads, and says its preliminary stance is that Google must divest parts of its ad-tech business  —  Bloc's antitrust regulators say search giant may need to divest parts of its business  —  BRUSSELS—The European Union fined …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
After the EU fined Google €2.95B, Trump threatens a trade probe, saying the Trump administration “will not allow these discriminatory actions to stand”  —  - CNBC Councils  — Supply Chain Values  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Ad Choices  — News Tips
Bloomberg:
Filing: Anthropic will pay $1.5B to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books  —  Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading of millions of pirated books …
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 …
Bloomberg:
World Liberty Financial blacklisted Justin Sun's wallet after it transferred ~$9M worth of WLFI tokens to exchange HTX; Sun called out the freezing of assets  —  Justin Sun, the Chinese-born crypto billionaire, has tied himself closely to the Trump family's digital-asset ventures — with money, appearances, and public praise.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Roblox launches text-to-speech and speech-to-text APIs, and AI tools, including letting creators generate fully functional 3D objects from prompts, and more  —  Online gaming platform Roblox is launching a TikTok-like short-form video feed for sharing gameplay moments, the company unveiled on Friday at the Roblox Developers Conference.
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George Hammond / Financial Times:
In a letter to OpenAI, AGs of California and Delaware raise concerns about the deaths of some ChatGPT users and threaten to block OpenAI's planned restructuring  —  Attorneys-general of California and Delaware threaten to block tech group's planned restructuring
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 …
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 …
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Isotopes, co-founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murthy to build an AI agent for enterprise business analytics, raised a $20M seed  —  Isotopes came out of stealth on Thursday with a healthy $20 million seed round.  —  It offers an AI agent to solve a problem that data analytics products …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI acqui-hires the team behind Alex Codes, a Y-Combinator-backed startup whose tool lets developers use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode  —  Acqui-hires feel like they're here to stay: The team behind Alex, a popular tool that lets developers use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI.
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 …

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Financial Times:
Sources: WBD's board wanted a proposal it could sign immediately, and Netflix was the only bidder whose paperwork was fully executable the night of December 4

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agree to part ways and let her contract expire at the end of the year, following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr.

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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