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Bloomberg:
Filing: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B plus interest 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 …
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
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.
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:
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
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.
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
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 …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Lenovo unveils Legion Go 2 gaming handheld, with an 8.8" screen and AMD Ryzen Z2 or Z2 Extreme chips, arriving in Oct. for $1,099+, or $400 more than Legion Go  —  Bigger, heavier, almost certainly better. … Lenovo's Legion Go was a polarizing handheld gaming PC, and that won't change …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Qualcomm debuts Snapdragon Ride Pilot, a hands-free driver assistance system that is launching with the BMW iX3 and has been validated for use in 60+ countries  —  The chipmaker's new ADAS system will debut with the BMW iX3 in 2026. … Qualcomm is joining forces with BMW on a new driver-assist system …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta revamps Facebook's classic Poke feature to make it easier to use and adds gamification elements like Snapchat and TikTok have, as it courts younger users  —  Technically, the poke never really left Facebook.  —  The classic feature from Facebook's early days lets users get a friend's attention with a virtual nudge of sorts.

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From Mediagazer

Jana Winter / Reuters:
FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick for defamation, seeking $250M, over an article that claimed he had a drinking problem

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
More than 250 ex-broadcast journalists urge WHCA dinner organizers “to forcefully demonstrate opposition” to Trump's “efforts to trample freedom of the press”

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Bill Ackman proposes merging UMG with his SPAC and naming Michael Ovitz as chair, an offer UMG is likely to reject; UMG stock is down 20% since 2021

More News

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
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
ProRata.ai, which lets publishers embed custom AI search on their websites with a 50/50 revenue split, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total raised to $75M+
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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
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