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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 EU's fine ruling, Trump says he may “be forced” to start a trade investigation to nullify the unfair fines, totaling $16.5B for Google and $17B for Apple  —  - CNBC Councils  — Supply Chain Values  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Ad Choices
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
George Hammond / Financial Times:
In a letter to OpenAI, AGs of California and Delaware raise concerns about the deaths of two ChatGPT users and threaten to block OpenAI's planned restructuring  —  Attorneys-general of California and Delaware threaten to block tech group's planned restructuring
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.
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Nvidia opposes the GAIN AI Act, saying the proposed US law forcing AI chipmakers to sell to US buyers first is “just another variation of the AI Diffusion Rule”  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) said on Friday the AI GAIN Act would restrict global competition for advanced chips …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
AppLovin stock jumps 7%+ and Robinhood jumps 8%+ in extended trading after S&P Global said the two will join the S&P 500 index on September 22  —  Shares of advertising technology company AppLovin and stock trading app Robinhood Markets jumped in extended trading on Friday after S&P Global …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI is merging its Model Behavior team with its Post Training group to bring the work of the Model Behavior team closer to core model development  —  OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers that shape how the company's AI models interact with people, TechCrunch has learned.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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Financial Times:
Sources: Standard General hedge fund founder Soo Kim has been in talks with a major WBD shareholder over potentially buying or investing in the WBD TV networks

John Rogers / Associated Press:
Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91

Laura Cress / BBC:
Netflix wins rights to a FIFA soccer simulation game, developed by Delphi Interactive and set for release ahead of the 2026 World Cup, for free to Netflix users

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+
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

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
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
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
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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