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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.
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Forums: r/politics, r/technology, r/siliconvalley, and r/technology
| 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
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| 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 — Meta Platforms plans to spend “something like at least $600 billion” through 2028 on data centers and other infrastructure …
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
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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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| David Baszucki / Roblox Corporate: |
Roblox increases its DevEx rate, letting creators earn 8.5% more when they convert their earned Robux into cash, says creators earned $1B+ over the past year — Unveiling first-of-its-kind AI, new powerful engine capabilities, creators earning 8.5% more, and our path to capturing 10% of all gaming content revenue| 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
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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
More: The Hill, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, and State of California
| 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 …
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Bluesky: @seanhollister and @tomwarren.co.uk
Forums: r/gadgets and r/LegionGo
| 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 … | 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.| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
US tech industry's eight companies valued at $1T+ gained a combined $420B in market cap this week, lifting their total value to $21T, led by a Google rally — From the courtroom to the boardroom, it was a big week for tech investors. — The resolution of Google's antitrust case led to sharp rallies for Alphabet and Apple.| 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 …
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Forums: r/worldnews, r/technology, and Slashdot
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