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Annelise Levy / Bloomberg Law:
A US federal judge postpones Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes to force on authors  —  The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC's proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Aikido Security says attackers injected malware into 18 npm packages with 2.6B+ total weekly downloads, after compromising a maintainer's account via phishing  —  In what is being called the largest supply chain attack in history, attackers have injected malware into NPM packages …
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Mistral raised a €1.7B Series C at an €11.7B valuation; ASML led the round with €1.3B to become its biggest shareholder, joined by a16z, DST, Nvidia, and others  —  Dutch chip equipment maker backs French artificial intelligence champion as US-China tensions rock tech industry
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft and LG partner to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to cars that use LG's Automotive Content Platform, including Kia's EV3 and Sportage models in Europe  —  You'll soon be able to stream Xbox cloud games to cars that use LG's Automotive Content Platform, like Kia's EV3.
Ariba Shahid / Reuters:
Amnesty: Pakistan is spying on millions via phone tapping and a Chinese-built internet firewall, in one of the broadest surveillance programs outside China  —  Pakistan is spying on millions of its citizens using a phone-tapping system and a Chinese-built internet firewall that censors social media …
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Evan Spiegel says Snap is restructuring around “startup squads” of 10 to 15 staff to better compete; Snapchat+ now brings in $700M+ in ARR from 15M+ subscribers  —  Snap is breaking itself apart and rebuilding from within.  In a new company letter, CEO Evan Spiegel just announced …
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI's executives fear mounting political scrutiny in California could stymie for-profit plans and have discussed leaving the state as a last resort  —  Startup's leaders have discussed last-ditch prospect of leaving California if regulators complicate transition to for-profit company
Bloomberg:
US SEC filing: Microsoft signs a deal worth up to $19.4B through 2031 to receive AI cloud computing capacity from Yandex spinoff Nebius Group; NBIS jumps 50%+  —  Nebius Group NV shares soared 50% in early trading after signing an artificial intelligence infrastructure deal worth as much as $19.4 billion with Microsoft Corp.
Echo Wang / Reuters:
Sources: Nasdaq is set to acquire $50M in shares of the Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange in a private placement at the time of the IPO this week  —  Gemini Space Station, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has secured Nasdaq as a strategic investor …
Associated Press:
Investigation: IBM, Dell, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's vast digital surveillance state  —  BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody …
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Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Intel announces top-level executive changes, including the departure of Intel Products CEO Michelle Holthaus, and establishes a new central engineering group  —  Intel (INTC.O) announced a series of high-level executive changes on Monday, including the departure of Michelle Holthaus, the company's products chief.
Gopal Sharma / Reuters:
The Nepalese government lifts its social media ban after local media reported 19+ deaths in clashes over anti-government demonstrations sparked by the ban  —  Nepal has lifted a social media ban following protests that resulted in the deaths of 19 people, a government minister said on Tuesday.
Financial Times:
Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, and others are preparing for AI agents, which could disrupt their booking platforms and upend the $1.6T global travel market  —  Booking.com, Expedia and Airbnb face threat of a technology that could bypass them as people make travel arrangements
Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic:
US jobseekers describe a hellish job market, with young people using ChatGPT to write applications, HR using AI to read them, and few people getting hired  —  Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.
Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech:
A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks as it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands amid the AI boom  —  Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire up one of the most dated …
Joe Tidy / BBC:
The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and £250K+ to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed 40M voters' private data to Chinese hackers  —  The UK's elections watchdog says it's taken three years and at least a quarter of a million pounds to fully recover from a hack …
Wired:
Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy  —  The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that's snarky and unhelpful.
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Attaullah Baig, ex-head of security at WhatsApp, sues Meta for allegedly ignoring critical security flaws and claims Meta staff could access sensitive user data  —  Attaullah Baig tried to warn Meta's top leaders, including its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, that millions of users …
Washington Post:
Current and ex-Meta employees submitted documents and affidavits to Congress alleging that Meta suppressed research on child safety risks in its VR platforms

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
WBD shareholders vote to approve Paramount Skydance's deal to acquire the company; in a non-binding vote, they reject compensation packages for David Zaslav

Washington Post:
The DOD fires the Stars and Stripes ombudsman after calling the paper “woke”; the ombudsman says she believes she was fired for defending editorial independence

Wall Street Journal:
Former Disney CEO Bob Iger rejoins Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital in an advisory role; he served as a venture partner at Thrive in 2022

More News

Bloomberg:
E-commerce company Eightco's stock soared 3,000%+ on September 8 after unveiling a plan to buy Worldcoin tokens and naming Wall Street analyst Dan Ives as chair
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month

Earlier Picks

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said “the open web is already in rapid decline”, contradicting Google's recent statements
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnership of Anduril and Meta and a $195M contract to Rivet, to produce competing prototypes of a new combat goggle
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Anthropic becomes the first major AI company to back SB 53, a California bill that requires large AI companies to disclose safety testing protocols
Bloomberg:
Cognition raised $400M led by Founders Fund at a $10.2B valuation, up from $4B in March; its coding tool Devin's ARR grew from $1M in Sept. 2024 to $73M by June
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
YouTube says its first exclusive NFL broadcast on September 5 averaged more than 17.3M global viewers, including 1.1M average minute audiences outside of the US
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