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September 9, 2025, 1:10 PM
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Dominic Preston / The Verge:
A live blog of Apple's “Awe dropping” event, where major iPhone design upgrades, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, and three Apple Watch models are expected  —  Apple is ready to announce the iPhone 17 line, and this promises to be a bigger launch than most.
Apple on YouTube:
A livestream of Apple's “Awe dropping” event from Apple Park  —  Get ready.  Awe dropping September 9 at 10 a.m. PT. Click “Notify Me” and we'll send you a reminder before showtime.
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, EV4, EV5, and Sportage 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.
Associated Press:
Investigation: IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's 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 …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Memo: Microsoft mandates staff to return to the office three days per week, starting in late February 2026 for those who live within 50 miles of its Redmond HQ  —  Three days in the office will soon be the new norm for Microsoft employees. … It's official, Microsoft is asking employees to return to the office three days per week.
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 …
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 …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Nvidia unveils Rubin CPX, a new chip system designed for long-context AI tasks like video generation and software development, set to launch at the end of 2026  —  Nvidia Corp., whose chips and systems are at the heart of the artificial intelligence computing boom, said it plans to offer …
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 …
New York Times:
Nvidia is attacking GOP-led proposals to limit AI chip sales to China, an unconventional lobbying blitz over what it calls left-wing paranoia from “AI doomers”  —  Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who are pushing restrictions.
Amy Mackinnon / Financial Times:
Sources: the US informs European countries that it is stepping back from joint efforts to combat disinformation from Russia, China, Iran, and other countries  —  Washington terminates agreements with European countries to fight disinformation from Russia, China and Iran
Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech:
A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks the same way it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands in the AI boom  —  Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire …
Echo Wang / Reuters:
Sources: Nasdaq agrees to buy $50M in shares of the Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange in a private placement at the time of Gemini's IPO this week  —  Gemini Space Station, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has secured Nasdaq as a strategic investor …
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
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.
Gopal Sharma / Reuters:
The Nepalese government lifts its social media ban after 19 people were killed and 100+ were injured in anti-corruption protests that were triggered 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.

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Committee to Protect Journalists:
After the building fire, Hong Kong summoned AFP, FT, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, and WSJ journalists, telling them to avoid “trouble making”, and arrested a commentator

Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Samba TV raised up to $60M in venture debt to scale through acquisitions and new AI-powered measurement tools; Samba previously raised $69M in equity funding

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Academy reports fiscal 2025 revenues of $269.2M, up from $263.1M in 2024, after cutting expenses from $220.1M to $208.1M; Oscars revenue grew to $150.5M

More News

Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic:
US jobseekers describe a hellish job market, with young people using ChatGPT to write their applications, HR using AI to read them, and few people getting hired

Earlier Picks

Google Developers Blog:
Google announces Veo updates: support for 9:16 vertical video and 1080p, lower pricing, and the general availability of Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast in the Gemini API
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%+
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Intel announces top executive changes, including the departure of Intel Products CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus, and establishes a new central engineering group
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the past 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month
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
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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