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September 10, 2025, 2:55 PM

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Anders Melin / Bloomberg:
Larry Ellison becomes the world's richest person for the first time, at $393B, overtaking Elon Musk at $385B, as Oracle's stock jumps 40%+ after beating Q1 est.  —  Larry Ellison has become the world's richest person for the first time, ending Elon Musk's nearly year-long reign in the top spot.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Lynn Doan / Bloomberg:
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Vimeo for $1.38B, in an all-cash deal set to close in Q4, representing a 91% premium; Vimeo will be delisted from exchanges  —  Bending Spoons, one of Europe's largest mobile app developers, has agreed to buy the video platform Vimeo in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.38 billion.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping  —  Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.
Financial Times:
Quantum startup PsiQuantum raised $1B led by BlackRock, Temasek, and Baillie Gifford at a $7B valuation, up from $3.2B in 2021, for a 1M-qubit computer by 2028  —  PsiQuantum backed by BlackRock, Temasek and Baillie Gifford as investment race intensifies  —  PsiQuantum has raised $1bn …
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Spotify plans to roll out lossless audio at 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC to Premium users over the next two months in 50 markets, without needing a pricier subscription  —  Subscribers will be able to enjoy 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC as part of their Premium plan. … It's been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio.
The Information:
Sources: Amazon is developing consumer AR glasses codenamed Jayhawk, with microphones, speakers, a camera, and color display, set for late 2026 or early 2027  —  Amazon is developing a pair of augmented-reality glasses for consumers, say two people with knowledge of the plans.
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Apple says the iPhone 17 lineup comes with Memory Integrity Enforcement, with “industry-first, always-on memory safety protection”, targeting spyware developers  —  Memory Integrity Enforcement is always-on safety protection designed to make life harder for spyware developers.
Dan Moren / Six Colors:
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Ben Funk / HotHardware:
Arm launches four Lumex compute subsystem CPU architectures to improve on-device AI on smartphones, PCs, and wearables, and unveils its new Mali G1-Ultra GPU  —  As the smartphone market has matured, the workloads that consumers expect from their tiny in-pocket mobile computers has increased drastically.
Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post:
ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral “nano banana” model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics  —  ByteDance claims that Seedream 4.0 beat Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for image generation and editing on its internal evaluation benchmark
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Uber plans to add Blade helicopter rides as soon as 2026 via a partnership with electric air taxi maker Joby Aviation, which acquired Blade for $125M in August  —  Uber is tackling a new form of ride sharing: helicopters.  —  The ride hailing company on Wednesday said it will launch Blade helicopter rides …
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Amazon's Zoox launches its robotaxi service in Las Vegas, letting riders hail its toaster-shaped cars between specific destinations in the city's 4.2-mile Strip  —  The driverless car group launches to the public in challenge to Waymo and Tesla over the future of ride-hailing
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Amazon and Netflix partner to let advertisers buy Netflix ad inventory via Amazon's demand-side platform, after Amazon signed a similar deal with Disney in June  —  Amazon and Netflix are two of the major competitors in Hollywood's streaming wars, but in at least one instance, they're ready to team up.
Bloomberg:
Klarna shares jump 30% in their NYSE debut, opening at $52, above the IPO price of $40, after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37B in the offering  —  Klarna Group Plc shares jumped 30% in their opening trade, after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37 billion …
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Kraken opens trading of 60+ tokenized US securities to its EU users, powered by Backed Finance's xStocks; rwa.xyz says tokenized shares' market value is ~$421M  —  Crypto exchange Kraken opened up trading of tokenized US securities to its customers in the European Union, expanding the reach of the nascent asset class.
Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood announces a feed where users can follow and copy verified trades of other investors and public figures, rolling out in beta to ~10K users in Q1 2026  —  Robinhood Social will allow users to post their trades and track those of public figures, like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

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