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September 17, 2025, 9:35 AM
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Financial Times:
Sources: China told ByteDance, Alibaba, and others to stop testing and ordering Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, going beyond earlier guidance focused on Nvidia's H20  —  Beijing steps up efforts to boost semiconductor independence to compete with the US  —  China's internet regulator has banned …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Kuo: an OLED MacBook Pro with a touchscreen is set to enter mass production by late 2026, while a cheaper MacBook with an iPhone chip won't have the touch panel  —  Apple's first OLED MacBook Pro, set to enter mass production next year, will feature a touch screen display, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: under the US-China framework, a US investor consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and a16z would hold an ~80% stake in TikTok's US business  —  Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of consortium that would control 80% stake  —  TikTok's U.S. business …
Bloomberg:
Trump extends ByteDance's deadline to divest TikTok's US operations until December 16, the fourth such extension; a deal is expected to be finalized this week  —  President Donald Trump again extended the deadline for TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. to divest the platform's US operations …
Bloomberg:
US tech giants announce £31B+ in UK investments, coinciding with Trump's visit to the UK; OpenAI says it will bring Stargate to the UK with partners like Nscale  —  Microsoft Corp., OpenAI and other American companies announced plans to spend tens of billions of dollars …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces a $30B investment in the UK to support AI infrastructure and ongoing operations from 2025 through 2028, including $15B for a supercomputer  —  Microsoft's announcement comes on the same day President Trump visits Britain and Google makes its own UK investment.
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
iPhone Air review: light, easier to carry, and more pleasant to use for longer, but no ultrawide camera and the battery drains quicker than a standard phone's  —  The iPhone Air is as much a statement as it is a phone.  It says something about the person using it: that they don't mind giving …
Eric Zeman / PCMag:
iPhone 17 review: the best value among iPhone 17 models, a Pro-level 120Hz display, and the Center Stage camera takes stellar photos, but no telephoto camera  —  Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year  —  4.5 Excellent  —  THE BOTTOM LINE
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Sources: Anthropic refused federal law enforcement requests to use its AI models for some tasks, such as the surveillance of US citizens, irking the White House  —  THE SCOOP  —  Anthropic is in the midst of a splashy media tour in Washington, but its refusal to allow its models to be used …
More: Implicator.ai.  Bluesky: @aramsinn, @brunojnavarro, and @sgwoods.  Mastodon: @bruno_j_navarro …
New York Times:
The UK has ramped up the use of facial recognition, AI, and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach  —  Facial recognition vans are being used by police across London.Charlotte Hadden for The New York Times
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Groq, which sells AI chips and data-center compute powered by those chips, raised $750M led by Disruptive at a post-money valuation of $6.9B  —  Funding round is led by Disruptive, includes Blackrock and Neuberger Berman  —  Artificial intelligence chip startup Groq Inc. raised $750 million …
More: Reuters
The Verge:
How Meta's California super PAC, rare as a single-company entity, lets Mark Zuckerberg spend Meta's money on his own political choices, including AI regulation  —  Mark Zuckerberg, via Meta, can now essentially spend unlimited money in California elections.
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Lyft partners with Waymo to launch fully autonomous robotaxi rides in Nashville starting in 2026, their first collaboration; LYFT jumps 10%  —  Lyft Inc. is partnering with Waymo for the first time to offer robotaxi service in Nashville starting next year, a deal that helps it better compete with rival Uber Technologies Inc.
Ashutosh Joshi / Bloomberg:
Indian on-demand home services provider Urban Company surged 56%+ in its stock market debut after raising $215M in India's most oversubscribed major IPO of 2025  —  Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing.
Chang Che / The Guardian:
A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020  —  In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China.  Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

More News

Bloomberg:
Sources: StubHub is pricing its US IPO at $23.50/share after marketing a range of $22-$25, giving it an $8.6B market cap, and will trade under the ticker STUB
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google is testing a Windows desktop app that brings Mac's Spotlight-like search bar to PC users, allowing them to search local files, Google Drive, and the web

Earlier Picks

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg:
Dyna Robotics, which is building an AI foundation model for robotics, raised a $120M Series A led by Robostrategy, CRV, and First Round Capital
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
Console, which uses AI agents in Slack to resolve lower-level IT support tickets, raised a $23M Series A led by DST Global Partners and Thrive Capital
Kate Kozuch / Tom's Guide:
Apple Watch SE 3 review: great value for $249, with an always-on display and 5G connectivity, but an outdated design and no ECG or hypertension alerts
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Online services marketplace Fiverr lays off 30% of its workforce, or about 250 people, as part of a restructuring to become “an AI-first company”
Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg:
Sources: Binance nears a deal with the US DOJ to remove the outside compliance monitor imposed under its $4.3B 2023 settlement over money laundering failures
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
YouTube says it has paid out $100B+ to creators over the last four years and the number of YouTube channels making over $100K from TV screens has jumped 45% YoY
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