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September 19, 2025, 6:10 AM
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Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
A UK teenager allegedly tied to Scattered Spider is charged in the US over 120+ cyberattacks, and in the UK with another teen over a Transport for London hack  —  The 19-year-old is alleged to have extracted $115mn in ransom payments from victims  —  A British teenager has been charged …
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google unveils new AI features for Chrome, including a Gemini button and AI Mode for US desktop users, and plans new agentic features in the next few months  —  Google weaving Gemini further into the popular Chrome browser is an inflection point for AI in our software, although some users will still be looking for the “off” switch.
Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy / Sherwood News:
Rex-Osprey launches the first spot dogecoin and XRP ETFs in the US after the SEC approved generic listing standards, paving the way for speedier ETF listings  —  Rex Osprey launched the first spot XRP and doge ETFs today, while Grayscale will soon launch its just-approved multi-asset fund.  —  4h
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Ray-Ban Display glasses are Zuckerberg's latest bid to reframe Meta, focusing on “personal superintelligence”, but they face technical and societal challenges  —  They're trying to back AI and Smart Glasses into the ‘Metaverse’...  Live tech demos are a bitch.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta announces a preview of the Wearable Device Access Toolkit, which lets developers build apps that use the vision and audio capabilities of its smart glasses
Bloomberg:
Netskope closes up 18.37% at $22.49 per share in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a $8.6B market value, after the cybersecurity company raised $908.2M in its IPO  —  Netskope Inc. jumped 18% in its trading debut, after the cybersecurity firm raised $908.2 million in an initial public offering.
Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority:
Samsung rolls out a software update to display promotions and ads on the Cover Screens of some Family Hub refrigerators in the US as part of a pilot program  —  Ads will be displayed on your Samsung smart fridge when the Cover Screen is idle on certain themes.  —  •  —  •  —  •
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Notion launches customizable agents that can create documents and perform other actions in the background, and says it has reached $500M in annualized revenue  —  OpenAI's public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 is widely viewed as the event that kicked off the generative AI boom …
Alex Wickham / Bloomberg:
MI6 launched Silent Courier, an online portal hosted on the dark web designed to let potential spies from Russia and elsewhere communicate with UK intelligence  —  The UK's foreign intelligence service, MI6, launched a new online portal which it says will allow potential spies in Russia …
Bloomberg:
A look at China's brain-computer interface industry as startups like BrainCo grow with state support; CCID says the sector is worth $450M, growing 20% annually  —  Despite a late foray into the brain technology industry, Chinese startups have made rapid strides in recent years to challenge US companies.
CNBC:
ByteDance's valuation hit $400B in private deals, up from $230B in early 2025; shareholders see it as undervalued and plan to retain stakes amid US TikTok sale  —  Investor conviction in ByteDance's potential has climbed since Washington and Beijing this week reached a framework agreement …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Bryan Cranston, Joaquin Phoenix, and 1,000+ writers, actors, and directors sign a letter opposing Paramount's WBD bid, warning it cuts jobs and audience choice

Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
A US judge dismisses Trump's $10B defamation suit against WSJ over an article asserting Trump's name was on a 2003 letter to Epstein, but says Trump can re-file

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Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
Nvidia plans to invest £2B to support the UK's AI industry in partnership with Accel, Air Street Capital, Balderton Capital, Hoxton Ventures, and Phoenix Court
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British renewable energy startup Octopus Energy spins off its AI arm, Kraken, in what could create a stand-alone entity worth $15B

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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
The US FTC and seven states sue Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use of bots and large-scale resale operations
Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar:
Inside Apple's Audio Lab, where the company develops features like spatial audio and uses tuning studios as reference points for AirPods Pro and other products
Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
Atlassian acquires developer productivity insight platform DX for $1B in cash and restricted stock; DX has 350+ enterprise customers and raised less than $5M
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
In a peer-reviewed Nature article update, DeepSeek says it spent $294K on training its reasoning-focused R1 model and used 512 Nvidia H800 chips for 80 hours
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