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September 19, 2025, 10:25 AM
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New York Times:
Inside xAI's chaotic summer: Musk reorganized xAI on the fly, researchers left because xAI abandoned science in favor of attention-grabbing products, and more  —  Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI.  The result was chaos.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Sources: Nvidia is in advanced discussions to invest $500M in UK self-driving car startup Wayve, as part of a £2B pledge for UK startups; Wayve is evaluating  —  AI chipmaker's chief tells London audience that UK's first trillion-dollar company will be an AI business
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mastodon, the nonprofit that maintains the social network, plans to offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations joining the fediverse  —  Mastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative to social networks like Threads and X …
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google unveils new AI features for Chrome, including a Gemini button and AI Mode for US desktop users, and plans to add 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 the Generic Listing Standards, paving the way for speedier listings  —  Rex Osprey launched the first spot XRP and doge ETFs today, while Grayscale will soon launch its just-approved multi-asset fund.  —  4h
CNBC:
Sources: Nvidia spent $900M+ in cash and stock to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and others at the AI hardware startup and to license its GPU-connecting tech  —  Nvidia has just shelled out over $900 million to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and other employees at the artificial intelligence …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
The Ray-Ban Display glasses are Zuckerberg's latest attempt to reframe Meta, now on “personal superintelligence”, but they face tech 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 will let developers build apps that use its smart glasses' vision and audio capabilities
Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
The US DOJ charges a UK teen allegedly tied to Scattered Spider over 120+ cyberattacks and the UK charged him and 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 …
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 …
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.  —  •  —  •  —  •

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: ABC extended Jimmy Kimmel's deal until May 2027; the deal was reached months ago, but the announcement was delayed out of respect for Stephen Colbert

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Source: Piers Morgan's YouTube-based venture Uncensored is raising £22.5M from The Raine Group, Theo Kyriakou, and others at a £97M pre-money valuation

Max Tani / Semafor:
Source: OpenAI privately complained to NBC News that the author of a story about OpenAI pressuring nonprofits was backed by a nonprofit involved in the story

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Alex Wickham / Bloomberg:
MI6 launched Silent Courier, an online portal on the dark web and designed to let potential spies from Russia and elsewhere to send the agency messages securely

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Yusuf Khan / Wall Street Journal:
UK renewable energy startup Octopus Energy spins off its AI arm, Kraken, in what could create a standalone entity worth $15B; Octopus was last valued at $9B+
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
The US FTC and seven states sue Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use of ticketing bots and large-scale resale operations
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