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| Ben Berkowitz / Axios: |
The White House says the $100K H-1B fee will not be applied to renewals or existing holders of valid visas re-entering the US, only new applicants — A new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas goes into effect Sunday, but it will not be applied to existing holders of valid visas re-entering the country, a White House official tells Axios.| Yun Li / CNBC: |
Memos: Amazon, which employs the most H-1B holders at 14K+, and Microsoft advise H-1B staff to avoid travel and return to the US before 12:01am ET on Sept. 21 — Major technology companies and foreign governments are rushing to respond after President Donald Trump late Friday announced plans …
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| Reuters: |
President Trump signs an EO forcing companies to pay an annual $100,000 fee per holder for H-1B visas, a move that could significantly impact the tech industry — - Visas are used principally by tech sector — Over 70% of beneficiaries of H-1B visas enter US from India
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| Reuters: |
Collins Aerospace, which provides check-in and boarding systems, confirms a “cyber-related disruption” as Heathrow and other European airports report issues — - London's Heathrow, airports in Berlin, Brussels affected by disruption — RTX experiencing ‘cyber-related disruption’ in airport software
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| Kasia Klimasinska / Bloomberg: |
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Americans would hold six of the seven board seats for TikTok US and its algorithm would be US-controlled — The US operations of TikTok will be majority-owned and controlled by Americans under a deal reached this week to spin off the platform …
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| Rani Molla / Sherwood News: |
Similarweb: TikTok had 183M US MAUs on iOS and Android in August 2025, up 16% YoY, vs. Instagram's 169M, Facebook's 157M, Pinterest's 100M, and Snapchat's 70M — Oracle's potential TikTok takeover is a big deal to US competitors like Meta and Snap. — 1H| Emmett Lindner / New York Times: |
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| New York Times: |
In a 30-minute test, Meta Ray-Ban Display was as spotty as Zuckerberg's failed demos, with the wristband occasionally failing to register finger swipes — At Meta's software developers conference in Menlo Park., Calif., this week, Mark Zuckerberg strutted onto the stage to show off a new gadget …
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| xAI: |
xAI launches Grok 4 Fast, a multimodal model with a 2M context window and a unified architecture that combines reasoning and non-reasoning modes — Pushing the Frontier of Cost-Efficient Intelligence — We're thrilled to present Grok 4 Fast, our latest advancement in cost-efficient reasoning models.
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| The Information: |
Perplexity struggles to scale its shopping and ad businesses nearly a year after launching ad sales and in-app purchasing, frustrating marketers and merchants — Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm …
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| Robert Booth / The Guardian: |
Meta faces a backlash after using Instagram photos of teenage schoolgirls, posted by their parents with visible faces and names, to promote Threads to a man — Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Huawei says DeepSeek-R1-Safe, which was trained on 1,000 of its Ascend AI chips, is “nearly 100% successful” in preventing politically sensitive topics — - Model better prevent discussion of politically sensitive topics — Model trained using 1,000 of Huawei's own Ascend AI chips| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft says it will bring a $3.3B data center in Wisconsin online in early 2026 and calls it “the world's most powerful AI datacenter” — The $3.3 billion project in Wisconsin is expected to come online in early 2026, said Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith.
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| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
BitGo's S-1 shows it had net income of $12.6M on revenue of $4.19B in H1 2025, compared with net income of $30.9M on revenue of $1.12B a year earlier — BitGo Holdings Inc. has filed for an initial public offering in the US, adding to an active market for digital assets.| Stephen Wilmot / Wall Street Journal: |
Jaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely “will take time” — British automaker Jaguar Land Rover hasn't been able to make cars this month after major breach
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