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| Ben Berkowitz / Axios: |
White House says the $100K H-1B fee will not apply to renewals or existing H-1B holders re-entering the US, only to future applicants in the February lottery — 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 …
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| Yun Li / CNBC: |
Memos: Amazon, which has the most H-1B staff at 14K+, Google, and Microsoft tell H-1B visa holders to return to the US before September 21 and avoid travel — Major technology companies and foreign governments are rushing to respond after President Donald Trump late Friday announced plans …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
VCs and founders warn that the $100K fee will make H-1B sponsorship prohibitively expensive for startups, not Big Tech, and drive talent outside the US — Longtime entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are sounding the alarm over President Trump's new H-1B fee that would impact tech companies and the workers they hire from abroad.| Reuters: |
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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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| Ben Berkowitz / Axios: |
Karoline Leavitt confirms Oracle will handle TikTok's data and security, and says the US is “100% confident” a deal is done and it “just needs to be signed” — - Congress passed a ban last year with bipartisan support, but President Trump has repeatedly ordered …
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, a critic of Trump and David Sacks' AI agenda, arguing its hands-off approach could steer AI down a dangerous path — A battle between Anthropic's Dario Amodei and the White House pits worries about safe development against a free-market approach
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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| Stephen Wilmot / Wall Street Journal: |
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