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| Karoline Leavitt / @presssec: |
White House Press Secretary says the $100K H-1B fee is not an annual fee and it is a “one-time fee that applies only to the petition” in the upcoming lottery — To be clear: 1.) This is NOT an annual fee. It's a one-time fee that applies only to the petition. 2.) Those who already hold H-1B visas and are currently outside of the country right now will NOT be charged $100,000 to re-enter. H-1B visa holders can leave and re-enter the
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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.
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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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| Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
iPhone Air teardown: clever use of space by placing the logic board above the 12.26 Wh battery, the same cell used in Apple's MagSafe Battery pack, and more — iPhone Air Teardown — To be honest, we were holding our breath for the iPhone Air. Thinner usually means flimsier, harder to fix, and more glued-down parts.
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An inside look at Léon Thévenin, the only undersea internet cable repair ship permanently stationed in Africa, operated by the French telecom company Orange — Undersea internet cables are critical in today's hyperconnected world. The crew of the Léon Thévenin maintains one stretch of this global network.| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Researchers suggest LLM-powered medical AI tools understate the severity of symptoms in female patients and show less “empathy” toward Black and Asian patients — Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients| Financial Times: |
Diplomats say the EU is moving to exclude Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon from the new Financial Data Access system to protect the bloc's “digital sovereignty” — Germany argues groups such as Apple and Meta are excluded to protect Europe's ‘digital sovereignty’
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
As carriers deploy protections against fraudulent texts, scammers are using “SMS blasters” that impersonate base stations to send fake messages to nearby phones — Scammers are now using “SMS blasters” to send out up to 100,000 texts per hour to phones that are tricked into thinking the devices are cell towers.| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Ultralytics, which develops the YOLO series of open-source computer vision models and sells commercial licenses, raised a $30M Series A led by Elephant VC — Ultralytics Inc., a developer of computer vision models, today announced that it has raised $30 million in funding.
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| William Sandlund / Financial Times: |
Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the top 30 Hong Kong-listed tech stocks, is up 41% YTD vs. Nasdaq's 17%, driven by China's AI and chip self-sufficiency push — Beijing's push for chip self-sufficiency accelerates triumphant comeback for sector — Chinese tech stocks have massively outperformed … | Phoebe Liu / Forbes: |
A profile of Edwin Chen, the CEO of Surge AI, a Scale AI rival that had $1.2B revenue in 2024, is profitable, and is reportedly raising $1B at a $30B valuation — This story appears in the October/November 2025 issue of Forbes Magazine. Subscribe — An alum of Google, Facebook and Twitter …
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LinkedIn: Luisa Kroll, Surge AI, and Edwin Chen
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon expands Multichannel Fulfillment to let Walmart sellers use Amazon's logistics network to deliver orders and announces support for Shein by year-end — In an e-commerce twist almost worthy of The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror, Amazon is now officially supporting orders placed on Walmart.com …
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Some companies are turning to fossil fuels to power their data centers as countries around the world scramble to meet rising energy demands amid the AI boom — Mexico's lagging energy grid is forcing companies, including Microsoft, to use generators. — Behind a miles-long gray wall … | 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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| Kasia Klimasinska / Bloomberg: |
| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
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