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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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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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 …
LinkedIn: Pablo Jiménez Arandia
| 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 AI and China's chip self-sufficiency push — Beijing's push for chip self-sufficiency accelerates triumphant comeback for sector — Chinese tech stocks have massively outperformed … | 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’| 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: 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-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.
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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| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Noah Urban, who was a key member of the Scattered Spider group because of his social engineering skills and is serving a 10-year prison sentence — Noah Urban's role in the notorious Scattered Spider gang was talking people into unwittingly giving criminals access to sensitive computer systems.| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud says it now works with nine of the 10 leading AI labs, including OpenAI, and with 60% of the world's generative AI startups, fueling its growth — Google Cloud announced Thursday it has added fast-rising AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf to its roster of customers.| 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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