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September 22, 2025, 4:20 PM

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OpenAI:
Nvidia plans to invest $100B in OpenAI progressively as part of a deal to deploy at least 10 GW of Nvidia systems for OpenAI's infrastructure  —  - Strategic partnership enables OpenAI to build and deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters with NVIDIA systems representing millions of GPUs …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Jensen Huang says the 10 GW OpenAI project is equivalent to 4M-5M GPUs; the first phase is expected to come online in H2 2026 using Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform  —  Nvidia will invest $100 billion in OpenAI as the artificial intelligence lab sets out to build hundreds of billions of dollars …
Manish Singh / India Dispatch:
The $100K+ H-1B fee could accelerate offshoring as tech companies route work to India and other countries rather than bringing engineers to the US  —  The U.S. will charge companies $100,000 for each new foreign tech worker under an initiative officials call Project Firewall …
Axios:
White House says TikTok's new US entity would lease a copy of ByteDance's algorithm, which Oracle would retrain; US users wouldn't need to re-download the app  —  TikTok's new U.S. entity would lease its algorithm from Chinese owner ByteDance under the terms of a proposed deal between the U.S. and China …
Bloomberg:
A White House official says the US will not hold a golden share or equity in TikTok US and the new board will not have a member selected by the US government  —  The US will not hold a golden share or equity position in a new entity that will control TikTok's American operations …
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Oracle promotes Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-CEOs, replacing Safra Catz; Magouyrk previously led Cloud Infrastructure, and Sicilia led Oracle Industries  —  Oracle Corp. on Monday promoted Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to become co-chief executive officers, signaling the company's focus …
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
Google adds Gemini to Google TV, starting on TCL's new QM9K series TVs and expanding to Google TV Streamer 4K and other major TV brands later in 2025  —  TCL's QM9K series TVs will be the first to offer Gemini on Google TV, with more devices getting it later this year.
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority:
MediaTek unveils its 3nm Dimensity 9500 mobile SoC, featuring an 8-core CPU, 12-core GPU with hardware ray tracing, and its ninth-gen MediaTek NPU 990  —  Phones with the Dimensity 9500 could be video capture powerhouses.  —  •  —  •  —  •  —  TL;DR
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Perplexity debuts Email Assistant for Gmail and Outlook, which can manage inboxes, schedule meetings, and more, for subscribers of its $200/month Max plan  —  Perplexity's $200 subscription is gaining a new feature that lets it manage your inbox by drafting replies to threads, scheduling meetings …
Digiday:
The US v. Google ad tech trial, in which a judge ruled that the company illegally monopolized the digital ad market, begins its remedies phase  —  The ad tech trial many thought would go nowhere has done the unthinkable: it delivered.  Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google illegally monopolized …
Ellen O'Regan / Politico:
The European Commission considers simplifying the 2009 rule that plastered the internet with cookie consent banners, as it seeks to reduce regulatory burdens  —  In a bid to slash red tape, the European Commission wants to eliminate one of its peskiest laws: a 2009 tech rule that plastered …
Ateev Bhandari / Reuters:
Bitcoin-treasury company Strive, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, will acquire Semler Scientific, a medical device company that has a bitcoin treasury, for $1.34B  —  Strive (ASST.O) said on Monday it will acquire Semler Scientific (SMLR.O) in an all-stock deal valued at about $1.34 billion …
RT Watson / The Block:
Bakkt shares jump 40%+ after naming Mike Alfred, the crypto veteran who co-founded Digital Assets Data, to its board  —  - Alfred co-founded Digital Assets Data, which New York Digital Investment Group acquired in 2020.  — He also serves on Bitcoin miner Iren's board of directors.
Courtney Rozen / Reuters:
The GSA adds Meta's Llama to its list of approved AI tools for US federal agencies, after previously approving Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI's tools  —  U.S. government agencies will be able to use Meta Platforms' (META.O) artificial intelligence system Llama …

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