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OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announce five new data center locations in the US, boosting Stargate's planned capacity to nearly 7 GW — The new sites will boost Stargate's planned capacity to nearly 7 gigawatts—about equal to the output of seven large nuclear reactors.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Oracle will pay for and oversee the construction of three of the new Stargate data centers, and OpenAI will then purchase computing power from Oracle — Working with the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and the cloud company Oracle, the A.I. start-up will spend $400 billion over the next five years.
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Inside the Trump Administration's chaotic H-1B visa overhaul, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick initially presenting the $100,000 fee as an annual charge — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sowed confusion over whether new fees were annual and applicable to existing visa holders.| Ted Hesson / Reuters: |
The Trump administration proposes an H-1B visa process giving more weight to applications from employers who pay higher wages if visa demand exceeds the 85K cap — - Proposal favors higher-paid H-1B applicants if demand exceeds supply — Trump administration cites need to protect wages of U.S. workers| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing structuring their new AI data center partnership so that OpenAI would lease Nvidia's AI chips instead of buying them — OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing an unusual way to structure their new artificial intelligence data center partnership … | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Alibaba releases the Qwen3-VL vision models, the Qwen3Guard “safety moderation” models, and three closed-weight models, including Qwen3-Max with 1T+ parameters — Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action (via) I've been looking forward to this.
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| Washington Post: |
How Trump leveraged Biden's TikTok ban law to help allies gain control of the app, amid fears it could be used to boost pro-Trump content and suppress criticism — The Biden administration argued a forced sale of the app would protect it from political influence.
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| Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
iPhone 17 Pro teardown: the anodized aluminum scratches badly around the camera plateau edge, the screwed-in battery is a nice repairability upgrade, and more — iPhone 17 Pro Teardown — The anodized aluminum finish on the brand new iPhone 17 Pro is gorgeous, right up until it meets … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tether is in talks to raise $15B to $20B in exchange for a ~3% stake through a private placement in a deal that could value the company at ~$500B — Tether Holdings SA, issuer of the world's largest stablecoin, is in talks with investors to raise as much as $20 billion … | Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: |
In a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, YouTube says it will reinstate creators it banned for COVID and election misinfo, and blames Biden officials for the bans — YouTube's parent company, Alphabet, on Tuesday said it would reinstate creators previously banned for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and false election content.
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Apple postpones the release of Apple TV+ show The Savant this Friday; its trailer faced backlash for allegedly misrepresenting right-wing ideologies — Apple has quietly cancelled the release of The Savant, which was set to hit Apple TV+ this Friday, September 26.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Bain: by 2030, AI companies will need $2T in combined annual revenue to fund compute power to meet projected demand, but are likely to fall short by $800B — Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI have been quick to unveil plans for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers …
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| Xavier René-Corail / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub outlines plans to secure npm following multiple supply-chain attacks, including deprecating legacy classic tokens and migrating users to FIDO-based 2FA — Addressing a surge in package registry attacks, GitHub is strengthening npm's security with stricter authentication, granular tokens … | Catharine Tunney / CBC News: |
A joint investigation by Canadian privacy authorities finds TikTok collected sensitive personal data from hundreds of thousands of Canadian children under 13 — Social media platform removing 500,000 Canadian kids from its platform each year — The immensely popular social media app TikTok … | Artie Beaty / ZDNET: |
Google rolls out an AI-powered conversational photo editing tool, previously exclusive to the Pixel 10 series, to all Google Photos users on Android in the US — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google has revealed an AI-powered editing tool for Google Photos. — You describe your desired edits with voice or text.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta starts rolling out built-in message translation in WhatsApp, with support for 19+ languages on iOS and six on Android — Translation is rolling out to iPhone and Android users, and will expand to support additional languages in the future.
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| Bloomberg: |
Taiwan curbs chip exports to South Africa over national security concerns, the first time it has used its chip industry as a weapon against a China ally — Taiwan has imposed restrictions on the export of chips to South Africa over national security concerns, taking the unusual step of using … | The Economic Times: |
Tracxn: funding for Indian digital lending startups fell to $462M between January and August 2025 from $1.1B a year earlier, after RBI tightened lending norms — Funding into digital lending startups slumped to $462 million between January and August 2025 from $1.1 billion a year earlier … | Michael Nuñez / Venturebeat: |
Snowflake, Salesforce, and others announce the Open Semantic Interchange, a vendor-neutral standard for how business data is defined and shared across platforms — Snowflake, Salesforce, dbt Labs and more than a dozen other technology companies announced Tuesday they will create …
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| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
Spotify reinstates integration with third-party DJ software for Premium subscribers in 51 markets, including the US, after pulling support in 2020 — Budding mixmasters can create sets from pre-existing playlists. — Spotify just announced integration with popular DJ software platforms like rekordbox, Serato and djay.| The Economic Times: |
Indian digital payments giant PhonePe confidentially files for an IPO in India, seeking to raise $1.5B, sources say at a valuation of $15B — PhonePe, supported by Walmart, has confidentially filed its DRHP with SEBI. The digital payments platform reduced its net loss by 13.4% to Rs 1,727.4 crore … | Pranav Mukul / The Economic Times: |
BofA Securities: Blinkit holds over 50% share of India's quick commerce market, as rivals Zepto and Instamart prioritize profitability over aggressive expansion — Blinkit has solidified its dominance in India's quick commerce sector, now commanding over 50% market share, according to BofA Securities.| Alex Gabriel Simon / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Flipkart is investing $30M in its fintech unit Supermoney, after a $20M 2024 spin-off round; Supermoney disbursed $700M+ in loans via lending partners — Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing. Sign up here.| Bloomberg: |
Report: China's market regulator drafts rules to curb “coercive competition” in the online food delivery market, spurring a rally in Meituan and JD.com's shares — China's market watchdog is initiating a series of moves to tamp down runaway competition in the meal delivery arena …
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