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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Sources: Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be the main TikTok USA investors, with a ~45% stake; ByteDance will own 19.9% and ByteDance investors 35% — Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be main investors in TikTok's U.S. business, sources told CNBC's David Faber on Thursday.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Trump says Xi Jinping approved the TikTok deal, and JD Vance says the transaction values TikTok US at $14B; ByteDance hasn't acknowledged the deal — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order approving a proposed deal that would keep TikTok alive in the U.S.
More: The Verge, Benzinga, NBC News, Engadget, Wired, Times of India, Deadline, India Today, Just The News, The Independent, and CNN
| Associated Press: |
Trump signs an EO declaring that a proposed deal allowing TikTok to continue operating in the US will be a qualified sale that meets national security concerns — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring that a proposed deal allowing TikTok to continue operating … | Financial Times: |
Amazon reaches a $2.5B settlement with the FTC over deceptive Prime practices, with a $1B civil penalty and $1.5B in consumer redress, three days into the trial — Agreement includes largest penalty issued for violating consumer protection agency's rules — Amazon has reached a $2.5bn settlement …
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X: @chesterj1, @matthewstoller, @meadorftc, @xpangler, @afergusonftc, @adamkovac, @realjdenton, @ftc, @zephyrteachout, @stacyfmitchell, @amazon_policy, @bedoyausa, @delrey, @delrey, and @linamkhan. LinkedIn: Andrew Dillon. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com. Mastodon: @finnmyrstad@eupolicy.social
Forums: r/amzn and r/technology
| The Guardian: |
Microsoft terminated Israel military's Unit 8200 access to Azure, after an investigation found the tech was used for mass surveillance in Gaza and West Bank — Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit's access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
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X: @leventkemai, @glenweyl, @amasad, @yuval_abraham, @yousefmunayyer, @bentelaviv, @migueldeicaza, @hshaban, and @tomwarren
LinkedIn: Rasha Abdul Rahim, Mike Adams, Gayatri Khandhadai, and Tarek Dawoud
Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @guyoron.net, @kerrblimey, @peark.es, @joolia, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @stephentotilo, and @carlquintanilla
| Apple: |
Apple says the DMA exposes users to new risks, reduces choice by making iOS resemble Android, and creates unfair competition by not applying to Samsung — At Apple, we've always focused on creating technology that empowers people and enriches their lives. We design our products to be intuitive …
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LinkedIn: Jordy Thery. Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …, @ansuz@social.cryptography.dog, @Frederik_Borgesius …, and @khaost@mastodon.tz.is
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| France 24: |
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X: @aaronp613. LinkedIn: Aaron McLoughlin. Bluesky: @fbermingham, @margotdor, @nojohn, @andrewstroehlein, @hidde.blog, @gateklons, and @carnage4life
Mastodon: @brucelawson@social …, @Wen@mastodon.scot, @slightlyoff@toot.cafe, @jzb@mastodon.social, @kjhealy@mastodon.social, @rileytestut@mastodon.social, and @jer@hachyderm.io
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a mobile feature for Pro users that delivers daily personalized updates based on their chats, feedback, and connected apps — ChatGPT's new Pulse feature does personalized research on your behalf overnight and serves you up a digest each morning.
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Forums: r/OpenAI, r/OpenAI, and r/MyBoyfriendIsAI
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Windows 10 users will receive free Extended Security Updates in the EEA without enabling Windows Backup, after pressure from the Euroconsumers group — You won't have to enable Windows Backup to get extended Windows 10 security updates in the European Economic Area.
More: Windows Central, BleepingComputer, XDA Developers, Thurrott, Engadget, BGR, TechRadar, PCMag, Windows Report, PCWorld, and Pureinfotech
Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk and @marypcbuk
Forums: r/Windows10, r/popculturechat, r/windows, r/technology, r/technews, and Beehaw
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Gemini 2.5 Flash with better response formatting and image understanding, and releases new 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite previews for developers — Google today updated the 2.5 Flash model available in the Gemini app across three areas. — All responses now benefit … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases GDPval, a benchmark to test AI performance on “economically valuable, real-world tasks”, and says Claude Opus 4.1 was the best performing model — OpenAI released a new benchmark on Thursday that tests how its AI models perform compared to human professionals across a wide range of industries and jobs.
More: OpenAI, Axios, ZDNET, ZDNET, MarkTechPost, Blockchain.News, and Don't Worry About the Vase
X: @sama, @tasslermarcus, @gasca, @anuraagsidhu, @kevinweil, @kimmonismus, @tunedgradient, @shyamalanadkat, @shanumathew93, @deenamousa, @kaicathyc, @michelelwang, @nancyafairbank, @gregkamradt, @kliu128, @oliviagwatkins2, @sid_899, @_simonsmith, @deredleritt3r, @daniel_mac8, @tanayj, @abhanshusharma, @gdb, @scaling01, @abhishekn, @tejalpatwardhan, @gracejkim9, @iterintellectus, @scaling01, @scaling01, and @scaling01
LinkedIn: Phoebe Thacker and Kevin Weil
| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Meta rolls out Vibes, a platform where users can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos, in the Meta AI app and on the meta.ai website — Meta Platforms (META.O) launched a new feed of AI videos, called Vibes, as the social media giant looks to fast-track work on artificial intelligence technology.
More: Meta Newsroom, Engadget, and TestingCatalog
X: @alexandr_wang, @fejau_inc, @nickfloats, @robrombach, @saradietschy, @andrewcurran_, @app_settings, and @yuchenj_uw. LinkedIn: Prashant Ratanchandani
Bluesky: @gap-id, @tprstly, and @edzitron.com
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Neon, which pays users to record their phone calls and sells that audio data to AI companies for training, becomes the #2 social app on the US App Store — A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably …
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Bluesky: @katienotopoulos, @russwilcox, and @joetidy
Mastodon: @davemark@mastodon.social and @skry@mastodon.social
Forums: r/passive_income and Slashdot
| Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
A profile of AI skeptic Ed Zitron: Sam Altman's firing and return was his “Joker moment”, tech journalism is flawed, his brash persona is not a mask, and more — How a British-born hobbyist blogger became one of Big Tech's punchiest critics — Ed Zitron is not a journalist …
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @edzitron.com, @benansell, @theravenof, and @edzitron.com
| Oma Seddiq / Bloomberg: |
xAI signed a deal with the GSA to offer Grok to US federal agencies for $0.42 per agency for 18 months, a discount to OpenAI's $1 per year for ChatGPT — - Follows recent deals with Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google — xAI engineers to assist federal agencies with implementation
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| Blockworks: |
Cloudflare announces plans to launch NET Dollar, a US dollar-backed stablecoin designed to support payments for the “agentic web” — The company introduced a dollar-backed stablecoin to power instant payments and microtransactions for AI-driven web platforms
More: Business Wire, The Block, Investor's Business Daily, SiliconANGLE, TestingCatalog, Bitcoin Insider, Decrypt, Coinspeaker, Blockonomi, and The Crypto Times
X: @campbelljaustin, @rnr_0, @antoniogm, @serpinxbt, @_weidai, @0xfoobar, @pierre_crypt0, @luxalgo, @rogue_says, @solanalegend, @eastdakota, @0xmert_, @cloudflare, @eastdakota, @vimtor_, and @furqanr. LinkedIn: Arielle
| Makini Brice / Reuters: |
The EU launches an antitrust probe into SAP over its ERP software maintenance and support services, with a potential fine of ~10% of its annual global sales — The European Commission has opened an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices by Germany's SAP (SAPG.DE) …
More: European Commission, The Register, SAP News Center, CIO Dive, Financial Times, and Bloomberg
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter — Spotify on Thursday announced a series of updates to its AI policy, designed to better indicate when AI is being used to make music …
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Forums: r/technews and r/truespotify
| Wired: |
Sources: Meta poached Yang Song, who led OpenAI's strategic explorations team, to be the research principal of Meta Superintelligence Labs earlier this month — The Best Robot Vacuums to Keep Your Home Clean — Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Revolutionized Windows Laptops. Here Comes the Second Act
X: @yuchenj_uw and @iscienceluvr
| Joel Drapper: |
Sources allege that nonprofit Ruby Central took control of some Ruby open-source projects from their maintainers without consent, after pressure from Shopify — Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
More: André Arko, pupdates, Freedom's Substack, Ruby Central, The Register, André Arko, Michael Tsai, Matt Mullenweg, and The Register
LinkedIn: Brian Greene. Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz, @martinemde.com, @rmfranca, @katproto.girlonthemoon.xyz, @davidcel.is, @seldo.com, @thomasfuchs.at, @duckinator, @wwahammy.com, @valeriecodes, and @baweaver
Mastodon: @joeldrapper@ruby.social, @ceejbot@toot.cat, @somebitslinks@tech.lgbt, @technotenshi@infosec.exchange, @anthroposamu@mastodon.social, @phillmv@hachyderm.io, @jbz@indieweb.social, @maxine@hachyderm.io, @elilla@transmom.love, @aesthr@wandering.shop, @jaredwhite@indieweb.social, and @bascule@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News, r/ruby, Lobsters, and Lobsters
| Arjun Neil Alim / Financial Times: |
HSBC says it has tested an IBM quantum computing tool on European bond market data and saw a 34% improvement over traditional methods in predicting order fills — Europe's largest lender tested a tool developed by IBM on bond market data — HSBC claimed quantum computing tools …
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LinkedIn: Aditya Kumar Sinha, Octavian Florescu, Julien Chaisse, and Ian Glasner
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-ER 1.5, enabling robots to perform multi-step tasks like sorting laundry, including by using web search — New technology advances reasoning capabilities in general-purpose machines in push to make them more useful
More: Google DeepMind, The Information, TechEBlog, Ars Technica, and The Verge
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Xiaomi unveils 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, available September 27 in China; Pro phones feature a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and a back screen — The company could lay off the Apple comparisons a bit though. … A critic might accuse Xiaomi of copying Apple a little too closely …
More: Tom's Guide, Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, 9to5Google, and Android Headlines
X: @bengeskin and @tomwarren
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Juicebox, whose PeopleGPT helps employers analyze professional profiles to identify qualified candidates, raised $36M, including a $30M Series A led by Sequoia — For years, recruiters used machine learning to find potential hires by searching for keywords in resumes and LinkedIn profiles.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has spoken to TSMC CEO C.C. Wei about a partnership or a joint venture; he also met with Tim Cook this year; INTC is up 9%+ — Semiconductor maker has been winning support from other tech companies following the deal that gave the U.S. government 10% stake| Daniel Bader / Android Police: |
Qualcomm details the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, its latest flagship mobile SoC, claiming a 20% boost in YoY CPU performance and a 23% increase in GPU performance — Daniel started writing about tech in 2007, before Android existed. He got his start reviewing phones, wearables, and headphones, as the managing editor of MobileSyrup.
More: Qualcomm, CNET, Android Authority, Digit, The Walkman Blog, Digit, Android Authority, Droid Life, Benzinga, Thurrott, MobileSyrup, CNET, and Tom's Hardware
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser will retire on December 31 after more than a decade with the company; Nintendo exec Devon Pritchard will succeed him — Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser will retire Dec. 31 after more than a decade at the company.| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: Meta is considering using Google's Gemini and open-source Gemma AI models to improve its ad summarization and recommendation system — Meta Platforms staffers have had discussions with Google Cloud about the possibility of using Google's artificial intelligence models to improve Meta's ad business …
More: Benzinga
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Factory, which makes AI agents called “droids” to assist in coding, raised $50M at a $300M valuation; AI coding startups raised $7.5B+ in the past three months — Sequoia, NEA and Nvidia invest $50mn in Factory in bet software engineering will be critical application for the tech
More: Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, Implicator.ai, Factory.ai, and Sourcery. LinkedIn: Madison Faulkner
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