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September 27, 2025, 9:00 AM
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: EA is in talks to go private in a deal valuing it at ~$50B; investors include Jared Kushner's PE firm and Saudi Arabia's PIF; EA closes up 14.87%  —  Investors including Silver Lake eyeing deal that would likely be the largest leveraged buyout ever
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump says Microsoft should fire its global affairs head Lisa Monaco over her work in the Biden administration, calling her a “menace to US National Security”  —  President Trump late Friday demanded Microsoft fire its head of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, over her work in the Biden administration.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has developed an internal ChatGPT-like iPhone app, code-named Veritas, to help test and prepare for a major Siri overhaul next year  —  Apple Inc. has developed a ChatGPT-like iPhone app to help test and prepare for a long-anticipated overhaul of Siri coming next year, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg:
Google agrees to guarantee $1.4B of AI computing startup Fluidstack's $3B, 10-year agreement with Cipher Mining and gets the right to buy a 5.4% stake in Cipher  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to anchor a $3 billion data center contract with Cipher Mining Inc. in the latest tie up between …
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Sources: the US Commerce Department is considering imposing tariffs on foreign electronic devices based on the number of chips they contain  —  - Trump seeks to drive companies to shift manufacturing to the US  — “America cannot be reliant on foreign imports” of chips, White House says
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Leaked letter: NLRB drops claims against Tim Cook, including that he violated workers' rights with a 2021 email threatening staffers who leak confidential info  —  The US labor board has abandoned its allegations that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook violated federal labor law …
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with reinforcement learning pioneer Richard Sutton on why LLMs are not the path to achieving human intelligence, world models, continual learning, and more  —  Richard Sutton is the father of reinforcement learning, winner of the 2024 Turing Award, and author of The Bitter Lesson.
Reuters:
Sources: ByteDance will maintain ownership of TikTok US' revenue-generating business operations such as e-commerce and advertising  —  - ByteDance to retain ownership of TikTok's U.S. business operations, sources say  — Joint venture to handle U.S. user data and algorithm, sources say
Bloomberg:
Sources: ByteDance may get ~50% of TikTok US' overall profit, including a licensing fee of 20% of revenue, despite selling majority ownership to US investors

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From Mediagazer

Rob Wile / NBC News:
President Trump's 2025 financial disclosures show $80M in income from settlements tied to his lawsuits against ABC, CBS, Meta, YouTube, and other companies

Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
The EU says Paramount has committed to exit its United International Pictures distribution JV with Universal as a condition for EU approval of its WBD merger

The Guardian:
Canada will join the Eurovision song contest in 2027, becoming the first new participant since Australia in 2015; the contest will be held in Bulgaria

More News

Reuters:
Swiss microfluidic chip-cooling tech startup Corintis raised a $24M Series A, a source says at a $400M valuation, and announces adding Lip-Bu Tan to its board
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
How developers are using Apple's local AI models in iOS 26: Lil Artist story generation, MoneyCoach's spending insights, F1 race summaries in Lights Out, more
Bloomberg:
Sources: Kraken is in advanced talks to raise $200M to $300M from a strategic investor at a valuation of ~$20B, after recently raising $500M at a $15B valuation
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube is testing AI hosts, who will share stories and trivia about the music users are listening to, in the YouTube Music app through its new Labs program

Earlier Picks

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Anthropic plans to triple its global workforce and expand its applied AI team 5x in 2025, after growing its business clients from ~1K to 300K+ in two years
Michael Nuñez / Venturebeat:
Perplexity launches Search API, giving developers direct access to the same web index that powers the startup's answer engine
Kate Whannel / BBC:
The UK unveils plans for a digital ID, which will be required to work in the country, to combat illegal immigration; the ID will be stored on people's phones
Bloomberg:
Meta plans to launch paid, ad-free versions of Instagram and Facebook in the UK, each costing £2.99 per month on the web, and £3.99 on iOS and Android
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Microsoft and Asus open preorders for the first Xbox handhelds, the ROG Xbox Ally for $599 and the ROG Xbox Ally X for $999 in the US, shipping October 16
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
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