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Bloomberg:
Nvidia's and OpenAI's wave of deals is escalating concerns that the $1T+ AI boom is being artificially propped up by interconnected business transactions  —  A wave of deals and partnerships are escalating concerns that the trillion-dollar AI boom is being propped up by interconnected business transactions.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Jensen Huang says AMD offering a 10% stake to OpenAI is “imaginative” and “surprising” considering that AMD was “so excited about” its next-generation chip  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that he's surprised Advanced Micro Devices offered 10% …
Bloomberg:
Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and debt, tied to the Nvidia GPUs that xAI plans to rent for Colossus 2, with Nvidia investing as much as $2B
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold review: nice display and most AI features run on device, but cameras are a step down from other Pro Pixels, Tensor G5 shows small gains  —  Google delivers another phone that is slightly better than its predecessor—is that enough?  —  When the first foldable phones …
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Google Pixel Watch 4 review: a significant leap in Google's smartwatch lineup with a nice domed display, but Gemini is unreliable, and GPS maps are still wonky  —  Five years ago, I used to groan when it came time to review an Android smartwatch.  Back then, anything that wasn't a Samsung watch was disappointing at best.
Billy Steele / Engadget:
Google Pixel Buds 2a review: ANC is a welcome addition and sound is detailed and punchy, but there's still no wireless charging and voice performance suffers
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Filing: Elon Musk and X settle a lawsuit by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, and others over $128M+ in unpaid 2024 severance  —  The settlement agreement over withheld severance is dependent on Musk meeting ‘certain conditions.’
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Apple has removed Eyes Up, which archives video evidence of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, it doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations  —  Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned.
John Revill / Reuters:
SoftBank Group agrees to acquire ABB's robotics business, which generated $2.3B in sales in 2024, for $5.4B; ABB expects the deal to close in mid-to-late 2026  —  SoftBank Group (9984.T) said on Wednesday it has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB (ABBN.S) in a $5.4 billion deal.
Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic consider using investor funds to settle potential claims from multibillion-dollar lawsuits, as insurers balk at covering AI risks  —  Companies struggle to assess scale of financial risks emerging from artificial intelligence  —  OpenAI and Anthropic …
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
Sources: Meta and Apple are close to settling two EU antitrust cases and agreeing to a deal to change their business practices after a total €700M in DMA fines  —  US Big Tech groups in final stages of agreeing deal with Brussels to avoid series of escalating fines
CryptPad Blog:
Open letter: 40+ European companies oppose the EU's “Chat Control” proposal, which would force services to scan messages for CSAM, fearing a backdoor mandate  —  Today we are adding our signature (and that of our parent company XWiki SAS) to a new open letter against the so-called “Chat Control” EU regulation.
Sam Clark / Politico:
A website set up by a Danish software developer floods EU lawmakers with emails opposing planned EU “Chat Control” laws to fight CSAM by scanning encrypted apps
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:
Amazon announces Amazon Pharmacy kiosks to quickly dispense medications to patients after an appointment, initially rolling out in its One Medical offices in LA  —  Amazon is erasing the distance between the doctor's office and the pharmacy with the introduction of new Amazon Pharmacy kiosks …
Dasha Afanasieva / Bloomberg:
US House lawmakers criticize ASML, Tokyo Electron, KLA, and other equipment makers for selling to the Chinese military and helping build China's chip industry  —  Semiconductor companies including Applied Materials Inc. and ASML Holding NV fell after a US House committee said that the industry …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's unifying vision, infrastructure deals, the investor mindset, ChatGPT apps, Instant Checkout, Sora, copyright, feedback, and more  —  Today's Stratechery Interview is with OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman.  I have interviewed Altman twice before …
Mark Hallam / DW News:
Germany's Federal Cartel Office opens an investigation into whether Temu is influencing the pricing of third-party merchants, potentially stifling competition  —  Germany's competition watchdog has announced an investigation of Chinese discount online retail site temu.com, suspecting it of influencing retailers' prices.
More: Reuters
Anthropic:
Anthropic plans to open its first Indian office, in Bengaluru, in early 2026; Dario Amodei is visiting India to meet government officials and potential partners  —  Today we're announcing that we're expanding our global operations to India, with plans to open an office in Bengaluru in early 2026.
Financial Times:
UK filings: Revolut CEO and largest shareholder Nik Storonsky has changed his residency from the UK to the UAE; Revolut is awaiting a full UK banking license  —  Change in billionaire's country of residence disclosed in Companies House filing  —  Nik Storonsky, Revolut's billionaire co-founder …
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
New York-based Crosby, a law firm that uses AI to help speed up the contracts process, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures, BCV, and Elad Gil  —  Crosby, led by lawyer turned founder Ryan Daniels, has raised a $20 million Series A from Index and Bain Capital Ventures to expand its AI-assisted legal work.
Pew Research Center:
A survey of US parents: 90% say their kids aged 12 or younger watch TV, 68% use a tablet, 61% use a smartphone, 50% use a gaming device, and 8% use a chatbot  —  From YouTube to smartphones to tablets, tech is part of kids' lives.  AI chatbots are part of the mix now, too.
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the startup raised two undisclosed rounds: $55M at a $350M valuation in 2024 and $150M at a $1.2B valuation earlier in 2025  —  - Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the prediction platform raised $55 million in 2024 and $150 million earlier this year.

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A US federal judge rules the White House cannot enforce President Trump's ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico in the long term pending a trial or an appeal

Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
State of Local News annual report: the US local news ecosystem is “in a state of precarity”, and digital readership is in “precipitous decline” for many outlets

Adam Gramegna / Military.com:
The Pentagon names public affairs official Christian Devine as acting Stars and Stripes publisher; he'll hold both his Pentagon and Stripes roles concurrently

More News

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Relace, which makes tools and specialized language models to help AI agents code faster for customers like Lovable and Figma, raised a $23M Series A led by a16z
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft delays last week's 50% price hike for existing Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in Germany, Ireland, South Korea, Poland, India, and other markets

Earlier Picks

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune:
Harvard economist Jason Furman estimates that investments in data centers and information-processing software accounted for 92% of the US' GDP growth in H1 2025
Washington Post:
An analysis of 1,100 TikTok users' watch histories across six months in 2024 shows just how effective TikTok is at getting even its heaviest users to watch more
Kunal Manchanada / Entrackr:
Raise Financial Services, the parent company of Indian stock trading and investment app Dhan, raised $120M led by Hornbill Capital at a $1.2B valuation
Bloomberg:
Sources: $TRUMP issuer Fight Fight Fight LLC is working to raise $200M to $1B to create a digital asset treasury company to accumulate the struggling token
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