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Erin Woo / The Information:
Sources: Google plans to preview an AI product codenamed Jarvis, which takes over a user's web browser to complete tasks like booking a flight, in December  —  Google is developing artificial intelligence that takes over a person's web browser to complete tasks such as gathering research …
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Sources: Google is aiming to release its Gemini 2.0 model in December; the model isn't showing the performance gains the Demis Hassabis-led team had hoped for  —  The AI race is heating up just in time for winter.  —  As my colleagues Kylie Robison and Tom Warren reported …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: federal prosecutors are investigating Tether for possible violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering rules; US Treasury is considering sanctions
Christopher Yasiejko / Bloomberg Law:
A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that Masimo's smartwatches infringed Apple Watch design patents; Apple sought statutory minimum damages  —  Apple Inc. v. Masimo Corp. (D. Del., 22-cv-1377)  —  Apple Inc. v. Masimo Corp. (D. Del., 22-cv-1378)  —  Search by Law Firm Search by Topic Search by Company
Associated Press:
Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary  —  Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3M customers, and cost the carrier over $500M  —  Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) on Friday sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) in a Georgia state court after a global outage …
David Morris / Bloomberg:
Chinese self-driving company WeRide's shares closed up 6.8% at $16.55, giving it a market cap of ~$4.5B, after raising $440.5M in a US IPO and private placement  —  The Guangzhou-based company's ADS pared initial gains to close at $16.55 on Friday in New York, above the IPO price of $15.50 apiece.
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
An interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on his background and the founding of Salesforce, his vision for AI, Agentforce, data and disruption, and more  —  This week's Stratechery Interview is with Salesforce Founder and CEO Marc Benioff.  Salesforce is one of the most important companies in tech history.

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Shane O'Neill / Washington Post:
Q&A with Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump's inner circle for VF: “My job is to ... draw on my experience as a journalist and photograph what I see”

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS News and The Free Press announce Things That Matter, a series of town halls and debates, starting in early 2026, with Sam Altman, J.D. Vance, and others

John Rogers / Associated Press:
Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91

More News

Sean Hollister / The Verge:
The US Copyright Office denies a request from video game preservationists to let libraries, archives, and museums lend games via remote access for study

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Christopher Beam / The Atlantic:
A profile of Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé whose Pirate Wires newsletter and podcast became popular among “anti-woke” tech figures since the “techlash”
New York Times:
Sources: Chinese hackers targeted data from phones of Trump and JD Vance, via a hack of Verizon systems; staff members of Harris' campaign were also targeted
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Filing: Satya Nadella was paid $79.1M during the FY ending June 30, up from $48.5M YoY; compensation was reduced by $5M+ due to Microsoft's security issues
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