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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple says it will spend $500B in the US over the next four years, hire 20,000 new US workers, and produce AI servers in Texas, after Tim Cook met with Trump  —  - Company to begin producing Apple Intelligence servers in Texas  — $500 billion planned to be invested in US over next four years
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Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis of Apple's financials: Apple's announcement of spending $500B over four years in the US is in line with what it could be expected to spend anyway  —  One big benefit to being the size of Apple AAPL 0.95%increase; green up pointing triangle is the ability to throw around huge numbers while in the normal course of business.
Bloomberg:
TD Cowen: Microsoft cancels leases for a substantial amount of US data centers, potentially due to over-investment fears; Microsoft plans to spend $80B in 2025  —  - The company has pledged $80 billion toward computing capacity  — Wall Street is questioning AI demand over the longer-term
Davey Winder / Forbes:
Google says it plans to use QR codes for Gmail account authentication, ditching SMS to “reduce the impact of rampant, global SMS abuse”  —  It is certainly no secret that using SMS text messages for security codes used to authenticate your identity is far from ideal.
Wes Davis / The Verge:
xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” as a public-facing instruction for its responses  —  The system prompt for Musk's chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
The Trump admin has fired 130+ staff at CISA, replaced staff refusing DOGE access to networks, appointed a DOD CISO whose clearance was suspended in 2021, more  —  One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool  —  Anthropic is releasing a new frontier AI model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which the company designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want it to.
Elliptic:
An analysis of the $1.46B Bybit hack, by far the largest crypto heist of all time, ahead of Poly Network's $611M in 2021, and possibly the biggest theft ever  —  On February 21st 2025, approximately $1.46 billion in cryptoassets were stolen from Bybit, a Dubai-based exchange.
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Robinhood says it received a letter from the SEC stating the agency is dropping its investigation into Robinhood Crypto, a sign of regulatory change under Trump  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping its investigation into Robinhood's crypto arm, the company revealed Monday.

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Glenn Garner / Deadline:
After a USTA memo, ABC appeared to mute the audience booing President Trump before the US Open Men's Final on September 7, playing music over his appearance

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