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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610M in cash, set to close by December; founded in 2019, the startup beta launched the Dia browser in June — Atlassian said it has agreed to acquire The Browser Co., a startup that offers a web browser with artificial intelligence features, for $610 million in cash.
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X: @joshm, @browsercompany, @can, @varadhjain, @awesomekling, @mehulmpt, @postcarl, @rjonesy, @mulholo, @vanlancker, @mcannonbrookes, @itsurboyevan, @willdepue, @atlassian, @scottbelsky, @hamburger, @hursh, @vilinskyy, @jordihays, @brianrumao, @aidenybai, and @cpaik
LinkedIn: Sean Mendy, Frederic Lardinois, Pramod Gosavi, Simon Vincent, Or Eshed, Jeff Weiner, and Brian Duffy
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz, @carnage4life, @goose.art, @blank.org, and @keith.is
Mastodon: @ashley@wears.tigerpajamas.com and @amit@me.dm
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/macapps, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Stripe and Paradigm unveil Tempo, a Layer-1 blockchain for stablecoins; a source says Tempo will not launch with its own token and there is no launch timeline — Patrick Collison, chief executive officer and co-founder of Stripe, left, smiles as John Collison, president and co-founder of Stripe
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LinkedIn: Georgios Konstantopoulos and Nick Martitsch
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, building upon the 500-character text limit for posts — Blogging is back. … Meta is adding a new feature to let you add a bunch of extra text to Threads posts — no screenshots of text blocks required.
More: TechCrunch, Meta Newsroom, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Social Media Today, WeRSM, Sherwood News, Sherwood News, Mashable, and iPhone in Canada
Threads: @conno_r, @threads, @zuck, @mosseri, @digiphile, and @jw. Mastodon: @darnell@one.darnell.one
| Financial Times: |
An Anthropic executive says the company will stop selling AI services to majority Chinese-owned groups — Policy will also apply to US adversaries including Russia, Iran and North Korea — Anthropic will stop selling artificial intelligence services to groups majority owned by Chinese entities …
Bluesky: @sgwoods, @spyd34, @saschaben, and @quinnypig.com
| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match employers with candidates with AI skills, and a certification program for AI roles in the coming months — OpenAI plans to launch a new AI-powered jobs platform next year to help match employers with candidates who have artificial intelligence skills …
More: OpenAI, The Verge, TechCrunch, and Sherwood News
X: @luke_metro and @fidjissimo
LinkedIn: Fidji Simo and Armand Ruiz
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by “hundreds of millions” — Bret Taylor's artificial intelligence startup Sierra has just joined an exclusive club: The company sports …
More: Sierra blog, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, and Bloomberg
X: @peterfenton and @sierraplatform
LinkedIn: Greg Marsh, Melissa Diamond, Florian Dahlhausen, Cortlandt Armstrong, Bret Taylor, and Alexandra Johnson
| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
WBD files a copyright suit against Midjourney, accusing the startup of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Batman — The lawsuit against Midjourney was filed as a growing contingent of Hollywood steps into the fight over generative artificial intelligence.
More: The Verge, CNET, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Mediaweek, Kotaku, PC Gamer, Polygon, Variety, The Wrap, and Deadline
X: @boardwalktimes, @culturecrave, and @culturecrave. LinkedIn: Victoria Furniss. Bluesky: @stevensantos. Forums: r/blankies
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $16B, vs. $15.8B est., AI revenue up 63% to $5.2B, vs. $5.11B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates — Broadcom Inc. Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan told investors that the chipmaker's artificial intelligence outlook will improve … | The Hill: |
CEOs of Apple, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others will attend a dinner hosted by President Trump at the White House Rose Garden — President Trump on Thursday will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for the first event in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden …
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Forums: r/intelstock and MacRumors Forums
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is set to avoid a potentially hefty EU antitrust fine by agreeing to sell Teams separately from its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 packages — Microsoft Corp. is set to avoid a potentially hefty antitrust fine after the European Union got positive feedback …
More: Reuters. X: @stokel. Bluesky: @acidrains, @finiteattention, @daviduzumeri, @danhon.com, and @quinnypig.com
| Bloomberg: |
Honeywell's Quantinuum raised $600M from Quanta, Nvidia's NVentures, and others at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in January 2024 — Nvidia Corp.'s venture capital arm is investing in Quantinuum for the first time, valuing the quantum computing company controlled … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the $650+ Galaxy S25 FE and the $800+ Tab S11 in 11" and 14.6" versions, offering thinner, lighter designs and modest spec bumps, shipping now — Oh, and did I mention they have AI? … If you've been eagerly awaiting Samsung's long-teased trifold phone …
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| The Information: |
Source: Nvidia agreed to rent 10,000 of its own AI chips from Lambda for $1.3B over four years, the latest example of Nvidia's circular financial arrangements — A small cloud provider for artificial intelligence that's preparing to go public has secured a major boost from its most important supplier: Nvidia.| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Tencent releases HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, trained on 100K+ video clips — On Tuesday, Tencent released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a new open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image …
More: Tencent-Hunyuan on GitHub, Hugging Face, and WinBuzzer
X: @tencenthunyuan, @dylan_ebert_, @wildmindai, and @vickyinsf
Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
Google now lets US-based Google Photos users turn static images into silent four-second videos using its Veo 3 model — Free users of Google Photos can create silent 4-second videos from their images using Veo 3. … Google is adding Veo 3 software capabilities to its video generation feature for Google Photos.| Reuters: |
ID.me, a digital ID service used by US agencies like the IRS, raised a $340M Series E led by Ribbit at a $2B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $580M+ — ID.me said on Wednesday it had raised $340 million across its latest funding round, combined with a credit facility …
More: SiliconANGLE, Finextra, FinTech Global, FinSMEs, PYMNTS.com, TipRanks Financial, ID.me, Inc., Washington …, Tech in Asia, and Axios
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DeepSeek is developing an agentic AI model that can carry out multistep actions with little human intervention and can learn and improve, coming in Q4 — DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI …
More: CNET, Washington Times, and Implicator.ai
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Adobe plans to launch a free version of its Premiere video editor for iPhone later this month, with one-tap exporting to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram — Adobe is bringing its video editor Premiere to iPhone, promising “pro-level” editing on the go for free.
More: The Adobe Blog, BGR, Mashable, iPhone in Canada, 9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, PetaPixel, Lifewire, Yahoo Finance, iClarified, Engadget, ZDNET, AppleInsider, MacRumors, PCMag, Thurrott, WeRSM, and Redmond Pie
| Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon's Project Kuiper signs up JetBlue as its first airline customer to use its satellite internet for in-flight Wi-Fi in 25% of JetBlue's fleet from 2027 — JetBlue plans to use Kuiper satellite internet on 25% of its fleet, with some passengers gaining access to the service in 2027
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LinkedIn: Jason Presement, Jeff Kietzmann, Steven M. Elinson, and Dr. Dylan Browne. Bluesky: @marypcbuk
Forums: r/jetblue and r/Starlink
| Keith Laing / Bloomberg: |
The Trump administration plans to ease rules for self driving cars by removing some requirements designed for human drivers, such as windshield wipers — The Trump administration is taking steps to make it easier for automakers to deploy-self driving cars by removing some requirements designed specifically … | Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Sources: plans for X Money, a US payments service integrated into X, have stalled as executives leave and the DFS NY and other state regulators raise concerns — For decades, one of Elon Musk's biggest ambitions has been using technology to disrupt and replace traditional banks and payments processors.| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
How Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack from Musk, conservative groups, the Trump administration, and other governments — WhenWhen armies invade, hurricanes form, or governments fall, a Wikipedia editor will typically update the relevant articles seconds after the news breaks.| Financial Times: |
Despite a setback in the US DOJ's Google case, the Trump administration continues to pursue Big Tech antitrust cases while defending US tech companies overseas — Tough enforcement continues even as tech bosses court the president — Donald Trump has slapped down European tech rules and promised to slash regulation at home.| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
More: Blood in the Machine, BIG by Matt Stoller, The Guardian, The American Bazaar, Techdirt, Adweek, Proactiveinvestors UK, Financial Times, Quartz, Business Insider, and BBC. Bluesky: @wavesblog
| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
Docusign reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $800.6M vs. $780.1M est., raises FY 2026 sales outlook, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; DOCU jumps 8%+ after hours — The electronic-signature company is attempting to win bigger customers for its new AI tool that summarizes and analyzes agreement documents
More: Benzinga, SiliconANGLE, Yahoo Finance, and Associated Press
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Augment, founded by Deliverr's Harish Abbott, raised an $85M Series A led by Redpoint to scale its AI assistant for logistics, five months after a $25M seed — Having built and sold e-commerce shipping startup Deliverr to Shopify for $2.1 billion in 2022, co-founder and CEO Harish Abbott knows the logistics industry well.| Reuters: |
Research and 25 experts, victims, and execs: North Korean hackers are saturating the crypto industry with credible-sounding job offers in a bid to steal crypto — North Korean hackers are saturating the cryptocurrency industry with credible-sounding job offers as part of their campaign …
More: SentinelOne, BeInCrypto, Breitbart, PYMNTS.com, Infosecurity, Tom's Hardware, and Inc.com
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: StubHub and Netskope plan to start formally marketing their IPOs as soon as Monday; StubHub could raise $1B+, and Netskope is seeking to raise ~$1B — A pair of IPO hopefuls are adding to September's packed calendar, seizing the momentum from a string of well-received debuts as US equity markets near record highs.| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Philips Hue unveils a major product refresh at IFA 2025, including a $99 Hue Bridge Pro, updated $25+ smart bulbs, and the $170 Hue Secure, its first doorbell — The smart lighting company launches its most ambitious update yet, with a new Bridge Pro, more affordable smart bulbs …
More: ZDNET, Gizmodo, The Verge, Hueblog.com, Signify, TechRadar, 9to5Mac, CNET, MacRumors, The Ambient, Stuff, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Google, Android Police, PCMag, Android Authority, Android Headlines, Engadget, PCWorld, T3, Thurrott, Trusted Reviews, Forbes, The Verge, The Verge, and The Verge
| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
A profile of Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, which is unique among AI companies in having a mandate to both evaluate its AI models and publicize findings widely — From left, Anthropic's Frontier Red Team leader Logan Graham; co-founder and head of policy Jack Clark; and Frontier Red Team member Keane Lucas.Sponsor Posts
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