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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans an AI search tool, World Knowledge Answers, for a spring 2026 Siri revamp; Apple and Google have agreed to test a Google AI model for Siri — Apple Inc. is planning to launch its own artificial intelligence-powered web search tool next year, stepping up competition with OpenAI and Perplexity AI Inc.
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Forums: r/singularity, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roblox will expand age checks to all users of its communication tools by the end of 2025 using facial age estimation tech, ID verification, and parental consent — Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it's expanding … | Margaret Attridge / Courthouse News Service: |
A US jury orders Google to pay $425M+ to plaintiffs in a 2020 class action lawsuit for collecting data even after they turned off Web & App Activity tracking — A class of nearly 100 million Google users claimed the tech giant secretly collected data even after they disabled data collection …
More: Reuters, Engadget, Silicon Republic, Android Headlines, France 24, The News International, Verdict, Axios, BMI, and Mobile World Live
X: @matthewstoller and @jason_kint
| France 24: |
France's CNIL fines Google €325M for placing tracking cookies and ads in Gmail without users' consent; Google says it is reviewing the decision — France's data protection authority on Wednesday issued record fines against search giant Google and fast-fashion platform Shein for failing to respect the law on internet cookies.| 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 and Ars OpenForum
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DeepSeek is developing an agentic AI model that can carry out multi-step actions with little direction as well as learn and improve, set for a Q4 debut — DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI …
More: Business Standard, South China Morning Post, and Implicator.ai
| 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 a quarter of the 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
More: PCMag, Reuters, Bloomberg Law, About Amazon, CNBC, Business Wire, and GeekWire
| 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 …
More: The Guardian, Reuters, and Quantinuum
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: xAI CFO Mike Liberatore left the startup around the end of July, after joining in April; xAI has seen several high-profile departures in recent weeks — Mike Liberatore departs after only a few months on the job — The chief financial officer of xAI has left the company …
More: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Verdict, Moneycontrol, Benzinga, PYMNTS.com, WinBuzzer, New York Post, The Information, and Reuters
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610M in cash, set to close by December; the startup, founded in 2019, develops the Dia browser, now in beta — Atlassian said it has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, a startup that offers a web browser with artificial intelligence features, for $610 million in cash.
More: The Verge, Work Life, TechCrunch, and Business Wire
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| Resilience Media: |
Israeli startup Sola, which develops AI-based low-code cybersecurity tools, raised a $35M Series A led by S32 and says it has ~2,000 customers — Earlier this year, Israeli cybersecurity startup Sola emerged from stealth with $30 million and ambitions to become the “Stripe for Security” …
More: Tech Funding News, New York Times, and GovInfoSecurity.com
| Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says Polymarket “has been given the green light to go live” in the US after the CFTC issued a no-action letter over event contracts — Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market, has the regulatory approvals needed to launch in the US …
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| The Hill: |
CEOs of Apple, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others are expected to attend an AI event hosted by Melania Trump and dinner at the White House Rose Garden on Thursday — President Trump on Thursday will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for the first event …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Switzerland launches Apertus, an open-source AI model trained only on publicly available data across more than 1,000 languages, in 8B and 70B parameter sizes — Apertus was trained only on publicly available data, it said. — There's a new player in the AI race, and it's a whole country.
More: The Verge, Silicon Republic, ETH Zurich, SWI swissinfo.ch, Implicator.ai, AI News, CyberInsider, and heise online News
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and Slashdot
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
C3 AI reports Q1 revenue down 19% YoY to $70.3M, and names long-time tech executive Stephen Ehikian as CEO, replacing Thomas Siebel; C3 AI falls 10%+ — Shares of the enterprise artificial intelligence company C3 AI fell 14% in extended trading on Wednesday after it announced fiscal … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the $650+ Galaxy S25 FE and $800+ Tab S11 series in 11" and 14.6", offering thinner, lighter designs alongside modest upgrades, shipping now — If you've been eagerly awaiting Samsung's long-teased trifold phone or Project Moohan XR headset, the company's IFA launches may feel …
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| Reuters: |
American Bitcoin closed up 16.5% in its Nasdaq debut on September 3, valuing Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.'s stake in the bitcoin mining company at $1.5B — A bitcoin company tied to President Donald Trump's two oldest sons more than doubled in value in its stock market debut on Wednesday …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Figma reports Q2 revenue up 41% YoY to $249.6M, vs. $248.8M est., $28.2M net income, and forecasts Q3 and FY 2025 revenue above est.; FIG drops 14%+ — Figma shares plunged 13% in extended trading on Wednesday after the design software company reported results for the first time since its IPO in July.| CNBC: |
Source: OpenAI is increasing the size of its secondary share sale from $6B to ~$10.3B, at a $500B valuation, in line with expectations, set to close in October — OpenAI is increasing the size of its secondary share sale by over $4 billion, CNBC has learned.
More: The Information and Benzinga
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta launches Instagram for iPadOS, 15 years after its iOS debut; the app is slightly different than the mobile version, most notably opening directly to Reels — The long-requested app will feature Reels prominently on the homepage. … After years of requests from users, Instagram will finally have a dedicated app for iPad.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese tech companies remain keen on Nvidia's AI chips despite Beijing strongly discouraging them from such purchases — Alibaba (9988.HK), ByteDance and other Chinese tech firms remain keen on Nvidia's (NVDA.O) artificial intelligence chips despite regulators …
More: Benzinga, TechPowerUp, and Tech in Asia
| Echo Wong / Bloomberg: |
GSR fund documents: TikTok rival Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in the US, saw its valuation rise 19% to $31B from $26B in March during recent GSR transactions — Xiaohongshu's valuation surged 19% to $31 billion in just three months during recent transactions via a major fund …
More: TipRanks Financial and Tech in Asia
| Reuters: |
Research and 25 experts, victims, and execs: North Korean hackers are saturating the crypto industry with credible-seeming 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 to steal digital cash …
More: SentinelOne
| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mistral AI is finalizing a €2B investment that values the startup at €12B, its first fundraise since June 2024, when it was valued at €5.8B — French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is finalizing a €2 billion investment that values the company at €12 billion … | Michael Hirsh / Politico: |
As the Pentagon rushes to deploy AI into its weapons systems, some experts fear humans can't keep pace with AI's aggressive tendency to escalate in a crisis — Jacquelyn Schneider saw a disturbing pattern, and she didn't know what to make of it. — Last year Schneider …
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Forums: r/politics and r/technews
| Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: |
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