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Ashley Gold / Axios:
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Code.org, IBM, and other companies pledged new commitments for AI in education as part of a White House event hosted by Melania Trump  —  Teaching students AI literacy from an early age is key to American success, First Lady Melania Trump said at a White House event …
Wall Street Journal:
At a White House dinner, tech CEOs thanked Trump for promoting chip and AI investments, while Trump promised an easy energy permitting process for data centers  —  Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman salute president's leadership on innovation as industry seeks his favor
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $16B, vs. $15.8B est., AI revenue up 63% to $5.2B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; AVGO up 4.5%+ after hours  —  Broadcom Inc. is helping OpenAI design and produce an artificial intelligence accelerator from 2026, getting into a lucrative sphere dominated by Nvidia Corp.
Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI is set to produce an AI chip co-designed with Broadcom next year, and has committed $10B in orders; the chip will be for internal use only  —  ChatGPT maker's deal with US chip group signals industry shift towards custom alternatives to Nvidia
Financial Times:
Anthropic says it will stop selling AI services to majority Chinese-owned groups; a source says the policy is partly aimed at Chinese subsidiaries in Singapore  —  Policy will also apply to US adversaries including Russia, Iran and North Korea  —  Anthropic will stop selling artificial intelligence services …
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 …
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.
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 …
Michael Peel / Financial Times:
Researchers from UCL, Google DeepMind, and Intrinsic unveil RoboBallet, an AI system designed to help teams of industrial robots work together without colliding  —  System potentially allows machine troupes to work faster and reduce collisions  —  Scientists have used artificial intelligence …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: major design upgrades for the iPhone, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, three Apple Watch models, and AirPods Pro 3  —  Company is readying a slew of updated devices for the holidays.  —  Apple Inc.'s biggest product launch event of the year takes place on Tuesday …
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.
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  —  Two of Silicon Valley's top tech firms are teaming up to change the payments landscape.  On Thursday, the $91.5 billion fintech Stripe …
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.
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.
Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review:
How Synthesia is combining multiple AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent preservation  —  Earlier this summer, I walked through the glassy lobby of a fancy office in London, into an elevator, and then along a corridor into a clean, carpeted room.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved

The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

James Faris / Business Insider:
Kalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal

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Binaj Gurubacharya / Associated Press:
Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after they failed to register with the government
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+
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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
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