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Filing: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books — Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading …
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Two authors file a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging Apple knowingly used a dataset of pirated books to train its AI models — Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) was accused by authors in a lawsuit on Friday of illegally using their copyrighted books to help train …
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The EU fines Google €2.95B for abusing its dominance in digital ads, and says its preliminary stance is that Google must divest parts of its ad-tech business — Bloc's antitrust regulators say search giant may need to divest parts of its business — BRUSSELS—The European Union fined …
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
After EU's fine ruling, Trump says he may “be forced” to start a trade investigation to nullify the unfair fines, totaling $16.5B for Google and $17B for Apple — - CNBC Councils — Supply Chain Values — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Ad Choices
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
At the White House dinner on Thursday night, Big Tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump by taking turns praising his leadership — At a White House dinner Thursday night, America's tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.
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| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Nvidia opposes the GAIN AI Act, saying the proposed US law forcing AI chipmakers to sell to US buyers first is “just another variation of the AI Diffusion Rule” — Nvidia (NVDA.O) said on Friday the AI GAIN Act would restrict global competition for advanced chips … | George Hammond / Financial Times: |
In a letter to OpenAI, AGs of California and Delaware raise concerns about the deaths of two ChatGPT users and threaten to block OpenAI's planned restructuring — Attorneys-general of California and Delaware threaten to block tech group's planned restructuring| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AppLovin stock jumps 7%+ and Robinhood jumps 8%+ in extended trading after S&P Global said the two will join the S&P 500 index on September 22 — Shares of advertising technology company AppLovin and stock trading app Robinhood Markets jumped in extended trading on Friday after S&P Global …
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| David Baszucki / Roblox Corporate: |
Roblox increases its DevEx rate, letting creators earn 8.5% more when they convert their earned Robux into cash, says creators earned $1B+ over the past year — Unveiling first-of-its-kind AI, new powerful engine capabilities, creators earning 8.5% more, and our path to capturing 10% of all gaming content revenue| Bloomberg: |
World Liberty Financial blacklisted Justin Sun's wallet after it transferred ~$9M worth of WLFI tokens to exchange HTX; Sun called out the freezing of assets — Justin Sun, the Chinese-born crypto billionaire, has tied himself closely to the Trump family's digital-asset ventures — with money, appearances, and public praise.
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X: @justinsuntron, @justinsuntron, and @justinsuntron
Forums: r/LeopardsAteMyFace and r/Economics
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba debuts Qwen3-Max-Preview, its largest AI model with over 1T parameters, showcasing strong benchmark performance; the model is not open source — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's “Qwen Team” of AI researchers has done it again. After a busy summer in which the AI lab released …
| Chandra R Srikanth / Moneycontrol: |
Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham, one of India's most prominent SaaS founders, announced he will step down as executive chair effective December 1, 2025 — Mathrubootham's exit marks the end of an era for one of India's most prominent SaaS founders and angel investors.
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| Reuters: |
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurates the Jupiter supercomputer, powered by Nvidia chips, the world's fourth-fastest and Europe's first Exascale system — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurated a supercomputer powered by Nvidia (NVDA.O) chips on Friday that is the world's fourth-fastest …
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| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Cadence Design to acquire Hexagon's Stockholm-based design and engineering unit, a computer-aided engineering software provider, for €2.7B in cash and stock — Cadence Design (CDNS.O) said on Thursday it will buy the design and engineering business of Stockholm-based Hexagon AB …
More: Cadence Design Systems, Hexagon, MarketWatch, MarketWatch, Tech in Asia, and Verdict. LinkedIn: Pareekh Jain
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI is merging its Model Behavior team with its Post Training group to bring the work of the Model Behavior team closer to core model development — OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers that shape how the company's AI models interact with people, TechCrunch has learned.
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