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Annelise Levy / Bloomberg Law:
A US federal judge postpones Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes to force on authors  —  The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC's proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Aikido Security says attackers injected malware into 18 popular npm packages, including the debug package, with over 2.6B total weekly downloads  —  In what is being called the largest supply chain attack in history, attackers have injected malware into NPM packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads …
Bloomberg:
SEC filing: Microsoft strikes a deal worth up to $19.4B through 2031 to get AI cloud computing power from Yandex spinoff Nebius Group; NBIS jumps 45%+  —  Microsoft Corp. struck a multiyear deal worth nearly $20 billion to get AI cloud computing power from Nebius Group NV …
Ariba Shahid / Reuters:
Amnesty: Pakistan is spying on millions via phone tapping and a Chinese-built internet firewall, in one of the broadest surveillance programs outside China  —  Pakistan is spying on millions of its citizens using a phone-tapping system and a Chinese-built internet firewall that censors social media …
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Mistral raised a €1.7B Series C at an €11.7B valuation; ASML led the round with €1.3B to become its largest shareholder, joined by a16z, DST, and others  —  Dutch chip equipment maker backs French artificial intelligence champion as US-China tensions rock tech industry
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Evan Spiegel says Snap is restructuring around small “squads” of 10 to 15 people to compete better; Snapchat+ now brings in $700M+ in ARR from 15M+ paying users  —  Snap is breaking itself apart and rebuilding from within.  In a new company letter, CEO Evan Spiegel just announced …
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Intel announces top-level executive changes, including the departure of Intel Products CEO Michelle Holthaus, and establishes a new central engineering group  —  Intel (INTC.O) announced a series of high-level executive changes on Monday, including the departure of Michelle Holthaus, the company's products chief.
Bloomberg:
E-commerce company Eightco's stock soared 3,000%+ on September 8 after unveiling a plan to buy Worldcoin tokens and naming Wall Street analyst Dan Ives as chair  —  For much of the past three years, Eightco Holdings Inc. was little more than a penny stock.  On Monday, all that changed …
Ben Smith / Semafor:
How David Sacks emerged as a key advocate for tech, crypto, and AI in the Trump administration, leveraging his tech expertise and All-In media presence  —  The care with which David Sacks tracks his days in Washington has been described to me, variously, as matching the focus of a banker avoiding …
Wired:
Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy  —  The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that's snarky and unhelpful.
Joe Tidy / BBC:
The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and £250K+ to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed 40M voters' private data to Chinese hackers  —  The UK's elections watchdog says it's taken three years and at least a quarter of a million pounds to fully recover from a hack …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said “the open web is already in rapid decline”, contradicting Google's recent statements  —  Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. … But in a court document filed by Google …
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Attaullah Baig, ex-head of security at WhatsApp, sues Meta for allegedly ignoring critical security flaws and claims Meta staff could access sensitive user data  —  Attaullah Baig tried to warn Meta's top leaders, including its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, that millions of users …
Washington Post:
Current and ex-Meta employees submitted documents and affidavits to Congress alleging that Meta suppressed research on child safety risks in its VR platforms
Gopal Sharma / Reuters:
The Nepalese government lifts its social media ban after local media reported 19+ deaths in clashes over anti-government demonstrations sparked by the ban  —  Nepal has lifted a social media ban following protests that resulted in the deaths of 19 people, a government minister said on Tuesday.
Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
Helsinki-based ReOrbit, which builds satellites and a software platform to help countries fully control their satellite systems, raised a €45M Series A  —  ReOrbit, a Finnish startup focused on sovereign satellites, has raised a record €45 million (about US $53 million) …
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Bloomberg:
Source: Amazon took a stake in Colombian delivery startup Rappi via a $25M convertible note, entitling it to buy up to 12% via warrants if milestones are met  —  Amazon.com Inc. has taken a stake in the Colombian delivery company Rappi Inc., a strategic partnership that pairs …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month  —  Privacy-focused messaging app Signal announced on Monday that it's introducing a feature that allows users to back up their text conversations …

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: Byron Allen sold his 10.7% Starz stake over August and September, netting a bit less than $45M; he acquired it from Steve Mnuchin's Liberty 77 for $25M

Wall Street Journal:
MGM Resorts says talks with People Incorporated are over, after each weighed buying the other; MGM amended its voting deal with People, which owns ~27% of MGM

Reuters:
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

More News

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Anthropic becomes the first major AI company to back SB 53, a California bill that requires large AI companies to disclose safety testing protocols
Bloomberg:
Cognition raised $400M led by Founders Fund at a $10.2B valuation, up from $4B in March; its coding tool Devin's ARR grew from $1M in Sept. 2024 to $73M by June
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
YouTube says its first exclusive NFL broadcast on September 5 averaged more than 17.3M global viewers, including 1.1M average minute audiences outside of the US
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
AI audio startup ElevenLabs launches a tender offer to let staff sell up to $100M in stock at a $6.6B valuation, up from a $3.3B valuation in January 2025

Earlier Picks

Anirban Sen / Reuters:
Filing: Nasdaq asks the SEC to let investors trade tokenized securities on its exchange, and could roll out the first token-settled trades by the end of Q3 2026
Rebecca Ratcliffe / The Guardian:
ASPI: Myanmar's online scam centers on the Thai border have increased from 11 to 27 since the 2021 military coup, holding an estimated 100,000 trafficked people
Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal:
Databricks raised a $1B Series K led by a16z, Insight, MGX, Thrive, and WCM at a $100B valuation, and crossed a $4B revenue run rate during Q2, up 50% YoY
Adam James / The Block:
Forward Industries raised $1.65B via a private investment in a public equity offering led by Galaxy, Jump, and Multicoin for a Solana asset treasury strategy
Bloomberg:
SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for up to $8.5B in cash and up to $8.5B in stock, resolving an FCC inquiry into EchoStar
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