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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping — Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Vimeo for $1.38B, in an all-cash deal set to close in Q4, representing a 91% premium; Vimeo will be delisted from exchanges — Bending Spoons, one of Europe's largest mobile app developers, has agreed to buy the video platform Vimeo in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.38 billion.
More: Reuters, Vimeo.com, Inc., Sifted, Engadget, Variety, Bloomberg Law, The Verge, The Information, Tech.eu, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, EU-Startups, PetaPixel, Reuters, TVBEurope, and NCS | NewscastStudio
Bluesky: @hunterwalk.com and @johnvoorhees.macstories.net
| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Spotify plans to roll out lossless audio at 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC to Premium users over the next two months in 50 markets, without needing a pricier subscription — Subscribers will be able to enjoy 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC as part of their Premium plan. … It's been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio.
More: Spotify, 9to5Mac, Moneycontrol, PCWorld, PCMag, CNET, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup, How-To Geek, 9to5Google, NBC Bay Area, WJXX-TV, Gamereactor UK, Metro.co.uk, CMU, Android Headlines, Forbes, Thurrott, Engadget, ZDNET, Windows Report, TechRadar, Digital Music News, iPhone in Canada, Android Authority, TechCrunch, Trusted Reviews, Mashable, The Tab, Music Business Worldwide, MacRumors, Variety, Music Ally, GB News, Android Police, TheDesk.net, Digital Trends, Billboard, The Shortcut, BGR, The Hollywood Reporter, Consequence, T3, and Pocket-lint
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming because they strike the “right balance”, after exiting Mississippi — After blocking its service in Mississippi over its new age-assurance law, the social networking startup is taking a different approach … | Anders Melin / Bloomberg: |
Larry Ellison becomes the world's richest person for the first time, at $393B, overtaking Elon Musk at $385B, as Oracle's stock jumps 40%+ after beating Q1 est. — Larry Ellison has become the world's richest person for the first time, ending Elon Musk's nearly year-long reign in the top spot.
More: Oracle, Financial Times, The Times, The Economic Times, The Guardian, Australian Financial Review, The Verge, Forbes, Business Insider, The Information, KTVU-TV, UPI, Wall Street Journal, KSTP-TV, The Hill, The i Paper, E! Online, CNBC, Inc.com, Hollywood Life, Jamaica Observer, Bisnow, NDTV Profit, New York Daily News, Daily Kos, Newser, CNN, Analytics India Magazine, Dexerto, Times of India, Mediaite, Entrepreneur, Fox Business, NBC News, Fortune, KDFX-TV, Quartz, Axios, MarketWatch, Capital Brief, The Ankler, Sherwood News, NewsMax.com, Los Angeles Times, and CNBC
X: @ankurnagpal, @nateobrienn, @buccocapital, @gannonbreslin, @pythiar, @jeffnolan, @zephyr_z9, @schuldensuehner, @kirksimon9, @tenreirodaniel, @edludlow, @marceloplima, and @spencerhakimian. LinkedIn: Bruce K Lee. Bluesky: @esqueer.net. Mastodon: @andrew@esq.social
Forums: r/MediaMergers and r/Economics
| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon is developing consumer AR glasses codenamed Jayhawk, with microphones, speakers, a camera, and color display, set for late 2026 or early 2027 — Amazon is developing a pair of augmented-reality glasses for consumers, say two people with knowledge of the plans.
More: CNET, Benzinga, Reuters, WinBuzzer, GeekWire, Road to VR, UploadVR, Android Central, and Android Authority
| Financial Times: |
Quantum startup PsiQuantum raised $1B led by BlackRock, Temasek, and Baillie Gifford at a $7B valuation, up from $3.2B in 2021, for a 1M-qubit computer by 2028 — PsiQuantum backed by BlackRock, Temasek and Baillie Gifford as investment race intensifies — PsiQuantum has raised $1bn … | Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Apple says the iPhone 17 lineup comes with Memory Integrity Enforcement, with “industry-first, always-on memory safety protection”, targeting spyware developers — Memory Integrity Enforcement is always-on safety protection designed to make life harder for spyware developers.
More: Apple Security Research, MacRumors, The Hacker News, Thurrott, ZDNET, CyberScoop, AppleInsider, Victor Wynne, The Cyber Express, Blockonomi, Coinpedia Fintech News, iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada, Cyber Security News, Cyber Kendra, and 9to5Mac
X: @ryanaraine, @nicbarkeragain, @_samfreedman, @dinodaizovi, @tqbf, @little_34306, @radian, @sumohax0r, @mysk_co, @rajxnull, @shawnbass, @halvarflake, @nedwilliamson, @kayseesee, and @ordinaryinds. LinkedIn: Patrick Wardle
Bluesky: @lukaszolejnik, @tomwarren.co.uk, @filippo.abyssdomain.expert, @migueldeicaza, @jsambushell, @crawshaw.io, @markmx, @gregotto, @durumcrustulum.com, and @darthbluesky. Threads: @crumbler. Mastodon: @ela@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/jailbreak and r/hardware
| Dan Moren / Six Colors: |
More: The Verge, PCMag, MacRumors, Appleosophy, 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, TechRadar, Android Headlines, iDrop News, iThinkDifferent, T3, MacRumors, 80 Level, Cult of Mac, The Economic Times, Tech Times, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, TidBITS, MacRumors, The Verge, and Wired
Bluesky: @lauridonahue, @gloriasin, and @paleofuture
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
More: Apple, PCMag, MassDevice, BGR, iThinkDifferent, Benzinga, Appleosophy, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, ZDNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
Forums: r/AppleWatch, r/technology, and r/apple
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Reddit removes subscriber counts from subreddit pages, replacing them with past seven-day metrics to show how many users visited and made how many contributions — Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.
More: Reddit Upvoted, PCMag, and Dexerto
Forums: r/modnews, r/LeftoversH3, r/inthenews, r/technology, and r/PowerfulJRE
| Ben Funk / HotHardware: |
Arm launches four Lumex compute subsystem CPU architectures to improve on-device AI on smartphones, PCs, and wearables, and unveils its new Mali G1-Ultra GPU — As the smartphone market has matured, the workloads that consumers expect from their tiny in-pocket mobile computers has increased drastically.| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Uber plans to add Blade helicopter rides as soon as 2026 via a partnership with electric air taxi maker Joby Aviation, which acquired Blade for $125M in August — Uber is tackling a new form of ride sharing: helicopters. — The ride hailing company on Wednesday said it will launch Blade helicopter rides …
More: Benzinga, The Daily Caller, Quartz, Newser, Electrek, CBS News, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch, Business Wire, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Verge, Travel + Leisure, Inc.com, Skift, and Gulf News
| Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: |
ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral “nano banana” model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics — ByteDance claims that Seedream 4.0 beat Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for image generation and editing on its internal evaluation benchmark| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Amazon's Zoox launches its robotaxi service in Las Vegas, letting riders hail its toaster-shaped cars between specific destinations in the city's 4.2-mile Strip — The driverless car group launches to the public in challenge to Waymo and Tesla over the future of ride-hailing
More: Associated Press, Investor's Business Daily, PCMag, Forbes, The Verge, CNBC, Engadget, GeekWire, Reuters, Dexerto, The Last Driver License Holder, Bloomberg, NDTV Profit, Proactive, Bloomberg, Fortune, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, Wired, CNET, and Electrek. X: @zoox
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft partners with Ann Arbor-based May Mobility to let Atlanta riders request an autonomous minivan, with a safety driver, starting in a seven square-mile area — The vehicles from May Mobility will have safety drivers who will ‘drive manually during initial trips,’ the companies said.
More: Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, Axios, The Driverless Digest, Reuters, CNET, Wall Street Journal, and KrASIA
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta's TBD Lab team sits in an area near Mark Zuckerberg's desk that needs special badge access, and their names are not on the company's org chart — An influx of highly paid researchers has created new status divisions, even as some recent hires have already left their jobs| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Replit raised $250M led by Prysm, nearly tripling its valuation to $3B; its annualized revenue grew from $2.8M to $150M in the past year and it has 40M users — AI coding startup Replit Inc. has raised $250 million in a funding round that nearly triples its valuation to $3 billion … | Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Amazon and Netflix partner to let advertisers buy Netflix ad inventory via Amazon's demand-side platform, after Amazon signed a similar deal with Disney in June — Amazon and Netflix are two of the major competitors in Hollywood's streaming wars, but in at least one instance, they're ready to team up.
More: Ad Age, The Streamable, TipRanks Financial, Marketing Dive, Deadline, The Wrap, Adweek, MediaPost, Digiday, and The Hollywood Reporter. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
Google says it is scrapping multi-cloud data transfer fees for organizations in the EU and the UK ahead of the EU Data Act taking effect on September 12 — Google (GOOGL.O) said on Wednesday it had scrapped data transfer fees for organisations processing workloads “in parallel” …
More: The Register, Google Cloud Blog, The Stack, ComputerWeekly.com, Tech.eu, WinBuzzer, TechRadar, and ITPro
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Kraken opens trading of 60+ tokenized US securities to its EU users, powered by Backed Finance's xStocks; rwa.xyz says tokenized shares' market value is ~$421M — Crypto exchange Kraken opened up trading of tokenized US securities to its customers in the European Union, expanding the reach of the nascent asset class.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU's General Court sides with Meta and TikTok in their legal dispute with the EC over the DSA's 0.05% supervisory fee, saying the EU's methodology is flawed — Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok on Wednesday won their legal fight against a European Union supervisory fee imposed …
More: Euronews, Sharecast, Politico, Ukrainian National News, WinBuzzer, Courthouse News Service, Euractiv, BMI, and lawsociety.ie
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
A US Treasury Department document says “digital content creators”, including podcasters, social media influencers, and streamers, are eligible for tax-free tips — A U.S. Treasury Department document includes podcasters, social media influencers and streamers among occupations eligible for tax-free tips.| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI signed a contract with Oracle to purchase $300B in computing power, requiring 4.5 gigawatts of capacity, over roughly five years — The vast majority of new revenue revealed by Oracle will come from OpenAI deal, sources say — OpenAI signed a contract to purchase $300 billion …
More: Reuters, Decrypt, Investor's Business Daily, Proactive, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @mwelsh1977 and @peark.es
| Océane Herrero / Politico: |
Memo: Apple's AI training guidelines update in March for data annotators marked DEI as a “controversial” topic and removed intolerance as a “harmful” behavior — Two months after Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down at Donald Trump's inauguration, several hundred employees … | Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood announces a feed where users can follow and copy verified trades of other investors and public figures, rolling out in beta to ~10K users in Q1 2026 — Robinhood Social will allow users to post their trades and track those of public figures, like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
More: Gizmodo, Business Insider, Benzinga, Axios, Bloomberg, Finextra, TheStreet, Coinpedia Fintech News, Tech Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Fortune
| Forbes: |
Brain Co., co-founded by Jared Kushner, Elad Gil, and others to help enterprises and governments use AI, comes out of stealth with a $30M Series A — Kushner teamed up with prolific solo investor Elad Gil and Luis Videgaray, the former Mexican foreign minister, to launch Brain Co. … | Bloomberg: |
Klarna shares jump 30% in their NYSE debut, opening at $52, above the IPO price of $40, after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37B in the offering — Klarna Group Plc shares jumped 30% in their opening trade, after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37 billion …
More: Reuters, Crunchbase News, Forbes, Barron's Online, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, CNBC, Fortune, The Information, Benzinga, The Economic Times, Sifted, and PYMNTS.com
X: @andrew__reed and @jordihays
| Financial Times: |
How AlphaFold2 and the rise of generative AI kickstarted a new AI drug discovery boom after a spate of startups from the mid-2010s failed to live up to the hype — In the mid-2010s, a spate of start-ups hoping to transform the laborious process of finding new drugs launched with big promises.
More: NewsMax.com. Bluesky: @malwarejake, @philipcball, @rachelcoldicutt, and @jjaron. Forums: r/technology
| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
Global premium smartphone sales rose 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1; Apple grew 3% YoY, capturing a 62% share of the premium market — - The global premium smartphone market's unit sales grew 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1.
| Joe Miller / Financial Times: |
The Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and its efforts to accelerate AI adoption across the US are alarming populists in the president's base — Silicon Valley's sway in the White House is alarming populists in the president's base — Flanked by Silicon Valley's most powerful executives …
Forums: r/technology and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
In a letter to FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Sen. Ron Wyden accuses Microsoft of “gross cybersecurity negligence” leading to hospital operator Ascension's breach — US Senator Ron Wyden says glaring cybersecurity flaws by Microsoft Corp. enabled a ransomware attack on a US hospital system …
More: Reuters, WinBuzzer, and Becker's Hospital Review
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