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| 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 …
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Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @peark.es, and @mwelsh1977
Forums: r/singularity and r/wallstreetbets
| 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
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X: @mickakers, @aicha2evans, @awsnewsroom, @panos_panay, @anyryanwallace, @pitdesi, @ajassy, and @zoox. Forums: Hacker News
| 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: Vimeo.com, Inc., PetaPixel, Variety, Reuters, Pulse 2.0, Sifted, Yahoo Finance, Engadget, Reuters, The Information, TechCrunch, TVBEurope, EU-Startups, and NCS | NewscastStudio
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LinkedIn: Eric Rudolf and Nico Wittenborn
Bluesky: @hunterwalk.com and @johnvoorhees.macstories.net
| 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.| Bloomberg: |
Klarna's shares closed up 14.55% at $45.82 in its NYSE debut, giving it a $17B+ market value, after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37B in its IPO — Klarna Group Plc rose 15% in its trading debut after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37 billion in an initial public offering … | 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 …
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| 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.
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Forums: r/MediaMergers and r/Economics
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says it will comply with South Dakota and Wyoming age-verification laws, as their take “currently strikes the right balance”, after exiting Mississippi — After blocking its service in Mississippi over its new age-assurance law, the social networking startup is taking … | 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.
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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.| 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 … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple extends free access to satellite connectivity features for an extra year for iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 owners who activated their device before September 9 — People on an iPhone 14 or 15 won't have to pay for Apple's satellite messaging until as early as November 2026.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
More: Apple Security Research, iTnews, MacRumors, The Hacker News, BGR, AppleInsider, Victor Wynne, iThinkDifferent, ZDNET, iPhone in Canada, CyberScoop, Thurrott, Cyber Security News, Cyber Kendra, and 9to5Mac
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Bluesky: @filippo.abyssdomain.expert, @migueldeicaza, @lukaszolejnik, @crawshaw.io, @jsambushell, @tomwarren.co.uk, @markmx, @gregotto, @durumcrustulum.com, and @darthbluesky. Threads: @crumbler. Mastodon: @ela@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/jailbreak and r/hardware
| Dan Moren / Six Colors: |
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Bluesky: @lauridonahue, @gloriasin, and @paleofuture
| 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.
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| 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/RedditAlternatives, r/inthenews, r/LeftoversH3, r/technology, and r/PowerfulJRE
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
| 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| Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: |
Analysis: 13+ datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M+ YouTube videos from 2M+ channels, including 1M how-to videos — Editor's note: This analysis is part of The Atlantic's investigation into how YouTube videos are taken to train AI tools.
| 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.
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X: @armsoftwaredev and @arm
| 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: The Information, Deadline, Marketing Dive, The Streamable, Adweek, Digiday, Ad Age, TipRanks Financial, and The Wrap
| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
US Senator Ted Cruz introduces a bill that would let AI companies apply for exemptions from federal regulations to help them experiment with new technology — - Cruz bill would let AI companies apply for 2-year regulatory exemptions — Consumer group concerned that White House would control process| 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 … | 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| 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.
More: Coinpedia Fintech News, Benzinga, Cryptonews, and Coinspeaker
| 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.
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| 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.
| Forbes: |
Brain Co., co-founded by Jared Kushner, Elad Gil, and a Mexican politician 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. … | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
CuspAI, which develops AI foundation models for discovering new materials, raised a $100M Series A led by NEA and Temasek, a source says at a $520M valuation — CuspAI, a startup developing AI models for chemistry that counts several AI luminaries among its scientific advisors, has raised $100 million in new venture capital funding.
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