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Sources: OpenAI signs a contract with Oracle to purchase $300B in computing power, requiring 4.5 gigawatts of capacity, over roughly five years starting in 2027 — The vast majority of new revenue revealed by Oracle will come from OpenAI deal, sources say — OpenAI signed a contract …
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Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @davelee.me, @marypcbuk, @kbsutt, @carnage4life, @mwelsh1977, @iphawk, @peark.es, @disappoptimism, @jessefelder, and @edzitron.com
Forums: r/WallStreetbetsELITE, r/singularity, r/StockMarket, and r/wallstreetbets
| 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
More: The Verge, Gizmodo, U.S. Senate Committee …, Public Citizen, FedScoop, Livemint, Biometric Update, Roll Call, R Street Institute, PYMNTS.com, and Bloomberg
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Forums: r/technology and r/technology
| Tim Anderson / The Register: |
Microsoft releases its first preview of Visual Studio 2026, the first major update since November 2021, with a new look and deeper AI integration — New look for Visual Studio but the core still runs on the old .Net Framework — Microsoft has released a preview of Visual Studio 2026 …
More: Microsoft, Windows Report, How-To Geek, WinBuzzer, and Thurrott
LinkedIn: Gaurav Seth and Punit Shah
Bluesky: @dotmorten.xaml.dev, @blowdart.me, @jlaban, @keansbox.com, and @jfversluis.dev
| Bloomberg: |
Klarna's shares closed up 14.55% at $45.82 in its NYSE debut, giving it a $17B+ market cap, 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 …
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| Declan Harty / Politico: |
CFTC nominee Brian Quintenz says the Winklevosses asked Trump to pause his confirmation after he refused to make promises “rectifying” a prior Gemini settlement — “Our complaint raises serious questions and concerns about the culture of the agency that you are about to chair … | Financial Times: |
How Larry Ellison, briefly the world's richest man, and Oracle CEO Safra Catz capitalized on the AI boom and vaulted Oracle into contention with industry giants — Tech billionaire capitalised on the AI boom to briefly claim the title of world's richest person| Anders Melin / Bloomberg: |
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Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting, first posted to X, also spread to Instagram, Threads, YouTube, and Telegram within hours, amassing millions of views — First posted to X, they amassed millions of views on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and Telegram within hours.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says it will comply with South Dakota's and Wyoming's age-verification laws, which currently 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 …
More: Bluesky, Tech Times, How-To Geek, and Engadget
Bluesky: @tonywebster.com, @jake-degroot, @mikestabile, @mikestabile, @mikestabile, and @mikestabile
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out multi-language audio after a two-year pilot, saying creators saw 25%+ of watch time coming from views in their video's non-primary language — YouTube announced on Wednesday that its multi-language audio feature has officially launched after a two-year-long pilot.
More: YouTube Official Blog, Thurrott, Business Standard, Business Today, Android Authority, Social Media Today, and The Verge. Threads: @mattnavarra
| Vas Panagiotopoulos / Wired: |
Atlantic Council: the number of US-based investors in spyware companies nearly tripled in 2024 to 31, compared to just 11 in 2023, topping Israel's 26 investors — A new report warns that the number of US investors in powerful commercial spyware rose sharply in 2024 and names new countries linked to the dangerous technology.| 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.| 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.
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Forums: r/artificial, Lobsters, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Sam Schube / Wall Street Journal: |
Interviews with Tim Cook, Apple's VP of Industrial Design Molly Anderson, and others about iPhone Air design choices, cross-body straps, Pro iPhones, and more — As Apple releases its lightest, leanest iPhone ever, the company explains the thinking behind its ultra-slim design, which has buyers deciding between capacity and chic| 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 … | Pranav Mukul / The Economic Times: |
Sensor Tower: as of July 2025, Rapido had 50M MAUs on Android in India, above Uber's 30M; in the four-wheeler cab segment, Rapido has a ~30% share and Uber ~50% — Bengaluru-based mobility company Rapido now has nearly half the share of overall ride-hailing market, with monthly active users …
X: @ettech, @pranavmukul, @pranavmukul, @pranavmukul, @pranavmukul, and @pranavmukul
| Bloomberg: |
Vantage Data Centers raised $1.6B from GIC and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority to expand in APAC, including the acquisition of a Malaysian data center campus — Vantage Data Centers has secured a $1.6 billion investment to help expand its business in the Asia-Pacific region …
More: The Business Times, DealStreetAsia, Canadian Press, and Reuters
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Koi, which is developing a centralized protection layer for enterprise endpoints, raised a $38M Series A, taking its total funding to $48M — The startup, founded by Unit 8200 veterans, was born from a VSCode hack and aims to give enterprises control over every application installed on their endpoints.
More: Business Insider, Koi, ACCESS Newswire Blog, PaymentSecurity.io, and Axios
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Ant Group unit Robbyant showcases its first LLM-powered humanoid robot, the R1, at a conference in Shanghai, joining an intensifying effort by Chinese companies — Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co. showcased its first humanoid robot on Thursday, formally joining an intensifying effort … | Bloomberg: |
Blockchain-based lender Figure and some of its backers raised $787.5M in an IPO, selling 31.5M shares at $25 each, valuing the company at about $5.3B — Blockchain-based credit company Figure Technology Solutions Inc. and some of its backers raised $787.5 million in an initial public offering, pricing shares above a marketed range.
More: CoinDesk, Reuters, and PYMNTS.com
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Reddit launches free tools for publishers as part of Reddit Pro, to track article performance and get suggestions on which communities to share their stories in — Reddit on Wednesday launched a set of free tools for publishers to track their article performance and receive suggestions …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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