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| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles — - The layoffs follow a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles.
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| Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: |
California passes SB 53, which requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes; Newsom vetoed a similar though more expansive measure last year — “We dominate this space, and I don't want to lose that competitiveness,” Newsom said last year.
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| Tyler Katzenberger / Politico: |
California Assembly passes a bill that requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta support the bill, while the MPA opposes it — “This is a critical piece of infrastructure for how to create more thoughtful safeguards for kids online,” Wicks told POLITICO.| Ryan Woo / Reuters: |
China launches probes into alleged US discrimination against Chinese chip companies and suspected dumping of US analog chips used in devices like Wi-Fi routers — - China announces U.S. discrimination probe after U.S. added Chinese firms to chip curb list — China, U.S. due for new rounds of trade, economic talks on September 14| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM is holding its own in the quantum computing race against Google, Microsoft, and others, as they tackle enormous scientific and engineering challenges — IBM is racing Google, Microsoft and a handful of startups to build the world's first viable quantum computer
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on September 17 at 5pm PT: “Hypernova” smart glasses with a display, Meta AI and Llama updates, and more — Meta's smart glasses with a display are expected to go on sale later this year. — Meta Connect, the company's annual … | Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican for its top policy role, instead choosing an Obama alumn as it adopts a cooler stance towards Trump — In June, the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic was finally getting close to hiring a candidate—a Republican …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Filing: Samsung agreed to settle a patent lawsuit over wireless tech with Headwater Research following a $279M jury verdict against Samsung earlier in 2025 — Samsung (005930.KS) has agreed to settle a patent lawsuit over wireless communications technology that led to a $279 million jury verdict …
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A profile of Figure CEO Mike Cagney, now a billionaire after Figure's post-IPO surge; he resigned as SoFi's CEO in 2017 after several workplace controversies — It took him a few tries, but Mike Cagney is now a billionaire. — Shares of blockchain-based lender Figure Technology Solutions Inc … | Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable “graphic content” and “glorified violence” — Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Robby Walker, one of Apple's most senior AI executives who was in charge of Siri until earlier this year, is leaving the company next month — Apple Inc.'s Robby Walker, one of the iPhone maker's most senior artificial intelligence executives, is leaving the company, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Financial Times: |
How Kalshi is shaking up US sports betting, as its board member and CFTC Chair nominee Brian Quintenz takes a permissive stance on sports prediction markets — Kalshi is spearheading a legal battle to expand access to online betting, with support from some in Trump's circle
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| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Source: Nvidia is scaling back DGX Cloud to primarily internal R&D use; DGX Cloud was initially envisioned to compete with major cloud providers like AWS — Nvidia is stepping back from its nascent cloud computing business, which had put it in quasi-competition with Amazon Web Services.| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Shares of transit software company Via closed at $49.51 in their NYSE debut, above the $46 IPO price, giving Via a market cap of ~$3.9B, after raising $492.9M — Investors took a cautious approach to transit software startup Via's IPO on Friday, with shares opening below the company's IPO price …
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