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Financial Times:
Sources: China told ByteDance, Alibaba, and others to stop testing and ordering Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, going beyond earlier guidance focused on Nvidia's H20  —  Beijing steps up efforts to boost semiconductor independence to compete with the US  —  China's internet regulator has banned …
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he was “disappointed” after The Financial Times reported that China has banned Chinese companies from using Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Kuo: an OLED MacBook Pro with a touchscreen is set to enter mass production by late 2026; a MacBook with an iPhone chip will enter mass production in Q4 2025  —  Apple's first OLED MacBook Pro, set to enter mass production next year, will feature a touch screen display, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Google says Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieved a gold medal performance at the 2025 ICPC World Finals programming competition, solving 10 of 12 problems  —  Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models.  Google's AI can clean up your text messages …
Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder:
OpenAI says its reasoning system solved all 12 problems at the 2025 ICPC World Finals, with GPT-5 solving 11 and an experimental model solving the last
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google updates its Search app's Discover page to let users follow specific publishers and creators; it plans to add YouTube Shorts and X and Instagram posts  —  Google announced on Wednesday that it's updating the Discover page in its flagship Search app to allow you to follow specific publishers …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
A US House committee asks the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to testify at an October 8 hearing on the “radicalization of online forum users”  —  A U.S. House committee on Wednesday asked the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Amazon-owned Twitch (AMZN.O) and Reddit (RDDT.N) …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Lyft partners with Waymo to launch robotaxis in Nashville starting in 2026, their first collaboration; Waymo started Nashville tests in March; LYFT jumps 10%+  —  Lyft Inc. is partnering with Waymo for the first time to offer robotaxi service in Nashville starting next year …
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
iPhone Air review: light, easier to carry, and more pleasant to use for longer, but no ultrawide camera and the battery drains quicker than a standard phone's  —  The iPhone Air is as much a statement as it is a phone.  It says something about the person using it: that they don't mind giving …
The Verge:
iPhone 17 Pro review: solid battery life, a brighter screen outdoors, and doesn't get blazing hot, but it's heavier than the 16 Pro and Siri needs to catch up
Eric Zeman / PCMag:
iPhone 17 review: the best value among iPhone 17 models, a Pro-level 120Hz display, and the Center Stage camera takes stellar photos, but no telephoto camera
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon debuts a chatbot-style assistant to help advertisers use AI to make ads, which can run across Amazon's ad inventory and platforms that have Amazon deals  —  The biggest names in tech are racing to make advertising easier, especially for small businesses and consumer goods companies
Martin Arnold / Financial Times:
The UK FCA plans to exempt cryptoasset providers from some of its finance rules, as it prepares to integrate the sector into its regulatory framework from 2026  —  FCA says traditional financial rules would not be effective for the sector as it prepares to fully integrate the market
Clive Cookson / Financial Times:
Scientists detail Delphi-2M, a generative AI model trained on large-scale health records that can predict susceptibility to 1,000+ diseases decades from now  —  European scientists have created system trained on large-scale health records  —  European scientists have developed …
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
White House officials slam Anthropic for declining law enforcement requests to use its AI for tasks like surveilling US citizens, banned under its usage policy  —  THE SCOOP  —  Anthropic is in the midst of a splashy media tour in Washington, but its refusal to allow its models to be used …
Ashutosh Joshi / Bloomberg:
Indian on-demand home services provider Urban Company surged 56%+ in its stock market debut after raising $215M in India's most oversubscribed major IPO of 2025  —  Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing.
Reuters:
Court filings: Tesla has settled two lawsuits over deaths in two separate California crashes in 2019 involving Autopilot; the accords' terms were not disclosed  —  - Settlements follow separate $243 million verdict against Tesla in August  — Trials for both cases were scheduled to start next month
Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis:
How xAI is building Colossus 2, which is on track to be the world's first gigawatt-scale AI datacenter, after starting in March and reaching ~200MW by August 22  —  Much has been written about xAI's Colossus 1.  The Memphis build belongs in the history books: the largest AI training cluster, erected from scratch in 122 days.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
StubHub's shares closed down 6.4% in its NYSE debut, giving StubHub an $8.1B market value, after the ticketing platform raised $800M in its IPO  —  StubHub shares dropped 6.4% in their New York Stock Exchange debut on Wednesday after the online ticket seller priced its IPO in the middle of its expected range.
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Irregular, which helps AI labs test their models for misuse, raised $80M across seed and Series A rounds led by Sequoia and Redpoint at a $450M valuation  —  Frontier AI labs are relying on a small Israeli startup to run their AI through simulations to test its capacity for malicious hacking.
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
CrowdStrike: DeepSeek refuses to write code or produces less-secure code when English prompts say the code will be used by groups or regions disfavored by China  —  Research by a U.S. security firm points to the country's leading player in AI providing higher-quality results for some purposes than others.
More: The Decoder.  X: @dbreunig, @dbreunig, and @dbreunig.  LinkedIn: Harry Krejsa
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technews

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