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The Information:
Sources: OpenAI is recruiting from Apple's hardware, design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams, as it targets late 2026 or early 2027 for its first devices  —  As OpenAI's plans to make devices infused with its artificial intelligence get closer to reality, the company is increasingly plucking talent …
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Microsoft plans to raise Xbox Series X price by $50 to $649.99 and Series S by $20 to $399.99 starting Oct. 3, citing “changes in the macroeconomic environment”  —  Microsoft cites challenging “macroeconomic” environment for the price increases, which sees the Xbox Series X hit a whopping $649.99.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demos of its new smart glasses were due to a self-inflicted DDoS and a bug that put Zuckerberg's glasses to sleep  —  Meta ran into some spectacularly embarrassing technical issues during the live demos of its new smart glasses this week, and now we know why.
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump claims he and Xi Jinping approved a deal for TikTok's US operations; Chinese media's readout only says that China respects the wishes of businesses  —  President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke about a TikTok deal Friday, but details on the social media platform's U.S. future remain unclear.
New York Times:
Inside xAI's chaotic summer: Musk reorganized xAI on the fly, researchers left because xAI abandoned science in favor of attention-grabbing products, and more  —  Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI.  The result was chaos.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Sources: Nvidia is in advanced discussions to invest $500M in UK self-driving car startup Wayve, as part of a £2B pledge for UK startups; Wayve is evaluating  —  AI chipmaker's chief tells London audience that UK's first trillion-dollar company will be an AI business
The Information:
Sources: Apple told at least two suppliers to boost their daily output of entry-level iPhone 17 by at least 30%, after strong pre-orders last weekend  —  Apple is rushing to boost production of its newly released entry-level model iPhone 17 after strong pre-orders last weekend.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mastodon, the nonprofit that maintains the social network, plans to offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations joining the fediverse  —  Mastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative to social networks like Threads and X …
Sri Muppidi / The Information:
Sources: OpenAI plans to spend ~$100B on backup servers rented from cloud providers through 2030, in addition to the $350B already projected for server rentals  —  When OpenAI in March released ChatGPT features that could turn photos into animated characters, a spike in usage forced the company to put temporary limits on the features.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Oracle is in discussions with Meta to provide computing power for training and deploying AI models, in a deal worth about $20B  —  Oracle Corp. is in discussions with Meta Platforms Inc. for a cloud computing deal worth about $20 billion, providing further evidence that the company …
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From Mediagazer

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The BBC is seeking to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner in the defamation lawsuit the president is pressing against the broadcaster

CNBC:
Q&A with Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro: he's not interested in spinoffs of ESPN or ABC and says Disney will stand up for ABC's journalistic integrity against the FCC

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: WBD president and CEO David Zaslav sold $195M+ worth of WBD stock since the company agreed to be acquired by Paramount; his latest sale totaled $21.7M

More News

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt:
Canadian law enforcement seizes ~$40.5M in digital assets after shutting down the crypto exchange TradeOgre, making it Canada's biggest crypto seizure to date
Alex Wickham / Bloomberg:
MI6 launched Silent Courier, an online portal on the dark web and designed to let potential spies from Russia and elsewhere to send the agency messages securely

Earlier Picks

Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
The US DOJ charges a UK teen allegedly tied to Scattered Spider over 120+ cyberattacks and the UK charged him and another teen over a Transport for London hack
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Notion launches customizable agents that can create documents and perform other actions in the background, and says it has passed $500M in annualized revenue
CNBC:
Sources: Nvidia spent $900M+ in cash and stock to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and others at the AI hardware startup and to license its GPU-connecting tech
Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy / Sherwood News:
Rex-Osprey launches the first spot dogecoin and XRP ETFs in the US, after the SEC approved the Generic Listing Standards, paving the way for speedier listings
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google unveils new AI features for Chrome, including a Gemini button and AI Mode for US desktop users, and plans to add agentic features in the next few months
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
The US FTC and seven states sue Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use of ticketing bots and large-scale resale operations
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