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Financial Times:
Amazon reaches a $2.5B settlement with the FTC over deceptive Prime practices, with a $1B civil penalty and $1.5B in consumer redress, three days into the trial  —  Agreement includes largest penalty issued for violating consumer protection agency's rules  —  Amazon has reached a $2.5bn settlement …
The Guardian:
Microsoft terminated Israel military's Unit 8200 access to Azure, after an investigation found the tech was used for mass surveillance in Gaza and West Bank  —  Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit's access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
Apple:
Apple says the DMA exposes users to new risks, reduces choice by making iOS resemble Android, and creates unfair competition by not applying to Samsung  —  At Apple, we've always focused on creating technology that empowers people and enriches their lives.  We design our products to be intuitive …
France 24:
Apple asks the EU to repeal the DMA; EU rejects Apple's demand, saying it is “not surprised” as Apple has “contested every little bit” of DMA since day one  —  Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - The European Union rejected a call by Apple to scrap its landmark digital competition law …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft Windows 10 users will receive free Extended Security Updates in the EEA without enabling Windows Backup, after pressure from the Euroconsumers group  —  You won't have to enable Windows Backup to get extended Windows 10 security updates in the European Economic Area.
Hayden Field / The Verge:
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a mobile feature for Pro users that delivers daily personalized updates based on their chats, feedback, and connected apps  —  ChatGPT's new Pulse feature does personalized research on your behalf overnight and serves you up a digest each morning.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases GDPval, a benchmark to test AI performance on “economically valuable, real-world tasks”, and says Claude Opus 4.1 was the best performing model  —  OpenAI released a new benchmark on Thursday that tests how its AI models perform compared to human professionals across a wide range of industries and jobs.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Neon, which pays users to record their phone calls and sells that audio data to AI companies for training, becomes the #2 social app on the US App Store  —  A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably …
Joel Drapper:
Sources allege that nonprofit Ruby Central took control of some Ruby open-source projects from their maintainers without consent, after pressure from Shopify  —  Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Sources: Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be the main TikTok USA investors, with a ~45% stake; ByteDance will own 19.9% and ByteDance investors 35%  —  Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be main investors in TikTok's U.S. business, sources told CNBC's David Faber on Thursday.
Oma Seddiq / Bloomberg:
xAI signed a deal with the GSA to offer Grok to US federal agencies for $0.42 per agency for 18 months, a discount to OpenAI's $1 per year for ChatGPT  —  - Follows recent deals with Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google  — xAI engineers to assist federal agencies with implementation
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Xiaomi unveils 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, available September 27 in China; Pro phones feature a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and a back screen  —  The company could lay off the Apple comparisons a bit though. … A critic might accuse Xiaomi of copying Apple a little too closely …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter  —  Spotify on Thursday announced a series of updates to its AI policy, designed to better indicate when AI is being used to make music …
Daniel Bader / Android Police:
Qualcomm details the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, its latest flagship mobile SoC, claiming a 20% boost in YoY CPU performance and a 23% uplift in GPU performance  —  Daniel started writing about tech in 2007, before Android existed.  He got his start reviewing phones, wearables, and headphones, as the managing editor of MobileSyrup.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
CoreWeave expands its data center capacity agreements with OpenAI by $6.5B, bringing their total potential value to $22.4B, to support training of OpenAI models  —  CoreWeave Inc. expanded its agreements to supply data center capacity to OpenAI by as much as $6.5 billion to $22.4 billion …
Makini Brice / Reuters:
The EU launches an antitrust probe into SAP over its ERP software maintenance and support services, with a potential fine of ~10% of its annual global sales  —  The European Commission has opened an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices by Germany's SAP (SAPG.DE) …
Financial Times:
Circle president Heath Tarbert says Circle is exploring the possibility of reversible stablecoin transactions to allow refunds in cases of fraud or disputes  —  President says sector should learn from traditional finance and allow refunds in cases of fraud or disputes
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Juicebox, whose PeopleGPT helps employers analyze professional profiles to identify qualified candidates, raised $36M, including a $30M Series A led by Sequoia  —  For years, recruiters used machine learning to find potential hires by searching for keywords in resumes and LinkedIn profiles.
Jon Keegan / Sherwood News:
xAI sues OpenAI in California for allegedly stealing trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees; in August, xAI sued an ex-staffer who left for OpenAI  —  Following a recent lawsuit against a former employee over allegedly stealing trade secrets, Musk's xAI is now suing the company that executive left to work for — OpenAI.

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Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved

The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

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Bloomberg:
London-based “neocloud” startup Nscale raised a $1.1B Series B led by Aker, with Nvidia participating; Aker says it is investing $285M for a 9.3% stake
Alex Heath / Sources:
Sources: OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo has been meeting with potential candidates for a role overseeing monetization efforts, including ads in ChatGPT
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