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Trump plans to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday; source: TikTok US would be run by a new joint venture company, with ByteDance holding less than 20% of its stock — This structure will comply with a bipartisan law passed in 2024 that sought to ban TikTok if the platform were not sold to U.S.-based owners this year.
More: The Atlantic, Wired, Silicon Republic, Reuters, Reuters, Implicator.ai, TipRanks Financial, Proactive, CBS News, Reason, Fox Business, CNBC Television on YouTube, Times of India, Bloomberg Law, New York Post, Bloomberg, and Business Insider
X: @news_jul, @shelbytalcott, @timheuer, @theatlantic, @jessecharleslee, @repdonbeyer, and @edwardlawrence
| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Some Australian leaders and experts debate whether the country should use a Chinese-owned version of TikTok or one run by Trump allies — Expert raises concerns about what US TikTok deal could mean for News Corp's ‘worrying dominance’ in Australian media — Would you rather a Chinese-owned TikTok …
More: Tubefilter, International Business Times, CBC News, and SiliconANGLE
Bluesky: @metacurity.com, @melindaclem, @socialmedialab.ca, @haydenstarr, @sgdickinson, and @sgdickinson
Forums: r/aussie and r/PoliticsDownUnder
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel approached Apple about a potential investment in the chipmaker as part of its turnaround efforts and discussed how to work more closely together — Intel Corp. has approached Apple Inc. about securing an investment in the ailing chipmaker, according to people familiar with the matter …
More: The Hans India, Tom's Hardware, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Yahoo Finance, Fortune, iClarified, CTech, New York Times, DigiTimes, MarketWatch, Reuters, Digit, SiliconANGLE, Cult of Mac, The Register, Benzinga, iPhone in Canada, Sharecafe, CNBC, The Information, CNBC, AppleInsider, iThinkDifferent, ZeroHedge News, Bloomberg Law, and Daring Fireball
X: @scottlincicome, @edludlow, @business, @benbajarin, @patrickmoorhead, @caro_milanesi, @benbajarin, @petgelsinger, @howardlindzon, and @caro_milanesi. LinkedIn: Alex Webb
Forums: r/apple, r/hardware, and MacRumors Forums
| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips for PCs, offering up to 18 cores, and says the latter is the first Arm chip to hit 5GHz — Systems with the chips are scheduled for the first half of 2026. … At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii …
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Forums: r/AMD_Stock, r/hardware, r/hardware, r/Android, and r/snapdragon
| Daniel Bader / Android Police: |
| AFP: |
Apple asks the EU to repeal the DMA, saying the law “is leading to a worse experience for Apple users in the EU” and “exposing them to new risks” — Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - Apple asked the European Union to scrap its landmark digital competition law on Thursday …
More: Apple, The Guardian, Thurrott, MacRumors, Silicon Republic, Developer Tech News, Mobile World Live, Reuters, Telegraph, iThinkDifferent, Financial Times, 9to5Mac, Irish Independent, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, MLex, and Euractiv
Bluesky: @margotdor, @hidde.blog, @andrewstroehlein, @gateklons, and @carnage4life. Mastodon: @[email protected]
Forums: r/BuyFromEU, r/europe, and r/eutech
| 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.
More: pupdates, André Arko, Freedom's Substack, Ruby Central, Jared White, André Arko, Matt Mullenweg, Michael Tsai, and The Register
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Forums: Hacker News, Lobsters, and Lobsters
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is bringing Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot, starting with Researcher and Copilot Studio — Microsoft is bringing Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot users. … Microsoft is bringing Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 …
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LinkedIn: Ami Shastri, Mikael Dalsgaard Jensen, and Charles Lamanna
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @detig, and @tomwarren.co.uk
| 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) … | Richard Henderson / Bloomberg: |
Australian lawmakers propose rules to regulate crypto exchanges, allowing the government to slap penalties of 10% of annual turnover on firms that violate rules — Australia will slap penalties of as much as 10% of annual turnover on digital asset platform operators that breach proposed rules …
More: Australian Financial Review, Decrypt, crypto.news, Cryptonews, The Block, and Blockhead. LinkedIn: Liam Hennessy
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
Google launches its Search Live feature in the US, letting users ask questions in AI Mode while sharing their phone's camera feed for real-time help — ZDNET's key takeaways — Search Live officially launches in the US. — You can share your video feed and talk to Search.
More: The Keyword, ZDNET, Thurrott, 9to5Google, The Verge, SammyGuru, Android Police, How-To Geek, Android Headlines, Mashable, AndroidGuys, Search Engine Land, and BGR
X: @rajanpatel, @marie_haynes, @googleai, @newsfromgoogle, and @google
| Wired: |
Sources: Meta poached Yang Song, who led OpenAI's strategic explorations team, to be the research principal of Meta Superintelligence Labs earlier this month — The Best Robot Vacuums to Keep Your Home Clean — Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Revolutionized Windows Laptops. Here Comes the Second Act| 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 — Fidji Simo is on the hunt for someone to oversee all monetization efforts, including, yes, bringing advertising to ChatGPT.
More: The Decoder, Adweek, and Tech in Asia
X: @loudmouthjulia. Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @peterswimm.com, and @alexeheath.com. Threads: @eric_seufert. Forums: r/singularity
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman have sought to get closer to President Trump after Elon Musk fallout, but WH officials remain deeply skeptical of them — White House officials remain sceptical of Meta and OpenAI chiefs as they seek to embrace US president
Bluesky: @gridlock
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
An Indian court dismisses X's March lawsuit challenging the government's content takedown orders, ruling foreign platforms can't invoke free speech protections — An Indian court has dismissed an attempt by Elon Musk's X to challenge the Indian government's content takedown orders … | Pratik Bhakta / The Economic Times: |
Google Pay and PhonePe accounted for 80% of India's UPI transactions in Aug. 2025, down from 85% a year ago, as smaller players like Navi and BHIM gained ground — The race for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) market share is heating up, with smaller fintechs ramping up volumes and pushing …
More: NDTV Profit, Inc42 Media, Finextra, Hindustan Times, The Arc Web, and MediaNama
| Marc Rubinstein / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan's recent data access deal with Plaid, if extended to other aggregators, could allow Plaid to use its cost advantage to further consolidate market share — The agreement setting a price for customers' financial information stands to benefit the biggest market players.| Jack Fenwick / BBC: |
The UK's Cabinet Office says its Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator AI tool helped the government recover £480M from fraud in the 12 months from April 2024 — A new artificial intelligence tool designed to crack down on fraud has helped the UK government recover almost £500m over the last year, the BBC can reveal.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Nothing plans to invest $100M to spin off budget brand CMF into an independent subsidiary, with India as its manufacturing and R&D headquarters — Hardware startup Nothing said Thursday that it plans to make its affordable device brand, CMF, into an independent subsidiary with India serving …
More: Business Today, The Hindu, Reuters, Moneycontrol, The Verge, Moneycontrol, Inc42 Media, Fortune India, and NDTV Profit
| Nikkei Asia: |
DealStreetAsia: VC funding in Indonesian startups fell to just $80M in H1 2025 from $200M a year earlier, as startups face fallout from corruption scandals — JAKARTA — At the beginning of this month, Jakarta prosecutors paraded three suspects in an alleged $25 million corruption …
LinkedIn: Martyn Terpilowski
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta says Instagram has hit 3B monthly users and is changing its home screen to prioritize DMs and Reels; it is testing opening directly into Reels in India — Instagram has reached 3 billion monthly users, cementing the network as one of the most popular consumer apps of all time and leading …
More: Reuters, The Hans India, Thurrott, Business Insider, Music Ally, The Verge, The Independent, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Macao News, THISDAYLIVE, NDTV Profit, Social Media Today, PYMNTS.com, WeRSM, MediaPost, Android Headlines, CNBC, Latest from Digital …, WebProNews, Mashable India, Mashable, iPhone in Canada, Proactive, PetaPixel, Engadget, and Moneycontrol
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