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September 27, 2025, 10:45 AM
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump says Microsoft should fire its global affairs head Lisa Monaco over her work in the Biden administration, calling her a “menace to US National Security”  —  President Trump late Friday demanded Microsoft fire its head of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, over her work in the Biden administration.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: EA is in talks to go private in a deal valuing it at ~$50B; investors include Jared Kushner's PE firm and Saudi Arabia's PIF; EA closes up 14.87%  —  Investors including Silver Lake eyeing deal that would likely be the largest leveraged buyout ever
Bloomberg:
Google agrees to guarantee $1.4B of AI computing startup Fluidstack's $3B, 10-year agreement with Cipher Mining and gets the right to buy a 5.4% stake in Cipher  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to anchor a $3 billion data center contract with Cipher Mining Inc. in the latest tie up between …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has developed an internal ChatGPT-like iPhone app, code-named Veritas, to help test and prepare for a major Siri overhaul next year  —  Apple Inc. has developed a ChatGPT-like iPhone app to help test and prepare for a long-anticipated overhaul of Siri coming next year, according to people familiar with the matter.
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Sources: the US Commerce Department is considering imposing tariffs on foreign electronic devices based on the number of chips they contain  —  - Trump seeks to drive companies to shift manufacturing to the US  — “America cannot be reliant on foreign imports” of chips, White House says
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with reinforcement learning pioneer Richard Sutton on why LLMs are not the path to achieving human intelligence, world models, continual learning, and more  —  Richard Sutton is the father of reinforcement learning, winner of the 2024 Turing Award, and author of The Bitter Lesson.
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Leaked letter: NLRB drops claims against Tim Cook, including that he violated workers' rights with a 2021 email threatening staffers who leak confidential info  —  The US labor board has abandoned its allegations that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook violated federal labor law …

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Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Although sources suggest Paramount wouldn't sell CNN to appease state regulators overseeing the WBD deal, it may save the company from a protracted legal battle

Washington Post:
The US Supreme Court paused a lower court order that would have forced ex-Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge to reveal a source or pay $800 a day in sanctions

Nate Raymond / Reuters:
The US federal judiciary plans to temporarily increase PACER fees from $0.10 to $0.12 per page for five years starting January 1, 2027, to fund a system upgrade

More News

Reuters:
Swiss microfluidic chip-cooling tech startup Corintis raised a $24M Series A, a source says at a $400M valuation, and announces adding Lip-Bu Tan to its board
Reuters:
Sources: ByteDance will maintain ownership of TikTok US' revenue-generating business operations such as e-commerce and advertising
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
How developers are using Apple's local AI models in iOS 26: Lil Artist story generation, MoneyCoach's spending insights, F1 race summaries in Lights Out, more
Bloomberg:
Sources: Kraken is in advanced talks to raise $200M to $300M from a strategic investor at a valuation of ~$20B, after recently raising $500M at a $15B valuation

Earlier Picks

Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube is testing AI hosts, who will share stories and trivia about the music users are listening to, in the YouTube Music app through its new Labs program
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: US regulators examined 200+ companies about sharp share-price gains in the lead-up to their announcements about making buying crypto a core strategy
Kate Whannel / BBC:
The UK unveils plans for a digital ID, which will be required to work in the country, to combat illegal immigration; the ID will be stored on people's phones
Bloomberg:
Meta plans to launch paid, ad-free versions of Instagram and Facebook in the UK, each costing £2.99 per month on the web, and £3.99 on iOS and Android
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Microsoft and Asus open preorders for the first Xbox handhelds, the ROG Xbox Ally for $599 and the ROG Xbox Ally X for $999 in the US, shipping October 16
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