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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple interface design chief Alan Dye is leaving the company to join Meta; Apple longtime designer Stephen Lemay will replace Dye  —  Meta Platforms Inc. has poached Apple Inc.'s most prominent design executive in a major coup that underscores a push by the social networking giant into AI-equipped consumer devices.
Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in AI data centers amid a global supply shortage  —  Memory chipmaker Micron Technology (MU.O) said on Wednesday it will exit its consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used …
Reuters:
India says it revoked an order to smartphone makers to preload state-run cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new smartphones, after protests from lawmakers  —  India's government scrapped an order to smartphone makers on Wednesday to preload a state-run cybersecurity app on all new devices …
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI's nonprofit foundation announces it's awarding $40.5M in grants this year to 208 nonprofits across the US; the nonprofit donated only $7.5M in 2024  —  OpenAI's nonprofit foundation announced it's awarding $40.5 million in grants this year to 208 nonprofits across the US supporting local communities …
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Sources: Microsoft units lowered how much salespeople are supposed to grow sales of certain AI products, a rare move for Microsoft, after missing growth targets  —  Executives at Microsoft and other enterprise software firms heralded 2025 as the year artificial intelligence would be capable …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber partners with Avride to launch robotaxi rides in Dallas, marking Uber's fourth US city to offer autonomous ride options, after Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta  —  Uber Technologies Inc. is launching autonomous rides with Avride Inc. in Dallas as part of a previously announced partnership …
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Binance names co-founder Yi He as co-CEO, alongside Richard Teng, making her one of the few women leading a crypto company; she also has children with ex-CEO CZ  —  The world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange announced a significant leadership move on Wednesday, naming longtime executive …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
OpenAI agrees to buy Poland-based Neptune, which makes tools for analyzing progress during AI model training; the transaction will be in stock  —  OpenAI agreed to buy Neptune, a startup that makes tools for analyzing progress during AI model training.  —  The transaction will be in stock …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Spotify unveils 2025's top 50 most popular US podcasts, led by The Joe Rogan Experience for the fifth consecutive year; 24 of the top 50 now offer video content  —  Almost half of the most-listened to 50 shows now have video available on Spotify  —  Spotify, as part of the annual Spotify …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify releases Wrapped 2025, which adds features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, Top Song Quiz, Listening Age, and Wrapped Clubs
Scott Woody / Metronome:
Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding
Jonathan Slotkin / New York Times:
An analysis of Waymo data covering nearly 100M driverless miles in four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers  —  I recently got called to see a teenager ejected in a rollover car crash.  The trauma team rushed him into surgery to stop major abdominal bleeding, but we all knew.
Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal:
Waymo's self-driving cars appear to be bending traffic laws and getting impatient with pedestrians, as the company seeks to make them “confidently assertive”
Stephen Totilo / Game File:
Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its co-founders, David Edery and Daniel Cook; the streamer has shrunk its six-studio gaming operation down to three  —  Exclusive: The streamer's six-studio gaming operation is down to three, as Netflix pursues an altered video game strategy
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Amazon adds an Alexa+ feature to Fire TV that lets Prime Video users skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes  —  The new AI-powered feature will expand to TV shows on the streamer at a later date  —  Amazon's Fire TV will make it easier …
Eva Dou / Washington Post:
Sources and docs: Palantir's Immigration OS helps ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them; a decade ago, Alex Karp said Trump's plans made “no sense”  —  “The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data-mining company's chief executive.

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TMZ.com:
Sources: Paramount told the offices of LA Mayor Karen Bass and CA AG Rob Bonta the company would announce Tuesday it was leaving the state; no announcement came

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon Music now lets creators insert video ads into their shows and expands video podcasts to subscribers in Canada, the UK, Mexico, Brazil, and Japan

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Politico plans to launch Decoded, a daily tech policy briefing and its second subscription offering, on October 5, to be paywalled in Q1 2027 and cost ~$1K/year

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James Whitbrook / Gizmodo:
After a backlash, Amazon Prime Video removes AI-generated English and Spanish dubs that it had quietly rolled out in beta for several anime films and series
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Q&A with Valve executive Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped architect SteamOS and the Steam Deck, on quietly funding open-source tech to play Windows games on ARM

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Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Half of US states now require users to upload their IDs or hand over their biometric data to view porn, after Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
YouTube says it will comply with Australia's social media ban for under-16s, after rejecting its inclusion in the crackdown and calling the regulation “rushed”
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic has tapped a law firm to begin work on its IPO, which could come as soon as 2026, and has held preliminary talks with big investment banks
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