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Sources: OpenAI has discussed giving a 5% stake to the US government as the company seeks to clear political obstacles by securing buy-in from the Trump admin — Sam Altman's start-up in early talks for a public ownership deal as political pressure rises. OpenAI has discussed giving …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SpaceX showed investors a handset-like device prototype with AI tech from xAI, a proprietary OS, a Snapdragon chip, and a design slimmer than an iPhone — The sleek, handset-like prototype was designed to integrate AI technology from SpaceX's xAI — Elon Musk's SpaceX has developed …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Nansen: about two-thirds of Trump's memecoin investors are currently in the red, and 85% of World Liberty's $WLFI buyers on the secondary market are underwater — Roughly two-thirds of investors in the president's memecoin are currently in the red — Morten Christensen made a big bet … | New York Times: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on new iPad Pros and an entry-level 14" MacBook Pro with a new design in line with the upcoming touch-screen laptops for H1 2027 — Apple Inc. is preparing an upgraded iPad Pro line and a redesigned entry-level MacBook Pro for next year, adding to a slate of several … | Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Sony says all new PlayStation games will only be sold in digital formats from January 2028, as digital media preference “significantly outpaces physical discs” — New games sold for PlayStation consoles will only be available digitally and won't be sold on discs effective January 2028, Sony has announced.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple has told suppliers to prepare to produce ~10M foldable iPhones in 2026, up from 7M-8M previously, and 80M iPhones in total across new models — TAIPEI — Apple is planning an ambitious iPhone launch for the second half of this year and first half of 2027 with at least five …
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| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks — A 19-year-old man with dual U.S. and Estonian citizenship was extradited from Finland to Chicago this week to face criminal charges … | Ty Roush / Forbes: |
Alex Karp calls US reliance on AI labs for military tech “effing insane”, pans AI fees for businesses, and touts Palantir's Nvidia Nemotron deal for US agencies — Topline — Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Wednesday called the AI industry “effing insane” in a heated interview on CNBC …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is in negotiations to buy chips from CXMT and YMTC, two Chinese semiconductor makers on a Pentagon blacklist, for use in devices sold in China — Apple Inc. is in negotiations to purchase chips from two Chinese semiconductor makers on a Pentagon blacklist to help reduce …
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| Bloomberg: |
The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android market power should stand — Google lost its long-running fight against a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc's top judges … | Bloomberg: |
Amazon's emissions rose 16%+ YoY in 2025, driven by data center construction and delivery fuel, while Google's “ambition-based” emissions jumped 18% YoY in 2025 — Amazon and Google report jumps in their greenhouse gas output as the data center boom gains momentum.
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| Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: |
X launches Live Studio, an updated livestreaming hub within Creator Studio with a simplified desktop setup, chat control options, custom thumbnails, and more — Listen to the article — X announced an updated live-streaming command center within its Creator Studio platform …
More: Engadget and Digital Trends
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with AI-enabled gadgets, and more — Amazon is focusing on building chips for its “critical” consumer devices, the company's top hardware executive told CNBC.
More: Benzinga, Android Authority, and CNBC International on YouTube
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US adults finds 56% support banning social media for under-16s, while 21% oppose; majorities across demographic and partisan groups support a ban — Nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults support banning anyone under the age of 16 from using social media sites, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
More: Mumbrella, Vogue, Social Media Today, Washington Examiner, CNET, and The Hill. Bluesky: @taylorlorenz
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Sources: the White House is in advanced talks with AI companies on voluntary standards and release timelines for new models to be announced as soon as next week — Guidance to be announced as soon as next week after government intervention in Anthropic and OpenAI rollouts| Financial Times: |
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X: @deredleritt3r, @anthonyronning, @theo, @sean_from_earth, @deredleritt3r, and @anthropicai. Bluesky: @katie-drummond. Forums: r/Anthropic
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Z.ai launches ZCode, an “Agentic Development Environment” optimized for its new GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan costs from $16.20 to $144 per month — The move marks the company's most aggressive push yet into the fast-growing AI-powered coding tool market …
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| New York Times: |
President Trump says Micron will invest $250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a $250 deposit in some US states — President Trump said the U.S. chip maker would make a significant donation to a new type of investment account created by the administration.
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| Samantha Elkins / NBC News: |
Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked — Cloudflare gave AI crawlers a September deadline to separate the bots that gather content for search from those that harvest … | Jim Tankersley / New York Times: |
German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 — The German software giant SAP says it is betting that employees can reinvent jobs instead of eliminating them. Experts are divided on whether it will work.
More: Bloomberg
| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised $1.2B led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent at an ~$8B valuation — Quantum Systems has raised $1.2 billion in a funding round, more than doubling the German drone startup's valuation …
More: Tech.eu, Reuters, Resilience Media, and Tech Funding News
| Lauren Ohnesorge / Triangle Business Journal: |
Higharc, which uses AI to assist house builders in design and construction, raised a $95M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $170M+ — A Durham-based artificial intelligence company targeting the homebuilding industry has raised $95 million and is hiring.
More: Higharc, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, Tech Times, The SaaS News, Pulse 2.0, and VC News Daily
| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Amazon says Leo reached 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit following a recent launch, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes” — Early adopters of Amazon Leo should temper expectations. … Amazon says it now has enough satellites operating …
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