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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Qualcomm debuts Snapdragon Ride Pilot, a hands-free driver assistance system that is launching with the BMW iX3 and has been validated for use in 60+ countries — The chipmaker's new ADAS system will debut with the BMW iX3 in 2026. … Qualcomm is joining forces with BMW on a new driver-assist system …
Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Two authors file a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging Apple knowingly used a dataset of pirated books to train its AI models — Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) was accused by authors in a lawsuit on Friday of illegally using their copyrighted books to help train …
Jordan Novet / CNBC: AppLovin stock jumps 7%+ and Robinhood jumps 8%+ in extended trading after S&P Global said the two will join the S&P 500 index on September 22 — Shares of advertising technology company AppLovin and stock trading app Robinhood Markets jumped in extended trading on Friday after S&P Global …
Ari Levy / CNBC: US tech industry's eight companies valued at $1T+ gained a combined $420B in market cap this week, lifting their total value to $21T, led by a Google rally — From the courtroom to the boardroom, it was a big week for tech investors. — The resolution of Google's antitrust case led to sharp rallies for Alphabet and Apple.
Kalley Huang / The Information: At the White House dinner, Zuckerberg said Meta plans to spend “something like at least $600B” through 2028 on data centers and other infrastructure in the US — Meta Platforms plans to spend “something like at least $600 billion” through 2028 on data centers and other infrastructure …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: After the EU fined Google €2.95B, Trump threatens a trade probe, saying the Trump administration “will not allow these discriminatory actions to stand” — - CNBC Councils — Supply Chain Values — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Ad Choices — News Tips
George Hammond / Financial Times: In a letter to OpenAI, AGs of California and Delaware raise concerns about the deaths of some ChatGPT users and threaten to block OpenAI's planned restructuring — Attorneys-general of California and Delaware threaten to block tech group's planned restructuring
Bloomberg: Filing: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books — Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Roblox launches text-to-speech and speech-to-text APIs, and AI tools, including letting creators generate fully functional 3D objects from prompts, and more — Online gaming platform Roblox is launching a TikTok-like short-form video feed for sharing gameplay moments, the company unveiled on Friday at the Roblox Developers Conference.
David Baszucki / Roblox Corporate: Roblox increases its DevEx rate, letting creators earn 8.5% more when they convert their earned Robux into cash, says creators earned $1B+ over the past year — Unveiling first-of-its-kind AI, new powerful engine capabilities, creators earning 8.5% more, and our path to capturing 10% of all gaming content revenue
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox is testing Roblox Moments, a TikTok-like video app allowing users to share 30-second clips of gameplay, and makes the source code available to developers — Video-game giant makes announcement at its annual developers conference. — Roblox Corp. is testing a short-form video app similar …
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Isotopes, co-founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murthy to build an AI agent for enterprise business analytics, raised a $20M seed — Isotopes came out of stealth on Thursday with a healthy $20 million seed round. — It offers an AI agent to solve a problem that data analytics products …
Brian Barrett / Wired: At the White House dinner on Thursday night, Big Tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump by taking turns praising his leadership — At a White House dinner Thursday night, America's tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: OpenAI acqui-hires the team behind Alex Codes, a Y-Combinator-backed startup whose tool lets developers use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode — Acqui-hires feel like they're here to stay: The team behind Alex, a popular tool that lets developers use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI.
Wall Street Journal: The EU fines Google €2.95B for abusing its dominance in digital ads, and says its preliminary stance is that Google must divest parts of its ad-tech business — Bloc's antitrust regulators say search giant may need to divest parts of its business — BRUSSELS—The European Union fined …
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: Docusign reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $800.6M vs. $780.1M est., raises FY 2026 sales outlook, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; DOCU jumps 8%+ after hours — The electronic-signature company is attempting to win bigger customers for its new AI tool that summarizes and analyzes agreement documents
Josh Dzieza / The Verge: How Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack from Musk, conservative groups, the Trump administration, and other governments — WhenWhen armies invade, hurricanes form, or governments fall, a Wikipedia editor will typically update the relevant articles seconds after the news breaks.
Financial Times: An Anthropic executive says the company will stop selling AI services to majority Chinese-owned groups and to US adversaries, like Russia, Iran, and North Korea — Policy will also apply to US adversaries including Russia, Iran and North Korea — Anthropic will stop selling artificial …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $16B, vs. $15.8B est., AI revenue up 63% to $5.2B, vs. $5.11B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates — Broadcom Inc. Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan told investors that the chipmaker's artificial intelligence outlook will improve …
Bloomberg: Sources: StubHub and Netskope plan to start formally marketing their IPOs as soon as Monday; StubHub could raise $1B+, and Netskope is seeking to raise ~$1B — A pair of IPO hopefuls are adding to September's packed calendar, seizing the momentum from a string of well-received debuts as US equity markets near record highs.
The Information: Source: Nvidia agreed to rent 10,000 of its own AI chips from Lambda for $1.3B over four years, the latest example of Nvidia's circular financial arrangements — A small cloud provider for artificial intelligence that's preparing to go public has secured a major boost from its most important supplier: Nvidia.
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: WBD files a copyright suit against Midjourney, accusing the startup of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Batman — The lawsuit against Midjourney was filed as a growing contingent of Hollywood steps into the fight over generative artificial intelligence.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Augment, founded by Deliverr's Harish Abbott, raised an $85M Series A led by Redpoint to scale its AI assistant for logistics, five months after a $25M seed — Having built and sold e-commerce shipping startup Deliverr to Shopify for $2.1 billion in 2022, co-founder and CEO Harish Abbott knows the logistics industry well.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by “hundreds of millions” — Bret Taylor's artificial intelligence startup Sierra has just joined an exclusive club: The company sports …
Bloomberg: OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match employers with candidates with AI skills, and a certification program for AI roles in the coming months — OpenAI plans to launch a new AI-powered jobs platform next year to help match employers with candidates who have artificial intelligence skills …
Reuters: ID.me, a digital ID service used by US agencies like the IRS, raised a $340M Series E led by Ribbit at a $2B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $580M+ — ID.me said on Wednesday it had raised $340 million across its latest funding round, combined with a credit facility …
Keith Laing / Bloomberg: The Trump administration plans to ease rules for self driving cars by removing some requirements designed for human drivers, such as windshield wipers — The Trump administration is taking steps to make it easier for automakers to deploy-self driving cars by removing some requirements designed specifically …
Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, building upon the 500-character text limit for posts — Blogging is back. … Meta is adding a new feature to let you add a bunch of extra text to Threads posts — no screenshots of text blocks required.
Fortune: DOJ charges ex-IRL CEO Abraham Shafi with securities and wire fraud for allegedly misleading investors about user growth, concealing personal expenses, and more — Authorities charged the ex-CEO of a former unicorn, buzzy social media startup IRL (which stands for “in real life") …
Dominic Preston / The Verge: Adobe plans to launch a free version of its Premiere video editor for iPhone later this month, with one-tap exporting to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram — Adobe is bringing its video editor Premiere to iPhone, promising “pro-level” editing on the go for free.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Roblox will expand age checks to all users of its communication tools by the end of 2025 using facial age estimation tech, ID verification, and parental consent — Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it's expanding …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: C3.ai reports Q1 revenue down 19% YoY to $70.3M, and names long-time tech exec Stephen Ehikian as CEO, replacing Thomas Siebel; its stock falls 11%+ after hours — Shares of the enterprise artificial intelligence company C3 AI fell 14% in extended trading on Wednesday after it announced fiscal …
Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: Polymarket CEO says the company “has been given the green light to go live” in the US after the CFTC issued a no-action letter regarding event contracts — Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market, has the regulatory approvals needed to launch in the US after a top regulator granted …
Jordan Novet / CNBC: Figma reports Q2 revenue up 41% YoY to $249.6M, vs. $248.8M est., $28.2M net income, and forecasts Q3 and FY 2025 revenue above est.; FIG drops 10%+ after hours — Figma shares plunged 13% in extended trading on Wednesday after the design software company reported results for the first time since its IPO in July.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: HPE reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $9.14B, vs. $8.65B est., Server revenue up 16% YoY to $4.9B, and Q4 revenue and profit guidance below estimates — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Chief Executive Officer Antonio Neri said the company expects to weather a slimming of profit margins …
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to $10.2B, net income up 32% YoY to $1.9B, and forecasts Q3 revenue below estimates; CRM drops 4%+ after hours — Salesforce Inc. projected lackluster quarterly sales growth, suggesting its artificial intelligence product isn't yet paying off as quickly …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans an AI search tool, World Knowledge Answers, for a spring 2026 Siri revamp; Apple and Google have agreed to test a Google AI model for Siri — Apple Inc. is planning to launch its own artificial intelligence-powered web search tool next year, stepping up competition with OpenAI and Perplexity AI Inc.
Kate Clark / Bloomberg: Sources: Mistral AI is finalizing a €2B investment that values the startup at €12B, its first fundraise since June 2024, when it was valued at €5.8B — French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is finalizing a €2 billion investment that values the company at €12 billion …
CNBC: Source: OpenAI is increasing the size of its secondary share sale from $6B to ~$10.3B, at a $500B valuation, in line with expectations, set to close in October — OpenAI is increasing the size of its secondary share sale by over $4 billion, CNBC has learned.
Wall Street Journal: Sources: xAI CFO Mike Liberatore left the startup around the end of July, after joining in April; xAI has seen several high-profile departures in recent weeks — Mike Liberatore, xAI's chief financial officer, departs after only a few months on the job — The chief financial officer …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google rolls out new Android and Pixel features: Material 3 Expressive design for Pixel 6 and newer models, on-wrist navigation for the Pixel Watch, and more — Google announced on Wednesday that it's bringing a slew of new features to the Android ecosystem and Pixel devices.
Hayden Field / The Verge: Scale AI sues former employee Eugene Ling and his current employer, Mercor, one of Scale's key competitors, for allegedly stealing 100+ confidential documents — The news comes about a week after xAI's similar lawsuit. … It's been a tumultuous summer for Scale AI …
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Google Pixel 8 and newer models can now stream audio to multiple headphones at once with expanded Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast support — Expanded LE Audio and Auracast support mean you can broadcast music to multiple headphones at once. … Pixel phones will now be able to stream audio …
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Mistral updates Le Chat with a Memories feature in beta and an MCP connector directory supporting 20+ enterprise platforms, both available on its free plan — Mistral AI, the Paris-based artificial intelligence startup that has emerged as Europe's answer to OpenAI, announced Monday …
Ben Weiss / Fortune: NYC-based Etherealize, which develops products and infrastructure on Ethereum for financial institutions, raised $40M led by Electric Capital and Paradigm — The crypto markets are booming, but the most recent wave of enthusiasm isn't just from small-time traders or dabblers curious about memecoins.
John Hendel / Politico: A six-year US effort to counter Chinese telecom dominance took a hit after the One Big Beautiful Bill cut ~$1B from a program aimed at developing Open RAN tech — “To cut it came completely out of the blue,” said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Wall Street Journal: A judge bars Google from paying to be the exclusive search engine on devices and browsers but allows payments for product distribution, including to Apple — Court-imposed limits aim to restore competition in search marketplace — A federal judge on Tuesday barred Alphabet's Google …
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android but must share search data; GOOG jumps 8%+ after hours — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the company can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts and must share search data.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Cloudflare says attackers gained access to a Salesforce instance it uses for internal customer case management, as part of the Salesloft Drift breach — Cloudflare is the latest company impacted in a recent string of Salesloft Drift breaches, part of a supply-chain attack disclosed last week.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of a new group called OpenAI for Science to build an “AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery” — OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup, Statsig, and bring on its founder and CEO …