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Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI signed a contract with Oracle to purchase $300B in computing power, requiring 4.5 gigawatts of capacity, over roughly five years -
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Amazon's Zoox launches its robotaxi service in Las Vegas, letting riders hail its toaster-shaped cars between specific destinations in the city's 4.2-mile Strip -
Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Vimeo for $1.38B, in an all-cash deal set to close in Q4, representing a 91% premium; Vimeo will be delisted from exchanges -
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Lyft partners with Ann Arbor-based May Mobility to let Atlanta riders request an autonomous minivan, with a safety driver, starting in a seven square-mile area -
Bloomberg: Klarna's shares closed up 14.55% at $45.82 in its NYSE debut, giving it a $17B+ market value, after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37B in its IPO -
Anders Melin / Bloomberg: Larry Ellison becomes the world's richest person for the first time, at $393B, overtaking Elon Musk at $385B, as Oracle's stock jumps 40%+ after beating Q1 est. -
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bluesky says it will comply with South Dakota and Wyoming age-verification laws, as their take “currently strikes the right balance”, after exiting Mississippi -
Samantha Subin / CNBC: Uber plans to add Blade helicopter rides as soon as 2026 via a partnership with electric air taxi maker Joby Aviation, which acquired Blade for $125M in August -
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Spotify plans to roll out lossless audio at 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC to Premium users over the next two months in 50 markets, without needing a pricier subscription -
Financial Times: Quantum startup PsiQuantum raised $1B led by BlackRock, Temasek, and Baillie Gifford at a $7B valuation, up from $3.2B in 2021, for a 1M-qubit computer by 2028 -
Emma Roth / The Verge: Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping -
Jay Peters / The Verge: Apple extends free access to satellite connectivity features for an extra year for iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 owners who activated their device before September 9 -
Richard Lawler / The Verge: Apple says the iPhone 17 lineup comes with Memory Integrity Enforcement, with “industry-first, always-on memory safety protection”, targeting spyware developers -
Dan Moren / Six Colors: Apple event tidbits: the new MagSafe battery is an iPhone Air exclusive, the Air likely uses binned A19 Pro chips, and older AirPods will get Live Translation -
The Information: Sources: Amazon is developing consumer AR glasses codenamed Jayhawk, with microphones, speakers, a camera, and color display, set for late 2026 or early 2027 -
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Reddit removes subscriber counts from subreddit pages, replacing them with past seven-day metrics to show how many users visited and made how many contributions -
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Reddit launches free tools for publishers as part of Reddit Pro, to track article performance and get suggestions on which communities to share their stories in -
Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral “nano banana” model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics -
Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: Analysis: 13+ datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M+ YouTube videos from 2M+ channels, including 1M how-to videos -
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Replit raised $250M led by Prysm, nearly tripling its valuation to $3B; its annualized revenue grew from $2.8M to $150M in the past year and it has 40M users -
Ben Funk / HotHardware: Arm launches four Lumex compute subsystem CPU architectures to improve on-device AI on smartphones, PCs, and wearables, and unveils its new Mali G1-Ultra GPU -
Jody Godoy / Reuters: US Senator Ted Cruz introduces a bill that would let AI companies apply for exemptions from federal regulations to help them experiment with new technology -
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Amazon and Netflix partner to let advertisers buy Netflix ad inventory via Amazon's demand-side platform, after Amazon signed a similar deal with Disney in June -
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EU's General Court sides with Meta and TikTok in their legal dispute with the EC over the DSA's 0.05% supervisory fee, saying the EU's methodology is flawed -
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta's TBD Lab team sits in an area near Mark Zuckerberg's desk that needs special badge access, and their names are not on the company's org chart -
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Kraken opens trading of 60+ tokenized US securities to its EU users, powered by Backed Finance's xStocks; rwa.xyz says tokenized shares' market value is ~$421M -
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: A US Treasury Department document says “digital content creators”, including podcasters, social media influencers, and streamers, are eligible for tax-free tips -
Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: Global premium smartphone sales rose 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1; Apple grew 3% YoY, capturing a 62% share of the premium market -
Forbes: Brain Co., co-founded by Jared Kushner, Elad Gil, and a Mexican politician to help enterprises and governments use AI, comes out of stealth with a $30M Series A -
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: CuspAI, which develops AI foundation models for discovering new materials, raised a $100M Series A led by NEA and Temasek, a source says at a $520M valuation