WLFI, run by the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, falls 25% to ~$0.21 on its first trading day, giving it a ~$6B market cap; Trump's WLFI is worth ~$3.6B
WLFI tokens in circulation have a total nominal value of $6.4bn — The crypto token of a project backed by US President Donald Trump fell …
Dolby launches Dolby Vision 2, adding AI-powered Content Intelligence and Authentic Motion, first on Hisense TVs, after debuting HDR format Dolby Vision in 2014
The updated format promises ‘authentically cinematic’ use of motion smoothing, and settings that automatically make content look the best depending on your TV and lighting.
OpenAI details its plan to add guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress by the end of 2025, including routing some conversations to GPT-5-thinking
ChatGPT guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress will roll out by the end of the year, OpenAI promised Tuesday.
An analysis of Grok's responses to 41 political questions in May and July shows it shifted to the right on 50%+ of them, often reflecting Elon Musk's priorities
Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI's chatbot to be “politically neutral.” His actions say otherwise.
TSMC says the US revoked its authorization to ship gear to its main Chinese chipmaking base in Nanjing, after the US revoked Samsung's and SK Hynix's waivers
The US has revoked Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s authorization to freely ship essential gear to its main Chinese chipmaking base …
Internal data: Amazon registered 5.4M US Prime sign-ups over the 21-day run-up to its four-day Prime Day event, ~116K less than in 2024 and 106K below its goal
Amazon (AMZN.O) doubled its Prime Day discount sales to four days this year and touted blowout numbers days after the event.
Amazon plans to end the ability for Prime members to share free shipping benefits with individuals outside their household, starting on October 1
Starting October 1st, Prime members can no longer share free shipping with someone who doesn't live with them.
Anthropic raised a $13B Series F led by Iconiq at a $183B post-money valuation, up from $61.5B in March 2025, and says it has a $5B+ revenue run-rate
Anthropic has completed a Series F fundraising of $13 billion led by ICONIQ. This financing values Anthropic at $183 billion post-money.
Microsoft says it is giving the US GSA $6B+ in potential savings on Office, Azure, Dynamics 365, and more over three years, including $3.1B in the first year
Microsoft has agreed to give the U.S. General Services Administration $3.1 billion in potential savings over the course of a year …
Winklevoss twins' Gemini plans to sell 16.67M shares at $17 to $19 each in its US IPO, seeking to raise $317M, which would value the crypto exchange at $2.22B
The Winklevoss-led company plans to sell 16.67M shares at $17-$19 each, tapping a hot IPO market. — What to know:
US procurement records show the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order and reactivated an ICE contract for Tel Aviv-based Paragon's spyware
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on track to gain access to controversial spyware designed to hack phones and read private messages …
Sources: the EU delayed a planned September 1 fine against Google over its ad tech practices due to fears it could provoke Trump to unravel EU-US trade progress
The European Union paused its immediate plans to punish Alphabet Inc.'s Google for abusing its dominance over advertising technology amid fears …
How Ukraine has been using AI to allow groups of drones, known as swarms, to coordinate with each other to attack Russian positions for much of the past year
In a new frontier for warfare, Ukraine is using technology to allow groups of drones to communicate and make decisions independent of their operator
UK fintechs like Revolut and Starling step up plans to buy US banks to get US licenses for lending in all 50 states, as regulators ease M&A rules under Trump
Revolut and Starling among start-ups weighing acquisition of nationally chartered banks — British fintechs are stepping …
Marc Benioff says Salesforce has cut its support staff from 9,000 to ~5,000 in the past year after deploying AI agents to handle a growing share of its work
but remains deeply skeptical of AGI, which he likens to hypnosis Maria Garcia / Implicator.ai : Salesforce's AI agents slice support workforce by ~45%—weeks after Benioff said humans were essential Cr...
Filing: Klarna and some shareholders are selling 34.3M shares for $35-$37 each in its IPO, aiming to raise up to $1.27B and giving it an up to ~$14B market cap
Bloomberg :
Underdog and Crypto.com debut a sports prediction market to let US users in 16 states bet on the NFL, the NBA, MLB, college football, and more in Underdog's app
Contessa Brewer / CNBC :
Google plans to update Play Games on Android to show stats, achievements, and social features in most regions on September 23 and the EU and the UK on October 1
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge :
Blockchain-based lender Figure plans to sell 26.3M shares priced between $18 and $20 to raise up to $526.3M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of ~$4.13B
A look at AI adoption across US schools and colleges, as tech companies invest in AI education initiatives, including partnerships with major teachers' unions
and Big Tech Writes the Rules New York Times : We Answer Your Questions About Education William J. Ford / Maryland Matters : Artificial intelligence is being used in schools, but statewide guidance is...
Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks
Tencent 5.61k — Translation Transformers Safetensors hunyuan_v1_dense text-generation Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post : Tencent's open-source translation model beats Google, OpenAI in top globa...
A look at a16z's Speedrun, a YC-like accelerator targeting a more creative demographic and which has invested $180M into 150 companies over the past 18 months
Big VC funds are moving further upstream, placing bets on the youngest companies. — A few weeks ago, about 150 people gathered …
Varonis Systems agrees to acquire email security company SlashNext for up to $150M, including retention awards, after acquiring database company Cyral for ~$25M
Emily Forgash / Bloomberg :
Source: Mexico City-based Kapital, which offers financial visibility tools to SMBs, raised an $86M Series C led by Tribe Capital at a ~$1.3B valuation
Matthew Monks / Bloomberg :
Alibaba's stock jumped 19%+ in Hong Kong on September 1, after its August 29 report of cloud computing driving strong Q1 results and reports of its new AI chip
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
UK-based Phasecraft, which develops algorithms for quantum computers, raised a $34M Series B co-led by Plural, Playground Global, and Novo Holdings
Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted :
TrendForce: Q2 global chip foundry revenue surged 14.6% QoQ to $41.7B, with TSMC securing a 70% market share, followed by Samsung with 7.2% and SMIC with 5.1%
Luke James / Tom's Hardware :
IFR: Chinese factories install ~280K industrial robots every year, or 50% of the global total, helping China boost its global exports; ~50% are locally made
Financial Times :
An interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition, staying in Europe, and more; the startup now has 2.3M+ active users, including 180K paying subscribers
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch :
A profile of Jumia, hailed as the “Amazon of Africa”, as CEO Francis Dufay tries to hit profitability by 2027 after scaling down its food delivery business
Aanu Adeoye / Financial Times :
Tokyo-based LayerX, which uses AI to help enterprises scale back-office automation, raised a $100M Series B led by TCV, taking its total funding to $192.2M
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
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