US v. Google: a US federal judge rules that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android, but it must share Search data with rivals; GOOG jumps 8%+
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.
A US judge bars Google from paying to be the exclusive search engine on devices and browsers, but allows payments for product distribution, including to Apple
which hurts consumers and entrepreneurs, and stifles innovation. @signulll : jesus christ cupertino is probably celebrating harder than mountain view right now. if you're tim cook, you have to buy cha...
Google says it is reviewing the US' ruling on Google Search distribution and has “concerns about how these requirements will impact our users and their privacy”
Earlier today a U.S. court overseeing the Department of Justice's lawsuit over how we distribute Search issued a decision on next steps.
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg, Senator Amy Klobuchar, News / Media Alliance CEO Danielle Coffey, and others say the US v. Google remedies don't go far enough
‘Google will still be allowed to continue to use its monopoly to hold back competitors, including in AI search,’ said DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg.
US v. Google: letting Google continue paying for traffic acquisition is a huge win for Apple and for Mozilla, which may have died without payments from Google
I had a sneaking suspicion today might be the day where Judge Amit Mehta would come back with the remedies in Google's antitrust trial.
As part of the US v. Google remedies ruling, Google must create a five-person antitrust technical committee to monitor its business practices for six years
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US v. Google: Judge Amit Mehta says “allowing Google to continue making payments is more palatable now” as GenAI companies “are in a better position” to compete
Now, Google can finally appeal the case. … Google will not have to sell its Chrome browser in order …
OpenAI shuffles its executive roles and acquires product analytics company Statsig for $1.1B, with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji becoming OpenAI's CTO of Applications
It was a big weekend for the ChatGPT-maker. … OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo …
Meta launches an Instagram app for the iPad, 15 years after its mobile app; it is slightly different than the mobile app, opening directly to a feed of Reels
The long-requested app will feature Reels prominently on the homepage. … After years of requests from users, Instagram will finally have a dedicated app for iPad.
Garmin unveils the $1,200+ Fenix 8 Pro, featuring new satellite and cellular communications tools, and a $2,000 microLED version, both shipping from September 8
Garmin Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled an upgraded, top-of-the-line rugged smartwatch for hikers, days before Apple Inc.'s expected update to its own high-end timepiece.
reMarkable Paper Pro Move review: the $449 digital notepad has a spacious 7.3" color E Ink display and a slim design, but it is not ideal for lengthy notes
This miniaturized version of ReMarkable's colorful Paper Pro might just be my new favorite digital notepad. — Rating: … I love a list.
Polar debuts the $199 Polar Loop, a screenless fitness band to track activity, sleep, and more with no subscription, in three colors, shipping from September 10
Finnish fitness-hardware brand Polar Electro Oy unveiled a screen-free fitness band that looks like — and directly competes with …
SK Hynix and ASML say they assembled the industry's first Twinscan NXE:5200B High-NA EUV lithography system at SK's M16 fab, initially to test next-gen tech
Initially for R&D use, until later this decade where it will transition to production — SK hynix and ASML early on Wednesday announced …
Finnish quantum computing startup IQM raised a ~$320M Series B led by Ten Eleven at a $1B+ valuation, and plans a US expansion and to scale its data centers
IQM, a Finnish quantum computing startup, has raised €275 million ($320 million) in venture capital funding …
Sources: Nintendo repeatedly pushed back Switch 2's launch after its game designers asked for more time, believing focusing on gameplay beats advanced hardware
Earlier this year, Nintendo Co. was under growing pressure. It had been eight long years since the release of the original Switch …
Cloudflare says attackers accessed a Salesforce instance it uses for internal customer case management and customer support, the latest 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.
Tests show Character.AI chatbots of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan, and Patrick Mahomes sent messages about sex, self-harm, and drugs to users aged 13 to 15
The chatbots made by users of Character.AI used recognizable synthetic voices for the stars. — Just now X: @ptogetheraction . Bluesky: @justinhendrix , @hypervisible.blacksky.app , and @drewharwell....
Anti-piracy organization ACE says a joint operation with Egyptian law enforcement shut down Streameast, the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform
Streameast — the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform — has been shut down after a year long investigation …
OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of OpenAI for Science, a new group with the goal of building an “AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery”
and accelerate research all over the world. Bluesky: @saltcreekbrews : I wasn't clear enough with my last post but this is clearly just a play to steal taxpayer dollars from NSF, NIH, DoE, DoD, etc. ...
The FTC and Utah say Pornhub operator Aylo has agreed to pay a $5M fine to settle charges that it did little to block CSAM and non-consensual material
The operators of Pornhub.com and other pornographic websites have agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission and the state …
Acer unveils the $3,999+ Veriton GN100 AI Mini Workstation with a Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip to run AI models locally, its first Mini AI workstation
Acer Veriton GN100 is a mini AI workstation built on NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell — It looks like NVIDIA CPU/GPU hardware …
A profile of Flock Safety, which operates 80K+ AI surveillance cameras across the US and hit a $7.5B valuation in March 2025, as it expands into US-made drones
With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops' go-to surveillance tools and a $7.5 billion business. X: @iblametom . Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app...
Disney agrees to pay $10M to settle an FTC complaint that alleges it collected children's data by not designating certain YouTube videos as being made for kids
Sara Fischer / Axios :
HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight operator communications, raised a $44M Series B led by Base10 Partners, a source says at a ~$500M valuation
HappyRobot, an artificial intelligence startup that automates communications including rate negotiation and appointment booking for freight operators …
A deep dive into the state of the tech job market in 2025, including an increase in demand for AI engineers and a rising average tenure at Big Tech companies
A deepdive into today's tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more Bluesky: @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com a...
A reporter shares how her mother, a kidney transplant patient in a small Chinese city, bonded with DeepSeek's chatbot as her AI doctor, calling it “more humane”
In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI. — Every few months, my mother … X: @violazhouyi , @violazhouyi , and @kyleichan . Bluesky: @mvzelenko X: Viola Zhou / @violazhouyi : In...
How SK Hynix's rise as Nvidia's main HBM chip supplier, ahead of Samsung and Micron, disrupted the old order at the top end of the memory chip market
www.ft.com/content/36be... [image] Philip Stafford / @staffordphilip : Very nice piece on why memory chips, the unglamorous corner of the chip market, are having a moment in the sun. — www.ft.com/c...
Content creators and rideshare drivers are among the professions covered under the “no tax on tips” policy passed as part of the US spending bill signed in July
Alison Durkee / Forbes :
Utila, which is building an “operating system for stablecoins”, raised a $22M Series A extension led by Red Dot, taking its total funding to $51M+
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
Apple's lead AI researcher for robotics, Jian Zhang, leaves for Meta's Robotics Studio; sources say three more researchers left Apple's Foundation Models team
including its lead for robotics research. X: Mark Gurman / @markgurman : NEW: Apple has lost four more AI researchers, including the head of research for robotics in its AI division. The latest set of...
A profile of Ashish Vaswani, an Attention Is All You Need co-author and an Essential AI co-founder, who says the transformer-based labs are stifling innovation
Ashish Vaswani helped usher in modern AI. Now he's wondering if we're doing it all wrong. — In March 2024 a group …
Israeli cybersecurity company Cato Networks acquires Aim Security, sources say for ~$350M, its first acquisition, says it passed $300M in ARR, and raised $50M
Steven Scheer / Reuters :
You.com, which pivoted from AI search to business AI tools, raised $100M led by Cox Enterprises at a $1.5B valuation, after a $50M Series B in September 2024
Artificial intelligence startup You.com has reached a valuation of $1.5 billion in a new $100 million funding round …
Philippines government data: online gambling revenue in the country overtook traditional casinos in H1 2025, generating ~$2B, or 53%+ of the industry's total
Ramon Royandoyan / Nikkei Asia :
The EU's General Court backs the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, approved in 2023, rejecting a legal challenge that US surveillance laws fall short of EU laws
Bloomberg :
A US district judge rules that Amazon must face a class action lawsuit involving 288M customers over claims it overcharged for products sold by third parties
Mike Scarcella / Reuters :
AI search engine startup Exa Labs raised an $85M Series B led by Benchmark at a $700M valuation, up 10x on its 2024 Series A, and plans to grow its GPU cluster
The $85 million funding round values Exa at $700 million. — The venture capital firm Benchmark is backing a new type …
BMW's iX3 electric SUV, debuting September 5, will be the first in a series of “software-defined vehicles” on its €10B+ Neue Klasse platform unveiled in 2021
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A look at issues facing AI companies, including LLMs' limited memory, as they tackle safety in chatbots engaging in conversations about suicide and self-harm
Financial Times :
Plaud says it has sold 1M+ of its $159 NotePin AI recording devices since 2023, is profitable, and is on track to bring in $250M in annualized revenue in 2025
Iain Martin / Forbes :
Nvidia acquires Solver, a three-year-old AI coding agent startup formerly known as Laredo Labs, which had raised $8M from Radical Ventures and other investors
The Information :
A six-year US effort to counter Chinese telecom tech dominance took a hit when the One Big Beautiful Bill cut nearly $1B from a program to develop Open RAN tech
nearly $1 billion — for the Wireless Innovation Fund [for ORAN stuff], which was supposed to create a new, American-dominated type of 5G network [around the world]. …
Source: Sierra, which builds AI customer service agents, nears a $350M raise at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in October 2024, and is set to top $100M in ARR
Ina Fried / Axios :
IDC: in Q1 2025, the world's top four robot vacuum makers, all from China, together accounted for 54.1% of shipments, as iRobot fell from first to fifth place
Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia :
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