At a White House dinner, tech CEOs thanked Trump for promoting chip and AI investments, while Trump promised an easy energy permitting process for data centers
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman salute president's leadership on innovation as industry seeks his favor
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Code.org, IBM, OpenAI, and other companies pledged new commitments for AI in education as part of Melania Trump's White House event
Teaching students AI literacy from an early age is key to American success, First Lady Melania Trump said at a White House event …
World Liberty Financial blacklisted Justin Sun's wallet after it transferred ~$9M worth of WLFI tokens to exchange HTX; Sun called out the freezing of assets
A cryptocurrency project endorsed by Donald Trump's family saw its trading debut soured after billionaire backer Justin Sun …
What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: major design upgrades for the iPhone, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, three Apple Watch models, and the AirPods Pro 3
Company is readying a slew of updated devices for the holidays. — Apple Inc.'s biggest product launch event of the year takes place …
Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after the companies failed to register with the government
Nepal's government said Thursday it is blocking most social media platforms including Facebook, X and YouTube because the companies failed …
Lenovo unveils Legion Go 2, with an 8.8" OLED screen and an AMD Ryzen Z2 or Z2 Extreme chip, arriving in October for $1,099+, or $400 more than the Legion Go
Bigger, heavier, almost certainly better. … Lenovo's Legion Go was a polarizing handheld gaming PC, and that won't change …
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 …
Sources: OpenAI is set to produce an AI chip co-designed with Broadcom, to ship in 2026, and has committed $10B in orders; the chip will only be used internally
ChatGPT maker's deal with US chip group signals industry shift towards custom alternatives to Nvidia
Researchers from UCL, Google DeepMind, and Intrinsic unveil RoboBallet, an AI system designed to help teams of industrial robots work together without colliding
System potentially allows machine troupes to work faster and reduce collisions — Scientists have used artificial intelligence …
Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $15.95B, vs. $15.8B est., AI revenue up 63% YoY to $5.2B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; AVGO jumps 10%+
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Anthropic says it will stop selling AI services to majority Chinese-owned groups; a source says the policy is partly aimed at Chinese subsidiaries in Singapore
Policy will also apply to US adversaries including Russia, Iran and North Korea — Anthropic will stop selling artificial intelligence services …
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute develop a large behavior model that enables more natural-seeming movement and “emergent skills” in humanoid robots
Atlas, Boston Dynamics' dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward general-purpose robot algorithms.
Conversational AI company Cerence sues Apple in Texas over virtual keyboards and “Hey Siri” infringing its patents, saying it first contacted Apple in 2021
Once part of Nuance Communications (which powered Siri's speech recognition in its early years), Cerence is now a subsidiary that …
Philips Hue unveils a major product refresh at IFA 2025, including a $99 Hue Bridge Pro, updated $25+ smart bulbs, and the $170 Hue Secure, its first doorbell
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Baseten, which helps companies launch open-source or custom AI models, raised a $150M Series D led by Bond at a $2.15B valuation, up from $825M in February
The Baseten founding team. — BASETEN — In some sense, Baseten started with building blocks—literally.
WBD files a copyright lawsuit that accuses Midjourney of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Superman and Batman
More specifically, WBD has filed a copyright lawsuit that accuses Midjourney of using its content to train AI … Victoria Furniss : And WB joins the litigation! The suit just filed alleges Midjourney'...
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
On Aug. 27, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform launched … Bluesky: Josh Dzieza / @joshdzieza : Governments, billionaires, influencers, and political groups are increasingly trying ...
Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, giving users a way to build upon posts' 500-character text limit
Meta's Threads app is adding a way for users to post up to 10,000 characters … Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada : Threads Users Can Now Add Up to 10,000 Characters to Posts Tim Marcin / Mashable : Thr...
Meta revamps Facebook's classic Poke feature to make it easier to use and adds gamification elements like Snapchat and TikTok have, as it courts younger users
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OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match employers to candidates with AI skills, and a certification program for teaching AI in the coming months
here's what CEO Sam Altman revealed at the White House tech dinner Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : OpenAI to launch jobs platform linking employers and AI experts Shubhangi Chowdhury / The American ...
ProRata.ai, which lets publishers embed custom AI search on their websites with a 50/50 revenue split, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total raised to $75M+
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Docusign reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $800.6M, vs. $780.1M est., raises its FY 2026 sales outlook, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; DOCU jumps 5%+
it's changing the game for how organizations work. … Allan Thygesen : Docusign just delivered its strongest quarter in two years, fueled by our teams' sharp execution. Our AI-native Intelligent Agree...
Sources: ByteDance chip design workers, many in Beijing or Shanghai, found out last week they report into a Singapore unit, likely to navigate US-China tensions
Chip design workers at Chinese tech giant ByteDance, many based in Beijing or Shanghai, unexpectedly found out last week …
Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in October 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are used by “hundreds of millions”
When I was considering joining just over 6 months ago … Florian Dahlhausen : Excited to announce that Sierra has raised $350M additional capital at a valuation of $10B, led by Greenoaks. … Alexandra J...
Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received investment offers valuing it as high as $10B, just six months after raising $100M at a $2B valuation
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Tencent releases HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, trained on 100K+ video clips
We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework … Hugging Face : Use this model — We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework … X: @wildmindai : Hunyuan...
Source: Nvidia agreed to rent 10K of its own AI chips from Lambda for $1.3B over four years, the latest example of Nvidia's circular financial arrangements
18,000 GPUs will be leased over 4 years, as Lambda gears up for its IPO Martin Peers / The Information : Nvidia's Chip Round-Trip Deals Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch : Cloud provider Lambda may be gear...
How Synthesia is combining AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent, intonation, and expressiveness preservation
Check out my story, featuring weirdly smooth hands, addictive AI, and Ed Sheeran bad-mouthing (sorry Ed) www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/04/ 1... Niall Firth / @niallfirth : It's pretty insane how mu...
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
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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
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Sources: StubHub and Netskope plan to start formally marketing their IPOs as soon as September 8; StubHub could raise $1B+ and Netskope is seeking to raise ~$1B
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