Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT is shockingly good at search and demonstrates the potential of combining tool calling with chain-of-thought reasoning — “Don't use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn't. — I wrote about how good OpenAI's o3 was at using …
Susanne Barton / Bloomberg: Microsoft says clients of its Azure cloud platform may experience increased latency after multiple international cables in the Red Sea were cut — Microsoft Corp. said on Saturday that clients of its Azure cloud platform may experience increased latency after multiple international cables in the Red Sea were cut.
Christian Catalini / Forbes: Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra stablecoin project, reflects on Libra's failure, what Stripe's Tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more — Stripe just pulled back the curtain on Tempo, its corporate blockchain, and the pitch is a classic.
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate fell from 5.5% in July to 4.5% in August, while active tech job postings declined 2.6% from July — Beyond the red-hot area of AI hiring, the job market for much of information-technology is still getting smaller, recent analysis shows
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges, not Justin Sun's token movements; WLFI blames phishing-related compromises — Onchain data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges - not Justin Sun's token movements …
Dominic Preston / The Verge: OnePlus ends its five-year partnership with camera company Hasselblad and plans to develop its own imaging engine called DetailMax Engine for upcoming phones — But Oppo and Hasselblad seemingly aren't. … From now on, OnePlus will develop its own imaging engine instead.
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: A look at the ramp up of Apple's retail footprint in India, as a source says Apple's revenue grew 13% YoY to $9B during India's fiscal year that ended in March — Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing. Sign up here.
Nikkei Asia: Thailand, aiming to become the second-largest PCB production hub, is witnessing a tech manufacturing boom as the PCB supply chain shifts from China and Taiwan — BANGKOK — Some 60 kilometers north of Bangkok in the old capital of Ayutthaya, China's Victory Giant Technology is in the hectic final stages …
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: A book excerpt details Spotify's decade-long push against Apple's App Store commissions and steering rules, including pushing the EU to pass new antitrust laws — The music service's rebellion against an App Store ‘tax’ over the past decade has significantly weakened Apple's grip on the mobile world
Financial Times: Source: Balderton Capital, one of Revolut's earliest VC backers, has sold ~$1B in shares through multiple transactions that valued the fintech company at $45B — Venture capital firm has sold hundreds of millions of dollars in UK fintech that has enjoyed explosive growth
Reuters: Russia publishes a list of locally developed apps it says will function during mobile internet shutdowns, excluding foreign services like WhatsApp and YouTube — Russia published a list of locally developed social media, ride-hailing and other apps that it said would keep working during …
Thomas Brewster / Forbes: Public records show C3 AI's Project Sherlock, its flagship contract to speed up policing in San Mateo County, has struggled with usability and other issues — San Mateo County pumped $12 million into a grand AI surveillance system made by billionaire Tom Siebel's C3 AI that was supposed to level up its police work.
Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, up from 175M in 2024, the latest sign of its rapid growth among teenagers — TikTok has more than 200 million monthly users in Europe, or roughly one in three citizens on the continent, the short video app platform said on Friday …
Hyunsoo Rim / Sherwood News: C3 AI, whose NYSE ticker symbol is AI, has fallen 32%+ in the past month on growth concerns, after its Q1 revenue fell 19% YoY to $70.3M, below $100M+ est. — When your ticker is “AI,” people expect you to be riding the wave better than anyone else — that hasn't happened for C3.ai. — 16H
Reuters: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurates the Jupiter supercomputer, powered by Nvidia chips, the world's fourth-fastest and Europe's first exascale system — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurated a supercomputer powered by Nvidia (NVDA.O) chips on Friday that is the world's fourth-fastest …
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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 …
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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 …