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August 24, 2026, 11:16 AM
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Axios:
Greg Abbott says data center companies “dug their own grave” by moving into communities without first gaining support, signaling growing Republican backlash  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivered one of the starkest warnings yet from a Republican to the AI industry …
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
President Trump says communities that oppose data centers are “making a mistake” as they create “tremendous amounts of jobs and money”, amid bipartisan backlash  —  President Trump defended the expansion of data centers in an interview with his former fixer, Michael Cohen, that aired in full on Sunday.
The Information:
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity's new equity round valuing it at $30B+; Nvidia considered a tech licensing deal and hiring some of its staff  —  Nvidia is discussing investing in Perplexity as part of an equity round that would value the AI startup at more than $30 billion …
Gao Yuan / Bloomberg:
Xiaomi launches the Xring O3, a 3nm SoC for its mobile devices, as the company seeks to reduce reliance on longtime suppliers Qualcomm and MediaTek  —  Xiaomi Corp. launched a mobile processor for its marquee devices, putting pressure on Qualcomm Inc. and MediaTek Inc., which for years supplied the key component to the Chinese company.
New York Times:
Ukrainian officials say an AI-guided, fully autonomous Russian drone killed three Ukrainians in a strike on a gas station in the city of Zaporizhzhia
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
A look at the playbook Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others use to shape US schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools  —  One humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, representatives from Microsoft were waiting as some 200 teachers trooped into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan.
Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury's CFIUS national security review of its $80M deal to buy US clothing retailer Everlane, an unusual move  —  US authorities are conducting a national security review of Shein Global Holdings Ltd.'s purchase of American clothing retailer Everlane …
More: Axios
Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg:
Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on September 1, seeking up to $1.8B in an IPO at a $27B valuation, a fraction of its $100B valuation in 2022
Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail how the Trump admin bypassed the DOJ trial team and pushed to settle the Live Nation case, after CEO Michael Rapino met White House officials  —  Antitrust case started out aiming to force concert giant to sell Ticketmaster.  After two White House meetings, a deal kept the company intact.
Reuters:
Alibaba launches Wan3.0, a video generation model that can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages  —  Alibaba (9988.HK) officially rolled out its latest AI video generation-model Wan3. on Monday with enhanced capabilities after the Chinese internet giant launched …
Meir Orbach / CTech:
Minimus, a cybersecurity startup started by Twistlock founders, shuts down after failing to gain enough commercial momentum; Minimus raised a $51M seed in 2023  —  The cybersecurity startup failed to gain enough commercial momentum to continue operating.  Customers will have 60 days to migrate …
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Katie Roof / Business Insider:
Sources: Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to evaluate bidders' interest  —  The AI industry's next blockbuster acquisition may not be another model maker.  —  Hugging Face, whose platform helps developers discover …
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
The FTC is settling its lawsuit against Zillow, resolving claims that Zillow violated antitrust law by paying Redfin $100M to stop competing in rental listings  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday said it is settling with Zillow (ZG.O), ending its lawsuit accusing …
J.D. Capelouto / Semafor:
China's Bilibili relaunches its international app and plans an English-language site; it has been pushing MrBeast and others to post on its Chinese site  —  THE SCOOP  —  China's equivalent to YouTube is making a play for the rest of the world and courting non-Chinese creators to boost its appeal.
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Jude Webber / Financial Times:
Irish lawmakers reconsider the country's 1999 ban on nuclear power as data centers' growing power demands account for ~25% of the country's electricity use  —  Banned by law since 1999, Dublin reconsiders atomic energy  —  Rising electricity consumption by Ireland's insatiable data centres …

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From Mediagazer

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: the US DOJ says states suing to block the WBD deal must post a “proper bond” to cover potential damages, backing Paramount's request for a $1.88B bond

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen: 60 Minutes' season premiere drew 7.94M viewers, down 21% from 10.02M for last season's premiere; viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 fell 33%

Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: NBC's telecast of the Emmys drew 6.7M viewers on Monday night, down 9% from 2025's 7.4M on CBS, which was the awards show's best performance since 2021

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Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking services across Asia and other emerging markets, raised $68M at a $1B valuation, after raising $51M in May

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Tracy Withers / Bloomberg:
New Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for under-16s, requiring “high risk” platforms to check user ages or face penalties of up to 10% of global revenue
Ina Fried / Axios:
Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang
Telegraph:
At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records
Truman Dickerson / Business Insider:
Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade “a lot of liberty for safety”
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5
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