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| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was “illegal and baseless” — A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker's high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/law, r/technology, r/singularity, r/accelerate, and r/politics
| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI” — Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new “Machine Age” fund with $1.1 billion raised. The firm's aim with the new fund is to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI.”| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B — A consortium of buyout firm Advent and payment processor Stripe has decided to abandon its pursuit of fintech pioneer PayPal Holdings Inc. …
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LinkedIn: Marcel van Oost, Michele Mattei, and Simon Taylor
| Financial Times: |
The UK Treasury tells the Bank of England to boost innovation in payment systems and digital money, as it seeks to promote the UK as a hub for stablecoins — Treasury gives central bank a new legal objective as part of effort to promote UK as hub for stablecoins
More: GOV.UK, CoinGeek, FinTech Global, Blockonomi, Bitcoin News, PaymentsJournal, and Cointelegraph
LinkedIn: Lucy Rigby, Bee Thakur, Paul Cullum, and Mark Simms
| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
South Korea unveils a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, a move that treats AI like a public utility — Seoul wants to direct use of homegrown AI chatbots to reduce reliance on U.S. or Chinese options, footing the bill and offering unlimited tokens| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Sources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs — The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some tech companies are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House — Tech firms are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House
More: New York Magazine and The Guardian
Bluesky: @emptywheel, @matthewkeys.net, @froomkin, and @carlquintanilla
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
BitGo agrees to buy NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, expanding BitGo's derivatives offerings; ~30 NYDIG employees are joining BitGo — The crypto infrastructure firm BitGo has agreed to buy the institutional trading business and related assets of NYDIG, CNBC has learned.
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at Beijing's AGI Bar, the unofficial clubhouse for China's AI industry where entrepreneurs trade gossip, recruit talent, and court investors over beers — Beloved by entrepreneurs, coders and investors, AGI Bar offers a window into the startup ecosystem challenging Silicon Valley.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky launches a feature to let users hide their posts from non-followers in its Discover feed; other AT Proto apps can choose whether to respect the opt-out — After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, open social network Bluesky on Thursday introduced a new algorithmic opt …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Apple TV raises prices in the US, with the monthly price up by $2 to $14.99, its fourth increase in four years; the individual Apple One tier rises $2 to $21.95 — Tech giant also ups price of Apple One multi-service bundle's individual plan — It's going to cost Americans a few more bucks to watch …
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT reports H1 revenue of ~$22.4B, more than double its 2025 sales, and ~$11.5B in profit, compared to a loss a year earlier — CXMT Corp.'s first-half revenue leapt almost 10-fold while profit surged, reflecting a rush for AI hardware that's made the memory chipmaker China's most valuable business.
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| Bloomberg: |
Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter open model with 1M context window, and says it outperforms Z.AI and Moonshot models in internal tests — Tencent Holdings Ltd. released a foundation model it says outperforms rivals Z.AI Co. and Moonshot AI in internal tests …
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| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Stock trading app Ajaib raised a $270M Series C from SBI Holdings, the largest round since 2022 in Indonesia, where startups raised just ~$340M last year — Ajaib, an Indonesian online stock trading platform, scored $270 million in the country's largest tech fundraising round since 2022 …
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| The Information: |
Sources: the US is drafting a rule to close an export controls loophole that lets Chinese companies access AI chips via data centers in countries like Thailand — Soon after President Donald Trump began his second term in office in 2025, the White House announced it would undo export controls … | Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: |
FIling: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M Series A from Thrive Capital and others — There's a social media app I like using more than Instagram or TikTok — and it's attracted serious investor interest.
More: TechCrunch and RuntimeWire
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
How Meta founded FAIR in 2013, fell behind as it was distracted by the metaverse, and is spending an unprecedented amount of money trying to catch up — Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, posted an AI manifesto to his company's website in August. The 6,537-word missive resembled similar proclamations … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia — Meta's India and Southeast Asia vice president, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media giant to join OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker told TechCrunch.
More: Bloomberg, The Economic Times, Moneycontrol, Inc42, and MediaBrief
| Reuters: |
How Shein pivoted to a Hong Kong IPO and sought to build Chinese government ties, after its New York and London bids failed to secure Beijing's approval — When Shein makes its market debut on Tuesday, it will be in Hong Kong and not New York or London like it once dreamed …
More: China Money Network and Bloomberg
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the FTC has been investigating whether YouTube broke consumer protection laws by violating its own policies when suspending accounts or banning content — The US Federal Trade Commission has been investigating whether Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube violated consumer protection laws …
More: Cord Cutters News and Reuters
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family's planned crypto bank — The Emirati ‘spy sheikh’ backs a 49% stake in the entity behind the new World Liberty bank — The Abu Dhabi royal sometimes referred …
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| Alistair Gray / Financial Times: |
Alphabet agrees to pay £260M to settle a UK class action lawsuit claiming it levied “unfair” charges on software downloaded from the Google Play app store — Group's Google business was accused of overcharging developers who made software for the Google Play app store
More: iPhone in Canada, Silicon Republic, Claims Journal, Reuters, Law360, and Bloomberg Law. LinkedIn: Gina Sternberg
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms — The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.
More: Ars Technica, Anthropic, iPhone in Canada, CNBC, Quartz, Digit, Business Standard, The Indian Express, The Register, PYMNTS, Financial Times, Blockchain.News, Fortune, and Reuters
X: @anthropicai, @mascobot, @deryatr_, @tobinsouth, @prathkum, @dsp_, @pvncher, @jkeatn, @emilyforlini, @anthropicai, @ckcapitalxx, and @pennycheck. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me. Forums: r/singularity
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