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Anthropic requires users to accept new terms by September 28, including choosing whether new chats and coding sessions can be used to train AI models (Anthropic)

OpenAI makes its Realtime API generally available with features like MCP support and debuts gpt-realtime, its most advanced speech-to-speech model, in the API (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)

Sources: Trump's threat of "substantial" tariffs on countries imposing digital taxes came after Zuckerberg raised concerns about the taxes in a private meeting (Bloomberg)

Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Commonwealth, which wants to build a fusion power plant, raised $863M from Nvidia's NVentures, Khosla Ventures, and Google, bringing its total raised to ~$3B (Will Wade/Bloomberg)

Two House Republicans open a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias into Wikipedia, citing an ADL report about anti-Israel bias on the site (Emily Brooks/The Hill)

A review of the Honor Magic V5, the world's thinnest foldable phone at 8.8mm when folded, as it launches in Europe for €1,999, following a July launch in China (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini (Bloomberg)

Dutch web design automation startup Framer raised $100M led by Meritech and Atomico with Accel participation at a $2B valuation, after raising $27M in 2023 (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

M0, which develops stablecoin infrastructure to boost interoperability and liquidity, raised a $40M Series B led by Polychain and Ribbit Capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Rain, a stablecoin-backed Visa card issuer, raised a $58M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures, after raising a $24.5M Series A led by Norwest in March (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

Didi reports Q2 revenue up 10.9% YoY to ~$7.8B, overseas revenue up 28% YoY, and a ~$350M net loss, driven by a one-off ~$740M charge in a shareholder lawsuit (Reuters)

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress says the US hasn't outlined its plan for a 15% China commission, Nvidia won't pay until it has it, and it can sell AI chips without it (Bloomberg)

Apple says the UK CMA's proposed "EU-style" regulation is "bad for users and bad for developers", "undermines" privacy and security, and "hampers" innovation (Chris Vallance/BBC)

Typepad is shutting down on September 30 and users' "account and all related services will be permanently deactivated"; users can export content before then (Everything Typepad)

Google plans to invest an additional $9B in Virginia through 2026 to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure, including a new data center in Chesterfield County (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)

Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers, dropping the Game Pass Ultimate requirement, and tests more PC game access (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Maisa AI, which offers an enterprise agentic automation service that uses a proprietary system to limit hallucinations, raised a $25M seed led by Creandum (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

UK banks face losses on billions of pounds in loans to dozens of alternative broadband network providers that have tried to challenge BT and O2's dominance (Financial Times)

An in-depth look at India's quick commerce boom, driven by Blinkit, Zepto, and Instamart, which have collectively lost more than $1.4B in the past four years (Bloomberg)

How ChatGPT-powered companionship dolls from Hyodol are helping ease loneliness among older adults in South Korea, as the company aims for a US debut in 2026 (Michelle Kim/Rest of World)

How legacy carmakers fell behind Tesla and Chinese EV brands in software, as a Toyota Woven engineer says the company's new Arene platform is "full of bugs" (Financial Times)

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress says Q2 "net other income" was $2.2B, "driven by gains in a publicly-held equity security", which refers to Nvidia's CoreWeave position (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

Payroll and HR software provider Gusto agrees to acquire Guideline, which offers 401(k) plans to small businesses; Guideline was valued at $1.15B in 2021 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Nvidia reports record Q2 gaming revenue up 49% YoY to $4.29B, exceeding $3.74B est. and up from $3.8B in Q1 2025 (Max Knoblauch/Sherwood News)

A look at India's rationale for banning online real-money games, with IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw citing 450M people losing a combined ~$2.3B to them (Vivek Kaul/Newslaundry)

Sources: the $550B US-Japan investment framework, central to the trade agreement, was heavily influenced by Masayoshi Son, with the Stargate Project tied to it (Akira Yamashita/Nikkei Asia)

Samsung rolls out Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in its 2025 lineup of TVs and monitors, letting users ask for movie suggestions, plot recaps, and more (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google launches Pixel Care+, replacing Preferred Care and Fi Device Protection in the US, with upgrades but slightly higher pricing than the previous offering (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)

Analysis: Meta's Hypernova AR glasses will enter mass production in Q3 2025 to beat Apple to market, but have a modest sales target of 150K-200K over two years (@mingchikuo)

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement announcement on Instagram surpasses 1M reposts, more than any post ever on the platform; the post has 29M+ Likes (Hannah Dailey/Billboard)

Nvidia says it had no new H20 sales to China in Q2 and assumes the same for Q3, but could realize $2B-$5B in H20 sales in Q3 if geopolitical issues are resolved (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

Google Cloud says its Universal Ledger, a layer-1 blockchain for financial products, is in a private testnet, and plans to reveal more details at a later date (Danny Park/The Block)

Samsung announces a virtual Galaxy event for September 4 at 5:30am ET, where new tablets and the Galaxy S25 FE are expected (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)

Snowflake reports Q2 product revenue up 32% YoY to $1.09B, above $1.04B est., and forecasts FY 2026 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 12%+ (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.17B, above $1.15B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue below estimates; CRWD drops 4%+ after hours (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)

HP reports Q3 revenue up 3.1% YoY to $13.9B, vs. $13.7B est., Personal Systems revenue up 6% to $9.9B, and forecasts Q4 profit above estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 56% YoY to $46.74B, Data Center revenue up 56% to $41.1B, below $41.34B est., and approves an additional $60B in share buybacks (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

OpenAI and Anthropic publish findings from joint safety tests of each other's models, aimed at surfacing blind spots in their internal evaluations (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

4chan and Kiwi Farms sue the UK's Ofcom in a US court over the Online Safety Act, saying they aren't subject to UK law, after Ofcom tried to fine and block them (404 Media)

Sources: cloud startup Vercel is raising hundreds of millions of dollars led by Accel at a valuation of about $9B, up from about $3B in a round last year (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

Report: German banks blocked €10B+ in PayPal payments on Monday over fraud concerns; PayPal says a temporary service interruption affected some transactions (Reuters)

Google Pixel 10 review: justifies its price better than the Pixel 9 with upgrades like a triple camera system and Qi2 support, but it's not a gaming powerhouse (Derrek Lee/Android Central)

Plaud unveils the $179 Plaud Note Pro, an AI note-taking device with two extra mics to hear audio 16.4 feet away and a 1-inch display, shipping in October (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Apple partners with TuneIn to make Apple Music's six radio stations available outside its app, a first, as it seeks to compete with Spotify; TuneIn has 75M MAUs (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)

Anthropic's Threat Intelligence report for August says Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a "vibe-hacking" data extortion scheme (Hayden Field/The Verge)

South Korean lawmakers pass a bill to ban using mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools nationwide, starting 2026 (Choe Sang-Hun/New York Times)

Taiwan indicts three people for allegedly stealing TSMC's 2nm secrets to help Tokyo Electron, the first such case, and recommends a combined 14-year prison term (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)

Sources: a Chinese fab making Huawei's AI chips is set to start production as soon as the end of 2025, with two more due in 2026; the fabs' ownership is unclear (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 11.7% YoY to ~$12.8B and net income down 97% YoY to ~$51M, blaming "irrational competition" in the Chinese food delivery market (Bloomberg)