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SK Hynix and ASML say they assembled the industry's first Twinscan NXE:5200B High-NA EUV lithography system at SK's M16 fab, initially to test next-gen tech (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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A profile of Ashish Vaswani, lead author of Attention Is All You Need and Essential AI co-founder, who says the transformer-based AI boom is stifling innovation (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

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DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg, Senator Amy Klobuchar, News / Media Alliance CEO Danielle Coffey, and others say the US v. Google remedies don't go far enough (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Sources: Nintendo repeatedly pushed back Switch 2 launch plans after game designers asked for more time, believing a focus on gameplay trumped advanced hardware (Bloomberg)

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Nvidia acquires Solver, a three-year-old AI coding agent startup formerly known as Laredo Labs, which had raised $8M from Radical Ventures and other investors (The Information)

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Philippines government data: online gambling revenue in the country overtook traditional casinos in H1 2025, generating ~$2B, or 53%+ of the industry's total (Ramon Royandoyan/Nikkei Asia)

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A reporter details how her mother, a kidney transplant patient who lives in China, bonded with DeepSeek's chatbot as her AI doctor, calling it "more humane" (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

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The EU's General Court backs the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, approved in 2023, rejecting a legal challenge that US surveillance laws fall short of EU laws (Bloomberg)

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A look at issues facing AI companies, including LLMs' limited memory, as they tackle safety in chatbots engaging in conversations about suicide and self-harm (Financial Times)

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A deep dive into the state of the tech job market in 2025, including an increase in demand for AI engineers and a rising average tenure at Big Tech companies (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)

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How SK Hynix's rise as Nvidia's main HBM chip supplier, ahead of Samsung and Micron, disrupted the old order at the top end of the memory chip market (Financial Times)

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IDC: in Q1 2025, the world's top four robot vacuum makers, all from China, together accounted for 54.1% of shipments, as iRobot fell from first to fifth place (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)

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BMW's iX3 electric SUV, debuting September 5, will be the first in a series of "software-defined vehicles" on its €10B+ Neue Klasse platform unveiled in 2021 (Financial Times)

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US v. Google: the ruling that lets Google continue paying for traffic acquisition is a huge win for Apple and Mozilla, which relies heavily on Google's payments (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

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A US district judge rules that Amazon must face a class action lawsuit involving 288M customers over claims it overcharged for products sold by third parties (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

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Source: Sierra, which builds AI customer service agents, nears a $350M raise at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in October 2024, and is set to top $100M in ARR (Ina Fried/Axios)

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US v. Google: Judge Amit Mehta says allowing Google's payments is "more palatable now", since GenAI companies "already are in a better position" to compete (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

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Google says it is reviewing the court's ruling on search and has "concerns" about how the requirements "will impact our users and their privacy" (Lee-Anne Mulholland/Google)

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Content creators and rideshare drivers are among the professions covered under the "no tax on tips" policy passed as part of the US spending bill signed in July (Alison Durkee/Forbes)

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As part of the US v. Google remedies ruling, a technical committee will be established to help enforce the final judgment, which will last six years (New York Times)

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A six-year US effort to counter Chinese telecom dominance took a hit after the One Big Beautiful Bill cut ~$1B from a program aimed at developing Open RAN tech (John Hendel/Politico)

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A US judge bars Google from paying to be the exclusive search engine on devices and browsers, but allows payments for product distribution, including to Apple (Wall Street Journal)

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US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android but must share search data; GOOG jumps 6%+ after hours (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

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Cloudflare says attackers gained access to a Salesforce instance it uses for internal customer case management, as part of the Salesloft Drift breach (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of a new group called OpenAI for Science to build an "AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery" (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Apple's lead AI researcher for robotics, Jian Zhang, has left for Meta's Robotics Studio; sources: three more researchers left Apple's Foundation Models team (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Plaud says it has sold 1M+ of its $159 NotePin AI recording devices since 2023, is profitable, and is on track to bring in $250M in annualized revenue this year (Iain Martin/Forbes)

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OpenAI acquires product analytics company Statsig for $1.1B and shuffles executive roles, with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji becoming OpenAI's CTO of Applications (Hayden Field/The Verge)

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Disney pays $10M to settle an FTC complaint that alleges Disney collected children's data by failing to designate certain YouTube videos as being made for kids (Sara Fischer/Axios)

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WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development tool, at WordCamp US; CEO Matt Mullenweg called it "V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI subpoenaed AI governance nonprofits Encode and CANI, alleging they are part of a conspiracy involving billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)

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Anthropic raised a $13B Series F led by Iconiq, Fidelity, and Lightspeed at a $183B valuation, up from $61.5B in March, and reports a run rate of $5B+ (Anthropic)

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Amazon says it will end the ability for Prime members to share their free shipping benefits with individuals outside their household, starting on October 1 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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US procurement records show the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order and reactivated an ICE contract for phone spyware from Tel Aviv-based Paragon (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

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Blockchain-based lender Figure plans to sell 26.3M shares priced between $18 and $20 to raise up to $526.3M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of up to $4.13B (Reuters)

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Source: Mexico City-based Kapital, which offers financial visibility tools to SMBs, raised an $86M Series C led by Tribe Capital at a ~$1.3B valuation (Matthew Monks/Bloomberg)

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Winklevoss twins' Gemini plans to sell 16.67M shares at $17 to $19 each in its US IPO, seeking to raise $317M, which would value the crypto exchange at $2.22B (CoinDesk)

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Sources: the EU delayed a planned September 1 fine against Google over its ad tech practices due to fears it could provoke Trump to unravel EU-US trade progress (Bloomberg)

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How Ukraine has been using AI to allow groups of drones, known as swarms, to coordinate with each other to attack Russian positions for much of the past year (Alistair MacDonald/Wall Street Journal)

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Underdog and Crypto.com debut a sports prediction market to let US users in 16 states bet on the NFL, the NBA, MLB, college football, and more in Underdog's app (Contessa Brewer/CNBC)

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Varonis Systems agrees to acquire email security company SlashNext for up to $150M, including retention awards, after acquiring database company Cyral for ~$25M (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)

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TSMC says the US revoked its authorization to ship gear to its main Chinese chipmaking base in Nanjing, after the US revoked Samsung's and SK Hynix's waivers (Bloomberg)

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Dolby launches Dolby Vision 2, adding AI-powered Content Intelligence and Authentic Motion, first on Hisense TVs, after debuting HDR format Dolby Vision in 2014 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Microsoft says it is giving the US GSA $6B+ in potential savings on Office, Azure, Dynamics 365, and more over three years, including $3.1B in the first year (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Internal data: Amazon registered 5.4M US Prime sign-ups over the 21-day run-up to its four-day Prime Day event, ~116K less than in 2024 and 106K below its goal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

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A look at a16z's Speedrun, a YC-like accelerator targeting a more creative demographic and which has invested $180M into 150 companies over the past 18 months (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI details its plan to add guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress by the end of 2025, including routing some conversations to GPT-5-thinking (Megan Morrone/Axios)

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Filing: Klarna and some shareholders are selling 34.3M shares for $35-$37 each in its IPO, aiming to raise up to $1.27B and giving it an up to ~$14B market cap (Bloomberg)

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An analysis of Grok's responses to 41 political questions in May and July shows it shifted to the right on 50%+ of them, often reflecting Elon Musk's priorities (New York Times)

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IFR: Chinese factories install ~280K industrial robots every year, or 50% of the global total, helping China boost its global exports; ~50% are locally made (Financial Times)

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