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A US federal judge postpones Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes to force on authors (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)

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Google announces Veo updates: support for vertical video and 1080p, lower pricing, and general availability of Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast in the Gemini API (Google Developers Blog)

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SEC filing: Microsoft strikes a deal worth up to $19.4B through 2031 to get AI cloud computing power from Yandex spinoff Nebius Group; NBIS jumps 45%+ (Bloomberg)

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E-commerce company Eightco's stock soared 3,000%+ on September 8 after unveiling a plan to buy Worldcoin tokens and naming Wall Street analyst Dan Ives as chair (Bloomberg)

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Dell says CFO Yvonne McGill will resign effective September 9 after nearly 30 years with the company and names SVP David Kennedy as interim CFO (Savyata Mishra/Reuters)

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Intel announces top-level executive changes, including the departure of its products chief, Michelle Holthaus, and establishes a new central engineering group (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

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Source: Amazon took a stake in Colombian delivery startup Rappi via a $25M convertible note, entitling it to buy up to 12% via warrants if milestones are met (Bloomberg)

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AI infrastructure company Pinecone's CEO Edo Liberty will step aside and into a new role as chief scientist; ex-Google executive Ash Ashutosh will become CEO (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Nepal police open fire on 'Gen Z' protests sparked by social media block (Andres Schipani/Financial Times)

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In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said "the open web is already in rapid decline", contradicting Google's recent statements (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)

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The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnership of Anduril and Meta and a $195M contract to Rivet, to produce competing prototypes of a new combat goggle (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

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Aikido Security says attackers injected malware into 18 popular npm packages, including the debug package, with over 2.6B total weekly downloads (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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A look at the looming DJI drones ban in the US, as some say the ban will be disruptive; no federal agency has undertaken a mandated security risk assessment (Farah Stockman/New York Times)

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Attaullah Baig, ex-head of security at WhatsApp, sues Meta for allegedly ignoring critical security flaws, claims Meta staffers could access sensitive user data (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

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Anthropic becomes the first major AI company to back SB 53, a California bill that requires large AI companies to disclose safety testing protocols (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Motion, which sells an integrated suite of AI agents for SMBs, raised a $38M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $75M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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Cognition raised $400M led by Founders Fund at a $10.2B valuation, up from $4B in March; its coding tool Devin's ARR grew from $1M in Sept. 2024 to $73M by June (Bloomberg)

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YouTube says its first exclusive NFL broadcast on September 5 averaged more than 17.3M global viewers, including 1.1M average minute audiences outside of the US (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

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AI audio startup ElevenLabs launches a tender offer to let staff sell up to $100M in stock at a $6.6B valuation, up from a $3.3B valuation in January 2025 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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Current and ex-Meta employees submitted documents and affidavits to Congress alleging that Meta suppressed research on child safety risks in its VR platforms (Washington Post)

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Atlanta-based Rainforest, which embeds payment processing into platforms, raised a $29M Series B led by Matrix and Infinity, taking its total funding to $57.5M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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Filing: Nasdaq asks the SEC to let investors trade tokenized securities on its exchange, and could roll out the first token-settled trades by the end of Q3 2026 (Anirban Sen/Reuters)

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Crypto asset manager CoinShares agrees to go public via SPAC Vine Hill at a $1.2B pre-money valuation, set to close by Q4's end; CoinShares has ~$10B in AUM (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

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Ticketing platform StubHub plans to sell ~34M shares at $22 to $25 in its IPO, valuing it at up to $9.2B and raising up to $851M, after delaying an IPO in April (Reuters)

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ASPI: Myanmar's online scam centers on the Thai border have increased from 11 to 27 since the military coup in 2021, holding an estimated 100K trafficked people (Rebecca Ratcliffe/The Guardian)

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Quantum computing startup Infleqtion agrees to merge with Michael Klein-led SPAC Churchill Capital, giving it a $1.8B pre-money valuation and $540M+ in funding (Bloomberg)

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Cloud cybersecurity software startup Netskope plans to sell 47.8M shares at $15 to $17 each in its Nasdaq IPO, valuing it at up to $6.5B and raising up to $813M (Reuters)

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Databricks raised $1B from Thrive, a16z, and others at a $100B valuation and is on track to generate $4B in revenue in its FY ending in January 2026, up 50% YoY (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

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A deep dive into Huawei's Ascend AI chip production, SMIC, TSMC, US export controls, HBM bottlenecks, China's HBM issues, Huawei's data center chips, and more (SemiAnalysis)

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Forward Industries raised $1.65B via a private investment in a public equity offering led by Galaxy, Jump, and Multicoin for a Solana asset treasury strategy (Adam James/The Block)

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SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for up to $8.5B in cash and up to $8.5B in stock, resolving an FCC inquiry into EchoStar (Bloomberg)

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Uber and Shanghai-based robotaxi startup Momenta plan to test Level 4 fully driverless cars in Munich from 2026, as a precursor to launching a robotaxi service (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Sources: the US is proposing annual approvals for exports of chipmaking supplies to Samsung and SK Hynix factories in China, as part of a "site license" idea (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

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Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement pulls up a drawbridge on its startup rivals that cannot afford such fines, setting a floor price on training infringement (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

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Google updates a Help Center article to clarify Gemini 2.5 Pro's usage limits: five prompts per day for free users, 100 prompts for AI Pro, and 500 for AI Ultra (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

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A reimagined Wizard of Oz draws 4,000 to 5,000 fans two or three times per day to the Las Vegas Sphere; a source says the 1939 film may gross $1B in its new run (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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An interview with Dr. Raj Jena, the UK's first clinical professor of AI in radiation oncology, on how AI is improving cancer care, quality control, and more (Sarah Neville/Financial Times)

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Filing: Shanghai-based, US-listed lidar maker Hesai aims to raise ~$497M in its Hong Kong IPO, offering 17M shares at up to $29.25 each, amid US delisting risks (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)

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PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since 2022, including €1.4B in 2025's first seven months, up from €30M in 2020 and €150M in 2021 (Financial Times)

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Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, taking its total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

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OpenAI is providing its tools and computing resources for Critterz, a largely AI-made feature-length animated film that is set to hit theaters globally in 2026 (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)

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A profile of Zachary Cefaratti, a below-the-radar dealmaker for data centers, crypto mining, and tech groups in the Gulf through his advisory firm Dalma Capital (Chloe Cornish/Financial Times)

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A look at Marc Benioff's pursuit of productivity gains through AI at Salesforce, which has undergone a series of layoffs over the past two years (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)

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How Larry Ellison is reshaping Oxford, including relocating his Ellison Institute from LA to Oxford, with plans to invest $1.3B+ into research on AI and more (Jenny Strasburg/Wall Street Journal)

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A look at Ross Ulbricht's return to public life after receiving a pardon in January, including speaking at Bitcoin 2025 and accepting millions in donations (New York Times)

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Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B Series C at a €10B pre-money valuation, becoming the top shareholder, and is expected to get a board seat (Reuters)

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Shift5, which develops cybersecurity tools for the military and critical infrastructure, raised a $75M Series C led by Hedosophia (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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A profile of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, as the gaming hardware giant readies AI tools for game development and to help players sharpen their skills (John Kang/Forbes)

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PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B+ in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy (Washington Post)

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