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Hands-on with Apple Watch Series 11, SE 3, and Ultra 3: SE 3 feels surprisingly similar to the Series 11 and the satellite SOS feature is neat (The Verge)

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Ramp says it has hit $1B in annualized revenue, after saying it had hit $700M in March; it was valued at $22.5B in July (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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Hands-on with Apple AirPods Pro 3: updated ANC system is impressive, foam ear tips are more comfortable but their fit and feel will take some getting used to (Billy Steele/Engadget)

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iPhone Air hands-on: very thin with rounded edges reminiscent of previous iPhone designs and a camera "plateau" that flows smoothly into the back of the phone (The Verge)

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Sources: Reflection AI, which is building AI coding tools, nears a deal to raise ~$1B at a valuation of $4.5B to $5.5B; Nvidia's VC arm would invest $250M+ (Financial Times)

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Apple unveils the A19 and A19 Pro chips with a 6-core CPU and a 5- or 6-core GPU, the C1X modem, and the N1 networking chip for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Thread (Tom's Hardware)

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Source: Meta signed a contract worth $140M+ to use technology from AI image startup Black Forest Labs, committing $35M in the first year and $105M in the second (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

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Apple raises the iPhone Pro starting price by $100 to $1,099; the iPhone 17 Pro Max starts at $1,199, Air at $999, and 17 at $799, all available on September 19 (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Hands-on with the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max: refreshing bold colors, soft matte unibody aluminum frame, and a nice two-tone back with a full-width camera bar (The Verge)

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Everything Apple revealed at the iPhone 17 launch event: iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, AirPods Pro 3 and more (Valentina Palladino/Engadget)

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Apple will release iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 on September 15, featuring a Liquid Glass redesign and other updates (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

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Sources: Microsoft will use Anthropic's models for some AI features in Office 365 apps, after finding Claude Sonnet 4 outperforms GPT-5 in some tasks (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

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Apple's iPhone 17 Pro has the biggest battery of any iPhone (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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Apple announces new accessories, including a slim MagSafe battery and a bumper case for the iPhone Air, new TechWoven cases, and a crossbody strap (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, with an aluminum unibody design, vapor chamber thermal management, Ceramic Shield 2 glass, and three 48MP rear cameras (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

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Apple announces the ultra-slim, eSIM-only iPhone Air with a 5.6mm design, A19 Pro chip, N1 wireless chip for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, Center Stage front camera, more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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Apple announces the iPhone 17, featuring the A19 chip, larger 6.3" display and 120Hz ProMotion support, improved brightness of up to 3,000 nits, and more (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

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Apple announces iOS 26 release date: September 15 (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

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Apple unveils the $799+ Apple Watch Ultra 3, which now includes 5G, up to 42 hours of battery life, and satellite connectivity, shipping September 19 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Apple announces $249+ Apple Watch SE 3, featuring the S10 chip, an always-on display, support for gestures, coming September 19 (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)

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Apple announces $399+ Apple Watch Series 11, its thinnest watch yet, with support for hypertension detection, Sleep Score, 5G connectivity, and more (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

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Apple unveils AirPods Pro 3 with a new design, 2x ANC performance than Pro 2, heart-rate monitor, live translation, for $249, coming September 19 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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A recording of Apple's "Awe dropping" event from Apple Park (Apple on YouTube)

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A live blog of Apple's "Awe dropping" event, where major iPhone design upgrades, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, and three Apple Watch models are announced (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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Helsinki-based DataCrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised a €55M Series A, bringing its total funding to €76.5M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Memo: Microsoft mandates staff to return to the office three days per week, starting in late February 2026 for those who live within 50 miles of its Redmond HQ (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Anthropic's Claude can now create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise users, and coming to Pro users in the coming weeks (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)

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Nvidia unveils Rubin CPX, a new chip system designed for long-context AI tasks like video generation and software development, set to launch at the end of 2026 (Ian King/Bloomberg)

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Sources: US Cyber Command and the NSA will retain a single leader after the Trump administration found that breaking up the arrangement would be very complex (Martin Matishak/The Record)

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Blockchain-based lender Figure upsizes its Nasdaq IPO and now plans to sell 31.5M shares priced between $20 and $22, aiming to raise up to ~$693M, up from $526M (Echo Wang/Reuters)

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The UAE's Institute of Foundation Models open sources its K2 Think model, trained with only ~2,000 AI chips and designed for math, coding, and science research (Cade Metz/New York Times)

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Sources: Nasdaq agrees to buy $50M in shares of the Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange in a private placement at the time of Gemini's IPO this week (Echo Wang/Reuters)

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Nvidia is attacking GOP-led proposals to limit AI chip sales to China, an unconventional lobbying blitz over what it calls left-wing paranoia from "AI doomers" (New York Times)

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Microsoft and LG partner to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to cars that use LG's Automotive Content Platform, including Kia's EV3, EV4, EV5, and Sportage in Europe (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Investigation: IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's digital surveillance state (Associated Press)

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Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, and others are preparing for AI agents, which could disrupt the travel agent business model and upend the $1.6T travel market (Financial Times)

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US jobseekers describe a hellish job market, with young people using ChatGPT to write their applications, HR using AI to read them, and few people getting hired (Annie Lowrey/The Atlantic)

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Sources: Ant Group's Ant Digital Technologies is quietly working to link ~$8.4B of energy infrastructure and other real-world assets to its AntChain blockchain (Bloomberg)

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A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks the same way it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands in the AI boom (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)

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Sources: the US informs European countries that it is stepping back from joint efforts to combat disinformation from Russia, China, Iran, and other countries (Amy Mackinnon/Financial Times)

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Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy (Wired)

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Amnesty: Pakistan is spying on millions via phone tapping and a Chinese-built internet firewall, in one of the broadest surveillance programs outside China (Ariba Shahid/Reuters)

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How David Sacks emerged as the most effective advocate for tech, crypto, and AI in the Trump administration, using his tech expertise and All-In co-host status (Ben Smith/Semafor)

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Mistral raised a €1.7B Series C at an €11.7B valuation; ASML led the round with €1.3B to become its biggest shareholder, joined by a16z, DST, Nvidia, and others (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

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Helsinki-based ReOrbit, which builds satellites and a software platform to help countries fully control their satellite systems, raised a €45M Series A (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

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The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and £250K+ to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed 40M voters' private data to Chinese hackers (Joe Tidy/BBC)

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The Nepalese government lifts its social media ban after local media reported 19+ deaths in clashes over anti-government demonstrations sparked by the ban (Gopal Sharma/Reuters)

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Evan Spiegel says Snap is restructuring around small "squads" of 10 to 15 people to compete better; Snapchat+ now brings in $700M+ in ARR from 15M+ paying users (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

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Sources: OpenAI execs fear rising political scrutiny in California could hinder its for-profit plans and have discussed moving out of the state as a last resort (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

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How VC firm 1789 Capital grew to $1B+ in assets with Donald Trump Jr. as a partner; its recent deals include investments in xAI, Neuralink, and Perplexity (Reuters)

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