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We will remain independent. Our focus is Dia. I've written and rewritten this post more times than I'd like to admit, but what I keep coming back to is simple: the work continues, and we're grateful for this moment</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c36c92eac5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@can:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e78b9bfc15&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">i know people have feelings about the browser co acquisition but one thing starting a company taught me is that getting anything up and running is an obscene amount of effort and the fact that anyone ships anything is worth celebrating</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c132e72125&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@postcarl:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8d4fbb7e61&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">The Browser Company acquisition is a massive win for design. Arc is one of the most thoughtfully built products of the last decade, and @joshm 's team is world-class. I love using Dia and have nothing but praise for them. That said: Atlassian paying $610M—all cash—for a pre-revenue, early-stage company? It's really hard to understand deal dynamics from the outside, but for me, this feels like the most official bubble event so far</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bca8f49ad1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CEOs of Apple, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others will attend a dinner hosted by President Trump at the White House Rose Garden</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Hill</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250904/i2.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">President Trump on Thursday will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for the first event … </span> <span class="cite">(The Hill)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4f60a3bf64&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@elonmusk:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c4a4b46920&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@Chesschick01 I was invited, but unfortunately could not attend. A representative of mine will be there.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3d2e8113a3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@rapidresponse47:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=90d37df773&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">.@mkratsios47 at the AI Education Task Force hosted by @FLOTUS: “We are here today to talk about our future in the most real sense imaginable — how America's children can be prepared to build our country tomorrow with the cutting edge tools of today.” [video]</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=17b442e8b4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@satyanadella:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a310bfdd77&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">AI is the defining technology of our time, and how we empower people to use it will shape our nation's future. Thank you to @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS for making this a national priority. At Microsoft, we're committed to doing our part, with new initiatives to empower teachers and students with the latest AI tools, build AI skills, and create economic opportunity.</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> <table class="clustered_items" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:0px 10px 0 32px;"> <ul style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;"> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5fc892ff74&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Code.org, IBM, and other companies pledged new commitments for AI in education as part of a White House event hosted by Melania Trump</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ashley Gold / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </li> </ul> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;background-color:#f4f4f4;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:middle;"> <span class="label" style="display: block;color: #686860;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;padding: 2px 0;">SPONSOR</span> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e879d2b97a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Discover the top reporters on AI safety, robotics, stablecoins, and much more</a></span> <span class="excerpt" style="color: black;font-size: 16px;"> — We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 50 topics. 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No sub needed!</span> </td> <td style="padding:0 20px 0 15px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;"> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5ef98a0d53&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;"> <img class="sponsor_image" src="https://techmeme.com/simg/techmeme_lb.png"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=70f69d4340&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Stripe and Paradigm unveil Tempo, a Layer-1 blockchain for stablecoins; a source says Tempo will not launch with its own token and there is no launch timeline</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Leo Schwartz / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250904/i31.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">Patrick Collison, chief executive officer and co-founder of Stripe, left … </span> <span class="cite">(Leo Schwartz / Fortune)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7bff91778d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@patrickc:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b94231969c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Introducing @Tempo. At Stripe, we care about high-throughput, low-latency payments use cases. As the use of stablecoins (and crypto more broadly) grows across Stripe, Bridge, and Privy, we found that existing blockchains are not optimized for them.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=05b7019398&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@jackforestell:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1ceb40f714&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Excited to be involved with @Tempo from day one, helping shape blockchain infrastructure purpose-built for payments. The future is multi-chain: stablecoins will operate across diverse blockchain networks and Visa is enabling interoperability between chains and stablecoin brands.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6cb707eddd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@paulg:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=59905c281e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">This looks like it's going to be a big deal.</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6c5c441143&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Honeywell's Quantinuum raised $600M from Quanta, Nvidia's NVentures, and others at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in January 2024</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=056094ae1c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A US jury orders Google to pay $425M+ to plaintiffs in a 2020 class action lawsuit for collecting data even after they turned off Web & App Activity tracking</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Margaret Attridge / </span><span class="pub_name">Courthouse News Service</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f6415edabb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, building upon the 500-character text limit for posts</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jay Peters / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7f836ec66f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An Anthropic executive says the company will stop selling AI services to majority Chinese-owned groups</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=803afbd273&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match employers with candidates with AI skills, and a certification program for AI roles in the coming months</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3bae0039a4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Adobe plans to launch a free version of its Premiere video editor for iPhone later this month, with one-tap exporting to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dominic Preston / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c4bed794ca&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Microsoft is set to avoid a potentially hefty EU antitrust fine by agreeing to sell Teams separately from its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 packages</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Samuel Stolton / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> artificial intelligence </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1a194f3b89&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: DeepSeek is developing an agentic AI model that can carry out multistep actions with little human intervention and can learn and improve, coming in Q4</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Saritha Rai / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=61f214943c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Anthropic named the Qatar Investment Authority as a “significant” investor in its $13B round; the QIA expects to do up to 25 tech deals across 2025 and 2026</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ac885c5d3d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Switzerland launches Apertus, an open-source AI model trained on publicly available data across 1,000+ languages, in 8B- and 70B-parameter sizes on Hugging Face</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mariella Moon / </span><span class="pub_name">Engadget</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2e05c198ec&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tencent releases HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, trained on 100K+ video clips</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Benj Edwards / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=066283acce&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">WBD files a copyright suit against Midjourney, accusing the startup of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Batman</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Winston Cho / </span><span class="pub_name">The Hollywood Reporter</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2b0cd89966&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: Nvidia agreed to rent 10,000 of its own AI chips from Lambda for $1.3B over four years, the latest example of Nvidia's circular financial arrangements</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=96c757e71f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google now lets US-based Google Photos users turn static images into silent four-second videos using its Veo 3 model</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Elissa Welle / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=08bb6fbcd3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A profile of Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, which is unique among AI companies in having a mandate to both evaluate its AI models and publicize findings widely</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sharon Goldman / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=26c63c075c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">As the Pentagon races to deploy AI into its weapons systems, some experts fear humans can't keep up with models that prefer to escalate aggressively in a crisis</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Michael Hirsh / </span><span class="pub_name">Politico</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=af304a1ee1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US Army awards a $98.9M contract to TurbineOne to deploy AI software that helps identify drones and other threats, processing all data on soldiers' devices</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Heather Somerville / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=edc95c7273&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Uber's AI Solutions data-labeling arm is using Indian drivers, offering extra income for completing micro tasks in the Uber app, like tagging objects in photos</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Pranav Mukul / </span><span class="pub_name">The Economic Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=314ab940ea&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Universities are appointing Chief AI Officers to add AI tools to staff workflows, promote tech partnerships, and develop curricula that teach students AI skills</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">John Kell / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> chipmakers </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9637e1b10f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese tech companies remain keen on Nvidia's AI chips despite Beijing strongly discouraging them from such purchases</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3b5908639b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">SK Hynix's union approves SK's 6% wage bump plus 10% of SK's annual profit allocated to a bonus pool, costing ~$2.7B for 33,625 staff in 2025, averting a strike</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Yoolim Lee / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9158119293&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Indian government data: India's push to develop a local chip industry is gaining momentum, with $18B in investment commitments and $7B+ in allocated subsidies</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Menaka Doshi / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d3b181d412&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Taiwan's Hsinchu chip hub, where childcare perks and high salaries make raising multiple kids more feasible, is the only Taiwanese area with population growth</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Hsiuwen Liu / </span><span class="pub_name">Rest of World</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> funding deals </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c38e24c98b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by “hundreds of millions”</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ashley Capoot / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2d7a397d5f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">ID.me, a digital ID service used by US agencies like the IRS, raised a $340M Series E led by Ribbit at a $2B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $580M+</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=47a19464c0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Lead Bank, a 97-year-old Missouri bank rebuilt to serve fintech and crypto firms, raised $70M from a16z, Khosla Ventures, and others at a $1.47B valuation</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emily Mason / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bce710202e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Ketryx, which is building an AI-native compliance platform to speed up medical device development, raised a $39M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M+</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyt Dotson / </span><span class="pub_name">SiliconANGLE</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8874b9a080&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tel Aviv-based Sola, which develops AI-based no-code and low-code cybersecurity tools, raised a $35M Series A led by S32 and says it has ~2,000 customers</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Resilience Media</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b80e808ada&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Augment, founded by Deliverr's Harish Abbott, raised an $85M Series A led by Redpoint to scale its AI assistant for logistics, five months after a $25M seed</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marina Temkin / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ca6c533df5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Bengaluru-based FirstClub, a grocery delivery startup prioritizing quality over speed, raised a $23M Series A led by Accel and RTP Global at a $120M valuation</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jagmeet Singh / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=65c2c1c6be&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Orchard Robotics, which uses cameras and AI to help fruit growers manage crops more precisely, raised a $22M Series A led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marina Temkin / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> IFA 2025 </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3efcb279d0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Philips Hue unveils a major product refresh at IFA 2025, including a $99 Hue Bridge Pro, updated $25+ smart bulbs, and the $170 Hue Secure, its first doorbell</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=992a955eb9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Samsung unveils the $650+ Galaxy S25 FE and the $800+ Tab S11 in 11" and 14.6" versions, offering thinner, lighter designs and modest spec bumps, shipping now</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dominic Preston / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7659de44ae&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">At IFA 2025, tech giants like Amazon, Google, Samsung, and LG, and startups like Doma, are expected to showcase how AI could make smart homes more intuitive</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> earnings </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ff4005f002&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $16B, vs. $15.8B est., AI revenue up 63% to $5.2B, vs. $5.11B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dina Bass / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a20f08ab35&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Docusign reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $800.6M vs. $780.1M est., raises FY 2026 sales outlook, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; DOCU jumps 8%+ after hours</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Katherine Hamilton / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> cryptocurrency </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=204ee476a0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">American Bitcoin closed up 16.5% in its Nasdaq debut on September 3, valuing Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.'s ~20% stake in the bitcoin mining company at $1.5B</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3953469879&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US banking groups warn that a GENIUS Act loophole that lets crypto exchanges reward stablecoin holdings could push people to pull money from traditional banks</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Adam Willems / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e2c51e42f1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Research and 25 experts, victims, and execs: North Korean hackers are saturating the crypto industry with credible-sounding job offers in a bid to steal crypto</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> social networks </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=48995cbc14&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: plans for X Money, a US payments service integrated into X, have stalled as executives leave and the DFS NY and other state regulators raise concerns</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Theo Wayt / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d4f31dcbcd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">GSR fund documents: TikTok rival Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in the US, saw its valuation rise 19% from $26B in March to $31B during recent GSR transactions</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Echo Wong / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header" style="border-bottom:3px solid #004860;letter-spacing:1px; color:#004860;font-weight:bold; padding:4px 10px;"> IPOs </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fb5bd9002a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: StubHub and Netskope plan to start formally marketing their IPOs as soon as Monday; StubHub could raise $1B+, and Netskope is seeking to raise ~$1B</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e1e758efc1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Lambda, a cloud provider that rents out Nvidia GPUs, has hired banks to prepare for a US IPO as soon as H1 2026; Lambda was valued at $2.5B in February</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> more news </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4f7c2faedb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Despite a setback in the US DOJ's Google case, the Trump administration continues to pursue Big Tech antitrust cases while defending US tech companies overseas</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="clustered_items" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:0px 10px 0 32px;"> <ul style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;"> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d463a55595&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US v. 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