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Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the top 30 Hong Kong&listed tech stocks, is up 41% YTD vs. Nasdaq's 17%, driven by China's AI and chip self&sufficiency push (William Sandlund/Financial Times)

Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the top 30 Hong Kong...

William Sandlund / Financial Times: Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the top 3...

Amazon expands Multichannel Fulfillment to let Walmart sellers use Amazon's logistics network to deliver orders and announces support for Shein by year&end (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Amazon expands Multichannel Fulfillment to let Walmart ...

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon expands Multichannel Fulfillment to let Walmart s...

A profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, a critic of Tr...

Wall Street Journal: A profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, a critic of Trump ...

Karoline Leavitt confirms Oracle will handle TikTok's data and security, and says the US is "100% confident" a deal is done and it "just needs to be signed" (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

Karoline Leavitt confirms Oracle will handle TikTok's d...

Ben Berkowitz / Axios: Karoline Leavitt confirms Oracle will handle TikTok's dat...

White House says the $100K H&1B fee will not apply to renewals or existing H&1B holders re&entering the US, only to future applicants in the February lottery (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

White House says the $100K H&1B fee will not apply to r...

Ben Berkowitz / Axios: White House says the $100K H-1B fee will not apply to ren...

Nvidia and Intel sidestepping questions about manufacturing in their new deal only reinforces that Intel's best path forward is to spin off its foundry business (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

Nvidia and Intel sidestepping questions about manufactu...

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia and Intel sidestepping questions about m...

Similarweb: TikTok had 183M US MAUs on iOS and Android ...

Rani Molla / Sherwood News: Similarweb: TikTok had 183M US MAUs on iOS and Andro...

China's market regulator opens a probe into Chengdu Kuaigou, a Kuaishou unit involved in livestream shopping, for suspected violations of e&commerce rules (Olivia Tam/Bloomberg)

China's market regulator opens a probe into Chengdu Kua...

Olivia Tam / Bloomberg: China's market regulator opens a probe into Chengdu Kuai...

Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demos of its new smart glasses were due to a self&inflicted DDoS and a bug that put Zuckerberg's glasses to sleep (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demos of...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demo...

Sources: xAI has raised $10B at a post&money valuation of $200B, weeks after reportedly raising $10B in debt and equity at a ~$150B valuation (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Sources: xAI has raised $10B at a post&money valuation ...

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Sources: xAI has raised $10B at a post-money valuation of $2...

Sources: Apple told at least two suppliers to boost their daily output of entry&level iPhone 17 by at least 30%, after strong pre&orders last weekend (The Information)

Sources: Apple told at least two suppliers to boost the...

The Information: Sources: Apple told at least two suppliers to boost their daily...

Canadian law enforcement seizes $40.5M in digital assets after shutting down TradeOgre crypto exchange, making it the largest Canadian crypto seizure to date. (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)

Canadian law enforcement seizes $40.5M in digital asset...

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: Canadian law enforcement seizes $40.5M in digital assets...

How Apple tests Bluetooth, Wi&Fi, 5G, and satellite connectivity on the Apple Watch, including using a Global Navigation Satellite System simulation room (Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET)

How Apple tests Bluetooth, Wi&Fi, 5G, and satellite con...

Vanessa Hand Orellana / CNET: How Apple tests Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 5G, and satellit...

China says Xiaomi will issue a software update for 115K+ SU7 EVs to fix assisted driving safety issues, its second recall&related fix since the 2024 launch (Reuters)

China says Xiaomi will issue a software update for 115K...

Reuters: China says Xiaomi will issue a software update for 115K+ SU7 EVs to fix...

Google is rolling out a Gemini button in Chrome for all desktop users in the US browsing in English, and other AI features, including AI Mode in the address bar (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Google is rolling out a Gemini button in Chrome for all...

Reece Rogers / Wired: Google is rolling out a Gemini button in Chrome for all de...

Meta announces a preview of the Wearable Device Access Toolkit, which lets developers build apps that use the vision and audio capabilities of its smart glasses (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Meta announces a preview of the Wearable Device Access ...

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta announces a preview of the Wearable Device Access T...

Numeral, which provides AI&powered sales tax compliance software, raised a $35M Series B led by Mayfield at a $350M valuation, six months after an $18M Series A (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Numeral, which provides AI&powered sales tax compliance...

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Numeral, which provides AI-powered sales tax complia...

Anthropic details three infrastructure bugs that intermittently degraded Claude's responses between August and early September, and explains how they were fixed (Anthropic)

Anthropic details three infrastructure bugs that interm...

Anthropic: Anthropic details three infrastructure bugs that intermittently degra...

OpenAI and Apollo Research trained o3 and o4&mini versions to not engage in "scheming", or secretly pursuing undesirable goals, reducing "covert actions" ~30X (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)

OpenAI and Apollo Research trained o3 and o4&mini versi...

Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: OpenAI and Apollo Research trained o3 and o4-mini vers...

Activist investor Elliott announces a $2B stake in Workday and says the company's new multi&year plan will drive "substantial long&term value creation" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Activist investor Elliott announces a $2B stake in Work...

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Activist investor Elliott announces a $2B stake in Workday...

Court filings: Tesla has settled two lawsuits over deaths in two separate California crashes in 2019 involving Autopilot; the terms were not disclosed (Reuters)

Court filings: Tesla has settled two lawsuits over deat...

Reuters: Court filings: Tesla has settled two lawsuits over deaths in two separa...

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieves a gold medal performance at the 2025 ICPC World Finals programming competition; only four out of 139 human teams won gold medals (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieves a gold medal performance...

Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieves a gold medal perform...

Google updates its Search app's Discover page to let users follow specific publishers and creators; it plans to add YouTube Shorts and X and Instagram posts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Google updates its Search app's Discover page to let us...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google updates its Search app's Discover page to let us...

Indian on&demand home services provider Urban Company surged 56%+ in its stock market debut after raising $215M in India's most oversubscribed major IPO of 2025 (Ashutosh Joshi/Bloomberg)

Indian on&demand home services provider Urban Company s...

Ashutosh Joshi / Bloomberg: Indian on-demand home services provider Urban Compan...

The UK has ramped up the use of facial recognition, AI, and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach (New York Times)

The UK has ramped up the use of facial recognition, AI,...

New York Times: The UK has ramped up the use of facial recognition, AI, and inte...

Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have raised $5B+ via bonds this month for AI and digital infra; with JD.com, their combined 2025 AI capex is projected to top $32B (Bloomberg)

Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have raised $5B+ via bonds ...

Bloomberg: Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have raised $5B+ via bonds this month for...

Jack Altman's Alt Capital raised $275M for a new fund to lead more Series A rounds at AI startups, a jump from the $150M fund it closed in February 2024 (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

Jack Altman's Alt Capital raised $275M for a new fund t...

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: Jack Altman's Alt Capital raised $275M fo...

Modern Animal, a veterinary clinic network that uses proprietary AI&powered software to enhance veterinary workflows, raised a $46M Series D (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Modern Animal, a veterinary clinic network that uses pr...

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Modern Animal, a veterinary clinic network that uses ...

Sources: Binance nears a deal with the US DOJ to remove the outside compliance monitor imposed under its $4.3B 2023 settlement over money laundering failures (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg)

Sources: Binance nears a deal with the US DOJ to remove...

Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg: Sources: Binance nears a deal with the US DOJ to re...

OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as business finance officer, reporting to CFO Sarah Friar, to oversee infrastructure spend; he left xAI in July (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as business...

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as busines...

Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek tightened its grip on Meta's AI glasses supply chain, including making "Hypernova", through a spate of dealmaking (Financial Times)

Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek tightened its g...

Financial Times: Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek tightened its grip on M...

Amazon plans to hold its 2025 Prime Big Deal Days from October 7 at 12:01am PT through October 8, exclusive to Prime subscribers (Brandon Russell/The Verge)

Amazon plans to hold its 2025 Prime Big Deal Days from ...

Brandon Russell / The Verge: Amazon plans to hold its 2025 Prime Big Deal Days f...

Apple launches iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26, featuring Liquid Glass design, new Apple Intelligence features, and more (José Adorno/BGR)

Apple launches iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watch...

José Adorno / BGR: Apple launches iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26,...

macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small regressions in usability and accessibility but the upgrade has enough iterative changes like automated Shortcuts (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small regressio...

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small ...

iOS 26 review: Liquid Glass is aesthetically pleasing, many quality&of&life upgrades, call screening is a true game changer, but the Games app feels unfinished (Zachary McAuliffe/CNET)

iOS 26 review: Liquid Glass is aesthetically pleasing, ...

Zachary McAuliffe / CNET: iOS 26 review: Liquid Glass is aesthetically pleasing,...

A deep dive into the architecture of Nvidia's Rubin CPX chip, which is optimized for long&context AI tasks and the prefill phase of inference (SemiAnalysis)

A deep dive into the architecture of Nvidia's Rubin CPX...

SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into the architecture of Nvidia's Rubin CPX chip, whic...

The AI revolution has more in common with shipping containerization than the boom unleashed by the microprocessor: diffuse global benefits but few new fortunes (Jerry Neumann/Colossus)

The AI revolution has more in common with shipping cont...

Jerry Neumann / Colossus: The AI revolution has more in common with shipping con...

A look at training sessions hosted by robotaxi companies, like Zoox, to teach first responders how to handle emergencies involving self&driving cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

A look at training sessions hosted by robotaxi companie...

Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: A look at training sessions hosted by robotaxi com...

Google's Gemini app is the #1 app in the US App Store, ...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google's Gemini app is the #1 app in the US App Store, dr...

World Liberty Financial blocking Justin Sun's wallet contrasts with the Trump sons' complaints about being "debanked", the issue they said inspired the project (Molly White/Citation Needed)

World Liberty Financial blocking Justin Sun's wallet co...

Molly White / Citation Needed: World Liberty Financial blocking Justin Sun's wal...

A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone service that some experts say will likely remain complementary to existing networks, focusing on rural coverage (Washington Post)

A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone servic...

Washington Post: A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone service that s...

Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Silicon Valley companies racing to develop AI, as the voices of AI "doomers" fade in prominence (Peter Guest/Bloomberg)

Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Si...

Peter Guest / Bloomberg: Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Si...

Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B&parameter model it says is the largest open LLM trained from scratch with differential privacy, on Hugging Face and Kaggle (Google Research)

Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B&parameter model it say...

Google Research: Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says is the...

Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&D and capital spending at its Hiroshima fab to mass produce advanced DRAM, aiming for shipments by August 2028 (Hajime Tsukada/Nikkei Asia)

Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&D...

Hajime Tsukada / Nikkei Asia: Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&...

Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican for its top policy role, instead choosing an Obama alumn as it adopts a cooler stance towards Trump (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)

Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican ...

Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to h...

China launches probes into alleged US discrimination against Chinese chip companies and suspected dumping of US analog chips used in devices like Wi&Fi routers (Ryan Woo/Reuters)

China launches probes into alleged US discrimination ag...

Ryan Woo / Reuters: China launches probes into alleged US discrimination against...

What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on September 17 at 5pm PT: "Hypernova" smart glasses with a display, Meta AI and Llama updates, and more (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on Se...

Karissa Bell / Engadget: What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on Se...

Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotatio...

Grace Kay / Business Insider: Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data anno...

Lendbuzz, which uses AI to underwrite auto loans, files for a US IPO and reports H1 2025 revenue up 38% YoY to $172.9M and net income up 98.2% YoY to $11.1M (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

Lendbuzz, which uses AI to underwrite auto loans, files...

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: Lendbuzz, which uses AI to underwrite auto loans,...

Downloads of Jack Dorsey&backed Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat spiked to 48K+ in Nepal during recent protests, according to Bitchat developer "callebtc" (Javier Bastardo/Forbes)

Downloads of Jack Dorsey&backed Bluetooth P2P messaging...

Javier Bastardo / Forbes: Downloads of Jack Dorsey-backed Bluetooth P2P messagin...

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