How Coinbase is navigating the easing regulatory environment, increasing acceptance of crypto in the financial system, and intensifying competition (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
Nikou Asgari / Financial Times : How Coinbase is navigating the easing regulatory e…
Google's Gemini app is the #1 app in the US App Store, driven by its Nano Banana model, which has been used to edit 500M+ images since its August 26 launch (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google's Gemini app is the #1 app in the US App Store, …
JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post : JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the…
Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch : Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called C…
Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shunyu from OpenAI; a source and Chinese media say Tencent offered him a CN¥100M+, or ~$66M, pay package (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
Pei Li / Bloomberg : Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shunyu …
GE Vernova plans to sell its Proficy industrial software unit to PE firm TPG for $600M and reinvest the proceeds in grid software (Reuters)
Reuters : GE Vernova plans to sell its Proficy industrial software unit to PE firm …
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)
Jay Peters / The Verge : Apple unveils the $799+ Apple Watch Ultra 3, which now inc…
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)
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : Aikido Security says attackers injected malware …
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)
New York Times : A look at Ross Ulbricht's return to public life after receivin…
Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra stablecoin project, reflects on Libra's failure, what Stripe's Tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more (Christian Catalini/Forbes)
Christian Catalini / Forbes : Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra st…
An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate fell from 5.5% in July to 4.5% in August, while active tech job postings declined 2.6% from July (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal : An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's u…
Roblox is testing Roblox Moments, a TikTok-like video app allowing users to share 30-second clips of gameplay, and makes the source code available to developers (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg : Roblox is testing Roblox Moments, a TikTok-li…
The Trump administration plans to ease rules for self driving cars by removing some requirements designed for human drivers, such as windshield wipers (Keith Laing/Bloomberg)
Keith Laing / Bloomberg : The Trump administration plans to ease rules for self dri…
Mistral updates Le Chat with a memory feature for chats and an MCP connector directory supporting over 20 enterprise platforms, both available on its free plan (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat : Mistral updates Le Chat with a memory feature for chat…
Disney agrees to pay $10M to settle an FTC complaint that alleges Disney failed to designate certain YouTube videos as being made for children (Sara Fischer/Axios)
Sara Fischer / Axios : Disney agrees to pay $10M to settle an FTC complaint that al…
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)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI developm…
An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the company's M&A strategy as it acquires Madrid-based data observability startup Onum for about $290M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune : An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the c…
Source: Indian fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League plans to lay off ~60% of its local workforce, after the government banned online real-money games (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
Aditya Kalra / Reuters : Source: Indian fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier Leagu…
The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : The price per token for AI models has fall…
Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident (David Gilbert/Wired)
David Gilbert / Wired : Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims respons…
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