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Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese tech companies remain keen on Nvidia's AI chips despite Beijing strongly discouraging them from such purchases (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-4 China Alibaba AI Nvidia

Philips Hue unveils a major product refresh at IFA 2025, including a $90 Hue Bridge Pro, updated $25 smart bulbs, and the $169 Hue Secure doorbell, its first (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-4

The US v. Google ruling signals a cautious antitrust approach by courts and a reluctance to intervene too deeply, ahead of other Big Tech antitrust rulings (www.nytimes.com)
2025-9-4 Google

Samsung unveils the $650+ Galaxy S25 FE and $800+ Tab S11 series in 11" and 14.6", offering thinner, lighter designs alongside modest upgrades, shipping now (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-4 Samsung

Sweeteners Can Harm Cognitive Health Equivalent To 1.6 Years of Aging, Study Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2025-9-4

Sources: DeepSeek is developing an agentic AI model that can carry out multi-step actions with little direction as well as learn and improve, set for a Q4 debut (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-4 AI 4Q

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-4 India

Taiwan's Hsinchu chip hub, where childcare perks and high salaries make raising children more viable, is the only place where its fertility rate is not falling (restofworld.org)
2025-9-4 Taiwan

Universities have begun appointing Chief AI Officers tasked with developing curricula, promoting tech partnerships, and integrating AI into faculty workflows (fortune.com)
2025-9-4 AI

Melvyn Bragg Steps Down From BBC Radio 4's In Our Time After 26 Years (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-9-4

10 Weird but Useful New Jobs for AI Technology (listverse.com)
2025-9-4 AI

As the Pentagon rushes to deploy AI into its weapons systems, some experts fear humans can't keep pace with AI's aggressive tendency to escalate in a crisis (www.politico.com)
2025-9-4 AI Pentagon

AlliedOffsets: Microsoft dominates credit purchases from technology-based carbon removal projects, accounting for about $8B of the $9.5B market to date (www.ft.com)
2025-9-4 Microsoft

US banking groups warn a GENIUS Act loophole, which allows crypto exchanges reward stablecoin holdings, could drive users to pull money from traditional banks (www.wired.com)
2025-9-4

At IFA 2025, tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Samsung and startups like Doma are expected to showcase how AI could make smart homes more intuitive (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-4 Google Amazon Samsung Startup AI

Uber is tapping Indian drivers for its data-labeling arm, Uber AI Solutions, offering extra income for completing micro tasks like tagging objects in photos (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2025-9-4 India Uber AI

Despite setback in the DOJ's Google case, the Trump administration continues to pursue antitrust cases against Big Tech while defending US tech companies abroad (t.co)
2025-9-4 Trump Google

CEOs of Apple, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others are expected to attend an AI event hosted by Melania Trump and dinner at the White House Rose Garden on Thursday (thehill.com)
2025-9-4 Trump Google AI Apple

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 (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-4 AI Robot

Switzerland launches Apertus, an open-source AI model trained only on publicly available data across more than 1,000 languages, in 8B and 70B parameter sizes (www.engadget.com)
2025-9-4 AI Switzerland

Putin and Xi Caught Discussing Organ Transplants and Immortality (science.slashdot.org)
2025-9-4

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 (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-4 Startup

Sources: Lambda, a cloud provider that rents out Nvidia chips, has hired banks to prepare for a US IPO as soon as H1 2026; it was valued at $2.5B in February (www.theinformation.com)
2025-9-4 IPO Nvidia

Anthropic named the Qatar Investment Authority as a “significant” investor in its $13B round; QIA expects to do up to 25 tech deals through 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-4 Qatar

American Bitcoin closed up 16.5% in its Nasdaq debut on Wednesday, valuing Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.'s stake in the bitcoin mining company at $1.5B (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-4 Trump U.S. Bitcoin

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 (www.courthousenews.com)
2025-9-4 Google

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Projects available to all free users, and allows more files to be added to projects; Projects was previously exclusive to paid subscribers (www.engadget.com)
2025-9-4

Switzerland Releases Open-Source AI Model Built For Privacy (news.slashdot.org)
2025-9-4 AI Switzerland

France's CNIL fines Google €325M for placing tracking cookies and ads in Gmail without users' consent; Google says it is reviewing the decision (www.france24.com)
2025-9-4 France Google

Google's Latest Pixel Drop Brings the Material 3 Expressive UI To Older Devices (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-9-4 Google

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