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Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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New York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets (Kevin T. Dugan/Wall Street Journal)
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At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China share the "capability and responsibility" to manage AI for good and calls for healthy competition (Financial Times)
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Sources: Gen Digital, created by the 2022 merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, has made a takeover offer for GoDaddy, which has a market cap of $12.2B (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)
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Sources: a White House memo paints effective altruism as a fringe, dangerous cult that "built the AI-doom pipeline" and places Dario Amodei at its foundation (Axios)
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OpenAI discovered the Australian breach in August but didn't alert the government until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic disclosure address (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
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Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year (New York Times)
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Amazon plans to invest $100M to build a robotics manufacturing facility in Indiana, set to open by 2028; its robots at 300+ facilities help with 75% of orders (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic plan to launch an AI safety standards body without government oversight in late 2026 or 2027, and are considering CEOs (The Information)
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Sources: Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl to delay payments on the 2.45GW Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico if it fails to launch in 2028 (Bloomberg)
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ASML's European revenue share dropped to 0% in Q1 and Q2 2026, down from 1% in 2025 and 5% in 2024; ASML is urging EU authorities to create demand for EU chips (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
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Qualcomm says it has extended its global licensing pact with Apple, starting in April 2027; the partnership has been shaped by an April 2019 settlement (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
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Dallas-based enterprise browser security startup Island raised $400M led by Evolution Equity Partners at a $6.4B valuation and plans to grow its staff to 1,500 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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Industry group TechNet files a comment with the US DHS urging the White House to withdraw its proposal to charge $103,265 for most new H-1B visa applications (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Amazon plans to invest $1B into its Indian quick commerce operations by the end of 2027, and another $2B by 2030, as it battles local rivals (Reuters)