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Google announces Veo updates: support for vertical video and 1080p, lower pricing, and general availability of Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast in the Gemini API (Google Developers Blog)

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SEC filing: Microsoft strikes a deal worth up to $19.4B through 2031 to get AI cloud computing power from Nebius Group; NBIS jumps 50%+ after hours (Bloomberg)

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E-commerce company Eightco soared over 3,000% on Monday after announcing a plan to buy Worldcoin tokens and naming Wall Street analyst Dan Ives as chairman (Bloomberg)

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Dell says its CFO, Yvonne McGill, will resign effective September 9 after nearly 30 years with the company and names SVP David Kennedy as interim CFO (Savyata Mishra/Reuters)

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Intel announces top-level executive changes, including the departure of its products chief, Michelle Holthaus, and establishes a new central engineering group (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

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Source: Amazon took a stake in Colombian delivery startup Rappi via a $25M convertible note, entitling it to buy up to 12% via warrants if milestones are met (Bloomberg)

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AI infrastructure company Pinecone's CEO Edo Liberty will step aside and into a new role as chief scientist; ex-Google executive Ash Ashutosh will become CEO (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said "the open web is already in rapid decline", contradicting Google's recent statements (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)

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Local Nepalese media reports that 19+ people were killed in clashes over anti-government demonstrations sparked by a ban on leading social media platforms (Andres Schipani/Financial Times)

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The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnership of Anduril and Meta and a $195M contract to Rivet, to produce competing prototypes of a new combat goggle (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

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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)

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A look at the looming DJI drones ban in the US, as some say the ban will be disruptive; no federal agency has undertaken a mandated security risk assessment (Farah Stockman/New York Times)

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Attaullah Baig, ex-head of security at WhatsApp, sues Meta for allegedly ignoring critical security flaws, claims Meta staffers could access sensitive user data (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

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Anthropic becomes the first major AI company to back SB 53, a California bill that requires large AI companies to disclose safety testing protocols (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Motion, which sells an integrated suite of AI agents for SMBs, raised a $38M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $75M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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Cognition raised $400M led by Founders Fund at a $10.2B valuation, up from $4B in March; its coding tool Devin's ARR grew from $1M in Sept. 2024 to $73M by June (Bloomberg)

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YouTube says its first exclusive NFL broadcast on September 5 averaged more than 17.3M global viewers, including 1.1M average minute audiences outside of the US (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

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AI audio startup ElevenLabs launches a tender offer to let staff sell up to $100M in stock at a $6.6B valuation, up from a $3.3B valuation in January 2025 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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Current and ex-Meta employees submitted documents and affidavits to Congress alleging that Meta suppressed research on child safety risks in its VR platforms (Washington Post)

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