Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger "Sponsored" label at the top and a hide button at the bottom (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger “Sponsored” label at the top
A federal jury finds that Samsung owes Collision Communications nearly $445.5M in damages for infringing on patents related to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standards (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
Blake Brittain / Reuters: A federal jury finds that Samsung owes Collision Communications nearly $445.5M in damages for infringing on patents related to 4G, 5G,
Sources: Dario Amodei is in India as Anthropic plans a Bengaluru office and explores a partnership with Reliance, seeking to expand in its second-largest market (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Sources: Dario Amodei is in India as Anthropic plans a Bengaluru office and explores a partnership with Reliance, seeking to expand
OpenAI updates GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in distress; ChatGPT will route such sensitive parts of conversations to the model (@openai)
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Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride raised about $100M, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, up from a valuation of €400M in a 2021 funding round (Rafaela Lindeberg/Bloomberg)
Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg: Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride raised about $100M, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, up from a valuation of €400M
How JD Vance played a key role in the TikTok US deal, amid concerns about the VP acting as a corporate dealmaker in the forced spin-off of a private company (Washington Post)
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Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has spoken to TSMC CEO C.C. Wei about a partnership or a joint venture; he also met with Tim Cook this year; INTC is up 9%+ (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has spoken to TSMC CEO C.C. Wei about a partnership or a joint venture; he also met
Meta rolls out an AI assistant for Facebook Dating in the US and Canada, to reduce "swipe fatigue" by letting users find matches via natural language prompts (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)
Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: Meta rolls out an AI assistant for Facebook Dating in the US and Canada, to reduce “swipe fatigue” by letting
Microsoft plans to raise Xbox Series X price by $50 to $649.99 and Series S by $20 to $399.99 starting Oct. 3, citing "changes in the macroeconomic environment" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
Jez Corden / Windows Central: Microsoft plans to raise Xbox Series X price by $50 to $649.99 and Series S by $20 to $399.99 starting
Trump extends the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok's US operations until December 16, the fourth such extension; a deal is expected to be finalized soon (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Trump extends the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok’s US operations until December 16, the fourth such extension; a deal is expected to be
