Elon Musk's lawyer pledges to fight OpenAI's for-profit restructuring and says California's and Delaware's AGs "cannot sanitize OpenAI's unlawful conduct" (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Elon Musk's lawyer pledges to fight OpenAI's for-profit restructuring and says California's and Delaware's AGs “cannot sanitize OpenAI's unlawful conduct”  —  Elon Musk's lawyer pledged to continue the billionaire's legal crusade against OpenAI as he slammed the attorneys general …

After Nvidia GTC, Jensen Huang says "I don't believe we're in an AI bubble" and that Nvidia expects to sell 20M Blackwell chips, up from 4M Hopper chips (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
After Nvidia GTC, Jensen Huang says “I don't believe we're in an AI bubble” and that Nvidia expects to sell 20M Blackwell chips, up from 4M Hopper chips  —  Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang announced a flurry of new partnerships and dismissed concerns about an AI bubble …

Amazon says it will cut ~14,000 jobs from its corporate workforce, after cutting 27,000 across 2022 and 2023; the company had 1.55M employees globally in June (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Amazon says it will cut ~14,000 jobs from its corporate workforce, after cutting 27,000 across 2022 and 2023; the company had 1.55M employees globally in June  —  Amazon.com Inc. said it was cutting about 14,000 jobs in a major restructuring.  —  The positions will be eliminated across …

How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle (New York Times)

New York Times:
How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle  —  In northwest Saudi Arabia near the Red Sea, a planned $5 billion data center would provide enough computing muscle for coders …

The US DOJ's rigged-poker-game indictment involved hacking DeckMate, a casino-standard, suitcase-sized, $10K+ card shuffling machine, to reveal players' hands (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)

Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg:
The US DOJ's rigged-poker-game indictment involved hacking DeckMate, a casino-standard, suitcase-sized, $10K+ card shuffling machine, to reveal players' hands  —  The rigged-poker-game indictment unveiled on Thursday reads like a Hollywood heist film, featuring NBA stars and famous Mafia crime families.

Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android  —  The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift …

Sources: Apple is working on a vapor chamber for the next iPad Pro in 2027 and plans to start selling ads in its Maps app as early as next year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a vapor chamber for the next iPad Pro in 2027 and plans to start selling ads in its Maps app as early as next year  —  Apple is working on a vapor chamber to improve cooling and performance in an iPad Pro slated for as early as 2027.

Rumble plans to roll out a bitcoin tipping feature, developed in partnership with Tether, to its 51M creators in December; Tether has invested $775M in Rumble (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
Rumble plans to roll out a bitcoin tipping feature, developed in partnership with Tether, to its 51M creators in December; Tether has invested $775M in Rumble  —  The feature is developed with Tether and was announced at the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, Switzerland.

Pave Bank, which lets businesses manage both fiat and digital assets in real time, raised a $39M Series A led by Accel, with Tether and others participating (RT Watson/The Block)

RT Watson / The Block:
Pave Bank, which lets businesses manage both fiat and digital assets in real time, raised a $39M Series A led by Accel, with Tether and others participating  —  - Pave Bank raised $39 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel, with participation from Tether Investments, Wintermute, and others.

A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right's campaign against it (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right's campaign against it  —  Larry Sanger's long-standing claims of liberal bias and mismanagement at the world's dominant online encyclopedia are being enthusiastically embraced on the right.

Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks (The Information)

The Information:
Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks  —  OpenAI recently made a splash with artificial intelligence that generates short videos from text prompts—say, a scene from …

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboarding for 50M+ accounts, for ~$90M (CTech)

CTech:
Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboarding for 50M+ accounts, for ~$90M  —  The Israeli digital asset firm, valued at $8 billion, broadens its platform amid industry-wide stablecoin momentum.

The EU accuses Meta and TikTok of violating their obligations to give researchers adequate access to public data on their platforms under the DSA (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)

Eliza Gkritsi / Politico:
The EU accuses Meta and TikTok of violating their obligations to give researchers adequate access to public data on their platforms under the DSA  —  Move comes as EU faces pressure over enforcing its tech lawbooks.  —  BRUSSELS — The European Commission on Friday accused Meta and TikTok …

EU accuses Meta under DSA of failing to give users easy ways to flag illegal content and adequate tools to appeal moderation decisions, in preliminary findings (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)

Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal:
EU accuses Meta under DSA of failing to give users easy ways to flag illegal content and adequate tools to appeal moderation decisions, in preliminary findings  —  Allegations against Facebook and Instagram owner risk ire of Trump administration  —  BRUSSELS—The European Union charged Meta Platforms …

OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage Data Centers plan to build a data center in Wisconsin called Lighthouse, costing $15B+ and set to open in 2028, as part of Stargate (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Juby Babu / Reuters:
OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage Data Centers plan to build a data center in Wisconsin called Lighthouse, costing $15B+ and set to open in 2028, as part of Stargate  —  OpenAI, along with Oracle (ORCL.N) and Vantage Data Centers, will develop a data center campus in Wisconsin, as part of the Stargate project …