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Over 100K Nepali citizens gathered on Discord to help nominate an interim leader after protests sparked by a social media ban led to the government's collapse (www.nytimes.com)
2025-9-12 Ban

California SB 243, which would mandate safety protocols for AI companion chatbots, has passed the State Assembly and Senate and now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-12 AI chatbot California Senate

Switzerland proposes regulations forcing service providers to collect user IDs and disable encryption, threatening its status as a haven for privacy tech firms (therecord.media)
2025-9-12 Switzerland

Sources: OpenAI and Nvidia will pledge billions in UK data center investments during their next week's trip, which coincides with President Trump's UK visit (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-12 Trump Nvidia

Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot industry faces hurdles, from battery life and design to limited demand for large-scale deployments (spectrum.ieee.org)
2025-9-12 Robot Battery

Apple gets FDA clearance for hypertension alerts on Apple Watch, and plans to roll out the feature to Series 11, 10, and 9, and Watch Ultra 3, and 2 next week (9to5mac.com)
2025-9-12 Apple

AI Use At Large Companies Is In Decline, Census Bureau Says (slashdot.org)
2025-9-12 AI

Alibaba releases Qwen3-Next, a new model architecture optimized for long-context understanding, large parameter scale, and better computational efficiency (www.alizila.com)
2025-9-12 Alibaba

Databricks' head of AI, Naveen Rao, is transitioning to an advisory role; source: his next venture will focus on a next-gen computer to address rising AI costs (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-12 AI

Windows Developers Can Now Publish Apps To Microsoft's Store Without Fees (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-9-12 Microsoft

'No Tax On Tips' Includes Digital Creators, Too (news.slashdot.org)
2025-9-12 Tax

Source: the clause rescinding Microsoft's access to OpenAI's most powerful tech if OpenAI develops AGI remains part of their new deal, but it has been modified (www.nytimes.com)
2025-9-12 Microsoft

OpenAI and Oracle Ink Historic $300 Billion Cloud Computing Deal (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-9-12 Oracle

The US Is Now the Largest Investor In Commercial Spyware (news.slashdot.org)
2025-9-12

Gmail Will Now Filter Your Purchases Into a New Tab (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-9-12

Source: crypto exchange Gemini raises $425M in its IPO, selling about 15.2M shares for $28 each after marketing them for $24 to $26 apiece (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-12 IPO

Albania appoints an AI bot named Diella as the minister responsible for managing and awarding all public procurement tenders to combat corruption (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-12 AI

VMware To Lose 35 Percent of Workloads In Three Years (slashdot.org)
2025-9-12 VMware

Small Businesses Face a New Threat: Pay Up or Be Flooded With Bad Reviews (slashdot.org)
2025-9-12

Court Rejects Verizon Claim That Selling Location Data Without Consent Is Legal (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-9-12

OpenAI and Microsoft say they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the next phase of their partnership, and are working to finalize terms (www.axios.com)
2025-9-12 Microsoft

OpenAI says its nonprofit parent will continue to have oversight over the company and will own an equity stake of more than $100B (www.cnbc.com)
2025-9-12 Equity

Figure's shares closed up 24% at $31.11 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a ~$6.6B market cap, after the company and some of its backers raised $787.5M in its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-12 IPO

Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue Perplexity Over AI 'Answer Engine' (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-9-12 AI

Google plans to shut down Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to Airtable, in December and directs users to migrate to Google Sheets or AppSheet (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-12 Google

Adobe reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.99B, vs. $5.91B est., Digital Media revenue up 12% to $4.46B, and Digital Experience revenue up 9% to $1.48B (www.cnbc.com)
2025-9-12 Adobe

Sega Accused of Using Police Raid To Recover Nintendo Dev Kits After Office Disposal Error (games.slashdot.org)
2025-9-12 Nintendo

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity, alleging that it unlawfully scraped their websites and redirected their traffic to its AI summaries (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-12 AI

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO Says HBO Max is 'Way Underpriced' (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-9-12

Microsoft investigates Exchange Online outage in North America (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-9-12 U.S. Microsoft

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