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How Brazil's Pix digital payment system, adopted by 80%+ of citizens, became a target of the Trump administration, which says it unfairly undercuts US companies (@ana_ionova / New York Times) nytimes.com/2025/09/29/wor… techmeme.com/250929/p46#a25…
Internal memo: Microsoft is unifying its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization led by Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, reversing a 2018 split (@tomwarren / The Verge) theverge.com/report/787796/… techmeme.com/250929/p45#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Open-source Android app store F-Droid says Google's upcoming requirement for all Android devs to verify their identity threatens to kill alternative app stores (@RyanWhitwam / Ars Technica) arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0… techmeme.com/250929/p44#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Automated financial advisor startup Wealthfront files publicly for an IPO and reports net income of $60.7M on revenue of $175.6M in H1 2025 (@BTLipschultz / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250929/p43#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
A judge sentences Frank founder Charlie Javice to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase by overstating how many customers the fintech company had (CNBC) cnbc.com/2025/09/29/jpm… techmeme.com/250929/p42#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after Jan. 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits (Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/us-news/law/yo… techmeme.com/250929/p41#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev says Robinhood Prediction Markets crossed 4B event contracts traded all-time, with over 2B in Q3 alone; HOOD closes up 12.27% (Bernard Goyder / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250929/p40#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; the first-in-the-nation AI safety law requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes (@ChaseDiFelice / Politico) politico.com/news/2025/09/2… techmeme.com/250929/p39#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Sources: Vanguard, the asset manager which has historically been critical of cryptocurrencies, prepares to allow access to crypto ETFs on its brokerage platform (Crypto in America) cryptoinamerica.com/p/vanguard-eye… techmeme.com/250929/p38#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed with AI-generated videos and a recommendation page (Wired) wired.com/story/openai-l… techmeme.com/250929/p37#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Sources: OpenAI told studios that it plans to release a new version of Sora that creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out (Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/tech/ai/openai… techmeme.com/250929/p36#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is faster and more steerable than Opus 4.1 and excels in Claude Code, but GPT-5 Codex is still better for difficult production coding tasks (@danshipper / Every) every.to/vibe-check/vib… techmeme.com/250929/p34#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Anthropic prices Claude Sonnet 4.5 at $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens, same as Sonnet 4, cheaper than Opus at $15/$75 but higher than GPT-5 at $1.25/$10 (@simonw / Simon Willison's Weblog) simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/29/cl… techmeme.com/250929/p35#a25…
Anthropic adds context editing and a memory tool to the Claude API, allowing AI agents to handle long-running tasks without frequently hitting context limits (Anthropic) anthropic.com/news/context-m… techmeme.com/250929/p33#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
OpenAI is open sourcing the Agentic Commerce Protocol, a standard for AI commerce that powers its Instant Checkout feature and was co-developed with Stripe (@sabrinaa_ortiz / ZDNET) zdnet.com/article/chatgp… techmeme.com/250929/p32#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Anthropic announces upgrades to Claude Code: a native VS Code extension, a new terminal interface, and checkpoints for autonomous operation (Anthropic) anthropic.com/news/enabling-… techmeme.com/250929/p31#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants (@ashleycapoot / CNBC) cnbc.com/2025/09/29/cha… techmeme.com/250929/p30#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 4.5 spent 30 hours running autonomously, writing 11,000 lines of code to build a chat app akin to Slack or Teams (@haydenfield / The Verge) theverge.com/ai-artificial-… techmeme.com/250929/p29#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5, claims it is the world's best coding model, strongest for building complex agents, and its "most aligned" frontier model (Anthropic) anthropic.com/news/claude-so… techmeme.com/250929/p28#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…
Flying Tulip, founded by DeFi veteran Andre Cronje aiming to build a full-stack onchain exchange, raised a $200M seed at a $1B token valuation (@Yogita_Khatri5 / The Block) theblock.co/post/372787/an… techmeme.com/250929/p27#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

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