No Friday Pre-Orders This Year: Apple May Shift iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Orders Out of Respect for 9/11

Apple could move iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders to Saturday, Sept. 12, while its foldable iPhone and cheaper iPhone 18 models may arrive later.
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OpenAI Purchases Tens of Thousands of Mac minis, Mac Studios

OpenAI is reportedly buying tens of thousands of Mac mini and Mac Studio systems as AI labs find a new use for Apple hardware.
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Google Changes EU Spam Policy to Avert Antitrust Fine

Google is changing its site reputation abuse enforcement in the EEA after EU scrutiny, reducing one search penalty risk for publishers.
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Google Agrees to Pay £260M to Settle UK App Store Monopoly Lawsuit

Google has agreed to a £260 million Play Store settlement in the U.K., with £160 million earmarked to compensate eligible app developers.
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Meta Tests Robot Technicians: Inside Its Push to Automate Data Center Work

Meta is testing robots for data center maintenance, from swapping cables to restarting servers, raising questions about automation and IT staffing.
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Google DeepMind Seals Gemini Test to Protect AI Benchmarks

Google DeepMind tested Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite behind a cryptographic wall designed to protect confidential AI benchmarks and proprietary model weights.
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Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face Bet: A New Battle for Control of the AI Stack

Nvidia reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a deal that could reshape enterprise AI, open-source models, and the broader AI stack.
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Amazon Mechanical Turk to Shut Down Sept. 30 After 21 Years

AWS will shut down Amazon Mechanical Turk on Sept. 30, ending a 21-year platform that supplied human data and labor for research and AI projects.
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ARIA Bans Fully AI-Generated Songs From Australian Music Charts

ARIA now requires Australian chart-eligible music to be substantially human-made, excluding songs where AI creates the primary creative elements.
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Cyberattack on Three UK Airports Exposes Data of 8.7 Million Customers

A cyberattack on Manchester Airports Group exposed information belonging to about 8.7 million customers across three UK airports.
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