Friday, September 19, 2025

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Trump hits H-1B visas with $100,000 fee, targeting the program that launched Elon Musk and Instagram

Connie Loizos / techcrunch - President Trump signed a proclamation Friday requiring employers to pay a hefty $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications—an enormous jump from the current $215 lottery registration fee—targeting the very program that helped create some of Silicon Valle…

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Bonkers CDC vaccine meeting ends with vote to keep COVID shot access

Beth Mole / arstechnica - A push to require prescriptions for every COVID shot failed in a split vote.

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After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC’s The View

Jon Brodkin / arstechnica - Carr: "Turn your license in to the FCC, we'll find something else to do with it."

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Donald Trump plans to raise cost of H-1B foreign worker visa to $100,000 - Financial Times

google - Donald Trump plans to raise cost of H-1B foreign worker visa to $100,000 Financial Times

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iPhone 17 demand surprises Apple as production ramps 40%

Asma Hussain / ithinkdiff - Apple did not expect the iPhone 17 to be its breakout hit this year, but strong pre-orders have forced the company to boost production significantly. According to The Information, Apple asked two suppliers to increase daily iPhone 17 output by...Read more…

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Elon Musk's xAI raising $10 billion at $200 billion valuation: sources

cnbc - The fundraising comes weeks after Musk raised $10 billion in debt and equity at what was believed to be a roughly $150 billion valuation, according to Faber.

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Microsoft Is Torpedoing Xbox With Yet Another Price Hike

Kyle Barr / gizmodo - It’s blaming today’s ‘macroeconomic environment,’ aka President Donald Trump.

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Trump Says U.S. and China Approve TikTok Deal After Call With Xi

Amrith Ramkumar / wsj - The announcement caps off months of tense negotiations that put the video-sharing app at the center of trade talks between the two sides.

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Nvidia Considers $500 Million Investment in Autonomous Driving AI Firm Wayve

PYMNTS / pymnts - Nvidia is evaluating a $500 million investment in Wayve, a developer of embodied artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicles. Wayve said in a Thursday (Sept. 18) press release that it has signed a letter of intent with Nvidia to evaluate the investmen…

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OpenAI is raiding Apple's talent and manufacturing pool for its wild AI hardware dream

appleinsider - Jony Ive's OpenAI is poaching some of Apple's best people and hitting up iPhone component manufacturers, betting it can succeed at hardware where others have flopped.Apple IntelligenceOpenAI is aggressively poaching Apple talent with $1M+ stock offers. It…

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The Morning After: Meta's Ray-Ban Display is the closest thing yet to true smart glasses

Mat Smith / engadget - Revealed at Meta’s Connect 2025 conference, the Ray-Ban Display has a small, integrated display on the right lens, designed for quick, discreet glances at notifications, directions and even video calls. The clever part is its subtlety; to an onlooker, you…

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Intel Isn’t Giving Up on its Arc GPUs Despite Nvidia Partnership

Laurent Giret / thurrott - Intel said that it's not giving up on its own Arc GPUs despite working with Nvidia on custom x86 chips with integrated RTX graphics.The post Intel Isn’t Giving Up on its Arc GPUs Despite Nvidia Partnership appeared first on Thurrott.com.

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Meta CTO explains the cause of its embarrassing smart glasses demo failures

Mariella Moon / engadget - When Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta's latest smart glasses at the company's Connect 2025 keynote, he encountered two glitches that prevented him from properly demonstrating some of the devices' features. Now, Meta's Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Boswor…

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iOS 26 is here and this is what it's bringing to the table

Steve Vegvari / pocket-lint - iOS 26 is here! Here's what you need to know about the latest software update from Apple.

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Google is turning Chrome into an AI web browser powered by Gemini

Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Google’s love affair with AI shows no signs of burning out, and the company has just announced even deeper integration of Gemini into Chrome. Billed as a reimagining of the web browser with artificial intelligence, Google says this is about more than just…

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Nvidia to invest £2BN in UK AI startups

John Reynolds / tech - Nvidia is to invest £2bn in the UK AI startup ecosystem. Nvidia said: “The new capital will be used to foster economic growth, develop more innovative AI technologies, create new companies and jobs, a...

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