Monthly Archives: September 2025

Licensed gaming businesses in Sweden report 7 billion SEK in turnover in 2025 Q2

Licensed gaming companies in Sweden reported a turnover of SEK 7 billion in the second quarter of 2025, an increase from the year before. Gaming companies with a Swedish license shared a turnover of SEK 7 billion ($740 million) in … Continue reading

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Google leads monster week for tech, pushing megacaps to combined $21 trillion in market cap

Tech’s megacaps got bigger this week, and the eight trillion-dollar companies now make up a combined 36% of the S&P 500.

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle authors’ copyright lawsuit

Authors had sued Anthropic, claiming the AI startup had illegally used their books to train its models.

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Hitachi Energy Pledges $1B to Strengthen US Grid, Build Largest Transformer Plant in Virginia

Rising AI, EV, and industrial power demands strain the US grid. Hitachi Energy boosts transformer output to secure reliable energy for America’s future.

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Screw the money — Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers

Writers aren’t getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI — this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.

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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.

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Trump threatens trade probe after ‘discriminatory’ EU fines against Google, Apple

President Donald Trump threatened to launch a trade investigation to “nullify” Europe’s fines against Google and other U.S. tech firms.

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Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down

Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down.

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Attorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for children and teens. 

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Cutting through the equity noise: Don’t miss this powerhouse panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Leaders from Pulley, 645 Ventures, and Epigram Legal join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco. Register to join.

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