September 04, 2025

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Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M: Productivity software maker Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, which makes the Arc and Dia browsers, for $610 million in cash. Read More

DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced AI models to its subscription plan: With DuckDuckGo's $9.99 per month plan, users will be able to access newer models, including OpenAI's GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta's Llama Maverick. Read More

Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers : Scale is clearly concerned enough about the threat of Mercor, and the poaching of one of its employees, to pursue legal action. Read More

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Pornhub owner pays $5M settlement to FTC over historic failure to block abusive content: Pornhub owner Aylo will pay a $5 million settlement to the FTC and Utah over allegations that the company knowingly profited off of illegal materials. Read More

FirstClub bucks India's speed obsession, quickly triples valuation to $120M with premium approach: FirstClub has raised $23 million in a Series A round co-led by Accel and RTP Global to expand its premium quick commerce platform. Read More

Mistral, the French AI giant, is reportedly on the cusp of securing a $14B valuation: The two-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences. Read More

Apple's Siri upgrade could reportedly be powered by Google Gemini: An AI Siri is in the works and it could be running Gemini under the hood. Read More

CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe: CoreWeave hopes the YC-backed startup will help it expand up the stack and cash in on enterprises developing AI agents. Read More

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