Sept. 9, 2025
The iPhone Air
All the headlines from the iPhone event earlier today, including the new iPhone Air. The judge isn’t happy with Anthropic’s $1.5 B payday to authors. OpenAI isn’t happy with California and might leave. And despite what it’s said publicly, Google recently argued in court that the post-AI web is already dying.
Links:
- Apple announces iPhone Air: the thinnest iPhone ever (9to5Mac)
- Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro has the biggest battery of any iPhone (The Verge)
- Anthropic Judge Blasts $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (2) (Bloomberg Law)
- Xbox is coming to cars thanks to an LG and Microsoft partnership (The Verge)
- OpenAI Executives Rattled by Campaigns to Derail For-Profit Restructuring (WSJ)
- Microsoft mandates a return to office (The Verge)
- New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline (Search Engine Roundtable)
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