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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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

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

Adobe to bring its video editing app Premiere to iPhones: Adobe is planning to bring its video editing software Premiere to the iPhone. The company has listed the app on the App Store with a pre-order link and an expected release date of September 30. 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

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

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