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Jensen Huang says Nvidia is in talks with China over H20 security concerns, is hopeful for a resolution, and reiterates that the H20 has no "security backdoors" (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn…

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is in talks with Beijing over H20 chip security
CEO says China's concerns were unexpected but US chipmaker is hopeful of a resolution

The near unanimous verdict from over 100 top business leaders, representing some of the world’s largest companies and most iconic brands:
Trump’s policies aren’t working.
These opinions were all about business results, by the way:
the reasoning was independent of personal politics or industry sector,
it always came back to the bottom line.
Business leaders at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute’s CEO forum worry that Trump is undermining an economic…

Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it’s time to Make America into America Again
At our Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute forum, over 100 business leaders said what they really think. They're worried Trump is eroding America’s future.

Terry McLaurin contract: Commanders' Bobby Wagner says 'let business take care of business' amid WR's absence

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…

A look at SiriusXM's podcasting business; 2024's "off-platform earnings" were $606M, with podcast advertising making up most of that sum, up from $475M in 2022 (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/busines

Podcasting Is a Talent Business. SiriusXM Is Intent on Winning.
The company famous for car radio and Howard Stern has recently climbed the podcast charts by betting hundreds of millions of dollars on shows like “Call Her Daddy” and “SmartLess.”

UK-based Tide, a neobank used by 1.6M micro and small enterprises, half of them in India, raised $120M led by TPG at a $1.5B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/21/powered-by-indias-small-busin…

Powered by India's small businesses, UK fintech Tide becomes a TPG-backed unicorn | TechCrunch
Tide serves over 1.6 million micro and small enterprises globally, with more than half of them based in India.

UMG has partnered with IP asset management company Liquidax Capital to "accelerate the development of UMG's music-related AI patents", already filing 15 (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Universal Music Group Increasing Efforts on Music AI Patents
UMG said it's filed for 15 patents through the partnership already, including one related to AI threat protection.

A surge in AI company valuations is driving the popularity of special purpose vehicles, but some involve high fees, opaque structures, and layers of middlemen (Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/mar

Investors warn AI FOMO could be fueling a risky bubble in companies like OpenAI and Anthropic
As AI valuations soar into the hundreds of billions, a parallel market of temporary financial shells is proliferating to meet investor FOMO, and many investors are starting to sound the alarm bells that it portends a bubble in the AI gold rush

Meta rolls out an AI assistant for Facebook Dating in the US and Canada, to reduce "swipe fatigue" by letting users find matches via natural language prompts (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/new

Why Facebook thinks AI can help you land better dates
Facebook has an answer for swipe fatigue

Omnea, which makes AI tools for automating procurement, raised a $50M Series B led by Insight Partners and Khosla Ventures, taking its total funding to $75M (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/omnea-procurement-a…

Procurement AI startup Omnea raises $50 million from Insight, Khosla
The AI for procurement field is heating up amid economic pressure, President Donald Trump's tariffs, and the AI boom, Omnea CEO Ben Freeman said.

Sources: dozens of xAI staff voiced concerns over a program granting xAI "perpetual" access to data like their "likeness" for training; several did not consent (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-grok-t

Musk's xAI tutors objected to facial data collection project
During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one engineer said.