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Anthropic is considering letting some shareholders sell stock (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-considers-letting-shareholders-sell-ipo-departing-spacex-playbook?utm_campaign=L%3A+IPO+Tracker+%2B+The&utm_content=14675&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=10277&rc=gzsl71 ) in what could be a blockbuster IPO, while also weighing a longer-than-usual lockup period after its listing.

Robotaxis are real now — so is the pushback. As more robotaxis hit the road, the fight over the rules governing the technology is intensifying #Auto Future https://www.theverge.com/transportation/983765/robotaxi-waymo-zoox-tesla-rules-pushback-nhtsa?utm_source=snacks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=snacks_20260827&utm_content=148912374b10b2291b5f26b4501cb1f0

Anthropic and OpenAI’s move to develop #Artificial Intelligence applications and features tailored to specific industries continues to worry their customers, some of which must now compete head-on with their main AI suppliers (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/will-anthropic-openai-stop-selling-best-ai-businesses?offer=rtsu-engagement-25%2Crtsu-featured-articles-pro&cio_link_id=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__3a2493e684a14dee0fb6ae672f95d2b98942badcbe5c63309c95013640ba335d&utm_campaign=%5BClaude%5D+%5BNL%5D+RTSU%3A&utm_content=14529&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=10150).

Worries that Waymo will take business from Uber have pummeled the stock this year. But sellers are overlooking the value of its delivery business. #The Most Important Thing Sellers are overreacting. Uber can still sustain rapid growth and expand its profit margins while staying competitive in the autonomous-driving race #Auto Future in the years to come. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/uber-bears-taken-wrong-turn?offer=rtsu-engagement-25%2Crtsu-featured-articles-pro&utm_campaign=%5BClaude%5D+RTSU%3A+Uber&utm_content=14538&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=10159&rc=gzsl71

California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, is getting a lot of attention for the lawsuit he and 11 other state attorneys general filed to block Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery. The state attorneys general are operating under the delusion that we’re still in the 1990s—they allege that Paramount would get too much power in the slowly dying cable television industry and the film industry.  Someone needs to remind the attorneys general that strength in streaming video, not cable, is what matters now, and in streaming both Paramount and Warner are behind leaders like Netflix. It is possible Bonta is trying to do Paramount CEO David Ellison a favor. After all, the best thing for the company would be to jettison many of the cable channels it would inherit if the Warner deal goes through. And since Paramount is taking on a lot of debt—the combined business would have $79 billion of debt at closing—raising money by selling a few declining assets wouldn’t be a bad idea. Ellison should thank Bonta for the idea and dump as many cable channels as he can!

After 15 years leading Apple, Tim Cook is stepping down as chief executive on Monday. And while he is committed to a smooth transition and continuity to the tenure of John Ternus—senior vice president of hardware engineering, who takes over on Tuesday—changes are already happening. Notably, long-time Apple executive Phil Schiller is stepping down as head of App Store and product events, Bloomberg reported. The App Store team will be moved under services lead Eddy Cue, while events will be switched to public relations lead Kristin Huguet Quayle. Schiller, who previously was senior vice president of marketing until 2020, was part of the Apple old guard with deep connections to cofounder Steve Jobs when he came back to the company to successfully lead the company as CEO. (Schiller was once nicknamed “mini-Steve” as he mirrored Jobs’ fierce management style.) Schiller was often more influential than his titles would suggest, as he would weigh in on various parts of the business and product strategy. Bloomberg reported that Schiller would stay involved in the company and keep his title of “Apple Fellow” but was part of ultimately retiring. In his own goodbye memo to employees, Cook wrote: “This is a moment I always knew would come one day, and yet it is still hard to believe it has arrived and I am writing these words.” Cook will stay on as executive chairman and is expected to be deeply involved in parts of the company. “I look forward to seeing you in my new role at Apple Park and around the world,” he wrote https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/apple-s-phil-schiller-steps-down-from-running-app-store-and-product-events?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124

Palo Alto Networks lifted revenue 34% to $3.4 billion in the three months ending in July. CEO Nikesh Arora attributed the growth, which accelerated from 31% the quarter prior, to growing demand for cybersecurity from companies seeking to defend against new AI-powered threats. Still, Palo Alto Networks reported a net loss of $282 million in the quarter, compared with $254 net income a year prior, stemming in part from costs associated with its $25 billion acquisition of CyberArk earlier this year. The company touted growing sales of its AI-powered software: Arora said that one product released last spring that focused on securing companies’ AI agents has grown to over $120 million in annual recurring revenue. Arora also said that the company’s XSIAM product, which uses AI to detect and flag potential security threats, surpassed $700 million in annual recurring revenue, up from $400 million a year earlier. Arora also announced that Palo Alto Networks on Tuesday closed an acquisition of Console, a startup that sells software that handles employees’ IT support requests directly in Slack using AI agents. The deal reflects Arora’s growing appetite for deals that expand Palo Alto Networks beyond its core business of cybersecurity into adjacent IT management categories; The Information reported last month that Arora was seeking out such deals. “AI is underscoring the urgent need for unified platforms,” Arora told shareholders, pointing to OpenAI’s recent AI security breaches as evidence of the need for more protection. “If [companies] deploy agents and those agents go rogue, how do we make sure our agents don’t run to Hugging Face?” https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/palo-alto-networks-panw-q4-2026-earnings.html

TSMC is developing an advanced chip-packaging technology similar to what Intel offers, a sign that the Taiwanese giant is worried about Intel. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tsmc-develops-ai-chip-packaging-tech-counter-intel?offer=rtsu-engagement-25%2Crtsu-featured-articles-pro&utm_campaign=RTSU%3A+TSMC+Develops&utm_content=14355&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=9983

China is not only exporting EVs, but also exporting a new competitive standard. #Auto Future Once Chinese brands enter a market, they reset expectations for range, equipment, software speed, charging performance and price. That may be even more dangerous for legacy OEMs than the vehicles themselves. Tariffs can buy time in protected markets. But they do not automatically force incumbents to improve. The real question is what legacy OEMs do with that time before the Chinese benchmark becomes the global default.#Data is beautiful https://medium.com/the-geopolitical-economist/how-china-ate-the-global-auto-industry-0a8e5ed2f186

The recent memory chip selloff offers investors a new opportunity to jump into the sector. Samsung is the best bet (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/samsung-new-memory-chip-underdog-now?offer=rtsu-engagement-25%2Crtsu-featured-articles-pro&cio_link_id=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__78ca81c10356e79c74244627892e95b58455d370dcff128d8b5b345ed5d6e7a7&utm_campaign=RTSU%3A+Samsung+Is+the&utm_content=14230&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=9879).

Shares of Chinese online fashion giant Shein ended flat on its first day of trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange, capping off the company’s convoluted multiyear quest to go public. Shein’s shares opened at HK$48.56 on Tuesday, and dropped as much as 10% before shedding the losses and closing at HK$48.5, according to Hong Kong stock exchange data. By comparison, the benchmark Hang Seng Index dipped 0.93%. As of Tuesday market close, Shein had a market capitalization of $26 billion, a far cry from the height of $100 billion reached during a private funding round in 2022. The company raised HK$13.6 billion ($1.7 billion) in the initial public offering. Shein for years tried to downplay its China roots and position itself as a global company, as its fashionable, ultracheep clothing gained popularity among consumers in the West. The company tried to go public in both New York and London, but the attempts were thwarted by criticism against its labor and environment practices and China’s straining ties with the U.S. Wearing a white, Shein-branded T-shirt like other employees, Sky Xu, the company’s elusive founder and CEO, attended the listing ceremony in Hong Kong but stayed out of the limelight most of the time. He didn’t deliver a speech or participate in the iconic Hong Kong-style gong-striking ritual on stage to mark the beginning of trading. Shein’s employees struck the gong and CFO Leigh Gui delivered a short speech. https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/shein-set-lacklustre-debut-after-setbacks-cause-huge-drop-valuation-2026-08-31/

A Chinese company has begun manufacturing one of the key pieces of equipment used in chip manufacturing (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-starts-mass-producing-homegrown-duv-chipmaking-tools-advance-local-chip-industry?offer=rtsu-engagement-25%2Crtsu-featured-articles-pro&cio_link_id=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__8f2b3d61f0380cd8920b03394d74226b6f59db594e301dda6ed60c27592ff1e2&utm_campaign=RTSU%3A+China+Starts+M&utm_content=14318&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=9951), a key step towards self reliance in chips.