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Jay Peters / The Verge: Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sue Pocketpair, accusing the Palworld developer of infringing on “multiple patent rights”  —  Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, which makes the game Palworld.

Sarah Emerson / Forbes: Court filings: X has moved its official headquarters to Bastrop, Texas, a small town just outside of Austin that's also home to SpaceX and The Boring Company  —  The billionaire CEO of X announced the company would be moving its headquarters out of California earlier this year.

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Playtika agrees to buy Tel Aviv-based mobile game maker SuperPlay for $700M, and up to an additional $1.25B if SuperPlay hits financial targets over three years  —  Playtika has agreed to acquire SuperPlay, a mobile gaming company in Israel for a price ranging from $700 million to $1.95 billion.

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Sources: the hackers behind the February data breach of drug distributor Cencora received a record ransom of $75M through three bitcoin installments in March  —  - Payment made through three Bitcoin installments in March  — Dark Angels hacking gang pursues high prices and low profile

Jack Nicas / New York Times: X says a change in network providers resulted in an “inadvertent” service restoration to Brazilian users; regulators expect to restore the block soon  —  Elon Musk's social network used a technical maneuver to restore service for many Brazilians after a court blocked it.

Reuters: Sources: Google tried to end an EU antitrust probe by offering to sell its ad marketplace AdX, or Ad Exchange, but European publishers rejected the proposal  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google took a major step this year to end an EU antitrust investigation with an offer to sell …

Matthew Martin / Bloomberg: Groq partners with Aramco to build a data center in Saudi Arabia by 2024, says it will be the world's largest AI inferencing center with 19K Groq's custom GPUs  —  The California-based startup will operate what it has said will be the world's largest AI inferencing center that initially …

Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg: Research based on the US Census Bureau's data from 2008 to 2021 suggests online dating may be partially to blame for a rise in income inequality in recent times  —  - With apps, people increasingly marry someone like themselves  — It helps explain the increase in income inequality since 1980

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware operation was behind an August 24 cyberattack and that it appears “some Port data was obtained by the actor”  —  Port of Seattle, the United States government agency overseeing Seattle's seaport and airport, confirmed on Friday …

Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: How Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are fighting an Ohio power company's proposal to increase the upfront energy costs they'll pay for their data centers  —  Negotiations between Big Tech and an Ohio power utility could set a national precedent as communities grapple with the energy demands of the data center boom.

Bloomberg: Some of the largest custodial banks are interested in crypto custody but are hindered by the SEC rule SAB 121, which establishes accounting standards  —  - Coinbase, BitGo have been among the dominant service providers  — SEC rule seen making it impractical for banks to do custody

The Verge: A look at the US DOJ's divestment case against TikTok, which relies on classified material that TikTok can't review, as oral arguments begin on September 16  —  Next week, a court will hear arguments about whether the US government can ban TikTok, based on evidence it doesn't want anyone — including the social media company — to see.

PYMNTS.com: Nirvana, which provides insurance verification and cost estimates to healthcare providers and their patients, raised a $24.2M Series A led by Northzone  —  Nirvana has raised $24.2 million in a Series A funding round to add more specialties to its platform that provides insurance verification …

Aditya Kalra / Reuters: Regulatory reports: India's CCI accuses Samsung, Xiaomi, and other smartphone makers of collusion for exclusively launching products on Amazon and Flipkart  —  Samsung, Xiaomi and other smartphone companies colluded with Amazon and Walmart's (WMT.N) Flipkart to exclusively launch products …

Zoltan Vardai / Cointelegraph: Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of USDC issuer Circle, says the company is moving its global HQ to One World Trade Center in New York City, ahead of a planned IPO  —  2025 could bring stablecoins into the mainstream, after 2024 introduced a “turning point year in crypto,” according to Circle's Allaire.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Boston-based AceUp, which offers AI-powered business coaching and performance analytics services, raised a $22.5M Series A led by PJC  —  Is a business coach really worth the investment?  Execs often seek coaches to bolster aspects of their work, like communication skills and their productivity.

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: Maryland-based Aembit, a non-human identity and access management provider, raised a $25M Series A led by Acrew Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$45M  —  Aembit has raised $25 million in Series A funding to protect non-human identities and minimize attack surface.

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Apple's Activation Lock for iPhone components will make a huge dent in the market for stolen iPhones, though it introduces another barrier to DIY repairs  —  Apple's latest theft-prevention measure went live for beta testers yesterday: Activation Lock for iPhone components.

Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News: Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold teardown: impressive repairability for a foldable, with a modular design that separates high mechanical wear parts like the USB-C port  —  The Pixel 9 Pro Fold has come a long way since the first generation Pixel Fold.  That's because unlike other foldable smartphones …

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: OpenAI should've stuck with the name Strawberry for o1, avoiding user confusion between models named 4o and o1, and helping humanize the tech  —  They're wrong, but there are other, more pressing product questions...  Well, what was coming in “the next couple of weeks” ended up being “the next couple of days” — here's Kylie Robison:

Bloomberg: A profile of Chase Herro, who calls himself the “dirtbag of the internet” and sources say is the dealmaker behind Trump's crypto project World Liberty Financial  —  'If you do this right, who f—ing cares if it goes to zero,' Chase Herro once said of crypto.

Financial Times: An overview of California's AI safety bill SB 1047, which easily passed the state's legislature, as it awaits Governor Newsom's signature or veto before Sep. 30  —  California's Gavin Newsom has until September 30 to decide whether to sign legislation that will reach far beyond the state

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Recent announcements from Apple and Google show that AI is most useful as a feature in devices and software we already use, rather than a standalone product  —  Apple and Google are showing how AI is really a feature in other products at this stage  —  AI's boosters have billed it as a technology …

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Doctor Web: malware dubbed Android.Vo1d has infected ~1.3M TV boxes running OSes based on Android Open Source Project in almost 200 countries, forming a botnet  —  Infection corrals devices running AOSP-based firmware into a botnet.  —  Researchers still don't know the cause …