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This is the weekend edition of Daily Tech Headlines for the week ending Friday, September 26, 2025. I'm Sarah Lane. Let's catch up on a bit of breaking news and essential news over the past several days. Electronic Arts is reportedly planning to go private in a deal that could reach $50 billion with potential investors including Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners. The move could be announced next week and would likely be the largest leverage buyout in history. EA's franchises include Madden NFL, EAFC, the Sims and Battlefield. The Saudi fund already holds around 9% of EA. The US President signed an executive order approving a $14 billion deal to transfer TikTok's US operations to a new joint venture with ByteDance holding less than 20%. The move satisfies a national security law requiring ByteDance to divest or face a US ban. TikTok has around 170 million US users. Oracle is expected to help rewrite TikTok's US algorithm under bipartisan oversight from Congress and the Supreme Court. Microsoft Edge will soon block malicious side loaded extensions or third party add ons installed outside the official Edge Add on store. The feature is launching in November for standard multi tenant instances and will detect or revoke unsafe extensions that before they can harm users. This follows other Edge security updates including AI powered Scare Wear detection warnings for performance harming extensions, HTTPs first mode and automatic memory saving tab management. Anthropic announced plans to triple its international workforce and expand its applied AI team fivefold this year to support global enterprise growth. Claude now has over 300,000 enterprise customers with nearly 80% of usage outside the US and Anthropic is opening offices in Tokyo, Dublin, London and Zurich. The company is leaning into deployments in sectors like pharmaceuticals, finance and telecom. Neon, a viral app that records phone calls and pays users for audio data to train AI models, quickly became a top five free iPhone app after its launch last week with thousands of users and 75,000 downloads in a single day. Thursday, the app was taken offline due to a security flaw discovered by TechCrunch, which exposed users phone numbers, call recordings and transcripts. Founder Alex Kiam took down the servers and notified users of a pause, but didn't mention the security lapse. A US Court ruled that the Department of Defense can classify DJI as a Chinese military company, while the judge found DJI is not directly owned by the Chinese Communist Party. Evidence of government support subsidies and partial state backed ownership qualifies as a military civil fusion contributor, which meets the criteria for the designation. DJI faces an import ban in the US starting this December, though it's expected to appeal. YouTube is reinstating creators previously banned for violating COVID 19 and election integrity policies. The decision was sent in a letter to Representative Jim Jordan, emphasizing the company's commitment to free expression and acknowledging that past policies may have stifled public debate. This follows a subpoena from Representative Jordan investigating potential government collusion in speech censorship. YouTube is also testing AI hosts in the YouTube Music app through its new Labs program. The hosts, who are definitely not human, still provide stories, trivia and commentary in an attempt to enhance the listening experience. The experiment is in the US for now. Separately, some premium only features, like the AI powered Jump Ahead tool that skips to the most engaging parts of the video, are now fully available on TV and console versions of YouTube, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports. The ESAFETY Commission has expanded the list of companies it's contacted to decide if they need to comply with the Australian social media ban for kids under the age of 16. The list now includes Meta for their apps Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, Snap, TikTok, YouTube X, Pinterest, Discord, Reddit, streaming services, Twitch and Kick gaming platforms Steam, Roblox and Lego play hub app, GitHub and dating site Match. The ban is set for December 10th. Amazon is closing all 19 of its Amazon Fresh UK convenience grocery stores less than five years after entering the UK market, with five locations slated for conversion to the Whole Foods Market brand. The stores used walkout technology, letting customers bypass checkout lines. Amazon says it was a difficult decision and came after evaluating the business and significant growth opportunities in online delivery. The U.S. general Services Administration, or GSA, the government's purchasing army, will add Meta's Llama AI to the list of approved AI tools for federal agencies. The GSA previously signed off on AI tools for Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and Amazon Web Services. The approved companies agreed to sell the paid versions of their products to the government at a discount and comply with security requirements. On Friday, Meta introduced Vibes, a new platform for AI generated videos available from the Meta AI app and website. Users can create, share and remix short videos, adding visuals and music, and can upload directly to Vibes or cross post to Instagram and Facebook. Stories and reels. Meta reorganized its AI efforts into Super Intelligence Labs back in June. Vibes is meant to create new revenue streams following some issues with Meta's Llama 4 model and staff departures. For more analysis of the tech news of the day and the week starts, subscribe to DailyTreeNewsHow.com you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I'm Sarah Lane. Thanks for listening, enjoy your weekend and we'll talk to you Monday.