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These are the daily Tech Headlines for Thursday, September 11, 2025. I'm Rob Dunwoody. OpenAI will reportedly purchase $300 billion in compute power from Oracle over five years starting in 2027, making it one of the largest cloud contracts ever. This expands on OpenAI's existing use of Oracle's compute services since mid-2024 and a reduction in its sole reliance on Microsoft Azure. This move aligns with OpenAI's participation in the Stargate project, a $500 billion investment with SoftBank and Oracle for domestic data center projects. OpenAI's high demand for compute is also reflected in a reported cloud deal with Goog. Despite their AI rivalry, the fierce Apple vs Samsung rivalry in the US smartphone market is heating up, with screen innovation taking center stage. Samsung's market share has risen 8% to 31% share due to diverse products and popular foldable phones well suited for AI Apple maintaining its candy bar design plans new form factors including a slimmer iPhone and a potential foldable model to compete and raise prices. AI's growing influence on consumer electronics sees Samsung using Google's Gemini AI on offering feature Apple lacks, though Apple's brand loyalty may provide time to adapt DoorDash's expanding drone delivery test to San Francisco, opening a 34,325 square foot R&D warehouse in the Mission District. This facility will employ about 200 employees, with most testing indoors and limited outdoor flights. This move expands DoorDash's existing drone pilots and partnerships and the company is also exploring ground based robots, aligning with a broader trend of automation and AI. YouTube has officially launched its multi language audio feature, enabling creators to add dubbing to videos in various languages. This feature, piloted since 2023 with creators like Mr. Beast, now incorporates an AI powered auto dubbing tool using Google's Gemini technology to replicate a creator's voice and emotions. Pilot results show over 25% watch time from non primary languages and Jamie Oliver's channel tripled its views. YouTube is also testing multi language thumbnails to further enhance accessibility for international audience A French parliamentary committee has concluded that TikTok deliberately endangered the health and lives of its users, leading its chairman to request a criminal probe. This action follows a 2024 lawsuit and recommendations for banning social media for children under 15 and imposing a nighttime curfew for those aged 15 to 18. TikTok now faces a prosecutor's decision amidst international scrutiny and calls for stricter social media regulation for minors. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav believes HBO Max is significantly undervalued and is planning a price hike, citing the high quality of their film, TV and streaming content as justification. Currently, HBO Max plans range from $9.99 per month with ads to 2,099 per month for a premium tier, a pricing structure Zavlov deems way underpriced. Additionally, Zaslav reiterated plans to push on password sharing, following up on a previous threat to become more aggressive in September, Apple's new Live Translation with AirPods feature, announced at WWDC, will allow real time translated conversations on iPhone 15 and later devices with Apple Intelligence and AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 with iOS 26 arriving September 15th. Live Translation will not, however, be available in the EU for users with Apple Europe accounts and who are in Europe, possibly due to strict EU AI and privacy regulations. The feature currently supports English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish, with plans to add Italian, Japanese, Korean and simplified Chinese. Later in 2025, California State assembly passed SB243, a bill to regulate AI companion chatbots, particularly to protect minors and vulnerable individuals. If signed into law, California would be the first state to mandate safety protocols for AI companions and hold companies accountable for violations. Effective January 1, 2026, it addresses suicidal ideation, self harm and sexually explicit content requiring platforms to alert use they are interacting with AI. The bill also establishes an annual reporting and transparency requirement for major AI companies and allows individuals harmed by violations to pursue lawsuits. And finally, Microsoft will discontinue Outlook Lite for Android on October 6, 2025, to focus resources on the main Outlook mobile app. Despite its popularity and features like reduced battery usage and network optimization for using in emerging markets, Microsoft is prioritizing the full Outlook app, which includes cloud storage and the copil. The full app, available on both iOS and Android, is a comprehensive email client that displays ads unless users have Microsoft365 personal or family subscriptions. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to dailytechnewshow.com and if you enjoy the show, remember to tell a friend to check us out. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next time.