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This is the weekend edition of Daily Tech Headlines for the week ending Friday, September 12, 2025. I'm Sarah Lane. Let's catch up on a bit of breaking news and essential news over the past several days. Mastodon announced it's rolling out quote posts next week with added safeguards to prevent abuse. Users can control who can quote them, set visibility levels and remove their posts from someone else's quote. The feature will first arrive on Mastodon Online and Mastodon Social before becoming widely available in the 4.5 software updates. Tether appointed former White House Crypto Council Director Bo Hines as CEO of its new US unit, which will launch a regulated dollar backed stablecoin called USAT or USAT, the token is meant to complement USDT's 169 billion dollar circulation and is slated to debut by the end of the year. The company is based in Charlotte, North Carolina and and the team says USAT will prioritize transparency, governance and direct user access. Tether says it has no plans for a public listing. Anthropic agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors in what legal experts say is the largest copyright settlement in US history, averaging around $3,000 per book. The deal still needs court approval, but it would mean Anthropic has to destroy pirated files that it used and only covers past claims, leaving Future disputes open. OpenAI is set to 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 also aligns with OpenAI's participation in the Stargate project, a $500 billion investment with SoftBank and Oracle for domestic data center projects. Speaking of OpenAI and Microsoft, the two companies reached a revised partnership agreement which lets OpenAI transition into a for profit entity, but also guarantees Microsoft's continued access to its technology. This deal is meant to resolve previous tensions between the two companies and grant OpenAI the flexibility to acquire capital and utilize cloud providers beyond Microsoft. The Apple Watch Series 11 and Ultra Watch 3 will feature FDA approved hypertension alerts available in 150 countries starting September 19th. This uses the watch's optical heart sensor and a machine learning algorithm developed from a study of more than 100,000 participants to identify high blood pressure patterns over a month, then alert users to potential danger without providing specific blood pressure measurements. Announced on Tuesday. The iPhone 17 has a 6.3 inch display 8 using the new A19 chipset with a 6 core CPU and a 5 core GPU. Better battery life with 8 more hours of video playback over the iPhone 16 and dual fusion cameras including a 48 megapixel fusion ultra wide. The base model has 256 gigs of storage for $799. The iPhone 17 Pro is available in 6.3 and 6.9 inch models. A unibody design with antenna and Pro camera system runs on the A19 Pro chip and has a vapor chamber with deionized water for cooling. The base model of The Pro with 256 gigs of storage starts at $1,099 and the Pro Max at $1,199. Then the new one. The iPhone Air 6.5 millimeters thick so very thin with a 6.5 inch display and an A19 Pro 6 core chip 5 core GPU adaptive power mode for managing battery life and ESIM. No physical SIM card option available on this guy. A 256 gig model starts at $999. Pre orders are open now. Availability Starting Friday, September 19th on Wednesday, Meta and TikTok won a legal challenge in Europe's second highest court over fees related to the Digital Services Act. Meta and TikTok initially sued the European Commission over the imposition of a supervisory fee of 0.05% of annual worldwide net income to cover costs of monitoring DSA compliance. The cost was calculated based on number of average monthly active users and a company's profits or losses in a previous financial quarter. Meta and TikTok both argued that the methodology was flawed and created disproportionate fees. The Judges are giving EU regulators 12 months to redevelop the methodology, but don't have to refund the collected 2023 fees for now. For more analysis of the tech news of the day and the week, subscribe to DailyTech News Show.com you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I am Sarah Lane. Thank you for listening and enjoy the rest of your weekend and we will talk to you on Monday.