TNB Tech Minute: Apple Removes ICE-Tracking Apps From App Store
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Boardrooms love buzzwords. AI, climate, resilience. But what do they actually mean for CFOs and |
| 0:06.1 | execs trying to survive the next earnings call? That's where the pre-read comes in. Real experts and real talk. |
| 0:11.7 | Subscribe to the pre-read, presented by Workieva. Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Friday, October 3rd. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:29.9 | Apple has removed apps that enable users to track U.S. immigration and customs enforcement agents from its app store. |
| 0:38.5 | The Justice Department demanded the removal of one such app, ICE block, after raising concerns that it could put law enforcement officers at risk. |
| 0:43.1 | A spokesman for Apple said the company removed it and similar apps from the App Store too. |
| 0:48.0 | IceBlock's developer said the app was engaged in protected speech and compared it to apps that crowdsource speed traps. BlackRock is nearing a deal to acquire aligned data centers for about $20 billion. |
| 0:56.7 | People familiar with the matter say it could come together as early as next week. |
| 1:01.5 | Last year, the asset manager launched the Global AI Infrastructure Investment Partnership, |
| 1:06.4 | along with Microsoft and MGX, with plans to raise $100 billion in equity in debt to invest and expand |
| 1:13.0 | a network of data centers used by AI giants. The deal with Aligned would be the new consortiums |
| 1:18.3 | first. And staying on AI funds, we exclusively report that the venture capital firm, Gradient Ventures, |
| 1:25.5 | has spun out of Google in a move to better position |
| 1:28.4 | itself to win deals in the early stage AI market. That's according to people familiar with the |
| 1:33.5 | situation, Google formed Gradient Ventures in 2017 to back AI startups. A regulatory filing |
| 1:40.3 | shows it's now operating under a new management company. |
| 1:49.0 | Sources say several limited partners, including Google, are investing in Gradient's new venture fund, and the firm's principles wanted it to become fully independent, since some startup |
| 1:54.1 | founders are hesitant to take money from strategic investors due to concerns over potential |
| 1:58.6 | competition. |
| 1:59.9 | The owner of the Wall Street Journal, |
| 2:01.5 | News Corp, has a commercial agreement to supply content on Google platforms. And that's it for |
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