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Apple launches iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26, featuring Liquid Glass design, new Apple Intelligence features, and more (José Adorno/BGR)

Apple launches iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS...

José Adorno / BGR: Apple launches iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26,...

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iOS 26 review: Liquid Glass is aesthetically pleasing, many quality-of-life upgrades, call screening is a true game changer, but the Games app feels unfinished (Zachary McAuliffe/CNET)

iOS 26 review: Liquid Glass is aesthetically pleasing,...

Zachary McAuliffe / CNET: iOS 26 review: Liquid Glass is aesthetically pleasing,...

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macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small regressions in usability and accessibility but the upgrade has enough iterative changes like automated Shortcuts (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small regressions...

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small...

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The AI revolution has more in common with shipping containerization than the boom unleashed by the microprocessor: diffuse global benefits but few new fortunes (Jerry Neumann/Colossus)

The AI revolution has more in common with shipping containerization...

Jerry Neumann / Colossus: The AI revolution has more in common with shipping containerization...

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A deep dive into the architecture of Nvidia's Rubin CPX chip, which is optimized for long-context AI tasks and the prefill phase of inference (SemiAnalysis)

A deep dive into the architecture of Nvidia's Rubin CPX...

SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into the architecture of Nvidia's Rubin CPX chip, which...

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A look at training sessions hosted by robotaxi companies, like Zoox, to teach first responders how to handle emergencies involving self-driving cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

A look at training sessions hosted by robotaxi companies,...

Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: A look at training sessions hosted by robotaxi companies,...

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Concerns mount over EU plans to scan private pics for child sexual abuse content

Concerns mount over EU plans to scan private pics for child...

It’s crunch time for “chat control”, the European Commission's plan to scan private...

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A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone service that some experts say will likely remain complementary to existing networks, focusing on rural coverage (Washington Post)

A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone service...

Washington Post: A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone service that some...

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World Liberty Financial blocking Justin Sun's wallet contrasts with the Trump sons' complaints about being "debanked", the issue they said inspired the project (Molly White/Citation Needed)

World Liberty Financial blocking Justin Sun's wallet contrasts...

Molly White / Citation Needed: World Liberty Financial blocking Justin Sun's wallet...

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Google's Gemini app is the #1 app in the US App Store, driven by its Nano Banana model, which has been used to edit 500M+ images since its August 26 launch (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google's Gemini app is the #1 app in the US App Store,...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google's Gemini app is the #1 app in the US App Store, driven...

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Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&D and capital spending at its Hiroshima fab to mass produce advanced DRAM, aiming for shipments by August 2028 (Hajime Tsukada/Nikkei Asia)

Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&D and...

Hajime Tsukada / Nikkei Asia: Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&D...

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Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says is the largest open LLM trained from scratch with differential privacy, on Hugging Face and Kaggle (Google Research)

Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says...

Google Research: Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says is the...

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Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Silicon Valley companies racing to develop AI, as the voices of AI "doomers" fade in prominence (Peter Guest/Bloomberg)

Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Silicon...

Peter Guest / Bloomberg: Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Silicon...

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China launches probes into alleged US discrimination against Chinese chip companies and suspected dumping of US analog chips used in devices like Wi-Fi routers (Ryan Woo/Reuters)

China launches probes into alleged US discrimination against...

Ryan Woo / Reuters: China launches probes into alleged US discrimination against...

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Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican for its top policy role, instead choosing an Obama alumn as it adopts a cooler stance towards Trump (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)

Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican...

Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire...

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What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on September 17 at 5pm PT: "Hypernova" smart glasses with a display, Meta AI and Llama updates, and more (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on September...

Karissa Bell / Engadget: What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on September...

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Another prime minister gone in France: How a budget deficit became a political crisis

Another prime minister gone in France: How a budget deficit...

French PM François Bayrou submitted his resignation on Tuesday after losing a confidence...

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Lendbuzz, which uses AI to underwrite auto loans, files for a US IPO and reports H1 2025 revenue up 38% YoY to $172.9M and net income up 98.2% YoY to $11.1M (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

Lendbuzz, which uses AI to underwrite auto loans, files...

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: Lendbuzz, which uses AI to underwrite auto loans,...

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Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation...

Grace Kay / Business Insider: Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation...

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Downloads of Jack Dorsey-backed Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat spiked to 48K+ in Nepal during recent protests, according to Bitchat developer "callebtc" (Javier Bastardo/Forbes)

Downloads of Jack Dorsey-backed Bluetooth P2P messaging...

Javier Bastardo / Forbes: Downloads of Jack Dorsey-backed Bluetooth P2P messaging...

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The unlikely success story of tech-giant ASML, the biggest backer of France's Mistral AI

The unlikely success story of tech-giant ASML, the biggest...

France's Mistral AI has become Europe's most valuable artificial intelligence start-up,...

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Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their own internally designed chips to train their AI models, partly replacing AI chips made by Nvidia (Qianer Liu/The Information)

Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their own internally...

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their...

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Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shunyu from OpenAI; a source and Chinese media say Tencent offered him a CN¥100M+, or ~$66M, pay package (Pei Li/Bloomberg)

Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao...

Pei Li / Bloomberg: Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shunyu...

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Micro1, a Scale AI competitor that lets AI companies find contractors for data labeling and training, raised a $35M Series A led by O1A at a $500M valuation (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Micro1, a Scale AI competitor that lets AI companies find...

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Micro1, a Scale AI competitor that lets AI companies...

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Sources: OpenAI and Nvidia will pledge billions in UK data center investments during their next week's trip, which coincides with President Trump's UK visit (Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI and Nvidia will pledge billions in UK data...

Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI and Nvidia will pledge billions in UK data center investments...

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Apple gets FDA clearance for hypertension alerts on Apple Watch, and plans to roll out the feature to Series 11, 10, and 9, and Watch Ultra 3, and 2 next week (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Apple gets FDA clearance for hypertension alerts on Apple...

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple gets FDA clearance for hypertension alerts on Apple...

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Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot industry faces hurdles, from battery life and design to limited demand for large-scale deployments (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)

Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot...

Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum: Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid...

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France faces series of credit rating tests amid political chaos

France faces series of credit rating tests amid political...

France faces a series of credit rating tests, with political chaos raising the risk...

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GE Vernova plans to sell its Proficy industrial software unit to PE firm TPG for $600M and reinvest the proceeds in grid software (Reuters)

GE Vernova plans to sell its Proficy industrial software...

Reuters: GE Vernova plans to sell its Proficy industrial software unit to PE firm...

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Figure's shares opened up 44% at $44 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a $7.62B+ market cap, after the company and some of its backers raised $787.5M in its IPO (Reuters)

Figure's shares opened up 44% at $44 in its Nasdaq debut,...

Reuters: Figure's shares opened up 44% at $44 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a $7.62B+...

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The US DOJ sues Uber, with its civil rights division alleging that Uber discriminates against people with physical disabilities in violation of federal law (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

The US DOJ sues Uber, with its civil rights division alleging...

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: The US DOJ sues Uber, with its civil rights division alleging...

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French budget crisis: What are the counter-proposals?

French budget crisis: What are the counter-proposals?

Protests gripped France nationwide on Wednesday as the newly appointed prime minister,...

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Oracle co-founder Ellison briefly overtakes Musk as world's richest man

Oracle co-founder Ellison briefly overtakes Musk as world's...

Larry Ellison, the 81-year-old co-founder of US business software company Oracle,...

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Ant Group unit Robbyant showcases its first LLM-powered humanoid robot, the R1, at a conference in Shanghai, joining an intensifying effort by Chinese companies (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)

Ant Group unit Robbyant showcases its first LLM-powered...

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Ant Group unit Robbyant showcases its first LLM-powered...

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Sensor Tower: as of July 2025, Rapido had 50M MAUs on Android in India vs. Uber's 30M; in the four-wheeler cab segment, Rapido holds ~30% share vs. Uber's ~50% (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)

Sensor Tower: as of July 2025, Rapido had 50M MAUs on Android...

Pranav Mukul / The Economic Times: Sensor Tower: as of July 2025, Rapido had 50M...

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Blockchain-based lender Figure and some of its backers raised $787.5M in an IPO, selling 31.5M shares at $25 each, valuing the company at about $5.3B (Bloomberg)

Blockchain-based lender Figure and some of its backers...

Bloomberg: Blockchain-based lender Figure and some of its backers raised $787.5M...

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French budget crisis: what are the counter-proposals?

French budget crisis: what are the counter-proposals?

Protests gripped France nationwide as the newly-appointed prime minister, Sébastien...

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ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral "nano banana" model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)

ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims...

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI...

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Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming because they strike the "right balance", after exiting Mississippi (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws...

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Klarna shares jump 30% in their NYSE debut, opening at $52, above the IPO price of $40, after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37B in the offering (Bloomberg)

Klarna shares jump 30% in their NYSE debut, opening at...

Bloomberg: Klarna shares jump 30% in their NYSE debut, opening at $52, above the...

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France's new PM tasked with forging consensus on 2026 budget

France's new PM tasked with forging consensus on 2026 budget

French President Emmanuel Macron has picked defence chief Sébastien Lecornu as his...

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The economic context of France's 'Block Everything' protests

The economic context of France's 'Block Everything' protests

As grassroots "Block Everything" protests take place all across France, we examine...

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The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media acquires VideoVerse, whose AI tools let broadcasters extract highlights from sports footage, sources say for $200M-$250M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media acquires VideoVerse,...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media acquires VideoVerse,...

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The Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and its efforts to accelerate AI adoption across the US are alarming populists in the president's base (Joe Miller/Financial Times)

The Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and its efforts...

Joe Miller / Financial Times: The Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and...

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Leaked docs: Chinese network-monitoring provider Geedge Networks has sold Great Firewall-style censorship systems to at least four countries, including Pakistan (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

Leaked docs: Chinese network-monitoring provider Geedge...

Zeyi Yang / Wired: Leaked docs: Chinese network-monitoring provider Geedge Networks...

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France's new PM tasked with forging consensus on a 2026 budget

France's new PM tasked with forging consensus on a 2026...

French President Emmanuel Macron has picked defence chief Sébastien Lecornu as his...

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Apple says iOS 26 will officially release on September 15 with a Liquid Glass redesign, major updates to Apple Wallet, CarPlay, Messages, and more (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

Apple says iOS 26 will officially release on September...

Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple says iOS 26 will officially release on September...

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Apple announces the iPhone 17, featuring the A19 chip, larger 6.3" display and 120Hz ProMotion support, improved brightness of up to 3,000 nits, and more (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Apple announces the iPhone 17, featuring the A19 chip,...

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple announces the iPhone 17, featuring the A19 chip,...

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Apple announces the ultra-slim iPhone Air with a 5.6mm design, an A19 Pro chip, a 6.5" display with ProMotion, N1 wireless chip for WiFi and Bluetooth, and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Apple announces the ultra-slim iPhone Air with a 5.6mm...

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple announces the ultra-slim iPhone Air with a 5.6mm...

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What's next for France's budget after Bayrou government collapses?

What's next for France's budget after Bayrou government...

The collapse of PM François Bayrou's government after losing a confidence vote in...

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Murdoch heirs settle dispute over control of the right-wing mogul's media empire

Murdoch heirs settle dispute over control of the right-wing...

Rupert Murdoch’s children reached a settlement in their legal battle over control...

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The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed private data of 40M voters to Chinese spies (Joe Tidy/BBC)

The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and...

Joe Tidy / BBC: The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K...

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Helsinki-based ReOrbit, which builds satellites and a software platform to help countries fully control their satellite systems, raised a €45M Series A (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Helsinki-based ReOrbit, which builds satellites and a software...

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Helsinki-based ReOrbit, which builds satellites and a software...

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Mistral raised a €1.7B Series C at an €11.7B valuation; ASML led the round with €1.3B to become its largest shareholder, joined by a16z, DST, and others (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Mistral raised a €1.7B Series C at an €11.7B valuation;...

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Mistral raised a €1.7B Series C at an €11.7B valuation;...

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The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnership of Anduril and Meta and a $195M contract to Rivet, to produce competing prototypes of a new combat goggle (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnership of...

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnership...

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In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said "the open web is already in rapid decline", contradicting Google's recent statements (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)

In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial,...

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: In a September 5 filing in the US v....

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Local Nepalese media reports that 19+ people were killed after police opened fire on "Gen Z protests" against a government ban on major social media platforms (Andres Schipani/Financial Times)

Local Nepalese media reports that 19+ people were killed...

Andres Schipani / Financial Times: Local Nepalese media reports that 19+ people...

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Munich Auto Show goes big on EVs as Europe's car industry struggles

Munich Auto Show goes big on EVs as Europe's car industry...

Europe's largest car show kicks off in Munich, as industry leaders warn the continent's...

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Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M...

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M...

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PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since 2022, including €1.4B in the first 7 months of 2025, up from €30M in 2020 and €150M in 2021 (Financial Times)

PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B...

Financial Times: PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since...

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Filing: Shanghai-based, US-listed lidar maker Hesai aims to raise ~$497M in its Hong Kong IPO, offering 17M shares at up to $29.25 each, amid US delisting risks (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)

Filing: Shanghai-based, US-listed lidar maker Hesai aims...

Dave Sebastian / Bloomberg: Filing: Shanghai-based, US-listed lidar maker Hesai...

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Artificial intelligence saves tech giant Google from divest order... for now

Artificial intelligence saves tech giant Google from divest...

It’s been a week for the history books for Google. The tech giant dodged an order...

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A profile of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, as the gaming hardware giant readies AI tools for game development and to help players sharpen their skills (John Kang/Forbes)

A profile of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, as the gaming hardware...

John Kang / Forbes: A profile of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, as the gaming hardware...

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Shift5, which develops cybersecurity tools for the military and critical infrastructure, raised a $75M Series C led by Hedosophia (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Shift5, which develops cybersecurity tools for the military...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Shift5, which develops cybersecurity tools for the military...

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Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B Series C funding round, becoming the top shareholder, and is expected to get a board seat (Reuters)

Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B Series...

Reuters: Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B Series C funding...

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Predoc, which uses AI to automate medical records management, raised $30M seed and Series A led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Northzone and others (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Predoc, which uses AI to automate medical records management,...

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Predoc, which uses AI to automate medical records management,...

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Recall.ai, which offers an API and a desktop SDK for managing meeting recordings and transcripts, raised $38M in a Series B led by Bessemer at a $250M valuation (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)

Recall.ai, which offers an API and a desktop SDK for managing...

Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: Recall.ai, which offers an API and a desktop SDK for...

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Mojo Vision raised a $75M Series B led by Vanedge Capital to commercialize its microLED tech for products such as AI glasses and optical interconnects (David Harold/Jon Peddie Research)

Mojo Vision raised a $75M Series B led by Vanedge Capital...

David Harold / Jon Peddie Research: Mojo Vision raised a $75M Series B led by Vanedge...

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OnePlus ends its five-year partnership with camera company Hasselblad and plans to develop its own imaging engine called DetailMax Engine for upcoming phones (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

OnePlus ends its five-year partnership with camera company...

Dominic Preston / The Verge: OnePlus ends its five-year partnership with camera...

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Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges, not Justin Sun's token movements; WLFI blames phishing-related compromises (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and...

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and...

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An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate fell from 5.5% in July to 4.5% in August, while active tech job postings declined 2.6% from July (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment...

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment...

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurates the Jupiter supercomputer, powered by Nvidia chips, the world's fourth-fastest and Europe's first Exascale system (Reuters)

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurates the Jupiter...

Reuters: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurates the Jupiter supercomputer,...

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C3 AI, whose NYSE ticker symbol is AI, has fallen 32%+ in the past month on growth concerns, after its Q1 revenue fell 19% YoY to $70.3M, below $100M+ est. (Hyunsoo Rim/Sherwood News)

C3 AI, whose NYSE ticker symbol is AI, has fallen 32%+...

Hyunsoo Rim / Sherwood News: C3 AI, whose NYSE ticker symbol is AI, has fallen 32%+...

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TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, up from 175M in 2024, the latest sign of its rapid growth among teenagers (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, up...

Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe,...

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At the White House dinner on Thursday night, Big Tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump by taking turns praising his leadership (Brian Barrett/Wired)

At the White House dinner on Thursday night, Big Tech executives...

Brian Barrett / Wired: At the White House dinner on Thursday night, Big Tech executives...

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Isotopes, co-founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murthy to build an AI agent for enterprise business analytics, raised a $20M seed (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Isotopes, co-founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murthy...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Isotopes, co-founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murthy...

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Roblox is testing Roblox Moments, a TikTok-like video app allowing users to share 30-second clips of gameplay, and makes the source code available to developers (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Roblox is testing Roblox Moments, a TikTok-like video app...

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox is testing Roblox Moments, a TikTok-like...

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Giorgio Armani leaves behind multi-billion-dollar fashion empire

Giorgio Armani leaves behind multi-billion-dollar fashion...

Giorgio Armani, who has passed away aged 91, directed an empire that generated €2.3...

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Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received investment offers valuing it as high as $10B, just six months after raising $100M at a $2B valuation (Katie Roof/The Information)

Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received investment...

Katie Roof / The Information: Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received...

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Conversational AI firm Cerence sues Apple in Texas for infringing patents tied to virtual keyboards and "Hey Siri", says it raised the issues with Apple in 2021 (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Conversational AI firm Cerence sues Apple in Texas for...

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Conversational AI firm Cerence sues Apple in Texas for...

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Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after they failed to register with the government (Binaj Gurubacharya/Associated Press)

Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms,...

Binaj Gurubacharya / Associated Press: Nepal says it is blocking most major social...

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Ukraine's digital front lines: Startups on bleeding edge of military tech

Ukraine's digital front lines: Startups on bleeding edge...

This week we zero in on the military tech sector in Ukraine with our correspondent...

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Giorgio Armani leaves behind multibillion dollar fashion empire

Giorgio Armani leaves behind multibillion dollar fashion...

Giorgio Armani directed an empire that generated 2.3 billion euros in 2024... and...

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Adobe plans to launch a free version of its Premiere video editor for iPhone later this month, with one-tap exporting to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Adobe plans to launch a free version of its Premiere video...

Dominic Preston / The Verge: Adobe plans to launch a free version of its Premiere...

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DOJ charges ex-IRL CEO Abraham Shafi with securities and wire fraud for allegedly misleading investors about user growth, concealing personal expenses, and more (Fortune)

DOJ charges ex-IRL CEO Abraham Shafi with securities and...

Fortune: DOJ charges ex-IRL CEO Abraham Shafi with securities and wire fraud for...

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Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, building upon the 500-character text limit for posts (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000...

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000...

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EU moves ahead with massive Mercosur trade deal, with safeguards in place

EU moves ahead with massive Mercosur trade deal, with safeguards...

The European Commission has given final approval to a massive trade deal with South...

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Google faces fresh fines over privacy issues in US and France

Google faces fresh fines over privacy issues in US and...

US internet search giant Google was ordered by a US federal jury on Wednesday to...

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Despite setback in the DOJ's Google case, the Trump administration continues to pursue antitrust cases against Big Tech while defending US tech companies abroad (Financial Times)

Despite setback in the DOJ's Google case, the Trump administration...

Financial Times: Despite setback in the DOJ's Google case, the Trump administration...

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Uber is tapping Indian drivers for its data-labeling arm, Uber AI Solutions, offering extra income for completing micro tasks like tagging objects in photos (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)

Uber is tapping Indian drivers for its data-labeling arm,...

Pranav Mukul / The Economic Times: Uber is tapping Indian drivers for its data-labeling...

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At IFA 2025, tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Samsung and startups like Doma are expected to showcase how AI could make smart homes more intuitive (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

At IFA 2025, tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Samsung...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: At IFA 2025, tech giants like Amazon, Google,...

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EU moves ahead with massive trade deal with Mercosur, with safeguards in place

EU moves ahead with massive trade deal with Mercosur, with...

The European Commission has given final approval to a massive trade deal with South...

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Meta launches an Instagram app for the iPad, 15 years after its mobile app; it is slightly different than the mobile app, opening directly to a feed of Reels (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Meta launches an Instagram app for the iPad, 15 years after...

Mia Sato / The Verge: Meta launches an Instagram app for the iPad, 15 years after...

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Etherealize, which develops products and infrastructure for financial institutions on Ethereum, raised $40M in a round co‑led by Electric Capital and Paradigm (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Etherealize, which develops products and infrastructure...

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Etherealize, which develops products and infrastructure for...

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Mistral updates Le Chat with a memory feature for chats and an MCP connector directory supporting over 20 enterprise platforms, both available on its free plan (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Mistral updates Le Chat with a memory feature for chats...

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Mistral updates Le Chat with a memory feature for chats...

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China, Russia sign gas pipeline deal as Beijing seeks to present new world order

China, Russia sign gas pipeline deal as Beijing seeks to...

China has wrapped up a high-profile summit of the Shanghai Coorperation Organization,...

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US judge rules against Google selling off Chrome browser, Android operating system

US judge rules against Google selling off Chrome browser,...

US Federal Judge Amit Mehta ruled on Tuesday that Google did not have to sell off...

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Source: Sierra, which builds AI customer service agents, nears a $350M raise at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in October 2024, and is set to top $100M in ARR (Ina Fried/Axios)

Source: Sierra, which builds AI customer service agents,...

Ina Fried / Axios: Source: Sierra, which builds AI customer service agents, nears...

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A US district judge rules that Amazon must face a class action lawsuit involving 288M customers over claims it overcharged for products sold by third parties (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

A US district judge rules that Amazon must face a class...

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: A US district judge rules that Amazon must face a class...

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The ruling that allows Google to continue paying for traffic acquisition is a huge win for Apple and for Mozilla, which relies heavily on payments from Google (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

The ruling that allows Google to continue paying for traffic...

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: The ruling that allows Google to continue paying for traffic...

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China, Russia sign new gas pipe deal as Beijing seeks to present new world order

China, Russia sign new gas pipe deal as Beijing seeks to...

China has wrapped up a high-profile summit of the Shanghai Coorperation Organisation,...

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OpenAI subpoenaed AI governance nonprofits Encode and CANI, alleging they are part of a conspiracy involving billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)

OpenAI subpoenaed AI governance nonprofits Encode and CANI,...

Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: OpenAI subpoenaed AI governance nonprofits...

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WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development tool, at WordCamp US; CEO Matt Mullenweg called it "V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development...

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Disney agrees to pay $10M to settle an FTC complaint that alleges Disney failed to designate certain YouTube videos as being made for children (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Disney agrees to pay $10M to settle an FTC complaint that...

Sara Fischer / Axios: Disney agrees to pay $10M to settle an FTC complaint that...

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Italy hits back at French PM's 'fiscal dumping' claim

Italy hits back at French PM's 'fiscal dumping' claim

Italy has rejected claims by French Prime Minister François Bayrou that Rome is...

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Nestle fires CEO for romantic relationship with colleague

Nestle fires CEO for romantic relationship with colleague

Swiss food giant Nestle removes its CEO Laurent Freixe after just a year on the...

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TrendForce: global chip foundry revenue surged 14.6% QoQ to $41.7B in Q2, with TSMC securing a 70% market share, followed by Samsung with 7% and SMIC with 5% (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)

TrendForce: global chip foundry revenue surged 14.6% QoQ...

Luke James / Tom's Hardware: TrendForce: global chip foundry revenue surged 14.6%...

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Interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition, staying in Europe, and more; the company now has 2.3M+ active users, including 180K paying subscribers (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition,...

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition,...

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UK-based Phasecraft, which develops algorithms for quantum computers, raised a $34M Series B co-led by Plural, Playground Global, and Novo Holdings (Daphné Leprince-Ringuet/Sifted)

UK-based Phasecraft, which develops algorithms for quantum...

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: UK-based Phasecraft, which develops algorithms...

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Italy hits back at French PM's "fiscal dumping" claim

Italy hits back at French PM's "fiscal dumping" claim

Italy has rejected claims by French Prime Minister François Bayrou that Rome is...

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WLFI, the token of Trump's World Liberty Financial, begins trading at ~$0.30 with a market cap of ~$7.5B; ~24.67% of its 100B supply is in circulation at open (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

WLFI, the token of Trump's World Liberty Financial, begins...

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: WLFI, the token of Trump's World Liberty Financial,...

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Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for staffers at $1,381.06 per share, valuing Revolut at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for...

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for...

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China's new AI content labeling law goes into effect, as part of a broad effort to address AI-related risks such as misinformation and copyright infringement (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

China's new AI content labeling law goes into effect, as...

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: China's new AI content labeling law goes into...

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Germany's lithium boom sparks backlash from locals in mining areas

Germany's lithium boom sparks backlash from locals in mining...

A rush for mineral wealth in eastern Germany has left residents fearful for their...

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An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the company's M&A strategy as it acquires Madrid-based data observability startup Onum for about $290M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the company's...

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the...

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A new policy document authored by seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030 (Emily Mullin/Wired)

A new policy document authored by seven Chinese government...

Emily Mullin / Wired: A new policy document authored by seven Chinese government...

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Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on three consecutive profitable quarters, cofounders leaving the board, Freenow acquisition, the economics of robotaxis, and more (J. Edward Moreno/Sherwood News)

Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on three consecutive profitable...

J. Edward Moreno / Sherwood News: Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on three consecutive...

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Summer of AI psychosis: stories of tragic chatbot interactions multiply

Summer of AI psychosis: stories of tragic chatbot interactions...

Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his mother and himself in Connecticut earlier this month,...

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Crypto and tech entrepreneurs are attending Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan in Forest City, Malaysia, to test his concepts about the Network State (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)

Crypto and tech entrepreneurs are attending Network School,...

Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: Crypto and tech entrepreneurs are attending Network School,...

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OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific silicon photonic chips, raised a $34M Series A as it targets the data center interconnect market (Dan Swinhoe/DatacenterDynamics)

OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific silicon...

Dan Swinhoe / DatacenterDynamics: OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific...

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Pharmaceutical company Eversana acquires Waltz Health, which provides drug price-comparison software to insurance companies, creating an entity valued at $6B (John Tozzi/Bloomberg)

Pharmaceutical company Eversana acquires Waltz Health,...

John Tozzi / Bloomberg: Pharmaceutical company Eversana acquires Waltz Health, which...

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An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the "most emotionally intelligent matchmaker", planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being...

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe...

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PUBG developer Krafton is eyeing major expansion in India, seeking acquisitions as growth slows in China and the US, and plans to invest at least $50M annually (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

PUBG developer Krafton is eyeing major expansion in India,...

Song Jung-a / Financial Times: PUBG developer Krafton is eyeing major expansion...

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Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be oriented toward applications for AI, charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI (Wall Street Journal)

Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be...

Wall Street Journal: Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be oriented...

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A study focused on OpenAI's GPT-4o mini found that LLMs can be persuaded to comply with objectionable requests using the same tactics that persuade humans (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

A study focused on OpenAI's GPT-4o mini found that LLMs...

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: A study focused on OpenAI's GPT-4o mini found that LLMs can...

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Filing: StubHub, which is planning a September IPO, says revenue grew 3% to $828M in H1, missing its earlier projection of $885M, with adjusted EBITDA down 7% (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

Filing: StubHub, which is planning a September IPO, says...

Cory Weinberg / The Information: Filing: StubHub, which is planning a September...

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TikTok suspends its live feature for the "next few days" in Indonesia, citing "increasing violence in protests" over lawmakers' pay (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)

TikTok suspends its live feature for the "next few days"...

Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters: TikTok suspends its live feature for the “next few...

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Apple's Xcode 26 beta 7 adds support for GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4, which developers can use by signing into their paid Claude account (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Apple's Xcode 26 beta 7 adds support for GPT-5 and Claude...

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple's Xcode 26 beta 7 adds support for GPT-5 and Claude...

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Filing: Nvidia reveals its top two customers accounted for 39% of its Q2 revenue, up from 25% in Q2, 2024 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Filing: Nvidia reveals its top two customers accounted...

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Filing: Nvidia reveals its top two customers accounted for 39%...

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SEC filing: Super Micro cautions that its financial control weaknesses, if not fixed, could hurt its ability to report results "in a timely and accurate manner" (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

SEC filing: Super Micro cautions that its financial control...

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: SEC filing: Super Micro cautions that its financial control...

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Valve adds credit card-based age checks for UK users to access "mature content" games on Steam; Discord and others are using selfies for verification (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Valve adds credit card-based age checks for UK users to...

Tom Warren / The Verge: Valve adds credit card-based age checks for UK users to...

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Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel has left after nine months; its ad business reportedly generated only about $20,000 in Q4 2024 (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel...

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel...

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French President Emmanuel Macron vows a strong response if any country takes measures that undermine Europe's digital sovereignty (Richard Bravo/Bloomberg)

French President Emmanuel Macron vows a strong response...

Richard Bravo / Bloomberg: French President Emmanuel Macron vows a strong response...

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Marvell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $2.01B, in line with estimates, and forecasts Q3 revenue at $2.06B, below $2.11B est.; MRVL drops 11%+ after hours (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Marvell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $2.01B, in line...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Marvell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $2.01B, in...

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Sources: Pinecone, which provides an AI-compatible vector database, is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Pinecone was valued at $750M in 2023 (The Information)

Sources: Pinecone, which provides an AI-compatible vector...

The Information: Sources: Pinecone, which provides an AI-compatible vector database,...

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Court filing: the UK sought broad access to Apple user data, including bulk iCloud interception beyond ADP, and hasn't dropped the mandate as the US claimed (Financial Times)

Court filing: the UK sought broad access to Apple user...

Financial Times: Court filing: the UK sought broad access to Apple user data, including...

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Concern over US central bank independence after Trump's push to fire Fed governor

Concern over US central bank independence after Trump's...

Treasury yields climb and the dollar falls as investors grow increasingly concerned...

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50% tariff on India comes into effect as talks between Washington and New Delhi stall

50% tariff on India comes into effect as talks between...

The United States' 50% tariff on Indian goods came into effect this Wednesday, making...

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Tie-break: Corporate France navigates uncertain times

Tie-break: Corporate France navigates uncertain times

This week, we are at the Roland-Garros stadium in Paris – not for the French Open...

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Nvidia results show sustained AI boom, but China woes persist

Nvidia results show sustained AI boom, but China woes persist

US AI chipmaker Nvidia, the world's most valuable company, posted record $46 billion...

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A look at Xiaomi's evolution from a tech assembler to a high-tech manufacturer, as it applies its smartphone manufacturing strategy to developing EVs and chips (Financial Times)

A look at Xiaomi's evolution from a tech assembler to a...

Financial Times: A look at Xiaomi's evolution from a tech assembler to a high-tech...

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Court filing: Elon Musk's lawyers ask a US judge to block OpenAI from obtaining documents from Meta related to a previous $97.4B bid for OpenAI's assets (Shubham Kalia/Reuters)

Court filing: Elon Musk's lawyers ask a US judge to block...

Shubham Kalia / Reuters: Court filing: Elon Musk's lawyers ask a US judge to block...

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Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta (Wired)

Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence...

Wired: Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs...

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Concern over central bank independence after Trump push to fire Fed governor

Concern over central bank independence after Trump push...

Treasury yields climb and dollar falls as investors grow increasingly concerned...

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MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $553.9M est., net loss down 14% to $47M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB jumps 28%+ after hours (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $553.9M...

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY...

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OpenAI plans to update ChatGPT to better respond to mental distress cues, provide parental controls, and bolster safeguards around conversations about suicide (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

OpenAI plans to update ChatGPT to better respond to mental...

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI plans to update ChatGPT to better respond to mental...

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Okta reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $728M, vs. $711.8M est., net income up 131% to $67M, and increases its fiscal 2026 forecast; OKTA jumps 6%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Okta reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $728M, vs. $711.8M...

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Okta reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $728M, vs. $711.8M est.,...

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France 'on brink of over-indebtedness', PM Bayrou warns

France 'on brink of over-indebtedness', PM Bayrou warns

French Prime Minister François Bayrou has warned that the nation is facing an "immediate...

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Trump orders dismissal of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook

Trump orders dismissal of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa...

In an unprecedented move, US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he'd...

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France "on brink of over-indebtedness" warns Prime Minister

France "on brink of over-indebtedness" warns Prime Minister

French Prime Minister François Bayrou has warned that the nation was facing an "immediate...

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The US Commerce Department voids a Biden administration deal with the nonprofit Natcast to oversee $7.4B in semiconductor research funds, calling it illegal (David Shepardson/Reuters)

The US Commerce Department voids a Biden administration...

David Shepardson / Reuters: The US Commerce Department voids a Biden administration...

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So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivoted into crypto to boost stock prices, frequently sparking frenzied but short-lived spikes in shares (Bloomberg)

So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivoted...

Bloomberg: So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivoted into crypto...

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Sources: Doug Beck, director of Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit, resigns; DOD officials had previously raised concerns about his donations to Democrats (Reuters)

Sources: Doug Beck, director of Pentagon's Defense Innovation...

Reuters: Sources: Doug Beck, director of Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit, resigns;...

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Evergrande shares delisted in Hong Kong after years of debt problems

Evergrande shares delisted in Hong Kong after years of...

China's former real estate giant Evergrande has seen its shares delisted from the...

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Sources: Spotify's difficulties lining up partnerships have delayed its super premium service, which Spotify has been talking about for a couple of years (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Sources: Spotify's difficulties lining up partnerships...

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Spotify's difficulties lining up partnerships have...

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Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking equipment, including AMEC's etching tools, from its most advanced 2nm production to avoid potential US backlash (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking equipment,...

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking equipment,...

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How Masayoshi Son became President Trump's favored foreign investor, after cultivating close ties since Trump's first term, leading to SoftBank's $2B Intel deal (Financial Times)

How Masayoshi Son became President Trump's favored foreign...

Financial Times: How Masayoshi Son became President Trump's favored foreign investor,...

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How Spotify's Discovery Mode has become the new normal in music marketing, five years after its 2020 launch when it faced a backlash and "payola" accusations (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

How Spotify's Discovery Mode has become the new normal...

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: How Spotify's Discovery Mode has become the new normal...

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Researchers detail an indirect prompt injection flaw in Perplexity's Comet AI browser, letting attackers manipulate it into performing unauthorized actions (Brave)

Researchers detail an indirect prompt injection flaw in...

Brave: Researchers detail an indirect prompt injection flaw in Perplexity's Comet...

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Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office say the US-Intel deal won't solve Intel's real issue: a lack of external customers for its foundry unit (Wall Street Journal)

Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office...

Wall Street Journal: Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office say...

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Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to accelerate loan application and origination processes, raised a $29M Series A led by Canapi Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to accelerate...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to...

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How AI tools from ElevenLabs and others were used to recreate a woman's voice, lost to motor neuron disease, from just eight seconds of audio on a VHS tape (Beth Rose/BBC)

How AI tools from ElevenLabs and others were used to recreate...

Beth Rose / BBC: How AI tools from ElevenLabs and others were used to recreate a...

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UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)

UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin...

Forbes: UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38%...

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Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first US chief design officer, says he wants to update federal websites to an "Apple Store-like experience" (Mike Allen/Axios)

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first...

Mike Allen / Axios: Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first US...

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A look at Texas Instruments' new 300mm wafer fab in Sherman, Texas, a part of its $60B US investment megaproject where some chips for iPhones will be made (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

A look at Texas Instruments' new 300mm wafer fab in Sherman,...

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: A look at Texas Instruments' new 300mm wafer fab in Sherman,...

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OpenAI warns investors against "unauthorized opportunities" to gain exposure to its equity, including through special purpose vehicles (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

OpenAI warns investors against "unauthorized opportunities"...

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: OpenAI warns investors against “unauthorized opportunities”...

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TSMC's financial statement shows the company booked its first profit from its four-year-old Arizona subsidiary in H1 2025, reporting $150.1M in net profit (Lisa Wang/Taipei Times)

TSMC's financial statement shows the company booked its...

Lisa Wang / Taipei Times: TSMC's financial statement shows the company booked its...

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FanDuel partners with CME Group to offer event-based contracts, letting users wager "yes" or "no" on financial events and benchmarks, starting later this year (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

FanDuel partners with CME Group to offer event-based contracts,...

Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: FanDuel partners with CME Group to offer event-based...

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A surge in AI company valuations is driving the popularity of special purpose vehicles, but some involve high fees, opaque structures, and layers of middlemen (Business Insider)

A surge in AI company valuations is driving the popularity...

Business Insider: A surge in AI company valuations is driving the popularity of...

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Apple sues ex-staffer Chen Shi for allegedly stealing trade secrets to benefit Oppo before leaving Apple in June, claims Oppo knew of and encouraged his actions (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

Apple sues ex-staffer Chen Shi for allegedly stealing trade...

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: Apple sues ex-staffer Chen Shi for allegedly stealing...

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Ether surged 15% late Friday, rising as high as $4,885 and surpassing its November 2021 record of $4,866.01 after Fed Chair Jerome Powell hinted at rate cuts (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)

Ether surged 15% late Friday, rising as high as $4,885...

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Ether surged 15% late Friday, rising as high as $4,885 and...

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Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying...

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Vivo demos Vivo Vision, its first MR headset, which looks like an Apple Vision Pro clone but is ~40% lighter with micro-OLED displays, and could cost ~$1,400 (David Heaney/UploadVR)

Vivo demos Vivo Vision, its first MR headset, which looks...

David Heaney / UploadVR: Vivo demos Vivo Vision, its first MR headset, which looks...

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Sources: EU officials are fast-tracking digital euro plans, and considering Ethereum or Solana over a private blockchain after the US passed the Genius Act (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

Sources: EU officials are fast-tracking digital euro plans,...

Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: Sources: EU officials are fast-tracking digital...

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OpenAI sets up a legal entity, and plans to open its first office in India after launching ChatGPT Go, its cheapest plan, in the country on August 19 (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)

OpenAI sets up a legal entity, and plans to open its first...

Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: OpenAI sets up a legal entity, and plans to open its...

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a16z hires Anne Neuberger, formerly a senior cybersecurity official in the Biden White House, as a senior adviser to work on "American Dynamism, AI, and cyber" (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)

a16z hires Anne Neuberger, formerly a senior cybersecurity...

Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg: a16z hires Anne Neuberger, formerly a senior...

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Trump signs an EO creating the National Design Studio to improve "websites and physical sites"; sources say he's tapping Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to lead it (Gregory Korte/Bloomberg)

Trump signs an EO creating the National Design Studio to...

Gregory Korte / Bloomberg: Trump signs an EO creating the National Design Studio...

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Russia orders that state-backed messenger app MAX, which critics say could be used to track users, must be pre-installed on phones and tablets from next month (Andrew Osborn/Reuters)

Russia orders that state-backed messenger app MAX, which...

Andrew Osborn / Reuters: Russia orders that state-backed messenger app MAX, which...

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In a UK tribunal filing, ex-Meta employee Samujjal Purkayastha alleges Meta misled advertisers by inflating Shops ads' performance and bypassed Apple's ATT (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

In a UK tribunal filing, ex-Meta employee Samujjal Purkayastha...

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: In a UK tribunal filing, ex-Meta employee Samujjal Purkayastha...

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An interview with GM SVP of Software and Services Engineering David Richardson on GM's new AI team, developing "cobots", or collaborative robots, and more (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

An interview with GM SVP of Software and Services Engineering...

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: An interview with GM SVP of Software...

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DeepSeek details V3.1 and says it surpasses R1 on key benchmarks and is customized to work with next-gen Chinese-made AI chips, after unveiling it on August 19 (Bloomberg)

DeepSeek details V3.1 and says it surpasses R1 on key benchmarks...

Bloomberg: DeepSeek details V3.1 and says it surpasses R1 on key benchmarks and...

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Google Photos will let users edit images using text or voice prompts, first on Pixel 10 devices in the US, and will add support for C2PA Content Credentials (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google Photos will let users edit images using text or...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google Photos will let users edit images using text or...

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Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring real-time game data and analysis to coaches and players using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI (Ali McCadden/CNBC)

Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring...

Ali McCadden / CNBC: Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring real-time...

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Masimo sues US CBP, saying CBP exceeded its authority in an Aug. 1 internal advice ruling that enabled Apple to reactivate a Watch blood oxygen tracking feature (Christopher Yasiejko/Bloomberg Law)

Masimo sues US CBP, saying CBP exceeded its authority in...

Christopher Yasiejko / Bloomberg Law: Masimo sues US CBP, saying CBP exceeded its...

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Analysis: Intel's stock, up 28% in August, is trading at a 53 forward P/E ratio, its highest since early 2002, reflecting its declining profits in recent years (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

Analysis: Intel's stock, up 28% in August, is trading at...

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Analysis: Intel's stock, up 28% in August, is trading...

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Kick says it is "urgently reviewing" the circumstances of the death of a French livestreamer who was subjected to violence and sleep deprivation during streams (Tom McArthur/BBC)

Kick says it is "urgently reviewing" the circumstances...

Tom McArthur / BBC: Kick says it is “urgently reviewing” the circumstances of the...

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Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$4.6B, slightly below est., and online ad revenue down 15% YoY to ~$2.3B, as China's ad market remains weak (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)

Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$4.6B, slightly...

Deborah Sophia / Reuters: Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$4.6B, slightly...

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Federal prosecutors charge an Oregon man with operating the Rapper Bot, one of the most powerful DDoS botnets ever seen, which knocked X offline earlier in 2025 (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

Federal prosecutors charge an Oregon man with operating...

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Federal prosecutors charge an Oregon man...

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Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular nuclear reactor and data center, set to finish construction in 2026, raised a $100M Series B led by Valor (Julia Hornstein/Business Insider)

Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular...

Julia Hornstein / Business Insider: Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building...

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Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing version of Qwen-Image, supporting modifications of Chinese and English text while preserving font and style (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing version...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing...

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Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in India ahead of debut, a first, as it expands to five factories to cut reliance on China for US-bound units (Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in India...

Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in India ahead of...

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Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank acquiring Intel's faltering foundry business in the weeks before announcing SoftBank's $2B investment (Financial Times)

Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank...

Financial Times: Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank acquiring...

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Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding round that would value it at $100B, up 61% from December 2024, co-led by Thrive Capital; a16z is set to participate (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding round that...

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding...

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Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires and steps down as CTO and board member; Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich becomes CTO and joins the board (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires and steps down...

Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires and...

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Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.54B, vs. $2.5B est., and Q1 and FY 2026 guidance above estimates; PANW jumps 4%+ after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.54B,...

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.54B,...

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Source: Arm has hired Amazon AI chip director Rami Sinno to help develop its own chips; he previously worked on Amazon's Trainium and Inferentia chips (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Source: Arm has hired Amazon AI chip director Rami Sinno...

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Source: Arm has hired Amazon AI chip director Rami Sinno...

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China's podcast audience is projected to reach 150M in 2025, up from ~700K five years ago, driven by grassroots hosts instinctively navigating China's red lines (Edward White/Financial Times)

China's podcast audience is projected to reach 150M in...

Edward White / Financial Times: China's podcast audience is projected to reach 150M...

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SoftBank buys Foxconn's Ohio EV plant; Foxconn will produce AI servers at the plant as part of Softbank's $500B Stargate project with OpenAI and Oracle (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

SoftBank buys Foxconn's Ohio EV plant; Foxconn will produce...

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: SoftBank buys Foxconn's Ohio EV plant; Foxconn will produce...

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Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their trade deal over "non-tariff barriers", including relaxing the DSA, which the EU sees as a red line (Financial Times)

Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their trade...

Financial Times: Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their trade deal...

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NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M Series A led by Footwork (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

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How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netflix in Southeast Asia through original productions and free, ad-supported services (Nikkei Asia)

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Nikkei Asia: How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netflix...

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Interview with Trent Brunson, R&D director at cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, which won $3M and 2nd place in DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge, behind Team Atlanta (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)

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Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two years' probation and a $34K+ fine for stealing trade secrets and sharing them with his new employer Microsoft (Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian)

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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian: Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two...

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Big Tech's reverse acquihires for AI talent are hollowing out startups and eroding the culture that has made Silicon Valley an unparalleled source of innovation (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

Big Tech's reverse acquihires for AI talent are hollowing...

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Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, whose books helped shape the philosophical conversation about human intelligence and AI, passed away on July 18 at age 88 (Michael S. Rosenwald/New York Times)

Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, whose books helped...

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How an editor uncovered the "largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia's history" that promoted obscure composer David Woodard with entries in 335 languages (Nate Anderson/Ars Technica)

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GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that the current approach of scaling LLMs is starting to reach the limits of available resources (Financial Times)

GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests...

Financial Times: GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that the...

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A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b, shows how open-weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across hosting providers (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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The World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off in Beijing on August 15, with robots across 280 teams from 16 countries competing in track and field and other sports (Reuters)

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Reuters: The World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off in Beijing on August 15, with...

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Sources say Meta's chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to AI brain drain; Meta strongly denies it has had issues with talent and retention (Forbes)

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Forbes: Sources say Meta's chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to AI brain...

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TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new...

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CoreWeave investors sold more than $1B in shares as the IPO lockup ended; the stock held steady on Friday after dropping about 35% over the previous two days (Financial Times)

CoreWeave investors sold more than $1B in shares as the...

Financial Times: CoreWeave investors sold more than $1B in shares as the IPO lockup...

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Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning and planning coding tasks and is cost-effective, but Claude Opus and Sonnet still produce better code (Lauren Goode/Wired)

Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning...

Lauren Goode / Wired: Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning and...

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Sources: Meta plans its fourth AI restructuring in six months, dividing its superintelligence lab into TBD Lab, a product team, an infrastructure team, and FAIR (Kalley Huang/The Information)

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Kalley Huang / The Information: Sources: Meta plans its fourth AI restructuring...

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Accenture plans to acquire Australian cybersecurity company CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital; the deal reportedly values CyberCX at more than AU$1B (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg Law)

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Mark Anderson / Bloomberg Law: Accenture plans to acquire Australian cybersecurity...

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Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must give investors short-term results to get permission for long-term investments, such as its AI ambitions (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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How Google's Jigsaw and longtime pollster Scott Rasmussen plan to use AI to survey Americans to find common ground ahead of the US' 250th anniversary (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

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Richard Nieva / Forbes: How Google's Jigsaw and longtime pollster Scott Rasmussen...

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Sources: Lambda is in talks for a funding round that could value the cloud services company between $4B and $5B ahead of a potential IPO by the end of 2025 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Lambda is in talks for a funding round that could...

Bloomberg: Sources: Lambda is in talks for a funding round that could value the...

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SCOTUS rejects NetChoice's emergency appeal to block a Mississippi law that requires age verification and parental consent for teens to join social networks (New York Times)

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New York Times: SCOTUS rejects NetChoice's emergency appeal to block a Mississippi...

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Source: AI coding startup Cognition raised nearly $500M led by Founders Fund, bringing its valuation to $9.8B, more than double the level earlier this year (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

Source: AI coding startup Cognition raised nearly $500M...

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An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing up poor in China, the tests she faced during Binance's year of crisis when CZ was imprisoned, and more (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing up...

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing...

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Adyen reports H1 2025 net revenue up 20% YoY to €1.09B, vs. €1.11B est., processed volume up 5% YoY to €649B, and EBITDA up 28% YoY to €543.7M; ADYEN falls 17%+ (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)

Adyen reports H1 2025 net revenue up 20% YoY to €1.09B,...

Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: Adyen reports H1 2025 net revenue up 20% YoY to €1.09B,...

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Q&A with researcher Petter Törnberg on his pre-print study showing how social media's structural architecture creates problematic outcomes like echo chambers (Jennifer Ouellette/Ars Technica)

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Jennifer Ouellette / Ars Technica: Q&A with researcher Petter Törnberg on his pre-print...

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Sources: Perplexity is seeking new funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its latest fundraising round in July (Business Insider)

Sources: Perplexity is seeking new funding at a $20B post-money...

Business Insider: Sources: Perplexity is seeking new funding at a $20B post-money...

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Sources: the US Navy and Air Force may cancel two nearly complete HR software projects to give firms like Salesforce and Palantir a chance to win similar work (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)

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Alexandra Alper / Reuters: Sources: the US Navy and Air Force may cancel two nearly...

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Cisco reports Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $14.67B, vs. $14.62B est., net income up 31% to $2.8B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Cisco reports Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $14.67B, vs. $14.62B...

Juby Babu / Reuters: Cisco reports Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $14.67B, vs. $14.62B...

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Advent International agrees to acquire and take private Nasdaq-listed Sapiens International, an Israel-based insurance software company, for $2.5B in cash (Reuters)

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Reuters: Advent International agrees to acquire and take private Nasdaq-listed Sapiens...

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Arintra, whose AI medical coding system translates clinical documentation into insurance codes for healthcare providers, raised a $21M Series A led by Peak XV (Erin Brodwin/Axios)

Arintra, whose AI medical coding system translates clinical...

Erin Brodwin / Axios: Arintra, whose AI medical coding system translates clinical...

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Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and others gaining global traction spurs US policymakers and companies to respond (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek,...

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eToro reports Q2 crypto revenue up 17% YoY to $1.9B, assets under administration up 54% to $17.5B, and adjusted non-GAAP net income up 23% to $54.2M (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

eToro reports Q2 crypto revenue up 17% YoY to $1.9B, assets...

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: eToro reports Q2 crypto revenue up 17% YoY to $1.9B, assets...

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Sources: investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least in part responsible for a recent hack of the US federal court filing system (New York Times)

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New York Times: Sources: investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at...

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Sources: OpenAI is preparing to back a Neuralink rival called Merge Labs, co-founded by Sam Altman, that aims to raise $250M at an $850M valuation (Financial Times)

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Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI is preparing to back a Neuralink rival called Merge...

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ESET says a high-severity WinRAR zero-day is being exploited by two Russian cybercrime groups, enabling persistent backdoors when malicious files are opened (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

ESET says a high-severity WinRAR zero-day is being exploited...

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A look at potential issues as US judges join lawyers in testing generative AI to speed up legal research, summarize cases, draft routine orders, and more (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

A look at potential issues as US judges join lawyers in...

James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: A look at potential issues as US judges...

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Sources: Chinese authorities urge local companies to avoid using less advanced chips, particularly Nvidia's H20, for government or national security work (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese authorities urge local companies to avoid using less...

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Sources: GM plans a renewed push on driverless cars, focused on personal use rather than a robotaxi service, and is trying to bring back some ex-Cruise workers (David Welch/Bloomberg)

Sources: GM plans a renewed push on driverless cars, focused...

David Welch / Bloomberg: Sources: GM plans a renewed push on driverless cars, focused...

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Revel plans to wind down rideshare operations in its home city of New York after four years, pivoting to an EV-charging business that counts Uber as a partner (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Revel plans to wind down rideshare operations in its home...

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Revel plans to wind down rideshare operations in its home...

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Anthropic adds a memory feature for Claude to reference information from past chats, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, and soon for other plans (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Anthropic adds a memory feature for Claude to reference...

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Anthropic adds a memory feature for Claude to reference information...

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Rumble says it plans to acquire German AI cloud group Northern Data in an all-stock deal; estimates show the deal could be valued at $1.17B (Reuters)

Rumble says it plans to acquire German AI cloud group Northern...

Reuters: Rumble says it plans to acquire German AI cloud group Northern Data in...

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A long-running cyberattack campaign between Israel and Iran has continued since the June ceasefire, with Israel landing the most telling blows (Financial Times)

A long-running cyberattack campaign between Israel and...

Financial Times: A long-running cyberattack campaign between Israel and Iran has...

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AI-focused hedge funds raise billions, such as ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness that amassed $1.5B+ for a "brain trust on AI" (Peter Rudegeair/Wall Street Journal)

AI-focused hedge funds raise billions, such as ex-OpenAI...

Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: AI-focused hedge funds raise billions, such...

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AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers "in the low thousands" in 2021 (Stevie Bonifield/PC Gamer)

AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September...

Stevie Bonifield / PC Gamer: AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on...

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Doomer predictions of a rapid, monopolistic AGI were wrong, as recent AI model releases resemble a Goldilocks scenario with competitive, specialized models (David Sacks/@davidsacks)

Doomer predictions of a rapid, monopolistic AGI were wrong,...

David Sacks / @davidsacks: Doomer predictions of a rapid, monopolistic AGI were...

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GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)

GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental...

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental...

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Coding bootcamps, a Silicon Valley mainstay for over a decade, are facing decline as AI eliminates the kind of entry-level roles for which they trained people (Anna Tong/Reuters)

Coding bootcamps, a Silicon Valley mainstay for over a...

Anna Tong / Reuters: Coding bootcamps, a Silicon Valley mainstay for over a decade,...

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Sources: Chinese officials have urged the Trump administration to relax HBM chip export controls during trade talks, after the Biden administration ban in 2024 (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

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AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits (Bloomberg)

AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts...

Bloomberg: AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit...

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US nuclear, geothermal, and energy storage companies have found a lifeline in the AI data center boom after years of challenges such as high interest rates (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg: US nuclear, geothermal, and energy storage companies have found a lifeline...

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A steady stream of large conventions in China showcasing homegrown humanoid robots is stirring investor excitement, even though sales are far from taking off (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)

A steady stream of large conventions in China showcasing...

Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: A steady stream of large conventions in China showcasing...

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A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from Trump for his money-laundering charges, including via lobbying and a business deal with the Trump family (New York Times)

A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from...

New York Times: A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from Trump for...

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The controversy involving Tokyo Electron over alleged TSMC IP theft comes at a low point for the company, after order cancellations and a lull in Chinese demand (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg: The controversy involving Tokyo Electron over alleged TSMC IP theft comes...

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The precise scale of Apple's pledge to invest $600B+ in the US over four years is difficult to measure, as the company has not provided a breakdown of its plan (Financial Times)

The precise scale of Apple's pledge to invest $600B+ in...

Financial Times: The precise scale of Apple's pledge to invest $600B+ in the US...

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An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and ChatGPT shows how chatbots can lead ordinarily rational people to spiral into delusion (New York Times)

An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a...

New York Times: An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user...

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Leaked spreadsheets, Slack messages, and files linked to an alleged group of North Korean IT scammers show how they track potential jobs and record earnings (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Leaked spreadsheets, Slack messages, and files linked to...

Matt Burgess / Wired: Leaked spreadsheets, Slack messages, and files linked to an...

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Google is testing an AI-powered Google Finance website in the US, letting users ask questions, access advanced charting tools, view a live news feed, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Google is testing an AI-powered Google Finance website...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google is testing an AI-powered Google Finance website...

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OpenAI says ChatGPT Pro users can select old models for now but plans to deprecate them in 60 days; Sam Altman says Plus users will be able to keep using GPT-4o (Joanna Stern/Joanna Stern's Newsletter)

OpenAI says ChatGPT Pro users can select old models for...

Joanna Stern / Joanna Stern's Newsletter: OpenAI says ChatGPT Pro users can select...

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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan tells employees the company is engaging with the Trump administration to address concerns about him and "ensure they have the facts" (Lip-Bu Tan/Intel)

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan tells employees the company is engaging...

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Analysis: 12 Chinese tech companies have applied to list in Hong Kong so far this year, the most since 2023, after rules allowed lossmaking companies to float (Financial Times)

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Financial Times: Analysis: 12 Chinese tech companies have applied to list in Hong...

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As Trump targets Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, a look at his VC firm Walden International, which has invested $5B+ in 600+ companies, with 100+ in China including SMIC (Ian King/Bloomberg)

As Trump targets Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, a look at his VC...

Ian King / Bloomberg: As Trump targets Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, a look at his VC firm...

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OpenAI releases GPT-5 pro, a version with extended reasoning exclusive to ChatGPT Pro subscribers, saying it scored 88.4% without tools on the GPQA benchmark (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)

OpenAI releases GPT-5 pro, a version with extended reasoning...

Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: OpenAI releases GPT-5 pro, a version with extended...

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OpenAI highlights GPT-5 scores on math, coding, and health benchmarks: 94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools, 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, 46.2% on HealthBench Hard (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

OpenAI highlights GPT-5 scores on math, coding, and health...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: OpenAI highlights GPT-5 scores on math, coding, and...

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Brex says it has secured a license in the EU, allowing it to issue credit and debit cards and offer its spend management products to European customers (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Brex says it has secured a license in the EU, allowing...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Brex says it has secured a license in the EU, allowing...

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Sources: the US federal judiciary's electronic case filing system was hit in a sweeping hack, potentially compromising the identities of confidential informants (Politico)

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Politico: Sources: the US federal judiciary's electronic case filing system was...

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Sen. Tom cotton sends a letter to Intel's board chair with questions about CEO Lip-Bu Tan's ties to China and subpoenas during his tenure as Cadence Design CEO (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Sen. Tom cotton sends a letter to Intel's board chair with...

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Sen. Tom cotton sends a letter to Intel's board chair...

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Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Anthropic's growth to ~$5B in ARR, focusing on B2B, AI talent wars, open-source models, safety regulations, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)

Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Anthropic's growth...

John Collison / Cheeky Pint: Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Anthropic's...

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The NHTSA certifies Amazon's Zoox self-driving vehicles for demonstration use and closes a probe from 2022 into whether they complied with federal requirements (David Shepardson/Reuters)

The NHTSA certifies Amazon's Zoox self-driving vehicles...

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Apollo Global agrees to acquire a majority stake in Stream Data Centers, which builds, leases, and operates data center campuses, in its first such acquisition (Laura Benitez/Bloomberg)

Apollo Global agrees to acquire a majority stake in Stream...

Laura Benitez / Bloomberg: Apollo Global agrees to acquire a majority stake in Stream...

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AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $70M Series A led by Menlo Ventures via its co-investment vehicle with Anthropic, valuing it at ~$550M (George Hammond/Financial Times)

AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $70M...

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Microsoft unveils Project Ire, a prototype AI system that can reverse engineer and identify malicious software autonomously, without human assistance (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Microsoft unveils Project Ire, a prototype AI system that...

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft unveils Project Ire, a prototype AI system that...

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China plans to allow its first stablecoins in a bid to internationalize the CNY, as policymakers warn that dollar-backed tokens cement USD's global dominance (Financial Times)

China plans to allow its first stablecoins in a bid to...

Financial Times: China plans to allow its first stablecoins in a bid to internationalize...

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Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts from March 2024 to June 2025, as X and Modi's government clash over content rules (Reuters)

Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400...

Reuters: Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts...

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The Gemini mobile app now lets users create "personalized, illustrated storybooks complete with read-aloud narration" that can incorporate uploaded photos (Abner Li/9to5Google)

The Gemini mobile app now lets users create "personalized,...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: The Gemini mobile app now lets users create “personalized,...

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Newsletter service Ghost says publishers have earned $100M+ on it, its annual revenue is $8.5M+, it now supports ActivityPub, and is upping new member pricing (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)

Newsletter service Ghost says publishers have earned $100M+...

Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab: Newsletter service Ghost says publishers have earned...

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Coinbase adds Embedded Wallets to its mobile SDK, allowing devs to integrate wallets into their apps with minimal code, with support for on-ramps and swaps (Vishal Chawla/The Block)

Coinbase adds Embedded Wallets to its mobile SDK, allowing...

Vishal Chawla / The Block: Coinbase adds Embedded Wallets to its mobile SDK, allowing...

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DRAM prices remain high after doubling from May 2025 to June 2025, amid speculation that China's CXMT may have halted DDR4 production to focus on DDR5 and HBM (Nikkei Asia)

DRAM prices remain high after doubling from May 2025 to...

Nikkei Asia: DRAM prices remain high after doubling from May 2025 to June 2025,...

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As Delta experiments with AI-driven pricing, regulators and travelers alike worry about dynamic fare schemes that "go beyond the human cognitive limits" (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)

As Delta experiments with AI-driven pricing, regulators...

Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: As Delta experiments with AI-driven pricing, regulators...

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Shareholder letter: Reddit cites Profound's analysis showing it is the most cited domain across AI models, ahead of Wikipedia, YouTube, Forbes, and others (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)

Shareholder letter: Reddit cites Profound's analysis showing...

Alice Brooker / Press Gazette: Shareholder letter: Reddit cites Profound's analysis...

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Elon Musk says Vine's video archive is being brought back, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine, available to X Premium+ subscribers, is "AI Vine" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Elon Musk says Vine's video archive is being brought back,...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Elon Musk says Vine's video archive is being brought back,...

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Transcripts from the trial over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash: Tesla withheld crash‑snapshot data and took years to admit it existed or was relevant to the case (Fred Lambert/Electrek)

Transcripts from the trial over a fatal 2019 Autopilot...

Fred Lambert / Electrek: Transcripts from the trial over a fatal 2019 Autopilot...

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OpenAI says ChatGPT now offers "gentle reminders" to take breaks during long sessions, and it is building tools to better detect signs of emotional distress (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)

OpenAI says ChatGPT now offers "gentle reminders" to take...

Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: OpenAI says ChatGPT now offers “gentle reminders”...

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Taiwan's chip sector is cultivating overseas talent with summer camps and university courses to address a shortage of skilled professionals and production staff (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)

Taiwan's chip sector is cultivating overseas talent with...

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: Taiwan's chip sector is cultivating overseas talent with...

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The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children safe online has become a rallying point for the right in the UK and US, who claim it enables censorship (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children...

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children...

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How Disney is grappling with integrating AI into its filmmaking process while safeguarding IP and addressing legal uncertainty, fan backlash, and union concerns (Wall Street Journal)

How Disney is grappling with integrating AI into its filmmaking...

Wall Street Journal: How Disney is grappling with integrating AI into its filmmaking...

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As a percentage of US GDP, AI datacenter capex is already larger than peak telecom spending during the dot-com era and is approaching the railroad spending boom (Paul Kedrosky)

As a percentage of US GDP, AI datacenter capex is already...

Paul Kedrosky: As a percentage of US GDP, AI datacenter capex is already larger...

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Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says open-source AI is vital for US innovation and the US risks losing the AI race to China if it falls behind in open source (Clément Delangue/VentureBeat)

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says open-source AI is...

Clément Delangue / VentureBeat: Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says open-source...

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A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut (Jessica Roy/The Information)

A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M...

Jessica Roy / The Information: A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has...

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Xpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and their affiliates grew their combined India headcount by 16% over the past year, adding 28K+ jobs (Himanshi Lohchab/The Economic Times)

Xpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google,...

Himanshi Lohchab / The Economic Times: Xpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix,...

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Shares of Hong Kong-listed Chinese chipmaker InnoScience closed up 31% on August 1, after Nvidia named the company as a supplier for its 800V HVDC architecture (Felix Tam/Bloomberg)

Shares of Hong Kong-listed Chinese chipmaker InnoScience...

Felix Tam / Bloomberg: Shares of Hong Kong-listed Chinese chipmaker InnoScience...

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Internal documents and sources detail how Cambodia's Huione Group supercharged the growth of Asia's cyberscam industry into a multi-billion dollar behemoth (Kai Schultz/Bloomberg)

Internal documents and sources detail how Cambodia's Huione...

Kai Schultz / Bloomberg: Internal documents and sources detail how Cambodia's Huione...

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Anthropic says OpenAI staff used Claude Code ahead of GPT-5 launch and it will continue providing API access to OpenAI for benchmarking and safety evaluations (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

Anthropic says OpenAI staff used Claude Code ahead of GPT-5...

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Anthropic says OpenAI staff used Claude Code ahead...

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How VCs are changing the way people learn about the tech industry, through a sprawling media ecosystem consisting of podcasts, newsletters, and streaming shows (Anne VanderMey/Bloomberg)

How VCs are changing the way people learn about the tech...

Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: How VCs are changing the way people learn about the...

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How Palantir has benefited since President Trump took office, securing new and expanded government contracts and becoming the S&P's top-performing stock of 2025 (Washington Post)

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Washington Post: How Palantir has benefited since President Trump took office, securing...

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Microsoft's latest 10-K shows that the company's committed datacenter construction is down YoY, with almost no new leases signed in the past 12 months (@semianalysis_)

Microsoft's latest 10-K shows that the company's committed...

@semianalysis_: Microsoft's latest 10-K shows that the company's committed datacenter...

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Analysis: since April 2, President Trump has excluded over $100B in US smartphone and laptop imports from tariffs, highlighting conflicting administration goals (Bloomberg)

Analysis: since April 2, President Trump has excluded over...

Bloomberg: Analysis: since April 2, President Trump has excluded over $100B in US...

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CB Insights: Figma's IPO was the largest venture-backed IPO by market capitalization for a US tech company since Rivian's debut in November 2021 (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

CB Insights: Figma's IPO was the largest venture-backed...

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: CB Insights: Figma's IPO was the largest...

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A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $329M in damages (Washington Post)

A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's...

Washington Post: A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in...

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Source: GPT-5 improvements won't be comparable to the leaps in performance of earlier models, such as between GPT-3 in 2020 and GPT-4 in 2023 (The Information)

Source: GPT-5 improvements won't be comparable to the leaps...

The Information: Source: GPT-5 improvements won't be comparable to the leaps in...

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Google says it will preserve "actively used" goo.gl URLs, after announcing earlier that all existing goo.gl links would stop working in August 2025 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google says it will preserve "actively used" goo.gl URLs,...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says it will preserve “actively used” goo.gl URLs,...

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Source: Anthropic is nearing $5B in annualized revenue, up from $4B reported on July 1, as it nears a deal to raise $5B led by Iconiq at a $170B valuation (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Source: Anthropic is nearing $5B in annualized revenue,...

Sri Muppidi / The Information: Source: Anthropic is nearing $5B in annualized revenue,...

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Prophet Security, which develops fully autonomous AI agents for cybersecurity defense, raised a $30M Series A led by Accel (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Prophet Security, which develops fully autonomous AI agents...

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Prophet Security, which develops fully autonomous AI...

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Neuralink plans a UK clinical trial to test how its chips let patients with severe paralysis control devices with thoughts, marking its entry into the country (Christy Santhosh/Reuters)

Neuralink plans a UK clinical trial to test how its chips...

Christy Santhosh / Reuters: Neuralink plans a UK clinical trial to test how its...

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Google loses its appeal of a judge's order requiring an overhaul of its app store policies in an antitrust case filed by Epic Games (Bloomberg)

Google loses its appeal of a judge's order requiring an...

Bloomberg: Google loses its appeal of a judge's order requiring an overhaul of its...

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A look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation packages; sources: Meta told potential hires they would be allotted 30K GPUs for their AI research (New York Times)

A look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation...

New York Times: A look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation packages;...

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Figma opens at $85 on the NYSE, after selling shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$50B valuation, more than a year after Adobe's $20B failed acquisition (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Figma opens at $85 on the NYSE, after selling shares at...

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Figma opens at $85 on the NYSE, after selling shares at $33...

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Trump ups the ante in India trade talks with 25% tariff threat

Trump ups the ante in India trade talks with 25% tariff...

In a bid to extract concessions from New Delhi in months-long trade talks, Donald...

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Grab reports Q2 revenue up 23% YoY to $819M, vs. 812M est., and an adjusted EBITDA of $109M; Grab's shares are up 60% over the past year as its profit increased (Bloomberg)

Grab reports Q2 revenue up 23% YoY to $819M, vs. 812M est.,...

Bloomberg: Grab reports Q2 revenue up 23% YoY to $819M, vs. 812M est., and an adjusted...

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OpenAI launches Stargate Norway, the first Stargate-branded initiative in Europe, to build a 230MW data center owned by a joint venture between Nscale and Aker (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

OpenAI launches Stargate Norway, the first Stargate-branded...

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: OpenAI launches Stargate Norway, the first Stargate-branded...

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How AI has transformed data center design, with concerns about overspending on AI infrastructure, sparked by DeepSeek, fading amid the ongoing building frenzy (Financial Times)

How AI has transformed data center design, with concerns...

Financial Times: How AI has transformed data center design, with concerns about...

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Dropbox says it will discontinue Dropbox Passwords, launched in 2020, on October 28 to focus on its core product, and recommends 1Password as a replacement (Richard Speed/The Register)

Dropbox says it will discontinue Dropbox Passwords, launched...

Richard Speed / The Register: Dropbox says it will discontinue Dropbox Passwords,...

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Google plans to roll out ML-powered age estimation in the US over the next few weeks to detect whether users are under 18 and then enable existing protections (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google plans to roll out ML-powered age estimation in the...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google plans to roll out ML-powered age estimation in the...

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In a report, Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets urges regulators to clarify digital asset trading rules and ease adoption of new financial products (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)

In a report, Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets...

Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg: In a report, Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets...

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US-China trade talks in Sweden end without truce extension

US-China trade talks in Sweden end without truce extension

Two days of talks between delegations from Beijing and Washington ended without...

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A US trade group for 30+ fintechs and aggregators says JPMorgan's plan to charge for data access could cost some firms 60% to over 100% of their annual revenue (Financial Times)

A US trade group for 30+ fintechs and aggregators says...

Financial Times: A US trade group for 30+ fintechs and aggregators says JPMorgan's...

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Israel-based Teramount, which develops fiber-to-chip interconnect tools for AI infrastructure chips, raised a $50M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Israel-based Teramount, which develops fiber-to-chip interconnect...

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israel-based Teramount, which develops fiber-to-chip interconnect...

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An inside look at ex-unicorn Builder.ai's demise, which oversold its AI platform's abilities and frustrated customers with delivery delays and buggy products (Varsha Bansal/Rest of World)

An inside look at ex-unicorn Builder.ai's demise, which...

Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: An inside look at ex-unicorn Builder.ai's demise,...

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Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies about their video models and expect these revenue sources to eclipse studios (Rocket Drew/The Information)

Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and...

Rocket Drew / The Information: Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics...

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Sources: Apple loses a fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta's superintelligence team; the AFM team is in flux and Apple has marginally increased their pay (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple loses a fourth AI researcher in a month...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple loses a fourth AI researcher in a month...

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An interview with Anthropic's Dario Amodei and how his father's passing from an illness, four years before a breakthrough made it 95% curable, shaped his path (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

An interview with Anthropic's Dario Amodei and how his...

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: An interview with Anthropic's Dario Amodei and...

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Euro currency sees sharpest decline in 2 months after US-EU trade deal

Euro currency sees sharpest decline in 2 months after US-EU...

The deal reached by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US President...

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Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing data and running predictive models from natural language prompts, raised a $10M seed led by Bessemer (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing...

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing...

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Sources: Nvidia ordered 300K H20 chips from TSMC last week, adding to inventory of 600K to 700K, amid strong China demand after Trump admin cleared H20 sales (Reuters)

Sources: Nvidia ordered 300K H20 chips from TSMC last week,...

Reuters: Sources: Nvidia ordered 300K H20 chips from TSMC last week, adding to inventory...

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Athens-based defense tech startup Delian Alliance Industries, which makes its own hardware, software, and sensor fusion systems, raised a $14M Series A (Financial Times)

Athens-based defense tech startup Delian Alliance Industries,...

Financial Times: Athens-based defense tech startup Delian Alliance Industries, which...

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Fable, a startup offering AI-generated security training for employees, comes out of stealth having raised $31M, a source says at a $120M valuation (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Fable, a startup offering AI-generated security training...

Thomas Brewster / Forbes: Fable, a startup offering AI-generated security training...

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Microsoft Edge adds Copilot Mode, an experimental feature that tries to make browsing an agentic AI experience, even anticipating links to click, free for now (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Microsoft Edge adds Copilot Mode, an experimental feature...

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft Edge adds Copilot Mode, an experimental...

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The US smartphone market grew 1% in Q2; the share of US smartphone shipments assembled in China shrank from 61% in Q2'24 to 25% in Q2'25, as India volume soars (Canalys)

The US smartphone market grew 1% in Q2; the share of US...

Canalys: The US smartphone market grew 1% in Q2; the share of US smartphone shipments...

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Q&A with SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary on the Alphabet spinoff's partnership with Aramco, how quantum AI can help turn captured CO2 into valuable products, and more (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)

Q&A with SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary on the Alphabet spinoff's...

Divsha Bhat / Rest of World: Q&A with SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary on the Alphabet...

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Sources: the US freezes tech export curbs on China to avoid disrupting trade talks and help President Trump secure a 2025 meeting with President Xi Jinping (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

Sources: the US freezes tech export curbs on China to avoid...

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: Sources: the US freezes tech export curbs...

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A look at India's plan to build a quantum computing hub in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, where IBM is in talks to develop India's most powerful quantum computer (John Reed/Financial Times)

A look at India's plan to build a quantum computing hub...

John Reed / Financial Times: A look at India's plan to build a quantum computing...

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An interview with CEO David Baszucki on Roblox's origin story, what's next for the gaming platform whose shares have risen about 200% in the past year, and more (Tim Fernholz/Sherwood News)

An interview with CEO David Baszucki on Roblox's origin...

Tim Fernholz / Sherwood News: An interview with CEO David Baszucki on Roblox's origin...

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Rune Technologies, which is developing AI-enabled software to transform manual processes in military logistics, raised a $24M Series A by Human Capital (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Rune Technologies, which is developing AI-enabled software...

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Rune Technologies, which is developing AI-enabled software...

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Berlin-based Buena, which is building AI-powered software to automate property management tasks, raised $58M, including a Series A led by GV (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Berlin-based Buena, which is building AI-powered software...

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Berlin-based Buena, which is building AI-powered software...

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Architect Partners: companies have raised nearly $86B in 2025 to buy crypto, with over $43B raised since June 1, as skeptics worry about the market overheating (Wall Street Journal)

Architect Partners: companies have raised nearly $86B in...

Wall Street Journal: Architect Partners: companies have raised nearly $86B in 2025...

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Sources: US suppliers are rebuffing Temu's efforts to undercut Amazon, saying Temu cannot undercut Amazon on branded product prices (Rafe Uddin/Financial Times)

Sources: US suppliers are rebuffing Temu's efforts to undercut...

Rafe Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: US suppliers are rebuffing Temu's efforts...

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Satya Nadella's memo on Microsoft's layoffs portends the harsh reality that AI could make software companies more profitable while employing fewer people (Om Malik/On my Om)

Satya Nadella's memo on Microsoft's layoffs portends the...

Om Malik / On my Om: Satya Nadella's memo on Microsoft's layoffs portends the harsh...

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Sources: DOGE has built an AI tool aiming to cut 50% of federal regulations, or around 100,000 rules, by the first anniversary of Trump's inauguration (Washington Post)

Sources: DOGE has built an AI tool aiming to cut 50% of...

Washington Post: Sources: DOGE has built an AI tool aiming to cut 50% of federal...

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Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters (Jackson Chen/Engadget)

Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs,...

Jackson Chen / Engadget: Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs,...

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Sources: KKR is in talks to buy ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in a deal that could value the Asian digital infrastructure provider at more than $5B (Bloomberg)

Sources: KKR is in talks to buy ST Telemedia Global Data...

Bloomberg: Sources: KKR is in talks to buy ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in a...

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China's Unitree is marketing the R1, a humanoid robot that has multimodal AI and weighs 25kg, for $5,900, drastically lowering the entry price for such machines (Bloomberg)

China's Unitree is marketing the R1, a humanoid robot that...

Bloomberg: China's Unitree is marketing the R1, a humanoid robot that has multimodal...

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Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25...

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Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for aiding a North Korean remote IT worker scheme, details her time as a "laptop farmer" (Evan Ratliff/Bloomberg)

Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced...

Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced...

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Some 4chan users claim they breached Tea, the women's dating safety app that has topped the US App Store charts, exposing selfies and drivers' licenses (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

Some 4chan users claim they breached Tea, the women's dating...

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Some 4chan users claim they breached Tea, the women's...

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Sen. Alex Padilla grants the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it a part of a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents (Morgan Sung/KQED)

Sen. Alex Padilla grants the Internet Archive federal depository...

Morgan Sung / KQED: Sen. Alex Padilla grants the Internet Archive federal depository...

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The NHTSA closes its 14-month investigation into a series of minor collisions and unexpected behavior from Waymo vehicles, and won't take further action (David Shepardson/Reuters)

The NHTSA closes its 14-month investigation into a series...

David Shepardson / Reuters: The NHTSA closes its 14-month investigation into a series...

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Aidoc, which uses AI to help doctors make real-time clinical decisions, raised $150M led by General Catalyst and Square Peg, bringing its total funding to $370M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Aidoc, which uses AI to help doctors make real-time clinical...

Meir Orbach / CTech: Aidoc, which uses AI to help doctors make real-time clinical...

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Intel plans to cut its workforce from 96,400 that it reported at the end of June to 75,000, or about 15%, through attrition and "other means" by the end of 2025 (Reuters)

Intel plans to cut its workforce from 96,400 that it reported...

Reuters: Intel plans to cut its workforce from 96,400 that it reported at the end...

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Tether says it has ~250K Tether Gold tokens in circulation as of Q2 2025, backed 1:1 by a troy ounce of physical gold; the stablecoin was launched in Jan. 2020 (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Tether says it has ~250K Tether Gold tokens in circulation...

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Tether says it has ~250K Tether Gold tokens in circulation...

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In a memo, Satya Nadella addresses the "enigma" of layoffs while "Microsoft is thriving", saying the transition into the AI era "might feel messy at times" (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

In a memo, Satya Nadella addresses the "enigma" of layoffs...

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: In a memo, Satya Nadella addresses the “enigma” of layoffs...

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C3.ai founder and CEO Thomas Siebel steps down due to health issues related to an autoimmune disease that resulted in visual impairment in early 2025 (Hanh Truong/Silicon Valley Business ...)

C3.ai founder and CEO Thomas Siebel steps down due to health...

Hanh Truong / Silicon Valley Business Journal: C3.ai founder and CEO Thomas Siebel...

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Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26, with its new Liquid Glass design language (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS...

Jay Peters / The Verge: Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS...

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Chinese EV maker Zeekr expands EU presence in spite of tariffs

Chinese EV maker Zeekr expands EU presence in spite of...

As European leaders attend an EU-China summit in Beijing, the issue of tariffs on...

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Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the USDT issuer is making plans to do business in the US after the passage of Genius Act, with a focus on institutional markets (Bloomberg)

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the USDT issuer is making...

Bloomberg: Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the USDT issuer is making plans to do business...

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China's Qianfan, the third largest satellite broadband constellation with 90 operational satellites, remains far short of its goal of 648 by the end of 2025 (Ling Xin/South China Morning Post)

China's Qianfan, the third largest satellite broadband...

Ling Xin / South China Morning Post: China's Qianfan, the third largest satellite...

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Sources: Adani Group has shelved plans for a consumer super app amid losses and internal turmoil, as Reliance and Tata also struggle to scale their platforms (Bloomberg)

Sources: Adani Group has shelved plans for a consumer super...

Bloomberg: Sources: Adani Group has shelved plans for a consumer super app amid...

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President Trump's AI Action Plan, which has 90+ policy recommendations, explicitly seeks to roll back Biden-era measures on AI bias and cybersecurity threats (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

President Trump's AI Action Plan, which has 90+ policy...

Kate Knibbs / Wired: President Trump's AI Action Plan, which has 90+ policy recommendations,...

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Meta debuts a prototype wristband to read electrical signals from forearm muscles, letting users control devices without touch, trained on 10K peoples' EMG data (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Meta debuts a prototype wristband to read electrical signals...

Cade Metz / New York Times: Meta debuts a prototype wristband to read electrical...

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YouTube gives Shorts creators access to new generative AI features powered by Veo 2, including an image-to-video tool and new effects (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

YouTube gives Shorts creators access to new generative...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: YouTube gives Shorts creators access to new generative...

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US and Japan strike trade deal, avoiding Trump's threat of 25% tariffs

US and Japan strike trade deal, avoiding Trump's threat...

After months of negotiations, the US has reached a trade deal with Japan. US President...

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Source: the US National Nuclear Security Administration was among those breached by a hack of SharePoint; no sensitive information is known to be compromised (Ari Natter/Bloomberg)

Source: the US National Nuclear Security Administration...

Ari Natter / Bloomberg: Source: the US National Nuclear Security Administration...

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PitchBook: in H1, AI startups raised $104.3B in the US, or about 66% of all US VC funding, up from 49% last year; there were 281 VC-backed exits totaling $36B (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

PitchBook: in H1, AI startups raised $104.3B in the US,...

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: PitchBook: in H1, AI startups raised $104.3B in the US,...

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Sources: the Trump admin is pressuring South Korea, Brazil, the EU, and others to drop plans for new taxes on US tech firms as a part of broader trade talks (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: the Trump admin is pressuring South Korea, Brazil,...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: the Trump admin is pressuring South Korea, Brazil,...

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Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can "steer" laser light and is an alternative to lidar, extends its Series B from $45M to $59M, including from Amazon's IIF (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)

Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can "steer" laser light...

Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can “steer” laser...

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Philadelphia-based Asylon, which modifies Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot into DroneDog, raised a $26M Series B led by Insight, taking its total funding to $45M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Philadelphia-based Asylon, which modifies Boston Dynamics'...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Philadelphia-based Asylon, which modifies Boston Dynamics'...

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Microsoft says it "has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting" the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Microsoft says it "has observed two named Chinese nation-state...

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft says it “has observed two named Chinese...

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August 1 deadline for 30% tariffs looms over US-EU trade talks

August 1 deadline for 30% tariffs looms over US-EU trade...

Trade negotiations between Washington and Brussels are continuing ahead of an August...

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Samsung Galaxy Watch8 review: thinner and sturdier, but its design with a square casing and a round screen is polarizing, and Gemini is useful but hit-or-miss (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Samsung Galaxy Watch8 review: thinner and sturdier, but...

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Samsung Galaxy Watch8 review: thinner and sturdier,...

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Leaked memo: CEO Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching "dictators", says a "no bad person" rule is impractical (Kylie Robison/Wired)

Leaked memo: CEO Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans...

Kylie Robison / Wired: Leaked memo: CEO Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans...

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Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerability (Washington Post)

Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government...

Washington Post: Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind...

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China starts construction on world's biggest hydropower project in Tibet

China starts construction on world's biggest hydropower...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang attended a ceremony on Saturday marking the start of construction...

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Dell confirms extortion group World Leaks breached its Solution Centers platform, used for demos, earlier in July, stealing mostly synthetic or public data (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Dell confirms extortion group World Leaks breached its...

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Dell confirms extortion group World Leaks breached...

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Oakley Meta HSTN hands-on: the $399 glasses are a fun accessory and sportier, thinner, lighter, and more comfortable than previous models with a solid 3K camera (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Oakley Meta HSTN hands-on: the $399 glasses are a fun accessory...

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Oakley Meta HSTN hands-on: the $399 glasses are a fun...

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Figma prices its shares at $25 and $28 each and plans to sell nearly 37M shares to raise up to $1.03B, giving it an up to $16.4B valuation in its NYSE debut (Niket Nishant/Reuters)

Figma prices its shares at $25 and $28 each and plans to...

Niket Nishant / Reuters: Figma prices its shares at $25 and $28 each and plans to...

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A 0-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited in RCE attacks on servers globally; no patch exists and tens of thousands of servers are at risk (Washington Post)

A 0-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited...

Washington Post: A 0-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited in RCE...

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Sources: the UK may backtrack on its January order for Apple to create a backdoor for iCloud encrypted data after pressure from US officials, including JD Vance (Financial Times)

Sources: the UK may backtrack on its January order for...

Financial Times: Sources: the UK may backtrack on its January order for Apple to...

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A look at the video podcasting surge; study: ~75% of podcast consumers play video episodes and ~30% play video episodes minimized or in background mode (Joseph Bernstein/New York Times)

A look at the video podcasting surge; study: ~75% of podcast...

Joseph Bernstein / New York Times: A look at the video podcasting surge; study:...

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How YouTube became the most-watched video provider on TVs in the US, with creator content tailored for family and group viewing and app features enhanced for TV (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)

How YouTube became the most-watched video provider on TVs...

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: How YouTube became the most-watched video provider...

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Dallas-based iCounter, which uses AI to combat cyber risks, launches out of stealth from Apollo Information Systems with a $30M Series A led by SYN Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Dallas-based iCounter, which uses AI to combat cyber risks,...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Dallas-based iCounter, which uses AI to combat cyber risks,...

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like "Watch Mode Activation" and "Terminal Restrictions" (Louis Columbus/VentureBeat)

OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red...

Louis Columbus / VentureBeat: OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its...

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Vultron, which makes AI tools for federal contractors, raised $22M from investors including David Sacks' Craft Ventures, raising ethical questions (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Vultron, which makes AI tools for federal contractors,...

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Vultron, which makes AI tools for federal contractors,...

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A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI model Mirage that manipulates live video in real time and can potentially shake up livestreaming (Will Knight/Wired)

A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI...

Will Knight / Wired: A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI model...

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How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatus (Kim Zetter/Wired)

How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of...

Kim Zetter / Wired: How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic...

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Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up...

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up...

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Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200+ earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice (Kasha Patel/Washington Post)

Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected...

Kasha Patel / Washington Post: Google researchers say Android's early-warning system...

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How AI is reshaping higher education, as institutions grapple with the pace of change and technology companies move quickly to offer custom learning products (Financial Times)

How AI is reshaping higher education, as institutions grapple...

Financial Times: How AI is reshaping higher education, as institutions grapple with...

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Sources: Prosus offered to cut its 27% Delivery Hero stake to below 10% and give up its board seat to address EU concerns over its €4.1B Just Eat Takeaway deal (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Sources: Prosus offered to cut its 27% Delivery Hero stake...

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: Prosus offered to cut its 27% Delivery Hero stake...

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Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to provide technical support to the US military, after a ProPublica report raised security concerns (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers...

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers...

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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10+ OpenAI researchers packages of $300M over four years, and asked OpenAI's Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10+ OpenAI researchers...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10+ OpenAI researchers...

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A lawmaker who regulates Russia's IT sector warns WhatsApp to "prepare to leave" Russia; Moscow recently approved development of a state-backed messaging app (Reuters)

A lawmaker who regulates Russia's IT sector warns WhatsApp...

Reuters: A lawmaker who regulates Russia's IT sector warns WhatsApp to “prepare...

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The EU issues guidelines to help AI models with systemic risks comply with the AI Act, after criticism from some companies about lack of clarity (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

The EU issues guidelines to help AI models with systemic...

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EU issues guidelines to help AI models with systemic...

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Joel Kaplan says Meta won't sign EU's AI code of practice, calling its guidelines overreach that will throttle development and deployment of AI models in Europe (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

Joel Kaplan says Meta won't sign EU's AI code of practice,...

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Joel Kaplan says Meta won't sign EU's AI code of practice,...

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US Senate approves $9 billion in cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid

US Senate approves $9 billion in cuts to public broadcasting...

US Senate Republicans have voted to cut $9 billion from public broadcasting and...

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EU agrees 'unprecedented' round of sanctions targeting Russia's oil exports

EU agrees 'unprecedented' round of sanctions targeting...

The European Union on Friday reached an agreement on an 18th sanctions package against...

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An advisory board convened by OpenAI recommends that the company remain a nonprofit because AI is "too consequential" to be governed by a corporation alone (Thalia Beaty/Associated Press)

An advisory board convened by OpenAI recommends that the...

Thalia Beaty / Associated Press: An advisory board convened by OpenAI recommends...

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Sources: the White House is preparing an EO requiring AI companies with federal contracts to be neutral and unbiased, to combat what officials see as "woke AI" (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: the White House is preparing an EO requiring AI...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: the White House is preparing an EO requiring AI companies...

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Sources: Meta hired AI researchers Mark Lee, from Apple's Foundation Models team, and Tom Gunter, who left Apple in June, for its superintelligence lab (Bloomberg)

Sources: Meta hired AI researchers Mark Lee, from Apple's...

Bloomberg: Sources: Meta hired AI researchers Mark Lee, from Apple's Foundation...

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Trump says firing Powell 'unlikely' after escalating attacks on Fed Chair

Trump says firing Powell 'unlikely' after escalating attacks...

Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that it was "unlikely" he would fire the...

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Raids, arrests and deportations: The economic toll of closed borders

Raids, arrests and deportations: The economic toll of closed...

This week, we focus on the unprecedented immigration crackdown currently taking...

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US Senate approves $9bn in cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid

US Senate approves $9bn in cuts to public broadcasting...

Senate Republicans have voted to cut $9 billion from public broadcasting and foreign...

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Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are focused on generative AI in 2025, up by 198 since May 2024, and they have collectively raised $20B+ to date (Elihay Vidal/CTech)

Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are focused on...

Elihay Vidal / CTech: Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are focused on generative...

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Uber plans to make "multi-hundred-million dollar investments" in Nuro and Lucid and aims to deploy "20,000 or more" robotaxis in the US over the next six years (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Uber plans to make "multi-hundred-million dollar investments"...

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Uber plans to make “multi-hundred-million dollar...

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In H1 2025, hackers stole $2.17B+ from crypto services, including the DPRK's record $1.5B Bybit hack, surpassing all of 2024 and up 17% on H1 2022 (Chainalysis)

In H1 2025, hackers stole $2.17B+ from crypto services,...

Chainalysis: In H1 2025, hackers stole $2.17B+ from crypto services, including the...