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Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute develop a large behavior model that enables more natural-seeming movement and "emergent skills" in humanoid robots (Will Knight/Wired)

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ProRata.ai, which lets publishers embed custom AI search on their websites with a 50/50 revenue split, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total raised to $75M+ (Kerry Flynn/Axios)

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Lenovo unveils Legion Go 2, with an 8.8" OLED screen and an AMD Ryzen Z2 or Z2 Extreme chip, arriving in October for $1,099+, or $400 more than the Legion Go (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: major design upgrades for the iPhone, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, three Apple Watch models, and the AirPods Pro 3 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: ByteDance chip design workers, many in Beijing or Shanghai, found out last week they report into a Singapore unit, likely to navigate US-China tensions (Reuters)

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How Synthesia is combining AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent, intonation, and expressiveness preservation (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)

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Researchers from UCL, Google DeepMind, and Intrinsic unveil RoboBallet, an AI system designed to help teams of industrial robots work together without colliding (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

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Meta revamps Facebook's classic Poke feature to make it easier to use and adds gamification elements like Snapchat and TikTok have, as it courts younger users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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

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Conversational AI company Cerence sues Apple in Texas over virtual keyboards and "Hey Siri" infringing its patents, saying it first contacted Apple in 2021 (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

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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)

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At a White House dinner, tech CEOs thanked Trump for promoting chip and AI investments, while Trump promised an easy energy permitting process for data centers (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: OpenAI is set to produce an AI chip co-designed with Broadcom, to ship in 2026, and has committed $10B in orders; the chip will only be used internally (Financial Times)

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Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Code.org, IBM, OpenAI, and other companies pledged new commitments for AI in education as part of Melania Trump's White House event (Ashley Gold/Axios)

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Docusign reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $800.6M vs. $780.1M est., raises FY 2026 sales outlook, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; DOCU jumps 8%+ after hours (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

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How Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack from Musk, conservative groups, the Trump administration, and other governments (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)

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Anthropic says it will stop selling AI services to majority Chinese-owned groups; a source says the policy is partly aimed at Chinese subsidiaries in Singapore (Financial Times)

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Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $16B, vs. $15.8B est., AI revenue up 63% to $5.2B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; AVGO up 4.5%+ after hours (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

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Sources: StubHub and Netskope plan to start formally marketing their IPOs as soon as Monday; StubHub could raise $1B+, and Netskope is seeking to raise ~$1B (Bloomberg)

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Source: Nvidia agreed to rent 10,000 of its own AI chips from Lambda for $1.3B over four years, the latest example of Nvidia's circular financial arrangements (The Information)

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WBD files a copyright suit against Midjourney, accusing the startup of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Batman (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Augment, founded by Deliverr's Harish Abbott, raised an $85M Series A led by Redpoint to scale its AI assistant for logistics, five months after a $25M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by "hundreds of millions" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match employers with candidates with AI skills, and a certification program for AI roles in the coming months (Bloomberg)

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ID.me, a digital ID service used by US agencies like the IRS, raised a $340M Series E led by Ribbit at a $2B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $580M+ (Reuters)

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The Trump administration plans to ease rules for self driving cars by removing some requirements designed for human drivers, such as windshield wipers (Keith Laing/Bloomberg)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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A profile of Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, which is unique among AI companies in having a mandate to both evaluate its AI models and publicize findings widely (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

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Google now lets US-based Google Photos users turn static images into silent four-second videos using its Veo 3 model (Elissa Welle/The Verge)

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Stripe and Paradigm unveil Tempo, a Layer-1 blockchain for stablecoins; a source says Tempo will not launch with its own token and there is no launch timeline (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

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Sources: Microsoft is set to avoid a potentially hefty EU antitrust fine by agreeing to sell Teams separately from its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 packages (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

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Ketryx, which is building an AI-native compliance platform to speed up medical device development, raised a $39M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M+ (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

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Lead Bank, a 97-year-old Missouri bank rebuilt to serve fintech and crypto firms, raised $70M from a16z, Khosla Ventures, and others at a $1.47B valuation (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

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Sources: plans for X Money, a US payments service integrated into X, have stalled as executives leave and the DFS NY and other state regulators raise concerns (Theo Wayt/The Information)

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Honeywell's Quantinuum raised $600M from Quanta, Nvidia's NVentures, and others at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in January 2024 (Bloomberg)

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Roblox restricts some features in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, including its in-game chat tool, and improves Arabic content moderation due to child safety concerns (Leen Al-Rashdan/Bloomberg)

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Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610M in cash, set to close by December; founded in 2019, the startup beta launched the Dia browser in June (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Amazon's Project Kuiper signs up JetBlue as its first airline customer to use its satellite internet for in-flight Wi-Fi in 25% of JetBlue's fleet from 2027 (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)

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Tel Aviv-based Sola, which develops AI-based no-code and low-code cybersecurity tools, raised a $35M Series A led by S32 and says it has ~2,000 customers (Resilience Media)

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The US Army awards a $98.9M contract to TurbineOne to deploy AI software that helps identify drones and other threats, processing all data on soldiers' devices (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

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Research and 25 experts, victims, and execs: North Korean hackers are saturating the crypto industry with credible-sounding job offers in a bid to steal crypto (Reuters)

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SK Hynix's union approves SK's 6% wage bump plus 10% of SK's annual profit allocated to a bonus pool, costing ~$2.7B for 33,625 staff in 2025, averting a strike (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

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GSR fund documents: TikTok rival Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in the US, saw its valuation rise 19% from $26B in March to $31B during recent GSR transactions (Echo Wong/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese tech companies remain keen on Nvidia's AI chips despite Beijing strongly discouraging them from such purchases (Reuters)

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Philips Hue unveils a major product refresh at IFA 2025, including a $99 Hue Bridge Pro, updated $25+ smart bulbs, and the $170 Hue Secure, its first doorbell (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

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Tencent releases HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, trained on 100K+ video clips (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

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The US v. Google ruling signals a cautious antitrust approach by courts and a reluctance to intervene too deeply, ahead of other Big Tech antitrust rulings (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

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Samsung unveils the $650+ Galaxy S25 FE and $800+ Tab S11 series in 11" and 14.6", offering thinner, lighter designs alongside modest upgrades, shipping now (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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