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Hike, which was valued at $1.4B in 2016 and has since pivoted from a messaging app to a real-money gaming app, shuts down following India's ban on such apps (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Penske Media sues Google, says ~20% of Google search results linking to its sites now include AI Overviews, and affiliate link revenue fell 33%+ since late 2024 (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)

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Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, raised $235M at a ~$1.23B valuation, after coming out of stealth in March with a $200M seed (Brian Kahn/Bloomberg)

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JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

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OpenAI projects that it will reduce the revenue share it pays to Microsoft from 20% this year to ~8% by 2030, potentially retaining over $50B more in revenue (The Information)

OpenAI projects that it will reduce the revenue sh...

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Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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California passes SB 53, which requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes; Newsom vetoed a similar though more expansive measure last year (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)

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California Assembly passes a bill that requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta support the bill, while the MPA opposes it (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)

California Assembly passes a bill that requires de...

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Filing: Samsung agreed to settle a patent lawsuit over wireless tech with Headwater Research following a $279M jury verdict against Samsung earlier in 2025 (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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IBM is holding its own in the quantum computing race against Google, Microsoft, and others, as they tackle enormous scientific and engineering challenges (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

IBM is holding its own in the quantum computing ra...

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A profile of Figure CEO Mike Cagney, now a billion...

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How Kalshi is shaking up US sports betting, as its board member and CFTC Chair nominee Brian Quintenz takes a permissive stance on sports prediction markets (Financial Times)

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Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable "graphic content" and "glorified violence" (Lauren Goode/Wired)

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Source: Nvidia is scaling back DGX Cloud to primarily internal R&D use; DGX Cloud was initially envisioned to compete with major cloud providers like AWS (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

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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)

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