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A look at the US DOJ's divestment case against TikTok, which relies on classified material that TikTok can't review, as oral arguments begin on September 16 (The Verge)

A look at the US DOJ's divestment case against Tik...

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Nirvana, which provides insurance verification and cost estimates to healthcare providers and their patients, raised a $24.2M Series A led by Northzone (PYMNTS.com)

Nirvana, which provides insurance verification and...

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Regulatory reports: India's CCI accuses Samsung, Xiaomi, and other smartphone makers of collusion for exclusively launching products on Amazon and Flipkart (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

Regulatory reports: India's CCI accuses Samsung, X...

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Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of USDC issuer Circle, says the company is moving its global HQ to One World Trade Center in New York City, ahead of a planned IPO (Zoltan Vardai/Cointelegraph)

Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of USDC issuer Circle, say...

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Boston-based AceUp, which offers AI-powered business coaching and performance analytics services, raised a $22.5M Series A led by PJC (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Boston-based AceUp, which offers AI-powered busine...

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Maryland-based Aembit, a non-human identity and access management provider, raised a $25M Series A led by Acrew Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$45M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

Maryland-based Aembit, a non-human identity and ac...

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Apple's Activation Lock for iPhone components will make a huge dent in the market for stolen iPhones, though it introduces another barrier to DIY repairs (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)

Apple's Activation Lock for iPhone components will...

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Google Pixel 9 Pro teardown: impressive repairability for a foldable, with a highly modular design that separates high mechanical wear parts like the USB-C port (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)

Google Pixel 9 Pro teardown: impressive repairabil...

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OpenAI should've stuck with the name Strawberry for o1, avoiding user confusion between models named 4o and o1, and helping humanize the tech (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

OpenAI should've stuck with the name Strawberry fo...

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A profile of Chase Herro, who calls himself the "d...

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An overview of California's AI safety bill SB 1047, which easily passed the state's legislature, as it awaits Governor Newsom's signature or veto before Sep. 30 (Financial Times)

An overview of California's AI safety bill SB 1047...

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Recent announcements from Apple and Google show that AI is most useful as a feature in devices and software we already use, rather than a standalone product (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Recent announcements from Apple and Google show th...

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Doctor Web: malware dubbed Android.Vo1d has infected ~1.3M TV boxes running OSes based on Android Open Source Project in almost 200 countries, forming a botnet (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Doctor Web: malware dubbed Android.Vo1d has infect...

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In reports dated August 9, Indian antitrust regulator CCI found that Amazon and Flipkart violated local competition laws by giving preference to select sellers (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

In reports dated August 9, Indian antitrust regula...

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India's new M&A rule for deals exceeding ~$240M could create hurdles for startups that hope to be acquired in their early years to access funding and scale (Menaka Doshi/Bloomberg)

India's new M&A rule for deals exceeding ~$240M co...

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Sources: OpenAI's $150B valuation in a $6.5B funding round hinges on whether the company can upend its corporate structure and remove a profit cap for investors (Reuters)

Sources: OpenAI's $150B valuation in a $6.5B fundi...

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Some former CrowdStrike employees say they raised concerns about executives rushing deadlines and quality checks, more than a year before the July 2024 outage (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)

Some former CrowdStrike employees say they raised ...

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Google ad trial: an ex-Facebook ad exec testifies the company signed the 2018 Jedi Blue deal with Google because it couldn't compete against Google's "monopoly" (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Google ad trial: an ex-Facebook ad exec testifies ...

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