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Upwind, which filters false security alerts in cloud apps so companies can focus on actual risks, raised $300M at a $3.8B valuation, up from $1.5B in January (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Upwind, which filters false security alerts in clo...

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PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes (Erin Griffith/New York Times)

PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthr...

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Sources: Saudi AI company Humain is planning to raise an initial $2.5B fund to help finance data center capacity of 250 MW in Saudi Arabia (Omar El Chmouri/Bloomberg)

Sources: Saudi AI company Humain is planning to ra...

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Munich-based Atira, which aims to use AI to automate the parsing and generation of complex bid proposals, raised a $15M seed led by Accel and a $2.5M pre-seed (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Munich-based Atira, which aims to use AI to automa...

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HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle, which let users choose between Gemini or ChatGPT as their assistant, in North America, Europe, the UK, and Australia (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle, which let users...

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TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be ~400% higher than a year prior but Apple won't pass on the full cost to customers (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)

TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memor...

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Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest purchase after it paid $20B for Groq assets at the end of last year (Ari Levy/CNBC)

Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, its ...

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PlusAI, which is operating autonomous freight routes in Texas with trucking company Ryder, plans to go public in a SPAC deal at an $800M pre-money valuation (Pragyan Kalita/Reuters)

PlusAI, which is operating autonomous freight rout...

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Sources: neocloud Fluidstack closed a $1.5B round led by Jane Street at an $18B+ valuation; in July, the company announced a $750M round at a $7.5B valuation (Iain Martin/Forbes)

Sources: neocloud Fluidstack closed a $1.5B round ...

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Israeli startup Guardio, which offers a subscription consumer security service to protect digital accounts like emails, raised $40M at a $1.1B valuation (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)

Israeli startup Guardio, which offers a subscripti...

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The Trump administration imposes tariffs of up to 100% on foreign drones, including 100% on models over 55lbs or with thermal imaging, in a bid to thwart China (Farah Stockman/New York Times)

The Trump administration imposes tariffs of up to ...

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Modern venture capital has transformed into an unchecked oligarchy, or "Cancer Capital", where mega-firms managing $50B+ live off fees and shift risk elsewhere (Anil Dash)

Modern venture capital has transformed into an unc...

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US federal courts have consistently shown a wariness in demanding structural remedies against Big Tech despite finding antitrust liability, as tech races ahead (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

US federal courts have consistently shown a warine...

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How some parents, mostly mothers, use AI to help them organize their families' schedules and automate mundane household tasks via apps like Ollie and Cozi Max (Valeriya Safronova/Financial Times)

How some parents, mostly mothers, use AI to help t...

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Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub fo...

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All G20 nations unanimously endorse the non-binding Carolina Principles, a US-proposed framework advocating for a lighter-touch, sector-specific AI regulation (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

All G20 nations unanimously endorse the non-bindin...

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All G20 nations unanimously endorse the non-binding Carolina Principles, a US-proposed framework advocating for a lighter-touch, sector-specific AI regulation (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

All G20 nations unanimously endorse the non-bindin...

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At the G20 summit, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk joined Trump officials in lobbying policymakers against heavy AI regulations (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

At the G20 summit, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, ...

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