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After the EU fined Google €2.95B, Trump threatens a trade probe, saying the Trump administration "will not allow these discriminatory actions to stand" (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

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In a letter to OpenAI, AGs of California and Delaware raise concerns about the deaths of some ChatGPT users and threaten to block OpenAI's planned restructuring (George Hammond/Financial Times)

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Filing: Anthropic will pay $1.5B to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books (Bloomberg)

Filing: Anthropic will pay $1.5B to resolve an aut...

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Roblox launches text-to-speech and speech-to-text APIs, and AI tools, including letting creators generate fully functional 3D objects from prompts, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Roblox increases its DevEx rate, letting creators earn 8.5% more when they convert their earned Robux into cash, says creators earned $1B+ over the past year (David Baszucki/Roblox Corporate)

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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)

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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...

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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 T...

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OpenAI acqui-hires the team behind Alex Codes, a Y-Combinator-backed startup whose tool lets developers use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

OpenAI acqui-hires the team behind Alex Codes, a Y...

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The EU fines Google €2.95B for abusing its dominance in digital ads, and says its preliminary stance is that Google must divest parts of its ad-tech business (Wall Street Journal)

The EU fines Google €2.95B for abusing its dominan...

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World Liberty Financial blocked Justin Sun's wallet after it transferred 50M WLFI tokens, worth ~ $9M, to HTX exchange; Sun called out the freezing of assets (Bloomberg)

World Liberty Financial blocked Justin Sun's walle...

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Baseten, which helps companies launch open-source or custom AI models, raised a $150M Series D led by Bond at a $2.15B valuation, up from $825M in February (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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

Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute have...

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ProRata.ai, which lets publishers embed custom AI search on their sites with a 50/50 revenue share, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total raised to $70M+ (Kerry Flynn/Axios)

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Lenovo unveils Legion Go 2 , with an 8.8" screen and AMD Ryzen Z2 or Z2 Extreme chip, available in October, starting at $1,099, costing $400 more than 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 AirPods Pro 3 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: chip design workers at ByteDance, many based in Beijing or Shanghai, unexpectedly discovered last week that they are part of a Singapore unit (Reuters)

Sources: chip design workers at ByteDance, many ba...

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