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Tim Cook is set to step down on September 1, and a source says Apple hosted an intimate farewell party; sources say Cook's assistant will work with John Ternus (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

Tim Cook is set to step down on September 1, and a...

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Qustodio: 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 were on TikTok in July, just one percentage point below pre-ban levels, and 10-to-12-year-olds' usage is up (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

Qustodio: 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15...

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Q&A with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on lessons from Apple's Beats acquisition, creativity, being pro-AI music creation, AI as a tool like drum machines, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)

Q&A with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on lessons from ...

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Bitcoin rises above $80K after jumping 20%+ last week, its biggest three-day gain since 2023; US spot bitcoin ETFs had $1.92B in net inflows last week (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)

Bitcoin rises above $80K after jumping 20%+ last w...

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UK filings: OnlyFans parent Fenix paid late owner Leonid Radvinsky $709M in the months leading up to his death in March; FY 2025 revenue rose 10% YoY to $1.55B (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)

UK filings: OnlyFans parent Fenix paid late owner ...

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Australia's ARIA says songs created mostly or entirely by AI will be excluded from its charts; a song that used AI became the most-played song on radio in July (Cam Wilson/ABC)

Australia's ARIA says songs created mostly or enti...

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Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound ...

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Unitree shares fell 45% after surging more than 5x in their August 19 Shanghai debut, cutting its valuation from $66B to $36B, raising robotics bubble concerns (Reuters)

Unitree shares fell 45% after surging more than 5x...

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Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation; its revenue this year is estimated to reach $1.5B+ (Bloomberg)

Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is in talks...

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Sources: Apple is about to launch a new Mac mini, potentially before its September iPhone event; Apple has tested versions with M5 and M6 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is about to launch a new Mac mini, ...

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OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for C...

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Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cyberattacks across many Chinese state-linked groups, primarily using open-weight models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg)

Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cybera...

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Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in 2024 (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnect...

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Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw...

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Apple reverses its plan to move iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses to private.icloud.com after user backlash; the feature will continue using the icloud.com domain (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple reverses its plan to move iCloud+ Hide My Em...

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Sources: smart ring maker Oura and some of its backers seek to raise up to $3B in a US IPO that could take place as soon as September and value it at over $16B (Bloomberg)

Sources: smart ring maker Oura and some of its bac...

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Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June (Dan Primack/Axios)

Source: robotics startup Generalist, which release...

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Canada-based logistics software company Descartes acquires Tai, a California-based transportation management system provider, for $100M in cash (Colin Campbell/Axios)

Canada-based logistics software company Descartes ...

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