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SoftBank plans a $6.3B retail bond sale, a record for any Japanese issuer and its third this year, as the conglomerate raises funds for its OpenAI commitments (Bloomberg)

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A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Mi...

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Trump says communities that oppose data centers are "making a mistake" as they create "tremendous amounts of jobs and money", amid bipartisan backlash (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)

Trump says communities that oppose data centers ar...

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Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on Sept. 1, seeking up to $1.8B in its IPO with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan as joint sponsors (Julia Fioretti/Bloomberg)

Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange...

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Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade "a lot of liberty for safety" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider)

Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a fe...

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Greg Abbott says data center companies "dug their own grave" by moving into communities without first gaining support, signaling growing Republican backlash (Axios)

Greg Abbott says data center companies "dug their ...

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Sources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to gauge bidders' interest (Katie Roof/Business Insider)

Sources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale th...

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Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaue...

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Alibaba plans to raise ~$10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close (Reuters)

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Sources: foldable iPhone feels durable, fits well in a pocket, has useful iPad-like app layouts, excels as a camera viewfinder but lacks telephoto and Face ID (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: foldable iPhone feels durable, fits well ...

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The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Y...

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A profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is ...

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The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course (Financial Times)

The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in Sou...

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Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce serv...

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Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses (Financial Times)

Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seou...

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Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poo...

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Sources: Iran-linked hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, coinciding with a wave of Iran-affiliated attacks on US water utilities (Telegraph)

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Sources and documents detail how Tether's plan to build two bitcoin mining sites in Uruguay fell apart amid a dispute with state utility UTE over power supply (Reuters)

Sources and documents detail how Tether's plan to ...

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