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In opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejected the claims (Reuters)

In opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta inten...

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Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing "various degrees of misalignment" (Alex Heath/Time)

Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI d...

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Sources: Anthropic has been preparing to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure, ahead of a planned IPO (The Information)

Sources: Anthropic has been preparing to give its ...

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The US SEC proposes exempting certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements, with exemptions for offerings up to $5M and $75M (Bloomberg)

The US SEC proposes exempting certain digital asse...

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VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B...

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OpenAI says it has made several changes to its safety practices following the Hugging Face breach and has paused two weeks of deployment-focused RL training (Ina Fried/Axios)

OpenAI says it has made several changes to its saf...

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Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its Xfinity gateways, a free opt-in feature that allows its routers to detect movement at home (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its...

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Sources: Anthropic's revolving credit facility is set to surpass its roughly $10B target as banks compete for roles on the company's upcoming IPO (Bloomberg)

Sources: Anthropic's revolving credit facility is ...

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The EU says it "welcomes Apple's changes" and they follow a "close dialogue"; IAP fees are 26%, alt payment processing fees are 20%, and link-out fees are 15% (Bloomberg)

The EU says it "welcomes Apple's changes" and they...

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Apple unveils new EU business terms from October 1, resolving disputes with the EU, including a new Core Technology Commission and App Store commission tiers (Apple)

Apple unveils new EU business terms from October 1...

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Harvey announces Harvey Tenet, its first in-house, proprietary model for legal work, trained on mock disputes and case files using a version of Kimi K3 (Melia Robinson/Business Insider)

Harvey announces Harvey Tenet, its first in-house,...

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Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagemen...

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Meta ran ads for a nudify app featuring a porn video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician; Apple removed the app from the App Store (Wired)

Meta ran ads for a nudify app featuring a porn vid...

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Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a $20M Series A, following a $10M seed in 2025 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time...

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Google quietly rolled out a new program to let verified political campaigns more easily bypass Gmail's spam filter, after years of complaints from the GOP (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)

Google quietly rolled out a new program to let ver...

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Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation (Prathik Jayaprakash/Reuters)

Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips fo...

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As sweeping US crypto legislation stalls, the SEC and CFTC are moving to establish rules; the SEC is set to exempt certain token offerings from securities laws (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

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Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging "a hundred million people" from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, di...

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