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Sources: Kalshi agreed to pay $20M to sponsor the World Cup knockouts, after initially balking at FIFA's $150M asking price, alongside ADI Predictstreet (Bloomberg)

Sources: Kalshi agreed to pay $20M to sponsor the ...

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Almost 1,700 UK investors sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao for at least £150M, alleging Binance sold them risky derivative products without regulatory approval (Kirstin Ridley/Reuters)

Almost 1,700 UK investors sue Binance and Changpen...

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Filing: President Trump reports $1.4B+ in income from his family's crypto ventures in 2025, including $500M+ from WLF and $635M from the sale of his $TRUMP coin (Reuters)

Filing: President Trump reports $1.4B+ in income f...

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Sources: TikTok settles a lawsuit before a second California trial over social media harm to minors for an undisclosed sum; Meta and Snap remain defendants (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, before directing Meta employees to build a prediction market app (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek...

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Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a $31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to $41.5M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health m...

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Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pickers on platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pic...

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Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens through August 31, after which prices rise to $3 and $15, respectively (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $...

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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, with performance close to Opus 4.8 at a lower price and substantially better agentic performance than Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic)

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, with performan...

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A study of 22K US companies shows those spending most heavily on AI are adding workers faster than peers, but most gains are among tech companies and startups (Financial Times)

A study of 22K US companies shows those spending m...

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Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told s...

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Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench...

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Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which is building software, sensors, and drones to autonomously monitor the Arctic, raised a CA$139M Series A led by Georgian (Josh Scott/BetaKit)

Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which is building ...

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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves (Kyle Baird/The Block)

Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and...

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Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a $3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva (Frank Connelly/Bloomberg)

Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI com...

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SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 contempt ruling in its Epic case after a district judge found Apple violated an order to make App Store changes (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 con...

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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers (The Keyword)

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost tex...

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Filings: Microsoft's Ireland hub generated $47B in pretax profits for FY 2025, or 38.1% of its global total; new EU rules require country-by-country reporting (Wall Street Journal)

Filings: Microsoft's Ireland hub generated $47B in...

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