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The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand chip equipment export controls that would constrain ASML's ability to sell immersion DUV machines to China (Bloomberg)

The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand c...

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Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a ...

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Digital advocacy firms like CiviClick and Influent appear to use AI to generate mass public comments on local energy projects, mostly favoring fossil fuel use (Bloomberg)

Digital advocacy firms like CiviClick and Influent...

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An Amazon seller reveals how middlemen on chat apps offer access to Amazon employees who allegedly grant favors, like reinstating suspended accounts, for a fee (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

An Amazon seller reveals how middlemen on chat app...

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Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal...

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Trase, which is building an operating system and infrastructure layer for AI agents in industries like health care and defense, raised a $107M seed led by Arch (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

Trase, which is building an operating system and i...

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Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5B valuation, and is set for €1B+ in annual recurring revenue by year's end (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan ...

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Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, who championed a huge data center beside the Great Salt Lake, lost his Republican primary on Tuesday after voter backlash (Jack Healy/New York Times)

Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, who champio...

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SambaNova Executive Chairman Lip-Bu Tan says the AI chip startup is set to raise $800M to $1B, sources say at a ~$10B valuation, up from $2B in February (The Information)

SambaNova Executive Chairman Lip-Bu Tan says the A...

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Qualcomm expects $15B in data center chip sales by 2029, raises its non-handset chip revenue forecast to $40B by 2029, up from $22B; QCOM jumps 13%+ after hours (Reuters)

Qualcomm expects $15B in data center chip sales by...

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Cloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on PACT, a protocol to distinguish legitimate human or bot traffic from undesirable network requests (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Cloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mo...

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Micron reports Q3 revenue up 346% YoY to $41.46B, vs. $35.84B est., gross margin above estimates, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; MU jumps 14%+ after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Micron reports Q3 revenue up 346% YoY to $41.46B, ...

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Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, accessing Claude 28.8M times from April to June via ~25K accounts (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic ac...

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Qualcomm unveils Dragonfly C1000, a new data center CPU built for agentic AI, and says Meta will use the chip when production starts in 2028 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Qualcomm unveils Dragonfly C1000, a new data cente...

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Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise a funding round at a ~$40B valuation that may close as soon as Q3; Kalshi raised $1B at a $22B valuation in May (Financial Times)

Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise a funding rou...

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Documents: Meta's planned prediction markets app will use Meta AI models to generate questions from trending topics, make recommendations, and resolve markets (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Documents: Meta's planned prediction markets app w...

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Sources: Google AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are planning to leave for Anthropic (Bloomberg)

Sources: Google AI researchers Jonas Adler and Ale...

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Google says computer use is now a built-in tool supported in Gemini 3.5 Flash, available via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Mateo Quiros/The Keyword)

Google says computer use is now a built-in tool su...

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