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Sources: TikTok plans to launch a new version of its app in the US on September 5, ahead of the Sept. 17 deadline for the US to enforce the divest-or-ban law — TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the U.S. ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors.
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, and startup staff, raising tax-free gains from $10M to $15M — The wealthy will likely see a host of new tax breaks in President Donald Trump's “big beautiful bill,” along with permanent extensions …
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| France 24: |
The Colombian navy says it has seized an unmanned narco-submarine that was equipped with a Starlink terminal, enabling the sub to be controlled remotely — The Colombian navy on Wednesday seized its first unmanned narco-submarine, equipped with a Starlink antenna, off the Caribbean coast.| SemiAnalysis: |
A look at DeepSeek's impact on the AI model race and market share landscape, roughly 150 days after DeepSeek R1 shook stock markets and the Western AI world — SemiAnalysis is hiring an analyst in New York City for Core Research, our world class research product for the finance industry.
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A developer details how he shipped Context, a native macOS app that was almost 100% built using Claude Code — I recently shipped Context, a native macOS app for debugging MCP servers. The goal was to build a useful developer tool that feels at home on the platform, powered by Apple's SwiftUI framework.
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| Louis Ashworth / Financial Times: |
A profile of Steam developer Valve, which has a flat corporate structure and high profit per head; Ampere: Steam hit 170M MAUs in May, versus 153M a year prior — Peering inside one of the tech world's strangest companies — Here at FT Alphaville we love exploring “black hole” companies …
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| Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: |
Velvet Sundown, an AI‑created band with ~850,000 monthly Spotify listeners and two recent albums, shows how some listeners are turning to anodyne AI music — “ Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine. — The traffic receded as Chicago withdrew … | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How Clorox is using generative AI for ad creation, brainstorming new products, and analyzing consumer reviews, as part of a five-year, $580M digital overhaul — Clorox employees' experiments with generative AI delivered new R&D ideas, better customer insights—and some misfires like ‘bleachless bleach’
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Adalytics finds 9,000+ pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M+ views from July to May — More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
The GSA says Oracle is giving the US government a 75% discount on its license-based software and a “substantial” discount on its cloud service through November — The deal could help increase adoption of the tech giant's cloud platform throughout the federal government| The Block: |
DefiLlama: monthly DeFi fees have risen to $577M from an April low of $366M, with major protocols generating $275M through automated market-making services — - Major protocols like PancakeSwap have emerged as fee-generating leaders, accumulating $275 million in fees through …
More: Bitcoin Insider
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PitchBook: VC exits through public listings, acquisitions, and buyouts reached $67.7B in Q2 2025, up from $38.5B a year ago and the strongest showing since 2021 — Figma listing plans might raise hopes of a rise in IPO activity — When design software company Figma revealed its plans …
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Investigation: preprint research papers on arXiv from 14 academic institutions in eight countries had hidden prompts telling AI tools to give positive reviews — Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review — TOKYO — Research papers …
More: TechCrunch, implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, and The Decoder
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysts estimate AI services within Microsoft Azure generated $11.5B in revenue in the just-ended fiscal year, up 100%+ YoY but only ~4% of Microsoft's revenue — AI has propelled the two companies toward an exclusive club, but Microsoft's path forward is more complicated
More: Investing.com and Motley Fool
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