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WLFI, run by the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, falls 25% to ~$0.21 on its first trading day, giving it a ~$6B market cap; Trump's WLFI is worth ~$3.6B — WLFI tokens in circulation have a total nominal value of $6.4bn — The crypto token of a project backed by US President Donald Trump fell …
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| Vauhini Vara / Bloomberg: |
A look at AI adoption across US schools and colleges, as tech companies invest in AI education initiatives, including partnerships with major teachers' unions — Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?| Colleen Flaherty / Inside Higher Ed: |
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Alibaba's shares jumped 19% in Hong Kong on September 2, after strong Q1 results from its cloud computing unit on August 29 and reports of its new AI chip — Alibaba's Hong Kong listed shares surged more than 19% on Monday as the Chinese tech giant's cloud computing unit drove strong quarterly results … | Luke James / Tom's Hardware: |
TrendForce: Q2 global chip foundry revenue surged 14.6% QoQ to $41.7B, with TSMC securing a 70% market share, followed by Samsung with 7.2% and SMIC with 5.1% — China's SMIC also takes a 1.7% hit. — The second quarter of 2025 was a windfall for the world's chipmakers …
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| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for employees at $1,381.06 per share, valuing Revolut at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale — Revolut Ltd. has kicked off a process for some employees to sell their shares in the company at a $75 billion valuation.
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IFR: Chinese factories install ~280K industrial robots every year, or 50% of the global total, helping China boost its global exports; ~50% are locally made — Economists say cheaper automation could explain why country maintains low-end manufacturing even as wages rise
More: Bloomberg
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google plans to update Play Games on Android to show stats, achievements, and social features in most regions on September 23 and the EU and the UK on October 1 — Google is updating user profiles for its Play Games service on Android devices to display gaming stats, achievements, and social features.
More: Google Help Center, Business Standard, Digit, and 9to5Google
| Kelsey Warner / Semafor: |
Source: G42 is talking to AWS, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI to become tenants at its UAE-US AI Campus, and aims to diversify chip suppliers beyond Nvidia — THE SCOOP — Abu Dhabi-backed G42 is still negotiating with major American technology firms — with no agreements yet … | Financial Times: |
UK fintechs, including Revolut and Starling, step up plans to buy US banks to get US licenses and lend across all 50 states as Trump admin eases merger rules — Revolut and Starling among start-ups weighing acquisition of nationally chartered banks — British fintechs are stepping up plans … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI is scouting local partners to set up a 1GW+ data center in India, although the exact timeline is unclear; Sam Altman is set to visit this month — OpenAI is seeking to build a massive new data center in India that could mark a major step forward in Asia for its Stargate … | Aanu Adeoye / Financial Times: |
A profile of Jumia, hailed as the “Amazon of Africa”, as CEO Francis Dufay tries to hit profitability by 2027 after scaling down its food delivery business — Six years after a high-profile listing, Jumia is still trying to prove that it can be a profitable business rather than a relic of the cheap money era| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Tokyo-based LayerX, which uses AI to help enterprises automate back-office workload, raised a $100M Series B led by TCV, taking its total funding to $192.2M — Aging demographics, labor shortages, the adoption of GenAI, and the 2023 implementation of e-invoicing are driving companies to automate finance …
More: Forbes, Verdict, and Nikkei Asia
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China's new AI content labeling law goes into effect, as part of a broad effort to address AI-related risks such as misinformation and copyright infringement — The law requires explicit and implicit labels for AI-generated text, images, audio, video and other virtual content
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| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition, staying in Europe, and more; the company now has 2.3M+ active users, including 180K paying subscribers — Every seat in Copenhagen's Bella Center was full as Anton Osika, the co-founder of the vibe coding app Lovable, took the stage at this year's TechBBQ conference.Sponsor Posts
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