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September 15, 2025, 6:10 AM

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google's Gemini app is the #1 free app in the US App Store, driven by its Nano Banana model, which has been used to edit 500M+ images since its August 26 launch  —  The Nano Banana image editing model has been a hit for Google, and presumably the reason that Gemini for iPhone is the top free app in the US App Store.
Bloomberg:
China says Nvidia was found in violation of antitrust regulations in a preliminary investigation, in a brief statement without further details  —  China ruled that Nvidia Corp. violated anti-monopoly laws with a high-profile 2020 deal, ratcheting up the pressure on Washington during sensitive trade negotiations.
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
OpenAI releases the first detailed public study on how people use ChatGPT: 73% of chats were non-work related, practical guidance was the top use case, and more  —  OpenAI released the first detailed public study on who uses its chatbot and what they most often ask it to do.
Wall Street Journal:
How Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, became China's AI hub as the government builds a Silicon Valley-inspired innovation corridor in the city's west  —  Money, talent and entrepreneurial spirit have turned DeepSeek's hometown into a global AI hub  —  HANGZHOU, China …
Jerry Neumann / Colossus:
The AI revolution has more in common with shipping containerization than the boom unleashed by the microprocessor: diffuse global benefits but few new fortunes  —  The disruption is real.  It's also predictable.  — ISSUE 04  —  Fortunes are made by entrepreneurs and investors …
SemiAnalysis:
A deep dive into the architecture of Nvidia's Rubin CPX chip, which is optimized for long-context AI tasks and the prefill phase of inference  —  New Prefill Specialized GPU, Rack Architecture, BOM, Disaggregated PD, Higher Perf per TCO, Lower TCO, GDDR7 & HBM Market Trends
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, using violence to stop AI, Rationalism, his new book, and more  —  Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger.  Now, he's making his case to the public.
Google Research:
Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says is the largest open LLM trained from scratch with differential privacy, on Hugging Face and Kaggle  —  We introduce VaultGemma, the most capable model trained from scratch with differential privacy.  As AI becomes more integrated into our lives …

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