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September 14, 2025, 1:45 AM

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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs  —  There's been great interest in what Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is building with its $2 billion in seed funding …
Nic Fildes / Financial Times:
Australia is emerging as a prominent player in quantum computing, enabled by breakthrough academic work and sustained government funding since the 1990s  —  Advances in the technology have been made possible by sustained government funding since the 1990s  —  At a technology hearing …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Hike, which was valued at $1.4B in 2016 and has since pivoted from a messaging app to a real-money gaming app, shuts down following India's ban on such apps  —  Hike, once one of India's most valuable startups with unicorn status, has become the latest casualty of New Delhi's recent real-money gaming ban …
Hajime Tsukada / Nikkei Asia:
Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&D and capital spending at its Hiroshima fab to mass produce advanced DRAM, aiming for shipments by August 2028  —  TOKYO — Japan said Friday it will provide 536 billion yen ($3.63 billion) to U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology for research …
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
Watchdogs say fraudsters are extorting small businesses for hundreds of dollars each by posting or threatening to post phony one-star reviews on Google Maps  —  Movers, roofing companies and others are being bombarded with phony one-star reviews on Google Maps.  Then they're asked to pay up.
Bloomberg:
US salaries for key stablecoin roles are rising as a skills shortage meets a potentially immense market opportunity, putting upward pressure on pay  —  The stablecoin boom has been good to crypto wallet technology provider Dfns.  In some ways, a bit too good.
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:
JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series  —  Pre-order sales of Apple's new iPhone 17 series have got off to a robust start in China, shattering previous records despite delays in the shipment of the iPhone Air.
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information:
Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican for its top policy role, instead choosing an Obama alumn as it adopts a cooler stance towards Trump  —  In June, the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic was finally getting close to hiring a candidate—a Republican …
Brian Kahn / Bloomberg:
Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, raised $235M at a ~$1.23B valuation, after coming out of stealth in March with a $200M seed  —  Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, has received fresh funding led by Collective Global and Braidwell.

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