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Bloomberg:
In a preliminary probe, China rules that Nvidia violated anti-monopoly laws by acquiring Mellanox in April 2020, as the US and China negotiate tariffs in Madrid  —  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.
Adamya Sharma / Android Authority:
Qualcomm says its new flagship processor will be called Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5; Xiaomi says its 17 series will launch with the chip  —  The Xiaomi 17 series will be one of the first to adopt the new chipset.  —  •  —  •  —  •  —  TL;DR
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
The London Stock Exchange launches a blockchain-based platform, marking its push into digital assets, initially focused on private funds  —  London Stock Exchange Group Plc has rolled out a blockchain-based platform initially focused on private funds, marking a push by the bourse operator into digital assets.
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 …
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.
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 …
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Divergent Technologies, which makes automated assembly systems and 3D printers to make missile parts and other equipment, raised $290M at a $2.3B valuation  —  Divergent Technologies Inc. notched a $2.3 billion valuation in a new funding round as the startup expands its work for US weapons companies …
Meir Orbach / CTech:
Israel-based Terra Security, which offers an AI-driven penetration testing platform, raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to $38M  —  Israeli startup aims to scale offensive security testing beyond manual and costly methods.  —  Cybersecurity  —  Funding
More: Axios
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg:
Saudi Arabia-based Hala, which offers payment services to more than 142,000 SMBs in the Gulf region, raised a $157M Series B, source says at a ~$900M valuation  —  Hala, a Saudi Arabia-based fintech company, raised $157 million in one of the largest-ever funding rounds for an early-stage startup in the Middle East.
More: Inc.com

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Financial Times:
The High Court in London rules against Prince Harry and six other claimants in the privacy lawsuit against Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers

Deborah Cole / The Guardian:
Hungarian public media outlets Kossuth and M1 suspend their broadcasts; M1's message reads, “Public media should not lie. We are sorry for doing it for so long”

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Early Nielsen numbers show 30M people watched the US-Belgium World Cup match through Fox, clearing the record for an English-language soccer telecast in the US

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Earlier Picks

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
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
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Penske Media sues Google, says ~20% of Google search results linking to its sites now include AI Overviews, and affiliate link revenue fell 33%+ since late 2024
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