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Sources: the US is proposing annual approvals for exports of chipmaking supplies to Samsung and SK Hynix factories in China, as part of a “site license” idea — The US is proposing annual approvals for exports of chipmaking supplies to Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc.'s factories …
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| SemiAnalysis: |
A deep dive into Huawei's Ascend AI chip production, SMIC, TSMC, US export controls, HBM bottlenecks, China's HBM issues, Huawei's data center chips, and more — H20 Shipments, Blackwell B30A, Bottlenecks to Chinese Chip Production, Export Controls, CXMT, SMIC, Cambricon| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI is providing its tools and computing resources for Critterz, a largely AI-made feature-length animated film that is set to hit theaters globally in 2026 — OpenAI wants to prove that generative artificial intelligence can make movies faster and cheaper than Hollywood does today.
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| Washington Post: |
Current and ex-Meta employees submitted documents and affidavits to Congress alleging that Meta suppressed research on child safety risks in its VR platforms — The company's lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress.
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| Bloomberg: |
SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for up to $8.5B in cash and up to $8.5B in stock, resolving an FCC inquiry into EchoStar — SpaceX, the Elon Musk-backed company that owns the Starlink satellite internet network, agreed to acquire wireless spectrum …
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Google updates a Help Center article to clarify Gemini 2.5 Pro's usage limits: five prompts per day for free users, 100 prompts for AI Pro, and 500 for AI Ultra — Now you know exactly how many prompts you get for free a day. … Until very recently it wasn't clear what usage limits were placed on Gemini at the various tiers.
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| Adam James / The Block: |
Forward Industries raised $1.65B via a private investment in a public equity offering led by Galaxy, Jump, and Multicoin for a Solana asset treasury strategy — - Forward Industries, Inc. announced a $1.65 billion private investment in a PIPE offering led by Galaxy Digital, Jump Crypto … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A reimagined Wizard of Oz draws 4,000 to 5,000 fans two or three times per day to the Las Vegas Sphere; a source says the 1939 film may gross $1B in its new run — A reimagined Wizard of Oz is a surprise hit at the Las Vegas Sphere — Good afternoon from Los Angeles.
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| Anirban Sen / Reuters: |
Filing: Nasdaq asks the SEC to let investors trade tokenized securities on its exchange, and could roll out the first token-settled trades by the end of Q3 2026 — Nasdaq (NDAQ.O) is working with U.S. regulators to introduce trading of tokenized securities, becoming the latest major financial player …
More: CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, The Block, Bloomberg, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Crypto Briefing
| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Crypto asset manager CoinShares agrees to go public via SPAC Vine Hill at a $1.2B pre-money valuation, set to close by Q4's end; CoinShares has ~$10B in AUM — Cryptocurrency asset manager CoinShares International Ltd. has agreed to go public in the US through a combination with blank-check company Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp.| Crunchbase News: |
Atlanta-based Rainforest, which embeds payment processing into platforms, raised a $29M Series B led by Matrix and Infinity, taking its total funding to $57.5M — Rainforest, a startup that embeds payment processing into other software platforms, has raised $29 million in a Series B funding round …
More: FinTech Global
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber and Shanghai-based robotaxi startup Momenta plan to test Level 4 fully driverless cars in Munich from 2026, as a precursor to launching a robotaxi service — The tests are a precursor to the companies' plan to launch a robotaxi service in 2026.
More: Benzinga, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, TechCrunch, CnEVPost, and EV
| Rebecca Ratcliffe / The Guardian: |
ASPI: Myanmar's online scam centers on the Thai border have increased from 11 to 27 since the military coup in 2021, holding an estimated 100K trafficked people — Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country's military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement pulls up a drawbridge on its startup rivals that cannot afford such fines, setting a floor price on training infringement — There I was, just sitting there enjoying life when I got the push notification that Anthropic had settled their case … Sponsor Posts
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