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Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years to become executive chairman, replaced by Ashraf Alkarmi, who is SVP and GM of Dropbox Core — Drew Houston founded Dropbox nearly two decades ago out at age 24, eventually becoming a household name in Silicon Valley …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese government agencies begin imposing overseas travel restrictions on individuals involved in advanced AI work, including at Alibaba and DeepSeek — China is restricting overseas travel for top AI professionals in private firms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and DeepSeek …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia officially retires its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years, following the porting of all of its major features to the Nvidia app — Nvidia has now ported across all of the major Control Panel features to its Nvidia app. … Nvidia announced more than two years ago that it was working …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles “individually for $1.99” — More than 650 long-form articles are available starting today as part of Spotify's audiobook library.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000+ camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more — In the last few years, India's online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public …
More: Inc42, Moneycontrol, Entrackr, and MediaNama
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers — SpaceX's IPO filing reveals ad revenue for X is still below what it was when Musk acquired Twitter, but it is growing again.
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| Koh Ewe / BBC: |
China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal — Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court — Chinese authorities have executed a man for murdering his associate, billionaire gaming tycoon Lin Qi.| David Jeans / Reuters: |
Sources: SpaceX successfully pressured the Pentagon to raise Starlink fees for LUCAS kamikaze drones amid increasing tensions over Starlink's pricing — As U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk's Starlink network began to make visible gains in the war against Iran, senior SpaceX officials reached … | Daniel Boguslaw / Wired: |
US law enforcement documents: the DHS, FBI, and other agencies introduce a novel domestic threat category termed “anti-tech violent extremism” amid the AI boom — As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards …
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| Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of authentication IT supplier Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl, citing “a possible risk to the public interest” — BRUSSELS — The Dutch government is blocking a United States-based company's attempts to acquire a key online identification IT supplier.
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| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
Spain says it is blocking Polymarket and Kalshi as a precautionary measure while it probes possible gambling law violations over the next three to four months — The government said companies seeking to provide clients with gambling services need a license| Leslie Josephs / CNBC: |
American Airlines picks SpaceX's Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi on more than 500 planes; SpaceX already has contracts with United Airlines, Southwest, and others — American Airlines plans to outfit more than 500 of its narrow-body aircraft with Starlink, handing another win to Elon Musk's SpaceX unit …
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| Max Buondonno / The Shortcut: |
Google Fitbit Air review: slim, comfortable, and stylish, robust tracking, seven-day battery life, and cheaper than Whoop, but can only be worn on the wrist — 🏆 Rating: 4/5 — ✅ Pros — 📐 Slim design that fades into the background — ⌚️ Comfortable and stylish band options| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
How AI startups like Altur are using chatbots to help automate debt collection; YC incubated six debt collection and settlement startups in the past six years — There's a mad dash to automate the world's most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You'll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.
Bluesky: @knibbs, @harmancipants, and @dannygroner
| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
OpenRouter raised $113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a $1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400+ models weekly, up from 5T six months ago — An investment arm of Alphabet is backing OpenRouter, which helps companies choose among hundreds of models for different software tasks.
More: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Menlo Ventures, and Ventureburn
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Qualcomm reached a deal with ByteDance to supply millions of ASICs for AI data centers to support AI agents in the Doubao chatbot; QCOM jumps 5%+ — Qualcomm Inc. reached a deal with TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. to supply chips for artificial intelligence data centers …
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