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<title>Minneapolis-based Yardstik, a provider of workforce monitoring tech, raised a $30M Series B led by Harbert Growth Partners, taking its total funding t</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:08:35 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 14.4% YoY to $15.62B and adjusted net profit of $372M, ending a three-quarter losing streak as the food delivery price w</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:08:28 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Jio Platforms, which owns India&apos;s largest carrier and counts Meta and Google as investors, gets regulatory approval to float India&apos;s largest</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:08:04 MST</pubDate>
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<title>A social media app that feels like the old Instagram days raised $21 million (Sydney Bradley Business Insider)</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:08:15 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock cameras; an investigation found an agency allocating $30M+ to build Texas&apos</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:08:13 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Metriport, whose tools help doctors retrieve patient data, raised $26M in Series A and seed funding led by Matrix GP TJ Parker, taking its total raise</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:08:07 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Shares of French quantum computing company Pasqal closed up 95% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday following a merger with a SPAC (Emily Forgash Bloomber</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:08:12 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Owner, which makes AI agents that manage restaurants&apos; websites, marketing, and other functions, raised a $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation (Joe</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:08:12 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised  $1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Mi</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:08:43 MST</pubDate>
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<title>stillOS offers one of the best Linux onboarding experiences I've ever seen</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:08:09 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Filing: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M+ Series A from Thrive Capital and others (Sydney Brad</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:08:14 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Meta Pays $18B Settlement, Plans Platform Changes</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:08:09 MST</pubDate>
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<title>FIling: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M Series A from Thrive Capital and others (Sydney Bradl</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:08:18 MST</pubDate>
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<title>a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to &quot;open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI&quot; (Sean O&apos;Ka</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:08:18 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Stock trading app Ajaib raised a $270M Series C from SBI Holdings, the largest round since 2022 in Indonesia, where startups raised just  $340M last y</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:08:18 MST</pubDate>
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<title>A look at Beijing&apos;s AGI Bar, the unofficial clubhouse for China&apos;s AI industry where entrepreneurs trade gossip, recruit talent, and court in</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:08:51 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT reports H1 revenue of  $22.4B, more than double its 2025 sales, and  $11.5B in profit, compared to a loss a year earlier</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:08:19 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: some tech companies are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the Hou</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:08:21 MST</pubDate>
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<title>BitGo agrees to buy NYDIG&apos;s institutional trading business and related assets, expanding BitGo&apos;s derivatives offerings;  30 NYDIG employees </title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:08:17 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50 share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B (Blo</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:08:18 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Workday reports Q2 revenue up 12.8% YoY to $2.65B vs. $2.63B est., and total subscription revenue backlog up 8% YoY to $27.4B, vs. $28.6B est. (Brody </title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:08:21 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in pla</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:08:05 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: Abu Dhabi&apos;s Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family&apos;s </title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:08:57 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding  $440B to Nvidia&apos;s market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand rem</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:08:22 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Salesforce stock closed up 22.6% on Thursday, its second-best day ever, after the company reported a beat on Q2 earnings and expanded its Anthropic pa</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:08:09 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: Anthropic has been working on a plan to allow secondary stock sales in its IPO while also considering lockup periods longer than the standard</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:08:22 MST</pubDate>
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<title>CivilGrid, which collects data about utility assets, property ownership, and more to build a &quot;Google Maps for the underground&quot;, raised a $26</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:08:18 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup </title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:08:51 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Plaud unveils Plaud One, a $250 pair of 4G, eSIM-enabled AI earbuds with coverage in 80+ countries and $200 in AI feature credits; Plaud is making 2,0</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:08:58 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Samsung unveils the Galaxy S26 FE, offering an Exynos, not Qualcomm, chipset, 12GB of RAM, a dialed-back camera system from the S26, for $700+, a $50 </title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:08:23 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Samsung unveils the Galaxy S26 FE, offering a MediaTek, not Qualcomm, chipset, 12GB of RAM, a dialed-back camera system from the S26, for $700+, a $50</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:08:40 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: DeepSeek is set to soon raise $7.4B at a $74B valuation from existing and new investors to fund R&amp;D and its expansion into computing infr</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:08:51 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche&apos;s IT consulting business, MHP, for    320M as part of a five-year,    1.25B contract to provide AI </title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:08:20 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Filing: Nvidia says it has $18B committed to equity investments for the rest of the fiscal year and held $47.9B in private companies as of late July (</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:08:50 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users&apos; day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscrib</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:08:19 MST</pubDate>
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<title>SEC filing: OpenAI invests  $400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Micro</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:08:17 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B; the AI repository has had several potential suitors among its investors, including Salesforc</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:08:53 MST</pubDate>
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<title>METR and Redwood detail how  1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and  700 attacked Hug</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:08:19 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Okta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $805M, vs. $795M est., net income up 73% YoY to $116M, and raises its full-year guidance; OKTA surges 20% after </title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:08:21 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing (Business</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:08:18 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sale</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:08:17 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 106% YoY to $96.22B, above $92.17B est., Data Center revenue up 117% to $89B, above $85.08B est., and net income up 126% </title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:08:15 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Nvidia forecasts Q3 revenue of $108B, above a $104B estimate, and expects FY 2028 revenue to grow by about 70%; NVDA jumps 4%+ after hours (Deborah Ma</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:08:15 MST</pubDate>
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<title>CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.47B, vs. $1.44B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; CRWD jumps 9%+ after hours (Jake </title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:08:16 MST</pubDate>
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<title>HP reports Q3 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $15.7B, PC revenue up 18% to $11.8B, but units down 16%, and Printing revenue down 2% to $3.9B; HPQ drops 9%+ af</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:08:47 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $11.35B, vs. $11.32B est., net income up 87% to $3.5B, forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; CRM jumps 13%+ aft</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:08:47 MST</pubDate>
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<title>AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $350M (Kat</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:08:04 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 106% YoY to $96.2B, Data Center revenue up 117% to $89B, Edge Computing revenue up 27% to $7.2B, and net income up 126% t</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:08:17 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Product management startup Linear topped $100M in annual recurring revenue and held a $99M employee tender offer at a $2.5B valuation, up from $1.25B </title>
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<title>OpenAI s Hugging Face Hack Debrief Raises More Questions Than It Answers - WIRED</title>
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<title>Meta agrees to pay up to $18B to settle US states&apos; claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers, and more </title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:08:17 MST</pubDate>
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<title>The Trump administration has struck data-sharing deals with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other tech companies to track how AI is affecting jobs a</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:08:17 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Deep Cogito, which develops open-weight models and helps companies build their own specialized AI models, raised a $43M Series A led by TQ Ventures (S</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:08:15 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Amazon agrees to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind open-source database DuckDB, for an undisclosed sum; DuckDB will remain open source (T</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:08:48 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:08:26 MST</pubDate>
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<title>In Q2, Apple&apos;s base iPhone 17 was the global best-selling smartphone, with a 6% share, followed by the iPhone 17 Pro Max; Apple and Samsung had a</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:08:21 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Vanguard agrees to acquire RIA software startup Altruist, a source says for $4.6B in cash; Altruist raised $600M and had a $1.9B valuation in early 20</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:08:25 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: Sword Health plans to acquire mental health company Headspace for between $200M and $300M in cash, far below its  $3B valuation in 2021 (Broc</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:08:24 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:08:21 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Meta&apos;s AG settlement will be distributed to the 48 signing states and four jurisdictions in annual installments over a 10-year period based on th</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:08:22 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Meta says its AG deal requires it to create an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, with a false positive rate no higher tha</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:08:22 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Meta&apos;s deal with 51 AGs includes daily time limits for teens and algorithmic feed controls;  $5.3B of it rests on YouTube and TikTok implementing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:08:22 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Filing: Meta agrees to pay up to $16.68B to settle US states&apos; claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:08:43 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Meta says it reached a deal with 51 US AGs, including &quot;strict daily time limits teens can&apos;t turn off&quot;, and calls on TikTok and YouTube </title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:08:43 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Filing: Meta agrees to pay up to $16.68B to settle 29 US states&apos; claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled custom</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:08:19 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft faces investor criticism over opaque financial reporting across capex, its OpenAI deal, and Azure, which is buried in the Intelligent Cloud </title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:08:19 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Investigation: Meta explored slashing many teams by  60% to become &quot;AI native&quot;, but pulled back after staff revolted and data showed AI agen</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:08:32 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Shanghai-based MiniMax reports H1 2026 revenue up 283% YoY to  $116.6M, above 2025&apos;s 159% YoY growth, as its M3 model lags behind rivals like Z.a</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:08:15 MST</pubDate>
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<title>A profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, who worked for SBF and OpenAI before launching Situational Awareness; Aschenbrenner married Dario Amodei&apos;s ch</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:08:16 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: Moonshot AI is in early talks over revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host Kimi K3, and is seeking up to a 30% </title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:08:19 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Bill Gates says his Jeffrey Epstein association was a &quot;huge mistake&quot; driven by a desire to raise funds, and hopes the ties will not undermin</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:08:23 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: DeepSeek generated $70.7M in revenue and posted a $106M net loss in the first seven months of 2026,  10x its full-year 2025 revenue on a $139</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:08:04 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence orders 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and plans to offer 1GW of computing capacity as part of an $8B</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:08:03 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: YMTC, which seeks to raise $5B in an IPO, told investors in IPO prep meetings that it aims to become the largest NAND flash supplier by the e</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:08:56 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Digs, which is building AI software for residential construction, raised a $25.3M Series A led by building materials giant Builders FirstSource (Kurt </title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:08:33 MST</pubDate>
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<title>South Korean AI services platform Wrtn raised a  $72.2M Series C at a $722M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to  $166M (Joyce Lee Reuters)</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:08:03 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Intuit reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.35B, vs. $4.27B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue growth of 9% to 10%, below  11% est.; INTU drops 8%+ af</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:08:07 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:08:04 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:08:37 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Tel Aviv- and NYC-based Alice, which works to protect AI models from misuse and rogue behavior, raised $140M led by Apax Digital at a valuation &quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:08:06 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Stability AI, which has deals with UMG, WMG, and EA to build AI models from their IP, raised a $76M Series B from them, Sony Music, and others (Corbin</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:08:05 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX&apos;s $28.5T; Uber predict</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:08:04 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:08:12 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Mexico-based Primero, which aims to modernize legacy software used by Latin American companies with AI, raised a $12M seed co-led by Kaszek and Genera</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:08:50 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Tel Aviv and NYC-based Alice, which works to protect AI models from misuse and rogue behavior, raised $140M led by Apax Digital at a valuation &quot;c</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:08:31 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Autonomous trucking startup Gatik raised $200M, two months after striking a multi-year commercial agreement with PepsiCo, bringing its total funding t</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:08:10 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:08:11 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Emerald AI, which uses AI to optimize data center power consumption based on grid demands, raised $150M led by DCVC and Energize Capital at a $1.05B v</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:08:09 MST</pubDate>
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<title>UK filings: OnlyFans parent Fenix paid late owner Leonid Radvinsky $709M in the months leading up to his death in March; FY 2025 revenue rose 10% YoY </title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:08:21 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed in 2024 (</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:08:23 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation, and its 2026 revenue is expected to reach $1.5B+; Lambda raised $1.5B+ i</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:08:22 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:08:22 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation; its revenue this year is estimated to reach $1.5B+ (Bloomb</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:08:26 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in </title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:08:21 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised  $200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:08:22 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Canada-based logistics software company Descartes acquires Tai, a California-based transportation management system provider, for $100M in cash (Colin</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:08:22 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Temu and Pinduoduo owner PDD reports Q2 revenue up 8.1% YoY to  $16.72B, missing est. of  $17.17B, and net profit down 12% YoY to  $4.04B, above  $3.6</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:08:23 MST</pubDate>
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<title>The UK&apos;s Office for National Statistics: UK digital infrastructure investment crossed   11B in 2025, hitting dot-com boom levels, amid an AI data</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:08:25 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:08:21 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:08:23 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:08:22 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Brazil announces  $444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including  $250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iF</title>
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<title>Astromech, which uses genomic data to build predictive AI models of biological change, raised $20M at a $3.8B valuation, bringing its total funding to</title>
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<title>Filing: in 2025, TikTok generated $702.5M in net profit in Europe, Africa, and Latin America, its first annual profit, on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% Y</title>
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<title>CopyCop Targets AI Investment in Armenia</title>
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<title>Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for  $650M; Weave went public at a  $1.5B valuation </title>
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<title>Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuat</title>
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<title>Hack of French tax data: Safeguarding taxpayers' trust is essential - lemonde.fr</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:08:27 MST</pubDate>
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<title>One Attacker Has Scraped Both Salesforce and ServiceNow Portals Since 2025</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:08:02 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Hack of French tax data: Safeguarding taxpayers' trust is essential - Le Monde.fr</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:08:19 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:08:25 MST</pubDate>
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<title>AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M </title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:08:30 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:08:27 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:08:27 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:08:28 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:08:29 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:08:20 MST</pubDate>
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<title>Stop paying for smartphone storage you don't need - here's a better approach</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:08:15 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:08:32 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:08:27 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:08:30 MST</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:08:28 MST</pubDate>
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<title>ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, an autonomous control appliance for retrofitting onto e</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:08:27 MST</pubDate>
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