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What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: major design upgrades for the iPhone, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, three Apple Watch models, and the AirPods Pro 3 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: ByteDance chip design workers, many in Beijing or Shanghai, found out last week they report into a Singapore unit, likely to navigate US-China tensions (Reuters)

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How Synthesia is combining AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent, intonation, and expressiveness preservation (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)

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Researchers from UCL, Google DeepMind, and Intrinsic unveil RoboBallet, an AI system designed to help teams of industrial robots work together without colliding (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

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Meta revamps Facebook's classic Poke feature to make it easier to use and adds gamification elements like Snapchat and TikTok have, as it courts younger users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after the companies failed to register with the government (Binaj Gurubacharya/Associated Press)

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Conversational AI company Cerence sues Apple in Texas over virtual keyboards and "Hey Siri" infringing its patents, saying it first contacted Apple in 2021 (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

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Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received investment offers valuing it as high as $10B, just six months after raising $100M at a $2B valuation (Katie Roof/The Information)

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At a White House dinner, tech CEOs thanked Trump for promoting chip and AI investments, while Trump promised an easy energy permitting process for data centers (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: OpenAI is set to produce an AI chip co-designed with Broadcom, to ship in 2026, and has committed $10B in orders; the chip will only be used internally (Financial Times)

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Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Code.org, IBM, OpenAI, and other companies pledged new commitments for AI in education as part of Melania Trump's White House event (Ashley Gold/Axios)

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Docusign reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $800.6M vs. $780.1M est., raises FY 2026 sales outlook, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; DOCU jumps 8%+ after hours (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

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How Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack from Musk, conservative groups, the Trump administration, and other governments (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)

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Anthropic says it will stop selling AI services to majority Chinese-owned groups; a source says the policy is partly aimed at Chinese subsidiaries in Singapore (Financial Times)

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Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $16B, vs. $15.8B est., AI revenue up 63% to $5.2B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; AVGO up 10%+ pre market (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

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Sources: StubHub and Netskope plan to start formally marketing their IPOs as soon as Monday; StubHub could raise $1B+, and Netskope is seeking to raise ~$1B (Bloomberg)

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Source: Nvidia agreed to rent 10,000 of its own AI chips from Lambda for $1.3B over four years, the latest example of Nvidia's circular financial arrangements (The Information)

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WBD files a copyright suit against Midjourney, accusing the startup of using its content to train AI and letting users generate images of characters like Batman (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Augment, founded by Deliverr's Harish Abbott, raised an $85M Series A led by Redpoint to scale its AI assistant for logistics, five months after a $25M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by "hundreds of millions" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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