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Public records show C3 AI's Project Sherlock, its flagship contract to speed up policing in San Mateo County, has struggled with usability and other issues (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

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TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, up from 175M in 2024, the latest sign of its rapid growth among teenagers (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

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C3 AI, whose NYSE ticker symbol is AI, has fallen 32%+ in the past month on growth concerns, after its Q1 revenue fell 19% YoY to $70.3M, below $100M+ est. (Hyunsoo Rim/Sherwood News)

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurates the Jupiter supercomputer, powered by Nvidia chips, the world's fourth-fastest and Europe's first exascale system (Reuters)

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Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham, one of India's most prominent SaaS founders, announced he will step down as executive chair effective December 1, 2025 (Chandra R Srikanth/Moneycontrol)

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Cadence Design to acquire Hexagon's Stockholm-based design and engineering unit, a computer-aided engineering software provider, for €2.7B in cash and stock (Juby Babu/Reuters)

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Alibaba debuts Qwen3-Max-Preview, its largest AI model with over 1T parameters, showcasing strong benchmark performance; the model is not open source (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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OpenAI told investors that it projects its cash burn this year through 2029 will rise to a total of $115B, about $80B higher than it previously expected (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

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Nvidia opposes the GAIN AI Act, saying the proposed US law forcing AI chipmakers to sell to US buyers first is "just another variation of the AI Diffusion Rule" (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

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OpenAI is merging its Model Behavior team with its Post Training group to bring the work of the Model Behavior team closer to core model development (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Qualcomm debuts Snapdragon Ride Pilot, a hands-free driver assistance system that is launching with the BMW iX3 and has been validated for use in 60+ countries (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Two authors file a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging Apple knowingly used a dataset of pirated books to train its AI models (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

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AppLovin stock jumps 7%+ and Robinhood jumps 8%+ in extended trading after S&P Global said the two will join the S&P 500 index on September 22 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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US tech industry's eight companies valued at $1T+ gained a combined $420B in market cap this week, lifting their total value to $21T, led by a Google rally (Ari Levy/CNBC)

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At the White House dinner, Zuckerberg said Meta plans to spend "something like at least $600B" through 2028 on data centers and other infrastructure in the US (Kalley Huang/The Information)

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After EU's fine ruling, Trump says he may "be forced" to start a trade investigation to nullify the unfair fines, totaling $16.5B for Google and $17B for Apple (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

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In a letter to OpenAI, AGs of California and Delaware raise concerns about the deaths of two ChatGPT users and threaten to block OpenAI's planned restructuring (George Hammond/Financial Times)

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Filing: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books (Bloomberg)

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Roblox launches text-to-speech and speech-to-text APIs, and AI tools, including letting creators generate fully functional 3D objects from prompts, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Roblox increases its DevEx rate, letting creators earn 8.5% more when they convert their earned Robux into cash, says creators earned $1B+ over the past year (David Baszucki/Roblox Corporate)

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