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The Winklevoss twins have become major GOP donors; a source says they have donated $32M+ since 2017, including $21M to a new pro-Trump and pro-crypto super PAC (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)

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4 new Netflix movies to watch this week (Sept. 7)

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An in-depth look at AWS' underperformance in the GenAI era, as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud gain ground, and how Anthropic could spark an AWS AI resurgence (SemiAnalysis)

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A profile of Mercor, a Scale AI rival valued at $2B in February, which hires domain experts to train models; it had a $100M run rate in March and $6M H1 profit (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

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Austin-based Hello Patient, whose AI agents help healthcare organizations handle patient communications, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners (Marissa Plescia/MedCity News)

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Mojo Vision raised a $75M Series B led by Vanedge Capital to commercialize its microLED tech for products such as AI glasses and optical interconnects (David Harold/Jon Peddie Research)

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Recall.ai, which offers an API and a desktop SDK for managing meeting recordings and transcripts, raised $38M in a Series B led by Bessemer at a $250M valuation (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)

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Predoc, which uses AI to automate medical records management, raised $30M seed and Series A led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Northzone and others (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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Bengaluru-based Tessolve, which offers semiconductor engineering services and has built 11 chip testing and embedded labs globally, raised $150M from TPG Growth (Priyamvada C/Livemint)

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Google DeepMind and LIGO researchers detail Deep Loop Shaping, an AI tool that they say improves the observatory's ability to track gravitational waves (Alan Boyle/GeekWire)

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Noon, an Amazon rival in the Middle East that has raised $2.7B since its 2016 launch and is now valued at "close to" $10B, is planning an IPO within two years (Chloe Cornish/Financial Times)

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OpenAI researchers argue that language models hallucinate because standard training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over admitting uncertainty (OpenAI)

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Mamdani Rallies Progressive Base With Bernie Sanders at Fighting Oligarchy Tour

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GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT is shockingly good at search and demonstrates the potential of combining tool calling with chain-of-thought reasoning (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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Microsoft says clients of its Azure cloud platform may experience increased latency after multiple international cables in the Red Sea were cut (Susanne Barton/Bloomberg)

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Final Fantasy Tactics remake director reveals the NES game he can’t put down

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Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra stablecoin project, reflects on Libra's failure, what Stripe's Tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more (Christian Catalini/Forbes)

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A Cynical Read on Anthropic’s Book Settlement

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I almost lost a D&D player by forgetting a fundamental Dungeon Master rule

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An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate fell from 5.5% in July to 4.5% in August, while active tech job postings declined 2.6% from July (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

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