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Current and ex-Meta employees submitted documents and affidavits to Congress alleging that Meta suppressed research on child safety risks in its VR platforms (Washington Post)

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Arco is stunning sci-fi with shades of Moebius and Miyazaki

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Sal Khan is hopeful that AI won’t destroy education

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What time does Genshin Impact 'Luna I' release?

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Starfinder: Afterlight is for fans of Baldur's Gate 3 and Guardians of the Galaxy

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Atlanta-based Rainforest, which embeds payment processing into platforms, raised a $29M Series B led by Matrix and Infinity, taking its total funding to $57.5M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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Filing: Nasdaq asks the SEC to let investors trade tokenized securities on its exchange, and could roll out the first token-settled trades by the end of Q3 2026 (Anirban Sen/Reuters)

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Crypto asset manager CoinShares agrees to go public via SPAC Vine Hill at a $1.2B pre-money valuation, set to close by Q4's end; CoinShares has ~$10B in AUM (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

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Ticketing platform StubHub plans to sell ~34M shares at $22 to $25 in its IPO, valuing it at up to $9.2B and raising up to $851M, after delaying an IPO in April (Reuters)

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The iPhone 17’s potential makeover might be just enough

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ASPI: Myanmar's online scam centers on the Thai border have increased from 11 to 27 since the military coup in 2021, holding an estimated 100K trafficked people (Rebecca Ratcliffe/The Guardian)

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Quantum computing startup Infleqtion agrees to merge with Michael Klein-led SPAC Churchill Capital, giving it a $1.8B pre-money valuation and $540M+ in funding (Bloomberg)

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Cloud cybersecurity software startup Netskope plans to sell 47.8M shares at $15 to $17 each in its Nasdaq IPO, valuing it at up to $6.5B and raising up to $813M (Reuters)

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Databricks raised $1B from Thrive, a16z, and others at a $100B valuation and is on track to generate $4B in revenue in its FY ending in January 2026, up 50% YoY (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

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Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is coming — Here is everything you need to know

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A deep dive into Huawei's Ascend AI chip production, SMIC, TSMC, US export controls, HBM bottlenecks, China's HBM issues, Huawei's data center chips, and more (SemiAnalysis)

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Forward Industries raised $1.65B via a private investment in a public equity offering led by Galaxy, Jump, and Multicoin for a Solana asset treasury strategy (Adam James/The Block)

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SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for up to $8.5B in cash and up to $8.5B in stock, resolving an FCC inquiry into EchoStar (Bloomberg)

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OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film 

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Uber and Shanghai-based robotaxi startup Momenta plan to test Level 4 fully driverless cars in Munich from 2026, as a precursor to launching a robotaxi service (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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