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Dive into cyberpunk action — Off The Grid hits steam

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In H1 2025, hackers stole $2.17B+ from crypto services, including the DPRK's record $1.5B Bybit hack, surpassing all of 2024 and up 17% on H1 2022 (Chainalysis)

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Uber partners with EV maker Lucid and AV startup Nuro to deploy 20K+ robotaxis in the US over six years; Uber plans to invest $300M in Lucid and more in Nuro (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Uber to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Lucid and Nuro in massive robotaxi deal

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Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are now building Generative AI-based products, up by 198 since May 2024, and have collectively raised $20B+ to date (Elihay Vidal/CTech)

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Slack says its AI can make sense of your company’s jargon

The Verge - All Posts

What beauty companies are selling to kids

Vox - All

How One Fla. Black Woman’s Beef With Her Homeowner’s Association Took a Terrifying Turn

The Root

Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation, making it Europe's newest unicorn; Lovable was founded in 2023 (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)

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Roblox taps Persona to estimate users' ages and verify they are 13+, renames Friends to Connections, and says only users over 13 can message Trusted Connections (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Big Tech's acquihires of AI startups, like Meta's $14.3B Scale AI deal, leaves investors with modest or no returns and may further entrench Big Tech's dominance (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

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Ghost Of Yōtei Directors Share Philosophy On Balancing Freedom With Story

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Revenge of the flip phone

Vox - All

Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats

The Verge - All Posts

Hands On With The New Skate – Rolling Into A New Generation

Game Informer

Sources: in a Trump meeting last week, Jensen Huang argued US chips should be the global standard and was backed by David Sacks, who disliked Biden's chip rules (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

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Why doesn’t Donald Trump want to release the Epstein Files?

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The Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Danish government plan to invest €80M to buy and run a Microsoft-powered quantum computer, due to take on work by early 2027 (Sanne Wass/Bloomberg)

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Sources: some Trump administration officials are holding up finalizing a deal for the UAE to buy Nvidia AI chips over concerns that China could access the chips (Wall Street Journal)

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Amazon's 2024 sustainability report says Amazon emitted 68.25M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, up 6% from 2023 and the first increase in three years (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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