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Your Sonos speakers can now control your Hue lights

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Philips Hue lights get bigger, brighter, and cheaper with a major product refresh

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Philips Hue responds to cheaper competitors with major product overhaul

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Hue launches its first video doorbell

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As the Pentagon rushes to deploy AI into its weapons systems, some experts fear humans can't keep pace with AI's aggressive tendency to escalate in a crisis (Michael Hirsh/Politico)

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AlliedOffsets: Microsoft dominates credit purchases from technology-based carbon removal projects, accounting for about $8B of the $9.5B market to date (Financial Times)

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US banking groups warn a GENIUS Act loophole, which lets crypto exchanges reward stablecoin holdings, could drive users to pull money from traditional banks (Adam Willems/Wired)

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Aukey’s new wireless charger gives you more freedom through the power of the orbs

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At IFA 2025, tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Samsung and startups like Doma are expected to showcase how AI could make smart homes more intuitive (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

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Uber is using Indian drivers for its Uber AI Solutions data-labeling arm, offering extra income for completing micro tasks like tagging objects in photos (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)

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Despite a setback in the DOJ's Google case, the Trump administration continues to pursue Big Tech antitrust cases while defending US tech companies abroad (Financial Times)

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CEOs of Apple, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others are expected to attend an AI event hosted by Melania Trump and dinner at the White House Rose Garden on Thursday (The Hill)

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Orchard Robotics, which uses cameras and AI to help fruit growers manage crops more precisely, raised a $22M Series A led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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Switzerland launches Apertus, an open-source AI model trained only on publicly available data across more than 1,000 languages, in 8B and 70B parameter sizes (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

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Bengaluru-based FirstClub, a grocery delivery startup prioritizing quality over speed, raised a $23M Series A led by Accel and RTP Global at a $120M valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Lambda, a cloud provider that rents out Nvidia chips, hires banks to prepare for a US IPO as soon as H1 2026; Lambda was valued at $2.5B in February (The Information)

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Anthropic named the Qatar Investment Authority as a "significant" investor in its $13B round; QIA expects to do up to 25 tech deals through 2026 (Bloomberg)

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American Bitcoin closed up 16.5% in its Nasdaq debut on September 3, valuing Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.'s stake in the bitcoin mining company at $1.5B (Reuters)

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A US jury orders Google to pay $425M+ to plaintiffs in a 2020 class action lawsuit for collecting data even after they turned off Web & App Activity tracking (Margaret Attridge/Courthouse News Service)

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OpenAI makes ChatGPT Projects available to all free users, and allows more files to be added to projects; Projects was previously exclusive to paid subscribers (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)

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