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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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The Secret Bundlers Behind Eric Adams’ Campaign Fundraising Revealed

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How to defeat the Bell Beast in Hollow Knight: Silksong

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Showrunner wants to use generative AI to recreate lost footage from an Orson Welles classic

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I tested 30 smart locks, and these are the best

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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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Why it’s called the Department of “Defense” in the first place — and why Trump wants to change it 

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The best laptop deals you can get right now

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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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3 Game Pass games you need to play this weekend (Sept. 5-7 2025)

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Roblox is testing Roblox Moments, a TikTok-like video app allowing users to share 30-second clips of gameplay, and makes the source code available to developers (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

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The best Nintendo Switch controllers to buy right now

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reMarkable Paper Pro Move

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One Size Does Not Fit All

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OmniFocus 4.7

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SQLite on macOS Not ACID

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Isotopes, co-founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murthy to build an AI agent for enterprise business analytics, raised a $20M seed (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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