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As China's working-age population shrinks, a consensus is emerging that it must deploy embodied AI robots into as many tasks as possible, as soon as possible (Financial Times)
How a $45M donation to a group supporting Trump brought Larry Ellison deeper into Trump's circle, helped Oracle's business, and his son's acquisition of WBD (Wall Street Journal)
Assort Health, which develops AI voice agents for health care to handle scheduling and more, raised a $120M Series C led by Menlo Ventures at a $1.2B valuation (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)
Paris-based Tsuga, whose observability software runs in customers' own clouds to help them skip per-byte ingestion costs, raised a $35M Series A led by Singular (Ana Maria Constantin/The Next Web)
TRM Labs: Iran-linked wallets, including those tied to Iran's central bank, have moved over $3.84B in transactions through the crypto exchange CoinEx since 2019 (Wall Street Journal)
NAND flash maker Kioxia, Japan's most valuable company since June 12, plans to offer US depositary shares in spring 2027 amid AI-driven demand for memory chips (Bloomberg)
Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end (Financial Times)
New Zealand-based Partly, which develops an AI model for the auto parts industry, raised a $50M Series B led by DST at a $500M valuation, as it enters the US (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand chip equipment export controls that would constrain ASML's ability to sell immersion DUV machines to China (Bloomberg)
Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Digital advocacy firms like CiviClick and Influent appear to use AI to generate mass public comments on local energy projects, mostly favoring fossil fuel use (Bloomberg)
An Amazon seller reveals how middlemen on chat apps offer access to Amazon employees who allegedly grant favors, like reinstating suspended accounts, for a fee (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Trase, which is building an operating system and infrastructure layer for AI agents in industries like health care and defense, raised a $107M seed led by Arch (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5B valuation, and is set for €1B+ in annual recurring revenue by year's end (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

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Engadget

Amazon Zoox's latest robotaxi looks (marginally) less like a toy car
OpenAI's free GPT-5.5 model makes ChatGPT better at understanding context
After successfully selling over 15 cars, Faraday Future would now like you to buy its robots
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European Space Agency's Euclid captures the star-filled center of the Milky Way
Jalapeño is the first AI chip from OpenAI and Broadcom
Hulu auto-quality settings are quietly downgrading your picture. Here's why
Honda is reportedly reviving the Element as an affordable hybrid
Lumysi hid an activity tracker in a bracelet because wearables are gauche, darling
Family files wrongful death suit following Tesla crash in Texas
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Google says it'll soon be easier to use TSA PreCheck Touchless ID via Wallet
Wireless charging wastes way more electricity than wired, here's why
Google Home Speaker review: A modest update for the Gemini era
US government reportedly urging Meta to share its AI models
Rockstar finally reveals pricing for Grand Theft Auto 6
YouTube settles early test case over social media harm to children
Alibaba sues the US government for adding it to list of firms linked to Chinese military
Superhuman has acquired AI authenticity service GPTZero
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