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Sources: Binance is still operating in the EU months after it failed to get a MiCA license, using workarounds to onboard new customers and reroute its trading (Bloomberg)
Nvidia becomes a leading global strategic tech backer, with the value of its equity investments up 10x in the past year to $99B, as it bolsters the AI sector (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
Sources: initial foldable iPhone production is limited to only a "few hundred" units a day due to Apple's strict quality standards as it ramps up output (Nikkei Asia)
Q&A with Jensen Huang and Clément Delangue on the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal, scaling open-source models, the rumored $1B talent retention plan, and more (CNBC)
A profile of Hugging Face, which started in 2016 to build a sassy chatbot for teens; CEO Clément Delangue says he approached Nvidia this summer to pursue a deal (Wall Street Journal)
Gimlet Labs, which helps customers divide AI tasks across multiple chip types, raised $300M led by a16z at a $3B valuation, six months after an $80M Series A (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investors (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
Wikimedia Foundation staffers vote 158-14 to join the CWA, which will represent 200+ US employees across engineering, finance, and communications (Paresh Dave/Wired)
Vals analysis: open-weight models performing multi-stage tasks, like building a web app, can have an environmental impact 10K times greater than simple queries (Bloomberg)
Tesla says Cybercab rides are available in limited areas of Austin; the two-seater has no steering wheel or pedals, and 45 Cybercabs are registered in Texas (Reuters)
AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor (Alexei Oreskovic/Fortune)
Sources: Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interest (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, with Mubadala Capital participating (Bloomberg)
Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures (Axios)
Oura files for a US IPO, reporting a $924.3M net loss on $1.21B in revenue for the nine months ended June 30, vs. a $182.8M net loss on $697.6M a year earlier (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)

Wired

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Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested
GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era
OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk
Lenovo’s Project AeroBlade Fanless Laptop Takes Thin and Light to the Extreme
I Got a Brief Look at ‘Guild Wars 3,’ and I’m Excited
Nvidia RTX Spark ‘Superchip’: The First AI PCs Are Here
Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI
Scientists Have Found the Most Convincing Evidence Yet of a Dark Matter Particle
Ugly AI Food Photos Are Only the Beginning
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Meta Pushes Its New AI Agent on Employees—but Eases Off on Tokenmaxxing
Amazon’s 2026 Holiday Deals Are About to Look Better Than They Are
Democrats Have a Plan to Force Trump’s Associates to Cooperate With Investigations
Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit

Engadget

This rugged smartphone's camera is a removable action cam
Tesla starts offering Cybercab robotaxi rides
Audacity's new look is finally here, along with its largest feature update in years
What Is The Best Waterproof Rating For Bluetooth Speakers?
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is 'the most intelligent and aligned model in the world'
Netflix has ordered a live-action adaptation of D&D's Ravenloft
Ugreen's new smart home ecosystem is built around local AI hubs
SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other 'compute partners'
The Apple Vision Pro was used for a successful hip surgery
Google's new AI weather model uses live satellite data for higher-resolution forecasts
Utah won't enforce VPN age-verification law until legal challenge resolves
Epic Games brings cross-platform voice chat to Fortnite and its services
Beyerdynamic's new Aventho Y headphones last up to 90 hours per charge
Xbox is introducing time limits to game streaming
Apple has been sued for $2.7 billion over App Tracking Transparency rules
Pre-orders for Sony's GTA 6-themed DualSense controllers will open on September 10
TikTok introduces voice comments and simplified polls
Anthropic automatically signs out Claude users to protect them from hackers
Motorola just introduced another Razr that's covered in Swarovski crystals
Until Dawn 2 launches January 28

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