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Qustodio: 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 were on TikTok in July, just one percentage point below pre-ban levels, and 10-to-12-year-olds' usage is up (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)
Q&A with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on lessons from Apple's Beats acquisition, creativity, being pro-AI music creation, AI as a tool like drum machines, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
Bitcoin rises above $80K after jumping 20%+ last week, its biggest three-day gain since 2023; US spot bitcoin ETFs had $1.92B in net inflows last week (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
UK filings: OnlyFans parent Fenix paid late owner Leonid Radvinsky $709M in the months leading up to his death in March; FY 2025 revenue rose 10% YoY to $1.55B (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)
Australia's ARIA says songs created mostly or entirely by AI will be excluded from its charts; a song that used AI became the most-played song on radio in July (Cam Wilson/ABC)
Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Unitree shares fell 45% after surging more than 5x in their August 19 Shanghai debut, cutting its valuation from $66B to $36B, raising robotics bubble concerns (Reuters)
Sources: neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation, and its 2026 revenue is expected to reach $1.5B+; Lambda raised $1.5B+ in 2025 (Bloomberg)
Sources: Apple plans to launch a new Mac mini, its first refresh in two years, potentially before its September iPhone event; Apple tested M5 and M6 versions (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
OpenAI restores five-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cyberattacks across many Chinese state-linked groups, primarily using open-weight models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg)
Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed in 2024 (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
Apple reverses its plan to move iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses to private.icloud.com after user backlash; the feature will continue using the icloud.com domain (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Sources: smart ring maker Oura and some of its backers seek to raise up to $3B in a US IPO that could take place as soon as September and value it at over $16B (Bloomberg)

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