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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d711587a8e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Spotify plans to roll out lossless audio at 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC to Premium users over the next two months in 50 markets, without needing a pricier subscription</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Terrence O'Brien / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b1dd4e15de&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Klarna's shares closed up 14.55% at $45.82 in its NYSE debut, giving it a $17B+ market value, after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37B in its IPO</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e57101f97c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Sequoia stands to gain ~$2.65B from Klarna's IPO, a six-fold return on its ~$500M total investment, and is selling ~2% of its stake in the IPO</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Katie Roof / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=753cf4e76e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Lyft partners with Ann Arbor-based May Mobility to let Atlanta riders request an autonomous minivan, with a safety driver, starting in a seven square-mile area</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew J. Hawkins / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6816289b95&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Uber plans to add Blade helicopter rides as soon as 2026 via a partnership with electric air taxi maker Joby Aviation, which acquired Blade for $125M in August</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Samantha Subin / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b8317e4e1d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon and Netflix partner to let advertisers buy Netflix ad inventory via Amazon's demand-side platform, after Amazon signed a similar deal with Disney in June</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Brian Steinberg / </span><span class="pub_name">Variety</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6efdf33f51&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The EU's General Court sides with Meta and TikTok in their legal dispute with the EC over the DSA's 0.05% supervisory fee, saying the EU's methodology is flawed</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Foo Yun Chee / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=52cbfe4c2c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Letter to FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson: Senator Ron Wyden accuses Microsoft of “gross cybersecurity negligence”, citing hospital operator Ascension's 2024 breach</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bab3361335&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple event tidbits: the new MagSafe battery is an iPhone Air exclusive, the Air likely uses binned A19 Pro chips, and older AirPods will get Live Translation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dan Moren / </span><span class="pub_name">Six Colors</span>)</span>
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artificial intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=372ac984aa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emma Roth / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=629047c96d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Meta's TBD Lab team sits in an area near Mark Zuckerberg's desk that needs special badge access, and their names are not on the company's org chart</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b305d48852&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral “nano banana” model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Vincent Chow / </span><span class="pub_name">South China Morning Post</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5a1c7763d8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Analysis: 13+ datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M+ YouTube videos from 2M+ channels, including 1M how-to videos</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Reisner / </span><span class="pub_name">The Atlantic</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b345dd9c46&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Memo: Apple's AI training guidelines update in March for data annotators marked DEI as a “controversial” topic and removed intolerance as a “harmful” behavior</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Océane Herrero / </span><span class="pub_name">Politico</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e66ac14179&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How AlphaFold2 and the rise of generative AI kickstarted a new AI drug discovery boom after a spate of startups from the mid-2010s failed to live up to the hype</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7dc0f06b75&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Stability AI launches Stable Audio 2.5, which the company says is “the first audio generation model designed specifically for enterprise-grade sound production”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sean Michael Kerner / </span><span class="pub_name">Venturebeat</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c7299e0bed&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How AI is hurting the Latin American music industry, as artists say AI-generated music flooding Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube Music is shrinking their royalties</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Laura Rodríguez Salamanca / </span><span class="pub_name">Rest of World</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=115cdf7b43&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An analysis of Lightcast, Foote Partners, and PwC studies on job salaries: AI-skilled workers command 19% to 56% higher earnings, reflecting “task-based hiring”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Riley Gutiérrez McDermid / </span><span class="pub_name">Gizmodo</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=65807f0d8d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">ASML's €1.3B Mistral investment gives the French startup capital and credibility, but Mistral must prove it can survive in a US- and China-dominated AI industry</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8679eb9a2c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">At the Man vs. Machine hackathon, co-hosted by AI nonprofit METR to test if AI helps people code faster and better, the top prize went to an “AI-supported” team</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kylie Robison / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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regulation
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3d45058303&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google says it has scrapped multi-cloud data transfer fees for organizations in the EU and the UK, ahead of the EU Data Act taking effect on September 12</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Paul Sandle / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=33cafa06e9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US Senator Ted Cruz introduces a bill that would let AI companies apply for exemptions from federal regulations to help them experiment with new technology</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jody Godoy / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bb6edb9aa5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and regulation scrapping to accelerate AI adoption across the US are alarming populists in the president's base</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Joe Miller / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bb37bac9f2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A US Treasury Department document says “digital content creators”, including podcasters, social media influencers, and streamers, are eligible for tax-free tips</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Weprin / </span><span class="pub_name">The Hollywood Reporter</span>)</span>
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smartphones
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bcf3cb7fcc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Global premium smartphone sales rose 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1; Apple grew 3% YoY, capturing a 62% share of the premium market</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Varun Mishra / </span><span class="pub_name">Counterpoint Research</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9fe0a3c7a4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple says the iPhone 17 lineup comes with Memory Integrity Enforcement, with “industry-first, always-on memory safety protection”, targeting spyware developers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Richard Lawler / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2113313e1e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple extends free access to satellite connectivity features for an extra year for iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 owners who activated their device before September 9</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jay Peters / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d2ac115a2d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Interviews with Tim Cook, Apple's VP of industrial design Molly Anderson, and others about the design choices behind iPhone Air, cross-body straps, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sam Schube / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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social networks
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ab96416669&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Bluesky says it will comply with South Dakota and Wyoming age-verification laws, which “currently strikes the right balance”, after exiting Mississippi</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8f5dcb4a92&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Reddit launches free tools for publishers as part of Reddit Pro, to track article performance and get suggestions on which communities to share their stories in</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ivan Mehta / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0c919d530b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Kraken opens trading of 60+ tokenized US securities to its EU users, powered by Backed Finance's xStocks; rwa.xyz says tokenized shares' market value is ~$421M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emily Nicolle / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=57f0b068d4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The stocks of Strategy copycats, or companies that buy crypto for their treasuries, are falling, as some struggle with little differentiation and high risks</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2a000f896d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Bain Capital agrees to sell its data centers in China to a consortium led by Shanghai-listed Shenzhen Dongyangguang in a ~$4B deal</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e4bd7e1d10&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media acquires VideoVerse, whose AI tools let broadcasters extract highlights from sports footage, sources say for $200M-$250M</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=893752e086&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: Perplexity has secured commitments from investors for $200M in new funding at a $20B valuation</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Meir Orbach / </span><span class="pub_name">CTech</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=987a51a03e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Replit raised $250M led by Prysm, nearly tripling its valuation to $3B; its annualized revenue grew from $2.8M to $150M in the past year and it has 40M users</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Shirin Ghaffary / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=637cd3e00b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CuspAI, which develops AI foundation models for discovering new materials, raised a $100M Series A led by NEA and Temasek, a source says at a $520M valuation</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=061d9ebd0d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Brain Co., co-founded by Jared Kushner, Elad Gil, and a Mexican politician to help enterprises and governments use AI, comes out of stealth with a $30M Series A</a></span>
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