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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=99ad58de51&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tether launches the US-regulated USAT stablecoin and names Bo Hines, the former Executive Director of the White House Crypto Council, as CEO of its new US unit</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Coco Feng / </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=cabf32e588&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Amazon and Google misled advertisers by not properly disclosing the terms and pricing for ads on their websites</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=88668e06a0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: the clause that rescinds Microsoft's access to OpenAI's most powerful tech if OpenAI develops AGI remains part of their new deal, but has been modified</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York 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=1925d73e18&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Polymarket considers an offer valuing it at ~$9B, up from $1B in the summer; Kalshi is close to raising money at a $5B valuation, up from $2B in June</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=757f61bbaa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Robby Walker, one of Apple's most senior AI executives who was in charge of Siri until earlier this year, is leaving the company next month</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </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=57cabe9ba9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shunyu from OpenAI; a source and Chinese media say Tencent offered him a CN¥100M+, or ~$66M, pay package</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Pei Li / </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=b083e319ef&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Databricks' head of AI, Naveen Rao, is transitioning to an advisory role; source: his new startup will focus on a next-gen computer to address rising AI costs</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=91957ba47d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">SK Hynix announces that it has completed development of HBM4, the next generation of high-bandwidth memory crucial for AI work; stock jumps 7% to a record high</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Yoolim Lee / </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=04c841f5c8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their own chips, like the Zhenwu and the Kunlun P800, to train their AI models, partly replacing Nvidia's AI chips</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Qianer Liu / </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=e052facfca&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: OpenAI and Nvidia will pledge billions of dollars in UK data center investments during their trip next week, coinciding with President Trump's UK visit</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=2276bd1702&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">At the Semicon trade show in Taipei, Taiwan promotes diplomatic relations and its chipmaking tech to let “the free world create trusted non-red supply chains”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ben Blanchard / </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=e64bfdda75&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">California SB 243, which would mandate safety protocols for AI chatbot companions, passes the State Assembly and Senate and now heads to Governor Newsom's desk</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rebecca Bellan / </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=61ff5e8827&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI unveils Grove, a five-week mentorship program for nascent tech entrepreneurs, hosted in its San Francisco HQ, with ~15 participants in its first cohort</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jaures Yip / </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=1ed24df3f6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Alibaba releases Qwen3-Next, a new model architecture optimized for long-context understanding, large parameter scale, and better computational efficiency</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Crystal Liu / </span><span class="pub_name">Alizila</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=4802b684a5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Some 20-somethings flocking to SF to build trillion-dollar AI startups say no to booze, sleep, and fun as they strive to be, or appear to be, the most obsessed</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=c71e4c8570&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">France-based Scintil Photonics, which is developing integrated photonic system-on-chips for AI infrastructure, raised a $58M Series B led by Yotta and NGP</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tamara Djurickovic / </span><span class="pub_name">Tech.eu</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=2559f1d6b6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Micro1, a Scale AI competitor that lets AI companies find contractors for data labeling and training, raised a $35M Series A led by 01A at a $500M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maxwell Zeff / </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=5f6c7a4b90&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Mastodon plans to roll out quote posts next week, with safety features that give users several ways to control how their posts can be quoted, to avoid “dunking”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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