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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=72d3285747&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google's Gemini app is the #1 app in the US App Store, driven by its Nano Banana model, which has been used to edit 500M+ images since its August 26 launch</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=abdac6896e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on September 17 at 5pm PT: “Hypernova” smart glasses with a display, Meta AI and Llama updates, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Karissa Bell / </span><span class="pub_name">Engadget</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=47ca05c9f9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable “graphic content” and “glorified violence”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lauren Goode / </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=74a60c62f2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">California Assembly passes a bill that requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta support the bill, while the MPA opposes it</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tyler Katzenberger / </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=2a44fd1c62&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">California passes SB 53, which requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes; Newsom vetoed a similar though more expansive measure last year</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chase DiFeliciantonio / </span><span class="pub_name">Politico</span>)</span>
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personnel changes
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f1eadc632a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Grace Kay / </span><span class="pub_name">Business Insider</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=e8f16e2584&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican for its top policy role, instead choosing an Obama alumn as it adopts a cooler stance towards Trump</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / </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=e7cc682b3f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">i.AI, a UK government unit offering a median salary of £67K to develop tools to improve civil service efficiency, is struggling to attract top talent</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ramsay Hodgson / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</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=7751d7170c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says is the largest open LLM trained from scratch with differential privacy, on Hugging Face and Kaggle</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Google 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=8d14ed32e0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Silicon Valley companies racing to develop AI, as the voices of AI “doomers” fade in prominence</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Peter Guest / </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=1eb6eb0003&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, using violence to stop AI, Rationalism, his new book, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kevin Roose / </span><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=35939af7a1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: Nvidia is scaling back DGX Cloud to primarily internal R&D use; DGX Cloud was initially envisioned to compete with major cloud providers like AWS</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Anissa Gardizy / </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=5624d6dfb0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An interview with Goldman Sachs partner Kerry Blum on how the company's ~46,000 employees are using GenAI-powered GS AI Assistant and the risks of over-reliance</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Joshua Franklin / </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=36c6448653&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How thousands of small-scale farmers in Malawi are using a government-backed AI chatbot, designed by the nonprofit Opportunity International, for farming advice</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Gregory Gondwe / </span><span class="pub_name">Associated Press</span>)</span>
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Quantum Computing
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ee019edbdd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Australia is emerging as a prominent player in quantum computing, enabled by breakthrough academic work and sustained government funding since the 1990s</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nic Fildes / </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=501ceef20f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">IBM is holding its own in the quantum computing race against Google, Microsoft, and others, as they tackle enormous scientific and engineering challenges</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Christopher Mims / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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IPOs
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ed9e55a03c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Shares of transit software company Via closed at $49.51 in their NYSE debut, above the $46 IPO price, giving Via a market cap of ~$3.9B, after raising $492.9M</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=f9da4fb21c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Lendbuzz, which uses AI to underwrite auto loans, files for a US IPO and reports H1 2025 revenue up 38% YoY to $172.9M and net income up 98.2% YoY to $11.1M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Arasu Kannagi Basil / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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cryptocurrency
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3435a1dec7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US salaries for key stablecoin roles are rising as a skills shortage meets a potentially immense market opportunity, putting upward pressure on pay</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=e4492dce5b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How Coinbase is navigating the easing regulatory environment, increasing acceptance of crypto in the financial system, and intensifying competition</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nikou Asgari / </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=1fba2d6f69&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, raised $235M at a ~$1.23B valuation, after coming out of stealth in March with a $200M seed</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Brian Kahn / </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=7b37263d16&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M+ users globally</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=8ec5780866&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised a $50M Series A led by GFT Ventures</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Amit Chowdhry / </span><span class="pub_name">Pulse 2.0</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=96fe8db5c9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Atolio, which is making a private AI-powered search tool for enterprises, raised a $24M Series A led by Translink Capital</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">FinSMEs</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=c0e6b28701&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Copenhagen-based Teton.ai, which offers an AI companion to help nurses monitor patients and improve workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Plural</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Anthony Vecchione / </span><span class="pub_name">Mobi Health News</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=6c103f1505&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series</a></span>
<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=70995ad509&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone service that some experts say will likely remain complementary to existing networks, focusing on rural coverage</a></span>
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