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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8e662160d1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Trump signs an EO declaring that a proposed deal allowing TikTok to continue operating in the US will be a qualified sale that meets national security concerns</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5a9d88f99c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">While Trump signs executive order approving TikTok deal, China remains silent. It's not complete until China says it is. Until then, there's no deal. CNBC reporting that TikTok deal is finalized. #Trump #TikTok #China</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c892e4a8b1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Trump says Xi gave them the “go ahead” on the Tiktok deal as he signed the executive order Says “my son is driving me crazy” about keeping TikTok Vance says there was “some resistance” on the Chinese side</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=48fc2e939b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be the main TikTok USA investors, with a ~45% stake; ByteDance will own 19.9% and ByteDance investors 35%</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=5565228f50&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Trump says Xi Jinping approved the TikTok deal, and JD Vance says the transaction values TikTok US at $14B; ByteDance hasn't acknowledged the 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=035f95e77a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CISA issues an emergency directive ordering US federal agencies to secure their Cisco firewall devices against two flaws exploited in zero-day attacks</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sergiu Gatlan / </span><span class="pub_name">BleepingComputer</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=e3f758d517&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a mobile feature for Pro users that delivers daily personalized updates based on their chats, feedback, and connected apps</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Hayden Field / </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=f609679a3c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft Windows 10 users will receive free Extended Security Updates in the EEA without enabling Windows Backup, after pressure from the Euroconsumers group</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tom Warren / </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=b2008adee4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI releases GDPval, a benchmark to test AI performance on “economically valuable, real-world tasks”, and says Claude Opus 4.1 was the best performing model</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=d42b947ce4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta rolls out Vibes, a platform where users can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos, in the Meta AI app and on the meta.ai website</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Juby Babu / </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=2c924b0f41&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google updates Gemini 2.5 Flash with better response formatting and image understanding, and releases new 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite previews for developers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Abner Li / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Google</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=5cd42d6511&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Meta poached Yang Song, who led OpenAI's strategic explorations team, to be the research principal of Meta Superintelligence Labs earlier this month</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wired</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=5708c9c27b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cloudflare announces plans to launch NET Dollar, a US dollar-backed stablecoin designed to support payments for the “agentic web”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Blockworks</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=c5c3a54a1b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CoreWeave expands its data center capacity agreements with OpenAI by $6.5B, bringing their total potential value to $22.4B, to support training of OpenAI models</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Brody Ford / </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=38852c6bd4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">SAP, whose cloud sales are set to reach €22B this year, nearly triple 2019 levels, faces competition from other tech giants as it targets AI apps for the future</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Christina Kyriasoglou / </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=33133131e8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">xAI signed a deal with the GSA to offer Grok to US federal agencies for $0.42 per agency for 18 months, a discount to OpenAI's $1 per year for ChatGPT</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Oma Seddiq / </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=d6191540e0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter</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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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9898009869&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-ER 1.5 models, enabling multi-step tasks for robots like sorting laundry, including by using web search</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Melissa Heikkilä / </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=b815183018&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Meta is considering using Google's Gemini and open-source Gemma AI models to improve its ad summarization and recommendation system</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Erin Woo / </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=341797864b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Databricks says it plans to integrate OpenAI's models, including GPT-5, into its data platform and AI product Agent Bricks, as part of a $100M multiyear deal</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=2452acc7f4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Why AI isn't replacing radiologists: models underperform in hospital settings, AI use faces legal hurdles, and the job is much more than image recognition</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Works in Progress Newsletter</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=228e58cd28&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The UK's Cabinet Office says its Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator AI tool helped the government recover £480M from fraud in the 12 months from April 2024</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jack Fenwick / </span><span class="pub_name">BBC</span>)</span>
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infosec
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4ac2f3c32c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Call-recording app Neon, which became the #2 social app on the US App Store, goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=00414d7283&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">UK retailer Co-op says the April cyber attack cost the company £206M in revenue, marking the first time it has quantified the financial impact of the attack</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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Litigation
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b40a088001&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Epic v. Google: Google asks the US Supreme Court to pause the permanent injunction ruling, as it plans to appeal the case to SCOTUS by October 27</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sean Hollister / </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=0cefaf4e94&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">xAI sues OpenAI in California for allegedly stealing trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees; in August, xAI sued an ex-staffer who left for OpenAI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jon Keegan / </span><span class="pub_name">Sherwood 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=61f339a78e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A US federal judge preliminarily approves Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with authors</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Blake Brittain / </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=c9b29a09a4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Circle president Heath Tarbert says Circle is exploring the possibility of reversible stablecoin transactions to allow refunds in cases of fraud or disputes</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=96d46452df&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Australian lawmakers propose rules to regulate crypto exchanges, allowing the government to slap penalties of 10% of annual turnover on firms that violate rules</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Richard Henderson / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</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=343eb744d0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta expands Facebook and Messenger teen accounts, which have extra safety controls, globally; Instagram now lets all US schools report safety concerns</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=daa9763461&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: EU prepares to issue preliminary findings that Facebook and Instagram lack an adequate “notice and action mechanism” to let users flag illegal posts</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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Payment Services
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a65027b0c2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google Pay and PhonePe accounted for 80% of India's UPI transactions in Aug. 2025, down from 85% a year ago, as smaller players like Navi and BHIM gained ground</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Pratik Bhakta / </span><span class="pub_name">The Economic 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=2b4b0df29c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">JPMorgan's recent data access deal with Plaid, if extended to other aggregators, could allow Plaid to use its cost advantage to further consolidate market share</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marc Rubinstein / </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=9cb5cc9c6e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">London-based “neocloud” startup Nscale raised a $1.1B Series B led by Aker, with Nvidia participating; Aker says it is investing $285M for a 9.3% stake</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=90e9151be6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: cryptocurrency exchange Kraken quietly closed a $500M funding round at a $15B valuation, including from co-CEO Arjun Sethi's Tribe Capital</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jeff John Roberts / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</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=944023ad5d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Factory, which makes AI agents called “droids” to assist in coding, raised $50M at a $300M valuation; AI coding startups raised $7.5B+ in the past three months</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">George Hammond / </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=f4dc6720e5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">RedotPay, which offers stablecoin cards and multicurrency wallets, raised $47M from Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy Ventures, and others at a $1B valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">James Hunt / </span><span class="pub_name">The Block</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=e17bf64898&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Juicebox, whose PeopleGPT helps employers analyze professional profiles to identify qualified candidates, raised $36M, including a $30M Series A led by Sequoia</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marina Temkin / </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=c2d04e494e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Copenhagen-based Light, which develops AI-powered software to automate financial tasks like accounting and bookkeeping, raised a $30M Series A led by Balderton</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ryan Browne / </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=8c0bfea56b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Flox, which lets engineers install a development environment on their machines with a single terminal command, raised a $25M Series B led by Addition</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maria Deutscher / </span><span class="pub_name">SiliconANGLE</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=9bcf0b60ad&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Xiaomi unveils 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, available September 27 in China; Pro phones feature a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and a back screen</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dominic Preston / </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=4902236c7a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A China Labor Watch six-month investigation at Foxconn's Zhengzhou iPhone factory finds tough working conditions for seasonal staff building the latest iPhones</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Arjun Neil Alim / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tabby Kinder / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<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="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jennifer Maas / </span><span class="pub_name">Variety</span>)</span>
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