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Friday, September 26, 2025

The robo-advisory market, which includes companies that use AI tools to help investors pick stocks, is expected to grow from $61.75B in 2024 to $470.91B by 2029 (Joice Alves/Reuters)
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Sources: the Trump admin plans to require chipmakers to match local output with imports and impose tariffs on companies that fail to maintain a 1:1 ratio (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
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Thursday, September 25, 2025

As the lyricist behind AI artist Xania Monet signs a $3M record deal, experts say current copyright law may only protect the human-made expressive elements (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
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Microsoft launches Microsoft Marketplace, combining Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource in a single destination for cloud tools and AI apps and agents (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
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Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Qualcomm details the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, its latest flagship mobile SoC, claiming a 20% boost in YoY CPU performance and a 23% uplift in GPU performance (Daniel Bader/Android Police)
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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman have sought to get closer to President Trump after Elon Musk fallout, but WH officials remain deeply skeptical of them (Financial Times)
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Apple asks the EU to repeal the DMA, saying the law "is leading to a worse experience for Apple users in the EU" and "exposing them to new risks" (AFP)
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Tracxn: funding for Indian digital lending startups fell to $462M between January and August 2025 from $1.1B a year earlier, after RBI tightened lending norms (The Economic Times)
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London-based media monitoring and risk management company Signal AI raised $165M led by Battery Ventures, which will hold a majority stake after the investment (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
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Huxe, an app built by three former NotebookLM developers that offers users personalized daily briefs and topic exploration with AI podcast hosts, raised $4.6M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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iPhone 17 Pro teardown: the anodized aluminum scratches badly around the camera plateau edge, the screwed-in battery is a cool repairability upgrade, and more (Elizabeth Chamberlain/iFixit News)
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Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go in Indonesia for ~$4.50 per month, expanding its budget-friendly ChatGPT subscription plan after debuting it in India in August (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Monday, September 22, 2025

Indian AI app development platform Rocket.new raised a $15M seed led by Salesforce Ventures; it has 400K+ users, including 10K+ paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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A look at India's $18.2B chipmaking push, with 10 projects across six states to cut import reliance, as experts question if talent and investment are enough (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)
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Low prices, available land, and cooler weather are driving the data center boom in the Nordics, which have 1.5 GW of capacity live and 7.5 GW in the pipeline (Maggie Shiltagh/Bloomberg)
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A look at the data center cluster in the Chinese city of Wuhu, where 15 companies, including Huawei, have built data centers with a total investment of $37B (Financial Times)
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Sunday, September 21, 2025

The EU Commission is considering tweaking rules to simplify users' cookie preference settings, after its 2009 rule plastered the internet with consent banners (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)
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Saturday, September 20, 2025

Amazon expands Multichannel Fulfillment to let Walmart sellers use Amazon's logistics network to deliver orders and announces support for Shein by year-end (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
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Diplomats say the EU is moving to exclude Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon from the new Financial Data Access system to protect the bloc's "digital sovereignty" (Financial Times)
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