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Meta introduces new safety features for teens, including enhanced DM protections, and removed 600K+ Instagram and Facebook accounts linked to predatory behavior (Zach Vallese/CNBC)

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Proton launches Lumo, an AI chatbot to summarize documents, generate code, and more and says it will protect users' information via "zero-access" encryption (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google "strategic market status" in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds "opportunities for more innovation" (Muvija M/Reuters)

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Everything we know about the Air India crash points to an uncomfortable truth

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VenHub, which uses robotics and AI to run fully automated retail stores, confidentially files for a US direct listing, after a $715M SPAC merger failed in May (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)

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Join the Hellfire Club with the Stranger Things D&D game

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The lawsuit seeking to kill Trump’s tariffs is back

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Proton is launching a privacy-focused AI chatbot

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Alibaba releases its new Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 model on Hugging Face, improving on Qwen 3's reasoning, accuracy, and multilingual understanding (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Dell says COO Jeff Clarke will now oversee its Client Solutions Group, which includes desktop and notebook PCs; Dell's consumer PC revenue fell 19% in Q1 (Bloomberg)

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How Trans People Can Update Their Passports — And Why to Do It Now

THE CITY - All

The battery-powered Starlink Mini is here

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US nuclear weapons agency reportedly breached in Microsoft SharePoint attacks

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Researchers say North Korean scammers infiltrating the US workforce often reference Minions and other Despicable Me characters in GitHub and Telegram profiles (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

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OpenAI details how its tools have boosted US worker productivity and says its chief economist is leading a 12-month study to assess AI's impact on productivity (OpenAI)

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AWS shuts down its Shanghai AI research lab, following similar moves by Microsoft, IBM, and other US tech companies, to scale back China-based R&D efforts (Financial Times)

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PayPal unveils PayPal World, a platform set to launch in fall 2025 to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pago (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Analysis: in H1 2025, 500+ orgs lobbied the White House and Congress on AI, on par with H1 2024 but up ~2x since 2023; OpenAI spent $1.8M, up from $380K in 2023 (Financial Times)

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Xelix, which uses AI to automate businesses' accounts payable workflows by connecting with ERP systems, raised a $160M Series B led by Insight Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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