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Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing data and running predictive models from natural language prompts, raised a $10M seed led by Bessemer (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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Google will roll out AI Mode in the UK in the coming days after launching in the US and India; the optional feature will appear as a tab and in the search box (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)

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Sources: Coinbase is in advanced talks to acquire CoinDCX, potentially valuing the Indian crypto exchange at less than $1B, below its 2022 $2.15B valuation (Pankaj Mishra/Livemint)

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A second security breach at Tea exposes more than 1.1M user messages, dating from early 2023 to as recently as last week, many containing sensitive information (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

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BlinkOps, which provides AI agents for cybersecurity tasks like managing identity access and patching bugs, raised a $50M Series B led by OG Venture Partners (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Harmonic, an AI math startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, unveils its model Aristotle, saying it achieved gold medal performance on the 2025 IMO (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Flexport announces it is selling Convoy's tech to DAT Freight & Analytics, after acquiring the digital freight startup's tech stack in late 2023 (John Kingston/FreightWaves)

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Salient, which uses AI to automate the post-loan origination process for lenders, raised a $60M Series A led by a16z, a source says at a $350M valuation (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

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Seattle-based Dropzone AI, which offers AI agents that act as Security Operations Center analysts, raised a $37M Series B led by Theory Ventures (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

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Cadence Design agrees to plead guilty and pay more than $140M to resolve US charges for selling its chip design products to a Chinese military university (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

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EssilorLuxottica says sales of Ray-Ban Meta more than tripled year-over-year in the first half of 2025, and it expects "a very fast ramp-up" of Oakley Meta (Bloomberg)

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Anthropic to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on Aug. 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Claude Code "continuously in the background" (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Faculty and students on Chinese campuses are enthusiastically embracing AI, and the level of public excitement for AI in China is far greater vs. the US and UK (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)

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The US smartphone market grew 1% in Q2; the share of US smartphone shipments assembled in China shrank from 61% in Q2'24 to 25% in Q2'25, as India volume soars (Canalys)

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Microsoft Edge adds Copilot Mode, an experimental feature that tries to make browsing an agentic AI experience, even anticipating links to click, free for now (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Fable, a startup offering AI-generated security training for employees, comes out of stealth having raised $31M, a source says at a $120M valuation (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

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Chrome debuts AI-generated store reviews to US shoppers, letting users click an icon left of the URL to show a popup with store reputation info (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu and which has raised $1.5B from Tencent and others, releases GLM-4.5, an open-source AI model that's cheaper to use than DeepSeek (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

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E2B, formerly FoundryLabs, which is developing an open-source, sandboxed cloud infrastructure for AI agents, raised a $21M Series A led by Insight Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Imax partners with Runway AI to screen 10 films selected as finalists in the company's AI Film Festival at 10 Imax locations across the US (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

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