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Sources: JD.com and Ant are lobbying the People's Bank of China to authorize yuan-based, Hong Kong-issued stablecoins to promote the yuan and counter USD coins (Reuters)

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Mixpanel founder Suhail Doshi calls out Soham Parekh, who he says "works at 3-4 startups at the same time" and has "been preying on YC companies and more" (Bhavya Sukheja/NDTV)

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ASML, Mistral, SAP, and 110+ European companies urge the EU to delay the implementation of its AI Act, saying it puts the bloc's AI ambitions at risk (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

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Ford CEO Jim Farley, Andy Jassy, and other CEOs are now predicting AI will significantly cut white collar jobs, a shift from a reluctance to acknowledge losses (Wall Street Journal)

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Researchers detail Centaur, a modified version of Llama trained on 10M+ responses from 160 psychological experiments, in an attempt to mimic human cognition (Carl Zimmer/New York Times)

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Leaked documents: Meta is training custom AI chatbots to message users unprompted, following up on past chats to boost engagement on its AI Studio platform (Business Insider)

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An analysis of 15M+ biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who don't (Gina Kolata/New York Times)

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Bitcoin's implied volatility declined to the lowest level in two years, showing decreased price swings and trading between $93K to $111K in the past two months (Kirk Ogunrinde/Bloomberg)

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Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% in May 2024 to 69% in May 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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White collar workers are increasingly using AI note-taking apps to assist them during Zoom meetings or fully represent them when they choose not to attend (Washington Post)

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AI is making it easier to create VTubers and faceless voiceover channels, fueling a flood of virtual creators on YouTube and TikTok amid concerns over AI slop (Zach Vallese/CNBC)

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A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)

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A look at the ~$377 TranscribeGlass smart glasses that use AI to subtitle conversations in nearly real time, built for the deaf or hard-of-hearing (Boone Ashworth/Wired)

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Uber drivers in British Columbia joined a union, seeking to negotiate Canada's first bargaining agreement for rideshare drivers; Uber has agreed to meet (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd says Bumble's "centre of gravity" will move to the US where the "talent pool is right now"; 70% of its staff are UK-based (Financial Times)

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Baidu overhauls its search engine with AI features and a voice function in its most sweeping revamp in years, and rolls out its first image-to-video model (Bloomberg)

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Some Chinese universities are using AI detection tools to screen papers, but false positives force students to "dumb down" content or pay for rewriting services (Peiyue Wu/Rest of World)

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Siemens says it has restored full access to its chip design software for its Chinese clients after the Trump admin lifted export curbs, initially imposed in May (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

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Datadog is joining the S&P 500, replacing Juniper Networks after HPE acquired Juniper, before trading on July 9; DDOG jumps 10% (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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xAI has been granted a permit to operate 15 gas turbines at its Memphis campus until 2027, despite protests and a potential NAACP lawsuit over air pollution (Molly Taft/Wired)

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