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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 didn't (Gina Kolata/New York Times)

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Bitcoin's implied volatility has fallen to its lowest level in about two years, per Deribit, and BTC has traded between $93K and $111K over the past two months (Kirk Ogunrinde/Bloomberg)

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Similarweb: since Google launched AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs has grown 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 virtual meetings or listen in their place 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, which weigh 36g and use AI to subtitle conversations in nearly real time, for the deaf and 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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OpenAI says the tokenized OpenAI shares that Robinhood has started offering are not equity: "We did not partner with Robinhood ... and do not endorse it" (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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Ripple applies for a US national banking license, which would place Ripple's dollar-backed stablecoin, RLUSD, under the US OCC's regulatory remit (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

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Microsoft cuts hundreds of Xbox jobs across studios, sources say including Halo Studios and King, and cancels games like Perfect Dark and Everwild (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)

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Sources: Netflix has held talks with Spotify about partnering on projects such as a music awards show, as it adds content that was core to the cable bundle (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: OpenAI will rent additional computing power from Oracle, totaling about 4.5 gigawatts of US data center power, as part of its Stargate initiative (Bloomberg)

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Analysis: crypto ventures have added at least $620M to President Trump's fortune in months, overshadowing traditional real estate licensing deals (Bloomberg)

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