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Krafton claims former Subnautica 2 devs ‘lost interest’ in developing game

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UK government suggests deleting files to save water

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Despite Musk's claim Apple "makes it impossible" for non-OpenAI AI apps to top its App Store, DeepSeek was #1 in January and Perplexity was #1 in July in India (Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider)

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Appfigures: AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M+ in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Anthropic just made its latest move in the AI coding wars

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Ultimate Ears’ Wonderboom 4 speaker is cheaper than ever at 40 percent off

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Google launches Preferred Sources in the US and India, allowing users to personalize the news in Search's "top stories" section by selecting favorite outlets (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Sources: Microsoft is trying to poach Meta's AI talent and is making multimillion-dollar offers, with a mandate to match Meta's compensation for top talent (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

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Qubic, a layer-1 blockchain project that pools mining resources, has been trying a 51% attack on Monero and says it succeeded, causing Monero's price to fall (Adrian Zmudzinski/Cointelegraph)

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Quick fixes: bring back Google Photos classic search instead of ‘Ask Photos’ Gemini AI

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Character.AI says it's generating revenue at a run rate of $30M+ and has 20M MAUs who spend, on average, 75 minutes a day chatting with a bot (Kylie Robison/Wired)

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Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion

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Meta says Threads has 400M monthly active users, up from 350M MAUs in April (Emily Price/Fast Company)

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AI companies are chasing government users with steep discounts

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Anthropic updates Claude Sonnet 4 to support a 1M token context window, letting it process prompts up to 750K words or 75K lines of code, up 5x on its old limit (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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The best doorbell cameras

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Apple Cinemas responds to Apple lawsuit

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Blackwater’s founder would like to sell you a privacy phone made in the USA

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Terraform co-founder Do Kwon pleads guilty over $40 billion crypto collapse

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Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

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