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The best KPop Demon Hunters cover songs and dance videos on YouTube

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A brazen attack on air safety is underway — here’s what’s at stake

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The 2025 Pokémon World Championship merch is so good you'll wish you could catch it all

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TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Sources say Meta's chaotic culture and lack of vision have led to AI brain drain; Meta strongly denies it has had issues with talent and retention (Forbes)

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The World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off in Beijing on August 15, with robots across 280 teams from 16 countries competing in track and field and other sports (Reuters)

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Applied Materials Q3: revenue up 8% YoY to $7.3B, vs. $7.22B est., profit up 4% YoY to $1.78B, and projects Q4 revenue and profit below est. on China challenges (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)

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Jump, a SaaS startup founded by Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore for managing sports ticketing and fan experiences, raised a $23M Series A at a $100M+ valuation (Justin Birnbaum/Forbes)

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Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer step down as board chair and vice chair, convert their Class B stock to Class A, completing the succession plan (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

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Hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's "hyperrealistic" VR research prototype with beyond-retinal resolution, high brightness and contrast, and a narrow field of view (David Heaney/UploadVR)

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Filing: Shein reports 2024 UK sales up 32.3% YoY to £2.05B, making the UK its third largest market after the US and Germany, as it works toward a Hong Kong IPO (Helen Reid/Reuters)

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Hands-on with Boba 3, Meta's prototype PC VR headset with a form factor similar to the Quest 3, featuring an ultrawide field of view of 180° by 120° (David Heaney/UploadVR)

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A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Otter.ai of "deceptively and surreptitiously" recording private conversations to train its AI without user consent (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

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Roblox plans to restrict unrated experiences to devs, automatically remove servers with violative content, and limit some social hangouts to verified 17+ users (Matt Kaufman/Roblox Corporate)

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Woz: ‘I Am the Happiest Person Ever’

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Trump’s BLS Pick E.J. Antoni Is — Shocker — a Crackpot Hack

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Eight years of Jessie

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Threads Now Has DMs, But They’re Not Encrypted and, Contrary to Reports, Not Yet Available on the Web

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Laura Loomer and the limits of posting everything

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Sources: current and former OpenAI employees plan to sell ~$6B in stock to Thrive Capital, SoftBank, and others in a secondary sale that values OpenAI at ~$500B (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

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