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A look at some themes at this year's Hill and Valley Forum: embracing government-led industrial policy to onshore manufacturing, AI's unpopularity, and more (Newcomer)

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The class of 2025 is using AI in job interviews, and a startup industry is cashing in

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Bluetti’s Sora 500 solar panel is incredibly powerful for its size

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Prediction market bets decided on linguistic technicalities expose how hard it is to turn language into a binary market, with payouts hinging on a single word (Christopher Beam/Bloomberg)

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Meta's longtime content policy chief Monika Bickert is leaving the company to teach at Harvard; she will stay at Meta until August to work on a transition plan (Reuters)

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Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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Taiwanese memory chipmaker Nanya raised $2.5B in a private placement from Sandisk, SK Hynix's Solidigm, Cisco, and Kioxia to expand advanced chip production (Reuters)

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Crimson Desert interactive maps

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Indonesia begins implementing a regulation that bans under-16s from digital platforms that could expose them to porn, cyberbullying, online scams, and addiction (Edna Tarigan/Associated Press)

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Worth, which aims to help financial services onboard and underwrite SMBs, raised a $30M Series A led by Fulcrum Equity Partners, following a $25M seed round (Brian Contreras/Inc)

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Business Insider’s Subscriber Spiral

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Despite Anthropic winning a ruling against the DOD in California, it must still convince the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the supply chain risk label (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

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A Jeffrey Epstein victim files a class action against the Trump administration and Google, claiming Google's search and AI Mode published victims' personal info (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

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Apple Says It’s Not Aware of Lockdown Mode Ever Having Been Exploited

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Apple Announces Ads Are Coming to Apple Maps

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Google rolls out its Veo video model globally within Google Ads, allowing advertisers to create 10-second videos for YouTube from up to three static images (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)

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NeurIPS reverses a policy change that would have banned papers from researchers at any entity under US sanctions, after backlash from Chinese researchers (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

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Netflix Raises Prices Again

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Sony Japan temporarily suspends fulfillment of orders for nearly all of its CFexpress and SD memory card product lines due to solid state memory shortages (Jaron Schneider/PetaPixel)

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Sources: Meta plans to debut two Ray-Ban smart glasses models next week intended for prescription wearers, to be sold mainly via prescription eyewear channels (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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