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AI server shipments from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 compared to 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)

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How to unlock every character in Kirby Air Riders

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12 Kirby Air Riders beginner's tips to help you get started

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How to unlock all machines in Kirby Air Riders

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AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Google opens an AI infrastructure hardware engineering hub in Taipei, its biggest outside of the US, to develop and test tech to be deployed in its data centers (Reuters)

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A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M+ in illegal transactions (Miles J. Herszenhorn/Bloomberg)

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Function Health, a health tracking tech company, raised a $298M Series B led by Redpoint Ventures at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $350M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

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Gloo, which develops AI tools for Christian churches and counts Pat Gelsinger as executive chair, closed up 1% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $73M in its IPO (George Steer/Financial Times)

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Sources: UMG, WMG, and Sony Music have licensed their works to Klay, which is building a streaming service that will let users remake songs using AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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Lenovo reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $20.45B, above $20B est., net profit down 5% to $340M, below $382M est., but adjusted net profit up 25% to $512M (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)

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Palo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.47B, vs. $2.46B est., forecasts Q2 revenue in line with est., and agrees to buy Chronosphere for $3.35B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Block expects gross profit to increase in the mid-teens YoY through 2028, reaching ~$15.8B, with adjusted operating income growing ~30% YoY; XYZ closed up 7.56% (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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A draft EO shows President Trump plans to grant the federal government sole power to regulate AI and create an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the AG (Tina Nguyen/The Verge)

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Humain partners with Adobe and Qualcomm to develop AI tools for Arabic content, using Adobe's Firefly Foundry to build AI models and Qualcomm chips to run them (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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The DOJ’s big screwups, briefly explained

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Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws

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The best iPhones

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Netflix signs a three-year deal to stream MLB live events and games

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The US Commerce Department approved the sale of up to 35K Nvidia GB300 servers or their equivalents each to Abu Dhabi's G42 and Saudi government-backed Humain (Wall Street Journal)

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