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Penske Media sues Google, says ~20% of Google search results linking to its sites now include AI Overviews, and affiliate link revenue fell 33%+ since late 2024 (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)

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Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, raised $235M at a ~$1.23B valuation, after coming out of stealth in March with a $200M seed (Brian Kahn/Bloomberg)

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Games like Hollow Knight Silksong: Try these 8 great Metroidvanias next

Polygon - All

JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

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OpenAI projects that it will reduce the revenue share it pays to Microsoft from 20% this year to ~8% by 2030, potentially retaining over $50B more in revenue (The Information)

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Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Exit 8 reivew: A creepy video game movie that could redefine the entire genre

Polygon - All

What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on September 17 at 5pm PT: "Hypernova" smart glasses with a display, Meta AI and Llama updates, and more (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican for its top policy role, instead choosing an Obama alumn as it adopts a cooler stance towards Trump (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)

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Life is Strange's TV adaptation needs to do right by Max and Chloe

Polygon - All

Nicolas Cage's Jesus horror movie The Carpenter's Son looks wild

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China launches probes into alleged US discrimination against Chinese chip companies and suspected dumping of US analog chips used in devices like Wi-Fi routers (Ryan Woo/Reuters)

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California passes SB 53, which requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes; Newsom vetoed a similar though more expansive measure last year (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)

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PS1 at 30: PlayStation's first generation embraced the weird

Polygon - All

Time is running out to get half off a year of Paramount Plus

The Verge - All Posts

California Assembly passes a bill that requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta support the bill, while the MPA opposes it (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)

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This California bill will require transparency from AI companies. But will it actually prevent major disasters?

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Filing: Samsung agreed to settle a patent lawsuit over wireless tech with Headwater Research following a $279M jury verdict against Samsung earlier in 2025 (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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What's happening with the Homestuck pilot?

Polygon - All

Silksong's Hornet hover ability is instantly iconic and meme-worthy

Polygon - All