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New charity effort gifts Switch consoles to hospitalized children

Polygon - All

Here’s why usage of Gemini’s Nano Banana image editor is growing

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CoreWeave says it has signed a new $6.3B order with Nvidia that guarantees Nvidia will purchase any cloud capacity not sold to customers through April 13, 2032 (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

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Sources: OpenAI is recruiting AI researchers to work on humanoid robots and is training AI algorithms that are better able to make sense of the physical world (Will Knight/Wired)

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Cult horror movie Trick 'r Treat finally hits theaters in October

Polygon - All

LA-based MarqVision, which uses AI to monitor marketplaces for counterfeits, raised a $48M Series B led by Peak XV Partners, bringing its total funding to ~$90M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

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The US and China might finally have a TikTok deal

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Heroes of The Borderlands Impressions – Dungeons & Dragons Has Never Been More Accessible

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Alphabet becomes the fourth company to reach a $3T market cap, joining Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple, after its stock jumped 4%+ on Monday (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

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Hollow Knight Silksong interactive map

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Spotify adds new features globally that let free users search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs out of 696M in Q2 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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How brands and creators are fighting for your attention — and your money

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Amazon schedules its annual fall hardware event for September 30 in NYC, where it is expected to launch Echo smart speakers, Kindles, and possibly other gadgets (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

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New York Has Few Winners in New Federal Tax Cuts, Comptroller Finds

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PayPal launches PayPal Links, which lets users create personalized, one-time links to send money to or request payment from other PayPal users, including crypto (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)

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Sources: Google adopts risk-based Android security updates, prioritizing fixing only high-risk vulnerabilities in monthly releases, and others in quarterly ASBs (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

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Amazon announces its fall hardware event

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What dragons would Mason Thames and Nico Parker have IRL?

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Conceivable Life Sciences, which wants to use AI to automate embryologists' work, raised $50M led by Advance Venture Partners, taking its total funding to $70M (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)

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Battling for the lead at an IRL version of Mario Kart

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