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FanDuel partners with CME Group to offer event-based contracts, letting users wager "yes" or "no" on financial events and benchmarks, starting later this year (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

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TSMC's financial statement shows the company booked its first profit from its four-year-old Arizona subsidiary in H1 2025, reporting $150.1M in net profit (Lisa Wang/Taipei Times)

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Sources: Nvidia has shown new versions of its Blackwell-based AI chips for Chinese customers to US officials, including one with ~80% of the peak performance (Wall Street Journal)

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India's move to ban online real-money games over addiction and money laundering concerns appears valid, but it may push users toward offshore crypto casinos (Andy Mukherjee/Bloomberg)

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Major real-money gaming platforms in India halted cash games after President Murmu signed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, into law (The Hindu)

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Pokémon Go Fest 2025 'Max Finale' event guide and Gigantamax schedule

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Istanbul-based stock and crypto brokerage Midas raised an $80M Series B led by QED Investors, valuing the company, sources say, at nearly $1B (Bloomberg)

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Lightroom Classic 14.5

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Bildhuus Aspect

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Messages Address Bubble Colors

Michael Tsai

More White Folks Who Seemingly Got Away With Doing Terrible Things to Black Folks

The Root

The Richest Man To Ever Live Is Not Elon Musk, But A Black Man

The Root

Sources: Visa shut down its open-banking business in the US amid regulatory uncertainty; the unit provided tools to help fintechs access customer-account data (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

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Sean Kingston and His Mother’s Legal Mess Has Finally Concluded, Here’s What We Know

The Root

Databricks plans to acquire Tecton, which helps companies build and deploy ML applications, for an undisclosed sum; Tecton was valued at $900M in 2022 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

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Apple accuses former Apple Watch staffer of conspiring to steal trade secrets for Oppo

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On its 10th anniversary, YouTube Music gets new features, including "Taste Match" playlists similar to Spotify Blend and event notifications through Bandsintown (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Pattern, an e-commerce firm that resells goods on online marketplaces, files for a US IPO, reporting net income of $32.1M on revenue of $1.1B for H1 2025 (Bloomberg)

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Mayor Tries to Separate Himself From Cast of Confidants Accused of Corruption

THE CITY - All