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TrendForce: global foundry revenue surged 14.6% QoQ to $41.7B in Q2, with TSMC securing a 70% market share, followed by Samsung with 7% and SMIC with 5% (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)

Luke James / Tom's Hardware : TrendForce: global foundry revenue surged 14.6% QoQ to $41.7B in Q2, with TSMC securing a 70% market sh...

1 September 2025

Tokyo-based LayerX, which uses AI to help enterprises automate back-office workload, raised a $100M Series B led by TCV, taking its total funding to $192.2M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

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Tokyo-based LayerX, which uses AI to help enterprises automate back-office workload, raised a $100M Series B led by TCV, taking its total funding to $192.2M  —  Aging demographics, labor shortages, the adoption of GenAI, and the 2023 implementation of e-invoicing are driving companies to automate finance …

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WLFI, the token of the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, falls 25% to about $0.21 on its first day of trading, giving it a market cap of around $6B (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

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WLFI, the token of the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, falls 25% to about $0.21 on its first day of trading, giving it a market cap of around $6B  —  WLFI tokens in circulation have a total nominal value of $6.4bn  —  The crypto token of a project backed by US President Donald Trump fell on its first day of trading on Monday.

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Alibaba's shares jumped 19% in Hong Kong on Monday, following strong quarterly results from its cloud computing unit and reports of its new AI chip on Friday (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

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Alibaba's shares jumped 19% in Hong Kong on Monday, following strong quarterly results from its cloud computing unit and reports of its new AI chip on Friday  —  Alibaba's Hong Kong listed shares surged more than 19% on Monday as the Chinese tech giant's cloud computing unit drove strong quarterly results …

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Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)

Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder:
Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks  —  Chinese tech giant Tencent has open sourced two specialized translation models, claiming they outperform established tools …

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China's new AI content labeling law goes into effect, as part of a broad effort to address AI-related risks such as misinformation and copyright infringement (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

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China's new AI content labeling law goes into effect, as part of a broad effort to address AI-related risks such as misinformation and copyright infringement  —  The law requires explicit and implicit labels for AI-generated text, images, audio, video and other virtual content

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Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for staffers at $1,381.06 per share, valuing Revolut at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg:
Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for staffers at $1,381.06 per share, valuing Revolut at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale  —  Revolut Ltd. has kicked off a process for some employees to sell their shares in the company at a $75 billion valuation.

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WLFI, the token of Trump's World Liberty Financial, begins trading at ~$0.30 with a market cap of ~$7.5B; ~24.67% of its 100B supply is in circulation at open (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
WLFI, the token of Trump's World Liberty Financial, begins trading at ~$0.30 with a market cap of ~$7.5B; ~24.67% of its 100B supply is in circulation at open  —  - The native token of World Liberty Financial, a DeFi project backed by Donald Trump and his family, began spot trading on exchanges.

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Source: G42 is talking to Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI to become tenants at its UAE-US AI Campus, and aims to diversify chip suppliers beyond Nvidia (Kelsey Warner/Semafor)

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Source: G42 is talking to Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI to become tenants at its UAE-US AI Campus, and aims to diversify chip suppliers beyond Nvidia  —  THE SCOOP  —  Abu Dhabi-backed G42 is still negotiating with major American technology firms — with no agreements yet …

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Sources: OpenAI is scouting local partners to set up a 1GW+ data center in India, although the exact timeline is unclear; Sam Altman is set to visit this month (Bloomberg)

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Sources: OpenAI is scouting local partners to set up a 1GW+ data center in India, although the exact timeline is unclear; Sam Altman is set to visit this month  —  OpenAI is seeking to build a massive new data center in India that could mark a major step forward in Asia for its Stargate …

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Analysis: porn sites that don't comply with the UK's age verification laws have seen their traffic from UK users grow, while sites complying had declines (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

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Analysis: porn sites that don't comply with the UK's age verification laws have seen their traffic from UK users grow, while sites complying had declines  —  The age-verification laws rapidly expanding across the United States and United Kingdom are bringing with them some surprising downsides …

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AI shopping agents are prompting sellers and brands to rethink how they sell online, as advertisers adopt techniques to appear more prominently in AI results (Financial Times)

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AI shopping agents are prompting sellers and brands to rethink how they sell online, as advertisers adopt techniques to appear more prominently in AI results  —  OpenAI, Perplexity and Google create AI-powered features, leading brands to rethink how they sell products online

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Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)

Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech:
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more  —  Sixteen years ago Matthew Prince and classmate Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School decided there was a better …

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A survey of 1,047 US college students on GenAI: 55% use the tech for brainstorming ideas, 18% now question the value of college more than they used to, and more (Colleen Flaherty/Inside Higher Ed)

Colleen Flaherty / Inside Higher Ed:
A survey of 1,047 US college students on GenAI: 55% use the tech for brainstorming ideas, 18% now question the value of college more than they used to, and more  —  Key findings from Inside Higher Ed's student survey on generative AI show that using the evolving technology hasn't diminished …

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A profile of Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon, whose share price has doubled since the start of August, supported by Beijing's aims for tech self-sufficiency (Financial Times)

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A profile of Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon, whose share price has doubled since the start of August, supported by Beijing's aims for tech self-sufficiency  —  The young chipmaker has software advantages over much larger rival Huawei as it aids Beijing's race for tech self-sufficiency

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Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on three consecutive profitable quarters, cofounders leaving the board, Freenow acquisition, the economics of robotaxis, and more (J. Edward Moreno/Sherwood News)

J. Edward Moreno / Sherwood News:
Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on three consecutive profitable quarters, cofounders leaving the board, Freenow acquisition, the economics of robotaxis, and more  —  Lyft wants to shed its “second-place, domestic-only, only a business-to-consumer company” reputation.  —  13M

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