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Appfigures: AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M+ in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13 AI

Microsoft Releases Lightweight Office Taskbar Apps for Windows 11 (it.slashdot.org)
2025-8-13 Microsoft

Microsoft is Trying To Poach Meta AI Talent and Offering Multimillion-Dollar Pay Packages (slashdot.org)
2025-8-13 Microsoft AI

Google launches Preferred Sources in the US and India, allowing users to personalize the news in Search's “top stories” section by selecting favorite outlets (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-13 India Google

Qubic, a layer-1 blockchain project that pools mining resources, has been trying a 51% attack on Monero and says it succeeded, causing Monero's price to fall (cointelegraph.com)
2025-8-13 Blockchain Monero

Sources: Microsoft is trying to poach Meta's AI talent and is making multimillion-dollar offers, with a mandate to match Meta's compensation for top talent (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-13 Microsoft AI

Character.AI says it's generating revenue at a run rate of $30M+ and has 20M MAUs who spend, on average, 75 minutes a day chatting with a bot (www.wired.com)
2025-8-13 AI

Meta says Threads has 400M monthly active users, up from 350M MAUs in April (www.fastcompany.com)
2025-8-13

Australian Federal Court Rules Apple and Google Engaged in Anti-Competitive App Store Conduct (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-8-13 Australia Google Apple

Anthropic updates Claude Sonnet 4 to support a 1M token context window, letting it process prompts up to 750K words or 75K lines of code, up 5x on its old limit (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13

AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google's Chrome browser (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-13 Google Startup AI Browser Chrome

Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome (slashdot.org)
2025-8-13 Chrome

Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-13 Chrome

Musk Threatens 'Immediate' Legal Action Against Apple Over Alleged Antitrust Violations (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-8-13 Apple

Spirit Airlines Warns It May Not Survive Another Year (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-13

In US court, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon says he will plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud under an agreement with prosecutors (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-13 Conspiracy

Samsung edges ahead of Apple in super-premium smartphone segment: IDC report (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-13 Samsung Apple

Ukraine successfully tests Starlink's direct-to-cell technology (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-13 Ukraine

Companies plan stablecoins under new law, but experts say hurdles remain (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-13

Anthropic offers AI chatbot Claude to US government for $1 (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-13 AI chatbot

Mozilla Under Fire For Firefox AI 'Bloat' That Blows Up CPU and Drains Battery (news.slashdot.org)
2025-8-13 AI Firefox Battery Mozilla

Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses fuels 110% growth of global smart glasses market (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-12 AI Ban

Physicists Create Quantum Radar That Could Image Buried Objects (science.slashdot.org)
2025-8-12 Quantum

Indian entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia partners with GoDaddy to offer enterprises his email service Titan, which costs $2+ per month, aiming for 10M+ users by 2029 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-12 India Entrepreneur

Your smartwatch may be lying about your stress levels, study finds (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-12

Circle reports Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $658M, USDC circulation up 90% YoY to $61.3B, a $482M net loss, and unveils Arc, a stablecoin-focused Layer-1 blockchain (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-12 Blockchain

Anthropic plans to offer Claude to US lawmakers for $1 per year, following OpenAI; a source says Google is in talks to offer Gemini on similarly cheap terms (t.co)
2025-8-12 Google

Epic Games wins partial victory in Australian court against Google and Apple (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-12 Australia Google Apple

Gemini Live can now connect to Google apps like Keep, Tasks, Calendar and Maps (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-12 Google

Sea reports Q2 revenue up 38% YoY to $5.26B, vs. $5B est., a $414M net income, vs. $444M est., Shopee revenue up 34% YoY to $3.8B, driven by commissions and ads (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-12

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