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The US imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia’s H200 AI chips headed to China

OpenAI invests in Sam Altman’s brain computer interface startup Merge Labs

Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and others

How one startup is using prebiotics to try and ease the copper shortage

US senators demand answers from X, Meta, Alphabet, and others on sexualized deepfakes

Spotify raises its subscription prices in the U.S. again

Parloa triples its valuation in 8 months to $3B with $350M raise

Tiger Global loses India tax case tied to Walmart-Flipkart deal in blow to offshore playbook

After Italy, WhatsApp excludes Brazil from rival chatbot ban

Indian SpaceX rival EtherealX hits 5x valuation as it readies engine tests

Microsoft taps India’s Varaha for durable carbon removal offtake

Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI

The FTC’s data-sharing order against GM is finally settled

India’s Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can’t replace

Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe

OpenAI signs deal, worth $10B, for compute from Cerebras

Netflix’s first original video podcasts feature Pete Davidson and Michael Irvin

App downloads declined again in 2025, but consumer spending soared to nearly $156B

AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems

Blackstone, General Atlantic-backed Liftoff Mobile files for IPO