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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)

A new policy document authored by seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030 (Emily Mullin/Wired)

An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the company's M&A strategy as it acquires Madrid-based data observability startup Onum for about $290M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Source: Indian fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League plans to lay off ~60% of its local workforce, after the government banned online real-money games (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic "algorithm films" intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style (Phil Hoad/The Guardian)

How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens (Tor Blog)

The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident (David Gilbert/Wired)

xAI sues a former employee in federal court in California for allegedly stealing Grok trade secrets and taking them to OpenAI, where he recently accepted a job (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Intel CFO David Zinser says the company received $5.7B from the US government on Wednesday evening; the White House says the deal is still "being ironed out" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

InstaLILY, whose industry-specific AI agents called InstaWorkers integrate with legacy systems, raised $25M from Insight Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

4chan and Kiwi Farms sue the UK's Ofcom in a US court over the Online Safety Act, saying they aren't subject to UK law, after Ofcom tried to fine and block them (404 Media)

Sources: cloud startup Vercel is raising hundreds of millions of dollars led by Accel at a valuation of about $9B, up from about $3B in a round last year (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

Report: German banks blocked €10B+ in PayPal payments on Monday over fraud concerns; PayPal says a temporary service interruption affected some transactions (Reuters)

Google Pixel 10 review: justifies its price better than the Pixel 9 with upgrades like a triple camera system and Qi2 support, but it's not a gaming powerhouse (Derrek Lee/Android Central)

Anthropic releases Claude for Chrome, which lets Claude take actions on the user's behalf within the browser, as a research preview for 1,000 Max subscribers (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Trump says Meta plans to spend $50B on its "Hyperion" data center under construction in Louisiana; earlier, Meta said that its investment would exceed $10B (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

Blue Water Autonomy, which is building autonomous, unmanned ships for the US Navy, raised a $50M Series A led by GV, bringing its total funding to $64M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Google DeepMind's Weather Lab, launched in June, showed superior accuracy in forecasting Hurricane Erin's path up to 72 hours ahead, beating traditional models (Eric Berger/Ars Technica)

So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivoted into crypto to boost stock prices, frequently sparking frenzied but short-lived spikes in shares (Bloomberg)

The US Commerce Department voids a Biden administration deal with the nonprofit Natcast to oversee $7.4B in semiconductor research funds, calling it illegal (David Shepardson/Reuters)

Sources: the Trump administration is considering imposing sanctions on EU or member state officials responsible for implementing the EU's DSA (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)

Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on developing AI-powered features like Wingman and A-List, Grindr's new telehealth service Woodwork, his RTO mandate, and more (J. Edward Moreno/Sherwood News)

A look at FoundHer House, an all-female hacker house in San Francisco that has become a hot spot for dinners and panel discussions sponsored by a16z and others (New York Times)

Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office say the US-Intel deal won't solve Intel's real issue: a lack of external customers for its foundry unit (Wall Street Journal)

Researchers detail an indirect prompt injection flaw in Perplexity's Comet AI browser, letting attackers manipulate it into performing unauthorized actions (Brave)