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Sources: ByteDance plans an employee share buyback at $200.41/share, valuing it at $330B+, up from $315B in March 2025, and its Q2 revenue grew 25% YoY to $48B (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-28

Sources and docs: a Russia-based Yandex employee maintains open-source tool fast-glob, embedded in 30 US DOD software packages and downloaded 70M times per week (www.nextgov.com)
2025-8-28 Russia

Google updates video editing tool Vids to add AI avatars, automatic transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools, and releases a basic version to all users (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-28 Google AI

Posthumous AI Avatars Shift From Memorial Tools To Revenue Generators (slashdot.org)
2025-8-28 AI

Citi Executive Warns Stablecoin Yields Could Drain Bank Deposits (slashdot.org)
2025-8-28

Plaud unveils the $179 Plaud Note Pro, an AI note-taking device with two extra mics to hear audio 16.4 feet away and a 1-inch display, shipping in October (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-28 AI

Apple partners with TuneIn to make Apple Music's six radio stations available outside its app, a first, as it seeks to compete with Spotify; TuneIn has 75M MAUs (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-27 Apple Spotify

Anthropic's Threat Intelligence report for August says Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-27 Intelligence

iPhone 17 Pro Max: Everything we know about Apple's flagship iPhone (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-27 iPhone Apple

South Korean lawmakers pass a bill to ban using mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools nationwide, starting 2026 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-27 Korea Mobile Ban

Vivo V60 review: Mid-range perfection or style over substance? (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-27 Vivo

Anthropic unveils Claude for Chrome, an AI agent to browse and multitask smarter (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-27 AI Chrome

Taiwan indicts three people for allegedly stealing TSMC's 2nm secrets to help Tokyo Electron, the first such case, and recommends a combined 14-year prison term (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-27 Taiwan Tokyo

10 Pieces of Lost Media That Prove We Don't Know Our Own History (listverse.com)
2025-8-27

Surfshark VPN offers unlimited devices and privacy for less than $68 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-27 VPN

Sources: a Chinese fab making Huawei's AI chips is set to start production as soon as the end of 2025, with two more due in 2026; the fabs' ownership is unclear (t.co)
2025-8-27 China AI

Korean Air Inks Record $50 Billion US Aviation Deal (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-27 Korea

Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 11.7% YoY to ~$12.8B and net income down 97% YoY to ~$51M, blaming “irrational competition” in the Chinese food delivery market (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-27 China

Elon Musk now regularly posts AI images and videos of scantily clad women generated by Grok's Imagine tool on X, including avatar Ani dancing in her underwear (www.rollingstone.com)
2025-8-27 AI Elon Musk

Bottling the Sun: Why nuclear fusion is now an engineering challenge (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-27

Spotify launches in-app messaging: Share music and connect with friends directly (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-27 Spotify

Court filing: Elon Musk's lawyers ask a US judge to block OpenAI from obtaining documents from Meta related to a previous $97.4B bid for OpenAI's assets (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-27 Elon Musk Asset

Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta (www.wired.com)
2025-8-27 AI

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US plans to publish GDP and economic data on the blockchain, but gave no details on the blockchain or timeline (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-27 Blockchain GDP

A look at Xiaomi's evolution from a tech assembler to a high-tech manufacturer, as it applies its smartphone manufacturing strategy to developing EVs and chips (t.co)
2025-8-27 Xiaomi Manufacturing

Tussell: UK government contracts for AI-related projects have reached £573M in 2025 to July 15, up from £468M for the whole of 2024, as it seeks efficiency (t.co)
2025-8-27 AI

Q&A with Francis Dufay, CEO of Jumia, Africa's largest e-commerce platform, on Temu and other rivals, adding Chinese sellers to stay competitive, AI, and more (restofworld.org)
2025-8-27 China AI Africa

Q&A with General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on the VC firm's “AI roll-up” strategy to buy service businesses and inject them with AI, investment bubbles, and more (t.co)
2025-8-27 AI

Workplace Jargon Hurts Employee Morale and Collaboration, Study Finds (slashdot.org)
2025-8-27

Inside India's growing ~$1.5B e-waste recycling industry, about 95% of workers are employed informally, doing dangerous, toxic, and lawless work for meager pay (restofworld.org)
2025-8-27 India

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