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Sources: TikTok plans to launch a new version of its app in the US on September 5, ahead of the Sept. 17 deadline for the US to enforce the divest-or-ban law (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-building-n…

TikTok Building New Version of App Ahead of Expected U.S. Sale
TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the U.S. ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors. The company has developed a plan to launch the new TikTok app, known internally as “M2,” to U.S. app stores on September 5, according to two people with knowledge of the ...

Source: OpenAI awards bonuses to ~1,000 research and engineering employees, or ~30% of its staff, ranging from several hundred thousand to millions of dollars (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
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OpenAI Pays Bonuses Ranging Up To Millions of Dollars to 1,000 Researchers, Engineers
OpenAI is paying bonuses to around 1,000 employees on its technical research and engineering teams, or about a third of the company, ranging from the low hundreds of thousands to millions, as the company gears up to release its latest flagship GPT-5 model and faces an ever-rising battle for AI talent, according to a person with knowledge of the bonuses. The size of the bonuses will be

Tavily, which is helping AI agents connect to live web data, raised a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners and Alpha Wave, taking its total funding to $25M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/tavily-raises-25m-to-connect-ai-agent…

Tavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web | TechCrunch
The one-year-old startup raised a Series A led by Insight Partners.

Stat Counter: Windows 11 had a 50.9% share of the Windows market on July 4, ahead of Windows 10's 46.2%; the OS, released in 2021, only had a <10% share in 2022 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
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Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop OS in the world — finally surpasses Windows 10 after 4 years
After four years on the market, Windows 11 has finally surpassed Windows 10 to become the most dominant desktop OS platform in the world.

The Trump administration is warning states that they risk losing access to broadband funds if they set price caps on low-cost ISP plans (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/trump-admin-warns-states-don…

Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices
ISPs getting grants must offer “low-cost” plan, but they get to pick the price.

Brex says it has secured a license in the EU, allowing it to issue credit and debit cards and offer its spend management products to European customers (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/ipo-hopeful-brex-scored-…

IPO hopeful Brex scored major win to sell in the EU, plans UK expansion | TechCrunch
The EU has authorized Brex to sell its spend management products directly in all 30 countries, "no workarounds required," CEO Pedro Franceschi said.

The UK's FCA plans to lift its ban on offering crypto exchange traded notes to retail investors "to support UK growth and competitiveness" (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/06/uk…

France's Capgemini plans to acquire US-listed IT outsourcing company WNS for $3.3B in cash, seeking to boost its agentic AI services; WNS serves 600 clients (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07…

Capgemini to Buy WNS for $3.3 Billion to Boost ‘Agentic’ AI
France’s Capgemini SE plans to acquire IT outsourcing company WNS Holdings Ltd. for $3.3 billion in cash, beating rival suitors to a deal aimed at expanding its AI operations.

Sources: NIST withheld publishing an AI safety report and several other AI documents at the end of Biden's term to avoid clashing with the Trump administration (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-biden-administrations-u…

Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety
The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump's second term as president—and never published the results.

Analyst: China summoning Nvidia over alleged H20 security risks shows it "wants to use the Nvidia case to show China is a buyer, but it won't be a blind buyer" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

China Draws Red Lines on US Chip Tracking With Nvidia Meeting
As the US and China look for any sort of leverage in a prolonged trade fight, Beijing sees an opportunity to win over the world by taking a stand against the Trump administration’s plans to track high-end chips.