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Circle announces it will offer 10M shares to the public, of which 8M will be sold by existing stockholders; CRCL drops 6% after hours (Christina Cheddar Berk/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/circle-shares-fall-after-s…

Circle shares fall after stablecoin issuer says it will offer 10 million shares
Circle Internet Group shares fell after the company said it would offer 10 million Class A common shares.

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 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/757979/google-search-preferr…

Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see
Google is rolling out a new “preferred sources” feature that lets you choose which outlets you want to see the most in Search’s “top stories” section.

NYC-based Profound, which helps brands optimize visibility in AI search responses, raised a $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $58.5M (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/12/ai-search-startup-profound-rais…

Exclusive: Profound raises $35M as Sequoia backs its ambitious bid to become the Salesforce of AI search
The startup wants to help brands stay visible as AI reshapes search, in what backers call a once-in-a-generation marketing shift.

Bellingcat has just launched a major new update to our Auto Archiver tool, simplifying the process of archiving online content for individuals or teams.
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2025/08/13/the-open-source-to…

The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat
Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised a $50M Series A led by GFT Ventures (Amit Chowdhry/Pulse 2.0)
https://pulse2.com/higgsfield-50-million-series-a-raised-to-transform-ai-video-creation/

Higgsfield: $50 Million Series A Raised To Transform AI Video Creation
Higgsfield.ai, a rapidly growing company specializing in AI for video creation, has announced the successful close of its $50 million Series A funding round. The investment was led by GFT Ventures and joined by a group of firms, including BroadLight Capital, NextEquity Partners, AI Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Alpha Square Group, and other strategic backers. 

Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger "Sponsored" label at the top and a hide button at the bottom (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/798901/googl

Google will let you hide sponsored results in search — after you’ve seen them
Paid results are going to start showing up a little differently on Google search pages.

Interviews with over 70 people detail the 13-year search for Austin Tice, the American journalist who was kidnapped near Damascus in August 2012 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/13/austin-tice-syria-assad-s…

Inside the 13-year search for Austin Tice, the journalist who disappeared
Austin Tice disappeared in Syria in 2012. To reconstruct the 13-year search for the journalist, The Post spoke with more than 70 people, uncovering new information about his imprisonment and the effort to free him.

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 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/757979/google-search-preferr…

Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see
Google is rolling out a new “preferred sources” feature that lets you choose which outlets you want to see the most in Search’s “top stories” section.

Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger "Sponsored" label at the top and a hide button at the bottom (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/798901/googl

Google will let you hide sponsored results in search — after you’ve seen them
Paid results are going to start showing up a little differently on Google search pages.

Shares of transit software company Via closed at $49.51 in their NYSE debut, above the $46 IPO price, giving Via a market cap of ~$3.9B, after raising $492.9M (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/via-s…

Via shrugs off tepid open to end first day of trading slightly above IPO price | TechCrunch
Transit tech software startup Via had its IPO debut on Friday, starting at below offering price before rising to close at nearly $50.