Singapore-based Neptune Robotics, which makes robots to clean the underside of giant ships, raised $52M and aims to use AI to help clean ~150 ships per month (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)
Several US states have passed bills to ban or restrict AI mental health treatment, as experts say state laws lag behind the fast-moving AI therapy landscape (Devi Shastri/Associated Press)
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EA's buyout talks highlight the slowdown and consolidation trends in the $178B global gaming market after the COVID boom, as gamers are sticking to old titles (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
Experts warn that Nvidia's large investments in data centers and startups, almost like a stimulus program, could be artificially inflating demand for its GPUs (The Information)
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A look at the implosion of CaaStle, a clothing inventory monetization startup whose ex-CEO Christine Hunsicker is accused of swindling investors out of $300M (Bloomberg)
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China's central bank opens a digital yuan hub in Shanghai; a Chinese state media report says the hub will oversee cross-border payments and blockchain tech (Foster Wong/Bloomberg)
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Sources: the Trump admin plans to require chipmakers to match local output with imports and impose tariffs on companies that fail to maintain a 1:1 ratio (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
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How a Microsoft-backed $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya faced construction delays due to uncertainty over its value for local businesses (Semafor)
The UK's Cabinet Office says its Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator AI tool helped the government recover £480M from fraud in the 12 months from April 2024 (Jack Fenwick/BBC)
Tracxn: funding for Indian digital lending startups fell to $462M between January and August 2025 from $1.1B a year earlier, after RBI tightened lending norms (The Economic Times)
A look at the Nvidia-OpenAI deal, where Nvidia will invest in $10B tranches; sources say OpenAI informed Microsoft about the deal a day before it was signed (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
Indian AI app development platform Rocket.new raised a $15M seed led by Salesforce Ventures; it has 400K+ users, including 10K+ paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)