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Techmeme - 2025-09-13T19:25:53-04:00

US salaries for key stablecoin roles are rising as a skills shortage meets a potentially immense market opportunity, putting upward pressure on pay (Bloomberg) - 2025-09-13T19:25:01-04:00

Hike, which was valued at $1.4B in 2016 and has since pivoted from a messaging app to a real-money gaming app, shuts down following India's ban on such apps (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2025-09-13T17:25:01-04:00

Penske Media sues Google, says ~20% of Google search results linking to its sites now include AI Overviews, and affiliate link revenue fell 33%+ since late 2024 (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-09-13T16:35:00-04:00

Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, raised $235M at a ~$1.23B valuation, after coming out of stealth in March with a $200M seed (Brian Kahn/Bloomberg) - 2025-09-13T16:05:01-04:00

JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post) - 2025-09-13T15:00:02-04:00

OpenAI projects that it will reduce the revenue share it pays to Microsoft from 20% this year to ~8% by 2030, potentially retaining over $50B more in revenue (The Information) - 2025-09-13T14:30:01-04:00

Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch) - 2025-09-13T14:00:42-04:00

What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on September 17 at 5pm PT: "Hypernova" smart glasses with a display, Meta AI and Llama updates, and more (Karissa Bell/Engadget) - 2025-09-13T13:30:02-04:00

Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican for its top policy role, instead choosing an Obama alumn as it adopts a cooler stance towards Trump (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information) - 2025-09-13T13:00:51-04:00

China launches probes into alleged US discrimination against Chinese chip companies and suspected dumping of US analog chips used in devices like Wi-Fi routers (Ryan Woo/Reuters) - 2025-09-13T12:25:01-04:00

California passes SB 53, which requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes; Newsom vetoed a similar though more expansive measure last year (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico) - 2025-09-13T12:15:00-04:00

California Assembly passes a bill that requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta support the bill, while the MPA opposes it (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico) - 2025-09-13T11:55:01-04:00

Filing: Samsung agreed to settle a patent lawsuit over wireless tech with Headwater Research following a $279M jury verdict against Samsung earlier in 2025 (Blake Brittain/Reuters) - 2025-09-13T11:35:03-04:00

IBM is holding its own in the quantum computing race against Google, Microsoft, and others, as they tackle enormous scientific and engineering challenges (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-09-13T10:55:01-04:00

A profile of Figure CEO Mike Cagney, now a billionaire after Figure's post-IPO surge; he resigned as SoFi's CEO in 2017 after several workplace controversies (Bloomberg) - 2025-09-13T09:45:01-04:00