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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit FutureHouse, which aims to build an “AI scientist”, launches a platform and API with four AI-based tools to assist scientific work  —  FutureHouse, an Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit that aims to build an “AI scientist” within the next decade …

PYMNTS.com: Singapore-based cross-border B2B payment service Thunes raised a $150M Series D co-led by Apis Partners and Vitruvian Partners to accelerate its US expansion  —  Thunes has raised $150 million in a Series D funding round to strengthen its cross-border payments platform and accelerate its expansion in the United States.

Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” through follow-up questions, instead of providing useful insights  —  Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” …

Sean O'Neill / Skift: TPG agrees to acquire Sabre's hospitality solutions unit, which provides SaaS to hotel brands, for $1.1B in cash, as Sabre focuses on its core airline business  —  SKIFT TAKE  —  Sabre's sale of its hotel reservations tech should help the travel tech company focus on its core airline business.

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: US v. Google: Google says its controls for publishers to opt out of AI training only cover work by Google DeepMind, not training by its other units for search  —  Google can train its search-specific AI products, like AI Overviews, on content across the web even when the publishers have chosen …

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Sources: Decagon, which is building customer service-focused AI agents, is in talks to raise $100M in new funding led by a16z and Accel at a $1.5B valuation  —  The company, which builds customer service AI agents, is raising fresh funding as it continues to help businesses shave millions in labor costs.

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: At the adtech remedy hearing, Google says it's open to giving competitors access to real-time bidding data from its ad exchange AdX, but it rejects a breakup  —  The tech giant faces a Sept. 22 remedies trial over a partial monopoly in its adtech stack  —  At the landmark adtech remedy hearing today …

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Anthropic offers to buy back shares from current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for Anthropic, valuing the startup at $61.5B  —  Anthropic is offering to buy back shares from hundreds of current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for the four-year-old company.

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: A hacking group called DragonForce takes credit for ransomware attacks targeting British retailers M&S, Harrods, and Co-Op over the past two weeks  —  Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality  —  Beats' newest exercise headphones are improved, but they face stiffer competition than ever.

Financial Times: The US DOJ tells a judge it will seek to force Google to divest its ad exchange and publisher ad server units and share real-time ad bidding data with rivals  —  Justice department asks judge to force Alphabet to sell its ad exchange and publisher server tech after trial victory

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Temu stops shipping products from China directly to US shoppers and lists only products shipped from US warehouses, as Trump closes the de minimis exemption  —  Bargain Chinese retailer Temu changed its business model in the U.S. as the Trump administration's new rules on low-value shipments took effect on Friday.

Natasha Singer / New York Times: Google plans to roll out Gemini next week for children under 13 whose parents use Family Link and says it will not use the under-13 users' data to train its AI  —  The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.

Lindsay Ellis / Wall Street Journal: AI tools from Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce, and others are helping job seekers sell their skills, identify new roles, and tailor résumés to different fields  —  New AI tools at Salesforce, Google, LinkedIn and others give users insight on how skills in one field can transfer to different one

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a scaled-down 3B-parameter variant of its flagship 7B-parameter multimodal model, designed to run on consumer PCs and laptops  —  Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba isn't taking the pressure off other AI model providers in the U.S. and abroad.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: JetBrains makes Mellum, its 4B-parameter code-generating AI model released last year, openly available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license  —  JetBrains, the company behind a range of popular app development tools, has released its first “open” AI model for coding.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: A researcher says Windows RDP lets users log in using passwords that have been revoked or changed; Microsoft says it has no plans to change the behavior  —  From the department of head scratches comes this counterintuitive news: Microsoft says it has no plans to change a remote login protocol …

Reuters: Sources: Adani Group pauses talks with Israel's Tower Semiconductor on a $10B chip project in Maharashtra, India, due to uncertainty over potential demand  —  Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's group has paused discussions with Israel's Tower Semiconductor (TSEM.TA) for a $10 billion chip project …

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google launches Little Language Lessons, three experimental AI tools to help users learn specific phrases in a new language, sound less formal, and more  —  Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way.

Financial Times: Kadrey v. Meta, centered on the use of LibGen to train Llama AI models, begins Thursday and marks the first big test in the ongoing battle over AI and copyright  —  Tech giant faces lawsuit from US authors over use of material from shadow library LibGen  —  Meta will fight a group of US authors …

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google is rolling out AI image editing in the Gemini app, letting users edit uploaded images and those generated by the app using natural language text prompts  —  After developer testing last month, Google is beginning to roll out native AI image editing to the Gemini app.

Julia Love / Bloomberg: Google AdSense begins showing ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources: Google tested the ads with some startups, including AI search apps iAsk and Liner  —  Google's ad network has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots — part of Alphabet Inc.'s efforts …

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: A study from Cohere, Stanford, and others accuses LMArena of helping Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Amazon game its popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena  —  A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced AI …

Alex Heath / The Verge: World's WLD launches in most of the US, including on Coinbase, starting this week, as Tools for Humanity debuts a portable “orb mini” device for iris scanning  —  After scanning millions of eyes around the world, Tools for Humanity is bringing Worldcoin to the United States.

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple says it disagrees with the court's injunction in its dispute against Epic Games and plans to appeal, but will comply with the order in the meantime  —  In a statement to 9to5Mac, an Apple spokesperson said the company disagrees with the decision and plans to appeal—but will comply with the court's order in the meantime: