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Monday, July 14, 2025

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Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf: The announcement comes just days after Google hired away Windsurf’s CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and research leaders in a $2.4 billion deal, a reverse-acquihire that left the rest of the startup’s 250-person team behind. Read More

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center: After previously poaching top talent to run Meta's Superintelligence Lab, including former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and former Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross, Meta now seems to be turning its attention to the massive computational power needed to train frontier AI models. Read More

Weekly subscriptions dominate iOS app revenue, report finds: Weekly subscriptions have now become one of the most popular ways iOS apps are earning revenue, with these plans contributing 46% to the bottom line, according to a new report by app revenue management platform Adapty. Read More

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Discord’s virtual reward, ‘Orbs,’ launches out of beta: According to Discord, Orbs have been popular among testers, with millions earned and spent during the seven-week beta period. Read More

As the browser wars heat up, here are the hottest alternatives to Chrome and Safari in 2025: We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari. Read More

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others: Google is adding notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits to its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM. Read More

Meta acquires voice startup Play AI: Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices. Read More

Jack Dorsey’s latest app tracks sun exposure: Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's new app, called Sun Day, ostensibly helps users track UV exposure and vitamin D intake. Read More

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Onshape Government enables ITAR/EAR-compliant CAD collaboration on AWS GovCloud. Design securely with integrated PDM, full version control, and real-time collaboration.

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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s voting control slips following divorce settlement: Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has transferred a portion of his ownership stake and voting power as part of a newly settled divorce proceeding, according to a regulatory filing. Read More

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