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Dan Ives to become chair of company that will buy Sam Altman-backed Worldcoin for its treasury

Wedbush Securities’ Ives will help lead Eightco Holdings’ treasury strategy around Worldcoin, which he says will change the game for identity verification.

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Klarna’s IPO will test if it’s more than just a one-trick ‘buy now, pay later’ pony

Klarna has been attempting to convince the market that it’s more of a digital retail bank than a simple buy now, pay later firm.

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AppLovin and Robinhood added to S&P 500

The companies previously saw their shares move downward on news that they wouldn’t be joining the index. Now their time has come.

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FTC commissioner questions status of Snap AI chatbot complaint: ‘People deserve answers’

President Trump attempted to remove Slaughter from her FTC position, but a U.S. appeals court allowed her to maintain her role.

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Google leads monster week for tech, pushing megacaps to combined $21 trillion in market cap

Tech’s megacaps got bigger this week, and the eight trillion-dollar companies now make up a combined 36% of the S&P 500.

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle authors’ copyright lawsuit

Authors had sued Anthropic, claiming the AI startup had illegally used their books to train its models.

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Trump threatens trade probe after ‘discriminatory’ EU fines against Google, Apple

President Donald Trump threatened to launch a trade investigation to “nullify” Europe’s fines against Google and other U.S. tech firms.

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Roblox announces short-video, AI features amid child safety concerns

Roblox on Friday announced new short-video and AI features that come amid increasing lawmaker scrutiny into how the company protects children on its platform.

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Google hit with $3.45 billion antitrust EU fine amid U.S. trade tensions

The European Commission accused Google of distorting competition in the adtech market by unfairly favoring its own display advertising technology services.

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Broadcom stock jumps 15% on new $10 billion customer that analysts say is OpenAI

Broadcom said on its earnings call that it secured $10 billion in orders for its custom AI chips from a fourth customer.

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