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Insta360 opened its first U.S. flagship store in Times Square, courting a market its co-founder says brings in 30% to 40% of revenue. It is moving in as the FCC blocks rival DJI's new drones and cameras, though its own drone brand faces an FCC ban on new foreign-made drones.
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Dozens of US venture investors have toured China's robot industry in recent months, where two firms shipped 71% of last year's humanoid robots. Their US startups are now measured against Chinese makers that many of them already depend on for parts or assembly.
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FCC's Covered List has restricted new imports of humanoid and four-legged robots since July, in a market where Chinese firms ship 80 to 97% of humanoids. The cost to US builders turns on whether the list grows to cover the Chinese actuators and magnets they still buy.
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Zero Zero Robotics certified the camera and left the flight kit off the FCC paperwork. The agency can still undo the approval, and Indiegogo backers are the ones holding that risk.
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Guidance issued in January told broadcasters that late-night and daytime talk shows are not necessarily exempt from equal time, and since then two networks have kept the same Senate candidate off air.
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Netflix rose 4% to $80.78 as it co-founded TechNet's streaming lobby with Amazon and YouTube, about two points more than its sector fund on a day the broad market fell. The review at issue started as a complaint about streaming paywalls.
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Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh's Brookings paper projects $10.3 trillion in US AI investment through 2032, 3.63% of GDP a year against the railroads' 2.24%. It warns that more of the money is moving into off-balance-sheet vehicles that can hide correlated exposures before a downturn.
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Ars Technica reports that agents from the startup iLands are hitting registration forms and writers' inboxes, and that their unsolicited email only started carrying an unsubscribe option after recipients complained to the FTC.
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The CPUC approved the $34.5bn merger on August 13, clearing the last major hurdle to a 37-million-subscriber operator. The enforceable conditions attached to it are almost entirely residential.
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