India scraps “angel tax” for all classes of investors, a major victory to the country’s startup ecosystem that had lobbied for years against the measure (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India scraps “angel tax” for all classes of investors, a major victory to the country’s startup ecosystem that had lobbied for years against the measure  —  India’s federal government has removed the controversial “angel tax” for all classes of investors, delivering a major victory …

X reverts its water pistol emoji back to a firearm on the web, after Twitter originally switched the pistol emoji from a realistic-looking handgun in 2018 (Keith Broni/Emojipedia)

Keith Broni / Emojipedia:
X reverts its water pistol emoji back to a firearm on the web, after Twitter originally switched the pistol emoji from a realistic-looking handgun in 2018  —  X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm.  This diverges from the cross-platform conversion …

Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue down 16% YoY to $3.82B and forecasts Q3 revenue in line with analysts’ estimates of $4.14B, easing fears of a chip downturn (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ian King / Bloomberg:
Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue down 16% YoY to $3.82B and forecasts Q3 revenue in line with analysts’ estimates of $4.14B, easing fears of a chip downturn  —  – Chipmaker says sales dip again in industrial, automotive units  — Forecast follows more pessimistic view offered by rival NXP

Level AI, maker of AI-powered tools to automate customer service tasks, raised a $39.4M Series C led by Adams Street Partners, taking its total raised to $73.1M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Level AI, maker of AI-powered tools to automate customer service tasks, raised a $39.4M Series C led by Adams Street Partners, taking its total raised to $73.1M  —  Ashish Nagar, an engineer by trade, was working at Amazon’s Alexa org on the conversational AI team when he realized that AI …