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Brazil-based Asaas, which offers payment processing, invoicing, fraud protection, and other financial services to SMBs, raised a $148M Series C led by BOND (Jacob Robbins/PitchBook)

Brazil-based Asaas, which offers payment processing, invoicing,...

Jacob Robbins / PitchBook: Brazil-based Asaas, which offers payment processing,...

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HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery says Peter Todd, known for his Bitcoin codebase contributions, is Satoshi Nakamoto, a claim Todd denies (Joel Khalili/Wired)

HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery says...

Joel Khalili / Wired: HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery says...

Short Seller Hindenburg Goes After Roblox

The research firm alleges that the videogame company has exaggerated user data and...

Samsung Apologizes for Falling Behind in AI Chips Race

The South Korean tech giant’s rivals seize ground in memory and contract manufacturing

X Can Resume Operations in Brazil After Paying Millions...

Elon Musk’s social-media platform was banned in August for defying the country’s...

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Trade tensions rise as EU, China impose tariffs

Trade tensions rise as EU, China impose tariffs

Global trade tensions are heating up, as China announces new tariffs on imports...

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Bellevue, Washington-based Auger, founded by ex-Amazon and Flexport exec Dave Clark to offer AI-powered supply chain tools, raised a $100M seed led by Oak HC/FT (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Bellevue, Washington-based Auger, founded by ex-Amazon...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Bellevue, Washington-based Auger, founded by ex-Amazon...

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Adobe launches a Content Authenticity web app to let creators use its Content Credentials "nutrition labels" to apply attribution and opt out of AI training (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Adobe launches a Content Authenticity web app to let creators...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe launches a Content Authenticity web app to let...

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Crypto.com sues the US SEC after receiving a Wells notice that the agency plans to bring an enforcement action against it; Consensys sued the SEC in April 2024 (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

Crypto.com sues the US SEC after receiving a Wells notice...

Sarah Wynn / The Block: Crypto.com sues the US SEC after receiving a Wells notice...

LG Electronics Projects Quarterly Profit Drop, Missing...

LG Electronics forecast a decline in third-quarter operating profit partly due to...

Samsung's Chip Tech Falls Behind in Early Innings of AI...

The South Korean tech giant’s rivals seize ground in memory and contract manufacturing

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China's plan to boost economy underwhelms markets

China's plan to boost economy underwhelms markets

China's economic planners held a highly anticipated press conference this Tuesday...

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Two Russian YouTube channels posted videos of an alleged new 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro base model, in what could be the worst Apple product leak since the iPhone 4 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Two Russian YouTube channels posted videos of an alleged...

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Two Russian YouTube channels posted videos of an alleged...

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Samsung estimates Q3 operating profit up 274% YoY to ~$6.78B, falling short of analysts' estimates of ~$7.66B, as it struggles to capitalize on AI chips demand (Reuters)

Samsung estimates Q3 operating profit up 274% YoY to ~$6.78B,...

Reuters: Samsung estimates Q3 operating profit up 274% YoY to ~$6.78B, falling short...

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Samsung Electronics issues a rare apology for posting disappointing preliminary Q3 results and plans to review its organizational culture and processes (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Samsung Electronics issues a rare apology for posting disappointing...

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung Electronics issues a rare apology for posting disappointing...

No More Blurry Images: Your Texts Are Getting an Upgrade

RCS lets you see read receipts, typing indicators and high-resolution images.

Google Must Make It Easier for App Stores to Compete on...

An injunction was issued after Epic Games won an antitrust lawsuit—the latest legal...

One of the Biggest AI Boomtowns Is Rising in a Tech-Industry...

Blackstone and TikTok’s parent are among the companies investing in data centers...

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Samsung says it is not interested in spinning off its contract chip manufacturing business; sources say it has struggled to win big orders to fill chip capacity (Reuters)

Samsung says it is not interested in spinning off its contract...

Reuters: Samsung says it is not interested in spinning off its contract chip manufacturing...

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Ukraine says the country's hackers carried out a cyberattack that took down the online broadcasts of 20+ Russian broadcasters on Vladimir Putin's 72nd birthday (Olesia Safronova/Bloomberg)

Ukraine says the country's hackers carried out a cyberattack...

Olesia Safronova / Bloomberg: Ukraine says the country's hackers carried out a cyberattack...

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SCOTUS rejects X's appeal over a secret DOJ search warrant from Special Counsel Jack Smith for records related to Donald Trump's Twitter account (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)

SCOTUS rejects X's appeal over a secret DOJ search warrant...

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: SCOTUS rejects X's appeal over a secret DOJ search warrant...

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One year after October 7 attacks: The economic impact of the war in Gaza

One year after October 7 attacks: The economic impact of...

Since the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, Israel's economy has struggled to...

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Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors, which provide steady "baseload" power, as their carbon emissions climb due to AI tools (Justine Calma/The Verge)

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing nuclear...

Justine Calma / The Verge: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing...

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A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuable startup in 2022 with an estimated $22B valuation, as it faces insolvency and lawsuits in India and the US (Financial Times)

A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuable startup...

Financial Times: A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuable startup in...

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Substack, which still isn't profitable but has added +1M paid subscribers over the last year, is trying to become a primary way creators of all mediums get paid (Max Tani/Semafor)

Substack, which still isn't profitable but has added +1M...

Max Tani / Semafor: Substack, which still isn't profitable but has added +1M paid...

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Taiwan, which is highly dependent on imported fossil fuels, is struggling to meet energy demands from its chip industry; TSMC uses ~9% of Taiwan's electricity (Isabel Hilton/Yale E360)

Taiwan, which is highly dependent on imported fossil fuels,...

Isabel Hilton / Yale E360: Taiwan, which is highly dependent on imported fossil...

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Some US ride-hailing drivers are using Teslas with FSD as makeshift robotaxis, saying it lets them work longer hours by reducing stress, amid safety concerns (Reuters)

Some US ride-hailing drivers are using Teslas with FSD...

Reuters: Some US ride-hailing drivers are using Teslas with FSD as makeshift robotaxis,...

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A profile of UK teenage hacker Arion Kurtaj, a Lapsus$ member who leaked GTA VI video in 2022 and was found guilty in 2023 for hacking Nvidia, Uber, and others (Wall Street Journal)

A profile of UK teenage hacker Arion Kurtaj, a Lapsus$...

Wall Street Journal: A profile of UK teenage hacker Arion Kurtaj, a Lapsus$ member...

A New Setting Makes iPhone-to-Android Texting Easier

RCS lets you see read receipts, typing indicators and high-resolution images.

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Google rolls out Android theft protection features: Theft Detection Lock, which uses AI to detect motion indicating theft, Offline Device Lock, and Remote Lock (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Google rolls out Android theft protection features: Theft...

Wes Davis / The Verge: Google rolls out Android theft protection features: Theft...

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A deep dive into "AI Neoclouds", a new breed of cloud compute providers built to offer GPU rentals, like Crusoe, Lambda Labs, and CoreWeave, and their economics (SemiAnalysis)

A deep dive into "AI Neoclouds", a new breed of cloud compute...

SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into “AI Neoclouds”, a new breed of cloud compute providers...

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Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the world's greatest living mathematician, on OpenAI's o1, how AI might be useful to mathematicians, and more (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)

Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the world's...

Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the world's...

The Hearing Aid Revolution That Wasn't

Over-the-counter models have high return rates. Can Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 change...

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How Beixiazhu, a Chinese village that was a hotspot of activity during the livestream shopping boom on Douyin, Kuaishou and other apps, became a cautionary tale (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)

How Beixiazhu, a Chinese village that was a hotspot of...

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: How Beixiazhu, a Chinese village that was...

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A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersecurity firm led by ex-NSA director Keith Alexander and whose valuation crossed $3B after it went public in 2021 (Alan Suderman/Associated Press)

A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersecurity...

Alan Suderman / Associated Press: A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersecurity...

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Mullenweg says "WordPress.org just belongs to me personally", as his WP Engine feud blurs the lines between WordPress.org, WordPress Foundation, and Automattic (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Mullenweg says "WordPress.org just belongs to me personally",...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Mullenweg says “WordPress.org just belongs to me personally”,...

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Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model that can generate a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU, using a single image (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model...

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI...

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Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a "significant" personal donation to Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July (Dan Primack/Axios)

Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a "significant"...

Dan Primack / Axios: Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant”...

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Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Brazilian digital fraud prevention provider ClearSale for $350M; the deal is expected to close in H1 2025 (Reuters)

Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Brazilian...

Reuters: Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Brazilian digital fraud...

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Harvard students turn Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses into a surveillance nightmare

Harvard students turn Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses into...

Two Harvard students, Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen, say they have hacked a pair...

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Budget squeeze: Digging France out of its fiscal hole

Budget squeeze: Digging France out of its fiscal hole

The French government plans to subject the budget to a €60 billion belt-tightening...

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Meta announces Movie Gen, a collection of AI models for generating realistic video and audioclips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Audio has 13B (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Meta announces Movie Gen, a collection of AI models for...

Reece Rogers / Wired: Meta announces Movie Gen, a collection of AI models for generating...

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The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook,...

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook,...

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Meta announces Movie Gen, which creates videos up to 16 seconds long based on a text prompt; Meta plans to make it available on its apps in 2025 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta announces Movie Gen, which creates videos up to 16...

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta announces Movie Gen, which creates videos up to 16...

AI to Have Human-Level Abilities in a Few Years, SoftBank...

Masayoshi Son reiterated his bullish forecasts for artificial intelligence in a...

This Teenage Hacker Became a Legend Attacking Companies....

His life in cybercrime began at age 11, investigators say, and went on to incursions...

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Oil prices jump as speculation rises on possible Israeli retaliation against Iran

Oil prices jump as speculation rises on possible Israeli...

US crude oil jumped slightly after US President Joe Biden said he was "discussing"...

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Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the...

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the...

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Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value it at up to $3B; source: its ARR has grown from $25M at the end of 2023 to ~$80M in recent months (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value...

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could...

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CCData: Binance's share of digital asset trading volume fell to 36.6% in September, down from 42.7% at the start of 2024, the lowest level in four years (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

CCData: Binance's share of digital asset trading volume...

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: CCData: Binance's share of digital asset trading volume...

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Uber partners to use Avride's sidewalk robots for Eats in Austin now and in Dallas and Jersey City later in 2024, and Avride's autonomous cars in Dallas in 2025 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Uber partners to use Avride's sidewalk robots for Eats...

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Uber partners to use Avride's sidewalk robots for...

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PayPal completes its first business payment using its proprietary PYUSD stablecoin, paying an E&Y invoice on September 23 via SAP's digital currency hub (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

PayPal completes its first business payment using its proprietary...

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: PayPal completes its first business payment using its proprietary...

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Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini Live's language support to French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, and Spanish, after launching in English (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini Live's...

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini...

SoftBank's Son Says Artificial General Intelligence to...

SoftBank Group Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said he believed artificial general...

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ChatGPT maker OpenAI sees value nearly double to $157 billion after new funding round

ChatGPT maker OpenAI sees value nearly double to $157 billion...

OpenAI, the company behind artificial Intelligence chatbot ChatGTP, has secured...

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Biden signs legislation exempting some US semiconductor manufacturing facilities that are receiving government subsidies from federal environmental reviews (David Shepardson/Reuters)

Biden signs legislation exempting some US semiconductor...

David Shepardson / Reuters: Biden signs legislation exempting some US semiconductor...

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The SEC files a notice of appeal in its Ripple case, seeking to reverse a July 2023 ruling that XRP sales on retail exchanges didn't violate securities law (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

The SEC files a notice of appeal in its Ripple case, seeking...

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The SEC files a notice of appeal in its Ripple case, seeking...

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A US judge temporarily blocks California's AG from enforcing AB 2839 on election deepfakes, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on September 17 (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

A US judge temporarily blocks California's AG from enforcing...

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: A US judge temporarily blocks California's AG from enforcing...

OpenAI Nearly Doubles Valuation to $157 Billion in Funding...

The startup behind ChatGPT raised $6.6 billion from backers including Microsoft,...

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AI contact center startup Crescendo raised $50M from General Catalyst and others at a $500M valuation, and acquired Idaho-based outsourcing company PartnerHero (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

AI contact center startup Crescendo raised $50M from General...

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: AI contact center startup Crescendo raised $50M from...

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The UK FCA fines Starling Bank £29M over its "shockingly lax" controls against financial crime, like potential money laundering and sanctions breaches (Akila Quinio/Financial Times)

The UK FCA fines Starling Bank £29M over its "shockingly...

Akila Quinio / Financial Times: The UK FCA fines Starling Bank £29M over its “shockingly...

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Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the startup has largely abandoned building AI models after Google poached its founders, instead focusing on its chatbots (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the startup has largely...

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the startup...

Oracle to Invest $6.5 Billion in AI and Cloud Infrastructure...

Oracle Corp. plans to invest more than $6.5 billion to establish a public cloud...

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Oil prices on the rise after escalation of Middle East violence

Oil prices on the rise after escalation of Middle East...

Global benchmarks for oil prices were steadily rising on Wednesday, a day after...

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Houthi rebels again attack commercial ships in Red Sea

Houthi rebels again attack commercial ships in Red Sea

Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed attacks on an oil tanker and another commercial vessel...

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Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealerships and has 600 customers in the US and Canada, raised a $32M Series B led by Touring Capital and Mitsui (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealerships...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealerships...

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Nvidia details NVLM 1.0, a family of LLMs that is led by the 72B parameter NVLM-D-72B and can handle vision and language tasks while enhancing text-only tasks (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Nvidia details NVLM 1.0, a family of LLMs that is led by...

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Nvidia details NVLM 1.0, a family of LLMs that is led...

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Sources: Peak XV has cut its $2.85B fund by $465M, or ~16%, over a year after its split from Sequoia, with the bulk of the reduction coming at the growth stage (The Economic Times)

Sources: Peak XV has cut its $2.85B fund by $465M, or ~16%,...

The Economic Times: Sources: Peak XV has cut its $2.85B fund by $465M, or ~16%,...

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Houthi rebels attack commercial ships in the Red Sea again

Houthi rebels attack commercial ships in the Red Sea again

Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed attacks on an oil tanker and another commercial vessel...

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Dockworkers in US Eastern & Gulf ports go on strike over pay demands

Dockworkers in US Eastern & Gulf ports go on strike over...

The union representing 45,000 dockworkers in the United States announced a strike...

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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand its software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand...

Chris Welch / The Verge: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand...

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Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges from stealth with a Sequoia-led $20M seed, a $30M Series A, a $77M Series B, and a $750M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges...

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Google announces new Chromebook models with Samsung and Lenovo, and adds AI features to ChromeOS; Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus gets a new Quick Insert key (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Google announces new Chromebook models with Samsung and...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google announces new Chromebook models with Samsung and...

Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk

Find insight on Xero, Seven Group and more in the latest Market Talks covering the...

Snap Failed to Warn Users About Sextortion Risks, State...

New Mexico has claimed the social-media company’s product features and enforcement...

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Price of French butter nearly doubles in a year

Price of French butter nearly doubles in a year

The wholesale price of butter in France hit a record high in September, rocketing...

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Apple asks a judge to throw out or narrow an App Store anti-steering injunction, saying rulings in two unrelated cases undermine an order Epic won in its suit (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Apple asks a judge to throw out or narrow an App Store...

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Apple asks a judge to throw out or narrow an App Store...

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A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of FTC's lawsuit accusing it of illegal monopolies, in a sealed ruling whose details weren't immediately clear (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of FTC's lawsuit...

Jody Godoy / Reuters: A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of FTC's lawsuit...

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YC-backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning another AI coding editor covered under the Apache license and applying its own made-up closed license on it (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

YC-backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning another AI...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: YC-backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning another AI...

Epic Games Sues Google, Samsung Over Alleged App-Store...

The “Fortnite” maker claims the tech giants colluded to place onerous restrictions...

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Price or French butter nearly doubles in a year

Price or French butter nearly doubles in a year

The wholesale price of butter in France hit a record high in September, rocketing...

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AMD releases BIOS updates to boost the performance of its Ryzen 9600X and 9700X processors, around a month after disappointing Zen 5 desktop CPU reviews (Tom Warren/The Verge)

AMD releases BIOS updates to boost the performance of its...

Tom Warren / The Verge: AMD releases BIOS updates to boost the performance of its...

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The UK FCA says a man pleaded guilty to illegally operating a crypto ATM network, which processed £2.6M across various locations, as it cracks down on such ATMs (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)

The UK FCA says a man pleaded guilty to illegally operating...

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: The UK FCA says a man pleaded guilty to illegally operating...

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Source: SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500M in OpenAI's latest funding round, SoftBank's first investment in OpenAI, which is raising $6.5B (The Information)

Source: SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500M...

The Information: Source: SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500M in OpenAI's...

Epic Games to Sue Google, Samsung Over Alleged App-Store...

The “Fortnite” maker claims the tech giants colluded to place onerous restrictions...

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Hurricane Helene shines light on woes of US home insurance industry

Hurricane Helene shines light on woes of US home insurance...

With private insurer losses expected to top $6 billion, Hurricane Helene is another...

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CA Gov. Newsom signs a bill into law that treats "neural data" as personal sensitive info, aiming to protect people's brain data from being misused by companies (Jonathan Moens/New York Times)

CA Gov. Newsom signs a bill into law that treats "neural...

Jonathan Moens / New York Times: CA Gov. Newsom signs a bill into law that treats...

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CA Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047, saying the bill applies only to large AI models and doesn't account for if a model's deployment is high risk (Wall Street Journal)

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047, saying...

Wall Street Journal: CA Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047, saying...

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Interview with SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown on the 2020 breach, facing the US SEC's charges that were largely dismissed in July, global cyber regulations, and more (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Interview with SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown on the 2020 breach,...

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Interview with SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown on...

California's Gavin Newsom Vetoes Controversial AI Safety...

The governor is seeking more encompassing rules than the bill opposed by OpenAI...

How Telegram Became a Hunting Ground for Criminals---and...

Even murder and terrorist plots are often discussed publicly on the app, giving...

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YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, and others in the US, after its music licensing agreement with performing rights organization SESAC expired (Jem Aswad/Variety)

YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, and...

Jem Aswad / Variety: YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, and others...

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A look at OpenAI's sprawling product portfolio as the startup matures into a real business and runs into the challenges of avoiding product creep (Matthew Lynley/Supervised)

A look at OpenAI's sprawling product portfolio as the startup...

Matthew Lynley / Supervised: A look at OpenAI's sprawling product portfolio as the...

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NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot that is trained on his equity valuation work that is in the public domain, why AI will empower generalists, and more (Aswath Damodaran/Financial Times)

NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot that is trained...

Aswath Damodaran / Financial Times: NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot...

Apple's New Password Manager Is Free. That's Just One Reason...

Your Apple-saved passwords are now in one, easy-to-access place.

OpenAI's Complex Path to Becoming a For-Profit Company

Converting from a nonprofit happens rarely, especially for organizations this wealthy....

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Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veteran anchor Brian Williams to host a live Election Night special, its first entry into news-related programming (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veteran anchor...

Brian Steinberg / Variety: Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veteran...

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Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their friend-finding and community-building products to attract young users hit by so-called dating app fatigue (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their friend-finding...

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their...

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Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and Executive Chairman of Anduril, on autonomous AI's role in warfare, building a wearable e-reader, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and Executive...

Steven Levy / Wired: Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and Executive...

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A look at telehealth startup Done Global, whose owner was arrested by the US in June for allegedly running a "pill mill", as it continues to operate from China (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)

A look at telehealth startup Done Global, whose owner was...

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: A look at telehealth startup Done Global, whose...

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Chinese state media has embraced the success of Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese AAA game that has sold 20M+ copies globally, hailing it as a soft power export (Lizzi C. Lee/Rest of World)

Chinese state media has embraced the success of Black Myth:...

Lizzi C. Lee / Rest of World: Chinese state media has embraced the success of Black...

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SEMI: China is projected to invest $100B+ on chipmaking equipment from 2025 to 2027, followed by South Korea at $81B, Taiwan at $75B, and the Americas at $63B (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

SEMI: China is projected to invest $100B+ on chipmaking...

Toby Sterling / Reuters: SEMI: China is projected to invest $100B+ on chipmaking...

Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.

Product designers are embracing how users actually feel after years of pushing flat...

Amazon Spared U.K. Antitrust Probe Over $4 Billion Investment...

The investment handed the U.S. tech company a minority ownership position in Anthropic...

Apple Is No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round

The company behind ChatGPT is aiming to raise around $6.5 billion in a funding round...

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Sources: China is discouraging local companies from purchasing Nvidia's H20 chips to help expand the country's semiconductor industry and counter US sanctions (Bloomberg)

Sources: China is discouraging local companies from purchasing...

Bloomberg: Sources: China is discouraging local companies from purchasing Nvidia's...

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A profile of Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, as the service fights existential battles over copyright, including from music labels like UMG (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

A profile of Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, as...

Kate Knibbs / Wired: A profile of Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, as the...

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Source: Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round that is expected to raise as much as $6.5B (Wall Street Journal)

Source: Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an...

Wall Street Journal: Source: Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI...

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'Not a normal company': OpenAI loses another executive as it seeks huge valuation

'Not a normal company': OpenAI loses another executive...

OpenAI, the world's most valuable AI startup, has just lost another executive. Chief...

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The Irish Data Protection Commission wraps up an inquiry launched in 2019 and fines Meta €91M for violating GDPR rules by storing passwords in plain text (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

The Irish Data Protection Commission wraps up an inquiry...

Mariella Moon / Engadget: The Irish Data Protection Commission wraps up an inquiry...

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A look at some standout startups from Day 2 of YC's S24 Demo Day, including energy-efficient AI chips maker Exa Laboratories and freight carpooling startup Oway (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

A look at some standout startups from Day 2 of YC's S24...

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: A look at some standout startups from Day 2 of YC's...

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iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max teardown: great modularity upgrades and much improved repairability with a dual-entry design and a metal enclosure for 16 Pro battery (Kyle Wiens/iFixit News)

iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max teardown: great modularity upgrades...

Kyle Wiens / iFixit News: iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max teardown: great modularity upgrades...

Turning OpenAI Into a Real Business Is Tearing It Apart

Executives and researchers have left the artificial-intelligence company this year...

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Big Tech's outsize role in fuelling division, extremism: What can be done?

Big Tech's outsize role in fuelling division, extremism:...

Amnesty International is accusing big tech platforms of playing an active role in...

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Ethical shopping in the age of ultra-fast fashion: Time to slow down?

Ethical shopping in the age of ultra-fast fashion: Time...

This week we look at ethical fashion in the age of "direct-to-consumer" giants like...

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Source: Amazon exceeded its goal of $1.8B in ad-spending commitments for its video-streaming offerings, including Thursday Night Football, in the coming year (The Information)

Source: Amazon exceeded its goal of $1.8B in ad-spending...

The Information: Source: Amazon exceeded its goal of $1.8B in ad-spending commitments...

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Discord opens Activities, its ecosystem of apps and games, to all developers, letting them distribute and monetize apps on Discord via its Embedded Apps SDK (Rachel Kaser/VentureBeat)

Discord opens Activities, its ecosystem of apps and games,...

Rachel Kaser / VentureBeat: Discord opens Activities, its ecosystem of apps and...

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Starlink crosses 4M customers; it started beta services in October 2020 and hit 1M subscribers in December 2022, 2M in September 2023, and 3M in May 2024 (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch)

Starlink crosses 4M customers; it started beta services...

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Starlink crosses 4M customers; it started beta services...

Science Editors Raise New Doubts on Meta's Claims It Isn't...

The editorial warns that Facebook’s changes after the 2020 election may have swayed...

Justice Department Probes Server Maker Super Micro Computer

The probe is at an early stage and follows a critical report by an activist short-selling...

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The role of big tech in fuelling racism: What can be done?

The role of big tech in fuelling racism: What can be done?

Amnesty International is accusing big tech platforms of playing an active role in...

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Sources: Peak XV, the largest India-focused VC fund, has realized ~$1.2B in exits since its Sequoia separation in June 2023, selling stakes in ~12 companies (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Sources: Peak XV, the largest India-focused VC fund, has...

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Sources: Peak XV, the largest India-focused VC fund,...

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Q&A with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on Orion, Reality Labs, building News Feed, competing with Apple, developers, the AR and VR bifurcation, Ray-Ban, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Q&A with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on Orion, Reality Labs,...

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on Orion, Reality...

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Researchers find a flaw in carmaker Kia's web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines; Kia seems to have fixed the issue (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Researchers find a flaw in carmaker Kia's web portal that...

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Researchers find a flaw in carmaker Kia's web portal that...

I Built a Chatbot to Replace Me. It Went a Little Wild.

Our experimental AI built on Google’s Gemini was helpful, except when it wasn’t.

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France's 2024 budget deficit could top 6% of GDP, minister warns

France's 2024 budget deficit could top 6% of GDP, minister...

As France's newly-formed government faces pressure to finalise its spending plans...

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New EBRD report revises growth forecast downwards for 2024

New EBRD report revises growth forecast downwards for 2024

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development issued an updated report this...

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Meta says Horizon Store now supports 2D apps built as PWAs, Android native apps, or via the new Meta Spatial SDK, which lets developers use Android dev tools (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Meta says Horizon Store now supports 2D apps built as PWAs,...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta says Horizon Store now supports 2D apps built as...

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OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, are leaving the company; OpenAI names Mark Chen as new SVP of Research, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research...

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PayPal says it is enabling US merchants to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly from their PayPal business accounts, except in New York state at launch (Pritam Biswas/Reuters)

PayPal says it is enabling US merchants to buy, hold, and...

Pritam Biswas / Reuters: PayPal says it is enabling US merchants to buy, hold, and...

The Celebrities Lending Their Voices to Meta's New AI

The social media giant announced deals with Awkwafina, John Cena and others, who...

OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company

The planned restructuring comes amid personnel upheaval including resignation of...

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France's 2024 budget deficit could top 6% of GDP: minister

France's 2024 budget deficit could top 6% of GDP: minister

As France's newly-formed government faces pressure to finalise its spending plans...

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ads antitrust lawsuits are "going to take time ... to play out" and an appeal "will likely take many years" (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg)

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ads antitrust...

Alicia Clanton / Bloomberg: Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ads...

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Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental rules on federally funded chip projects, breaking with environmental groups and House Democrats (Politico)

Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental...

Politico: Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental rules on...

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The Allen Institute for AI releases the Multimodal Open Language Model, or Molmo, in 1B and 70B-parameter sizes, the most capable open source AI model yet (Will Knight/Wired)

The Allen Institute for AI releases the Multimodal Open...

Will Knight / Wired: The Allen Institute for AI releases the Multimodal Open Language...

Google Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft

The search giant argues that Microsoft is abusing its market power in enterprise...

Meta Turns to Awkwafina, John Cena to Draw Users to AI

The tech company is expected to announce deals with celebrities who have agreed...

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Tough talks ahead for Volkswagen and unions over jobs, pay and plant closures

Tough talks ahead for Volkswagen and unions over jobs,...

Executives from Volkswagen and labour leaders are meeting this Wednesday in Hanover...

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CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)

CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress...

Tim Starks / CyberScoop: CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress...

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Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors' copyrighted works (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)

Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors...

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives...

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London-based Apron, which is aiming to become the financial super app for SMBs, raised a $30M Series B led by Zinal Growth, bringing its total funding to $50.5M (Tom Matsuda/Sifted)

London-based Apron, which is aiming to become the financial...

Tom Matsuda / Sifted: London-based Apron, which is aiming to become the financial...

Is There a Safe Place to Complain About Work Online?

No, deleting your incriminating chats won’t protect you.

Big Tech Is Rushing to Find Clean Power to Fuel AI's Insatiable...

Google and Microsoft are scrounging for geothermal and other green-power sources...

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California sues ExxonMobil for misleading public on plastic recycling

California sues ExxonMobil for misleading public on plastic...

In a first of its kind lawsuit, the US state of California has sued ExxonMobil for...

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Portland-based Torq, which helps IT teams automate security workflows, raised a $70M Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners, for $192M in total funding (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Portland-based Torq, which helps IT teams automate security...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Portland-based Torq, which helps IT teams automate security...

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Spotify rolls out its AI Playlist feature in beta to Premium subscribers in the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, after launching in the UK and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Spotify rolls out its AI Playlist feature in beta to Premium...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Spotify rolls out its AI Playlist feature in beta to...

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Logitech MX Creative Console review: the $200 control surface for apps like Lightroom is an affordable entry point, but pros may find the controls limiting (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Logitech MX Creative Console review: the $200 control surface...

Steve Dent / Engadget: Logitech MX Creative Console review: the $200 control surface...

How Meta's Smart Ray-Ban Glasses Spawned a Silicon Valley...

Video-taking capabilities, not AI, have proven to be a key attraction to buyers...

After Years of Warnings, Telegram Founder Cedes to Police...

Pavel Durov’s legal battle with French prosecutors took the Telegram founder by...

Slack, Teams, Google Chat: Is There Any Safe Place to Complain...

No, deleting your incriminating chats won’t protect you.

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China announces new measures to boost its struggling economy

China announces new measures to boost its struggling economy

The governor of the People's Bank of China, Pan Gongsheng, has announced new measures...

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Germany warns Italy's UniCredit against 'hostile takeover' of Commerzbank

Germany warns Italy's UniCredit against 'hostile takeover'...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned against a "hostile takeover" of Commerzbank,...

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Revolut is spinning out its €8.5B wealth management offering into a standalone app and plans to launch it in European Economic Area countries by the end of 2024 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Revolut is spinning out its €8.5B wealth management...

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Revolut is spinning out its €8.5B wealth management offering...

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Celestia Foundation, which is behind the Celestia modular blockchain network, raised a $100M round led by Bain Capital Crypto, taking its total raised to $155M (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Celestia Foundation, which is behind the Celestia modular...

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Celestia Foundation, which is behind the Celestia modular...

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A teardown of Huawei's popular Qingyun L540 laptop, which relies on some foreign tech, reveals the challenges ahead for China's tech self-sufficiency efforts (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)

A teardown of Huawei's popular Qingyun L540 laptop, which...

Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: A teardown of Huawei's popular Qingyun L540 laptop,...

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Germany warns UniCredit against "hostile takeover" of Commerzbank

Germany warns UniCredit against "hostile takeover" of Commerzbank

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned against a "hostile takeover" of Commerzbank,...

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The US Commerce Department proposes banning Chinese software and hardware for internet connected vehicles, effectively banning Chinese vehicles in the US (Felicia Schwartz/Financial Times)

The US Commerce Department proposes banning Chinese software...

Felicia Schwartz / Financial Times: The US Commerce Department proposes banning...

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Cloudflare rolls out Bot Management, a suite of free AI auditing tools, to all of its customers to help monitor and selectively block AI data-scraping bots (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Cloudflare rolls out Bot Management, a suite of free AI...

Kate Knibbs / Wired: Cloudflare rolls out Bot Management, a suite of free AI auditing...

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a "cancer to WordPress" and says it profits off confusion between the WordPress project and commercial services (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a "cancer...

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a “cancer...

Amazon Fell Behind in AI. An Alexa Creator Is Leading Its...

Rohit Prasad is tasked with making the company a stronger rival to the likes of...

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New French government faces deepening deficit and mounting debt

New French government faces deepening deficit and mounting...

France's new economic team is led by two young and relatively unknown members of...

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A profile of French billionaire Xavier Niel, a driving force of French AI and ByteDance's newest board member, who believes Europe should pursue homegrown AI (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

A profile of French billionaire Xavier Niel, a driving...

Morgan Meaker / Wired: A profile of French billionaire Xavier Niel, a driving force...

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Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an equity-like investment of as much as $5B in Intel (Bloomberg)

Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an...

Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an equity-like...

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Profile of Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, which hires contractors to do data labeling tasks, as he looks to expand to higher-margin AI tools to sustain growth (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Profile of Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, which hires...

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Profile of Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, which...

Chip Giants TSMC and Samsung Discuss Building Middle Eastern...

Potential projects in the United Arab Emirates could be worth more than $100 billion,...

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What to expect from Meta Connect 2024 keynote on September 25 at 1pm ET: new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, cheaper Quest 3S headset, and more (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

What to expect from Meta Connect 2024 keynote on September...

Umar Shakir / The Verge: What to expect from Meta Connect 2024 keynote on September...

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Inside Equinix's 114,300-square-foot data center in Northern Virginia, a region that is home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world (Washington Post)

Inside Equinix's 114,300-square-foot data center in Northern...

Washington Post: Inside Equinix's 114,300-square-foot data center in Northern Virginia,...

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With the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which can easily slot into people's lives, Meta has exceeded expectations in a year when many AI gadgets flopped (Victoria Song/The Verge)

With the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which can easily slot...

Victoria Song / The Verge: With the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which can easily...

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At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says Google will create a $120M fund to provide AI education globally, calls for "smart product regulation", more (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says Google...

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says Google...

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Sources: US Commerce Department plans to reveal proposed rules that would ban Chinese- and Russian-made hardware and software for smart cars as soon as Monday (Bloomberg)

Sources: US Commerce Department plans to reveal proposed...

Bloomberg: Sources: US Commerce Department plans to reveal proposed rules that would...

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A look at Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concept, which envisions online communities acquiring land via crowdfunding, with the goal of becoming new countries (Gabriel Gatehouse/BBC)

A look at Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concept, which...

Gabriel Gatehouse / BBC: A look at Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concept, which...

How Intel Fell From Global Chip Champion to Takeover Target

Strategic missteps and the artificial intelligence boom have combined to reshape...

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A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover the Great Firewall's domain blocklists; GFWeb data reveals China blocked ChatGPT on March 2, 2023 (Joanna Chiu/Rest of World)

A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover...

Joanna Chiu / Rest of World: A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to...

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California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect minors, banning "addictive feeds", barring social media notifications from 12am to 6am, and more (Taryn Luna/Los Angeles Times)

California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect...

Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times: California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to...

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A Google threat analyst says the hacker behind the Snowflake breach recently broke into a "handful" of new orgs and is likely a male based in Canada in his 20s (Bloomberg)

A Google threat analyst says the hacker behind the Snowflake...

Bloomberg: A Google threat analyst says the hacker behind the Snowflake breach recently...

The 27-Year-Old Billionaire Whose Army Does AI's Dirty...

Alexandr Wang’s Scale AI deploys gig workers around the globe to shape how the big...

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Functional Finance, which offers financial operations software for managing general agents, insurers, and wholesalers, raised a $20M Series A led by Walkabout (Avi Ben-Hutta/Coverager)

Functional Finance, which offers financial operations software...

Avi Ben-Hutta / Coverager: Functional Finance, which offers financial operations...

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Brazil-based Cayena, which operates a marketplace to connect suppliers and buyers in the wholesale food industry, raised a $55M Series B led by Bicycle Capital (Daniel Cancel/Bloomberg)

Brazil-based Cayena, which operates a marketplace to connect...

Daniel Cancel / Bloomberg: Brazil-based Cayena, which operates a marketplace to...

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Email: Linda Yaccarino announces X is launching a "video tab" feature and an X-exclusive women's soccer reality show, The Offseason, produced by Alexis Ohanian (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

Email: Linda Yaccarino announces X is launching a "video...

Kylie Robison / The Verge: Email: Linda Yaccarino announces X is launching a “video...

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Davos in the French suburbs: How to boost the local economy?

Davos in the French suburbs: How to boost the local economy?

In this week's show we shine the spotlight on France’s "banlieues": the low-income...

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Can your phone blow up? Remote device attacks in Lebanon stoke panic

Can your phone blow up? Remote device attacks in Lebanon...

This week’s attacks on Hezbollah pagers and radios have spread anxiety among Lebanese...

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Microsoft updates the Fluent design illustrations across its products, shifting towards 3D designs that bring back skeuomorphism with more playful designs (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft updates the Fluent design illustrations across...

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft updates the Fluent design illustrations across...

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A German court rules that Nokia Oyj can stop Amazon from selling Fire TV Sticks in Germany after Amazon lost a patent case; Nokia hasn't enforced the injunction (Jillian Deutsch/Bloomberg)

A German court rules that Nokia Oyj can stop Amazon from...

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: A German court rules that Nokia Oyj can stop Amazon...

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A profile of Xbox President Sarah Bond, who helped mollify the UK CMA concerning the Activision acquisition and is leading a transformation of the Xbox division (Bloomberg)

A profile of Xbox President Sarah Bond, who helped mollify...

Bloomberg: A profile of Xbox President Sarah Bond, who helped mollify the UK CMA...

KKR Secures About a Third of Fuji Soft, Dousing Hopes of...

Fuji Soft shares fell sharply on fading expectations of a bidding war after two...

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Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Firewalk, the studio behind the PlayStation flop, is left in limbo, with some staffers expecting mass layoffs (Ethan Gach/Kotaku)

Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Firewalk,...

Ethan Gach / Kotaku: Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Firewalk, the...

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Sources: OpenAI's $6.5B funding round, which nears completion as the company decides on backers, is oversubscribed with excess demand in the billions of dollars (Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI's $6.5B funding round, which nears completion...

Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI's $6.5B funding round, which nears completion as the...

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Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into the radio access network and could allow telcos to run third-party AI apps at the network's edge (Julia King/Fierce Network)

Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into the...

Julia King / Fierce Network: Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into...

Meta to European Union: Your Tech Rules Threaten to Squelch...

The Facebook parent and other companies are warning in an open letter that the regulations...

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Martinique grapples with major cost of living crisis

Martinique grapples with major cost of living crisis

People in Martinique are protesting the cost of living. That's because food products...

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The US FTC releases a four-year study of how Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six others collected and used data, finding "vast surveillance" of consumers (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

The US FTC releases a four-year study of how Meta, YouTube,...

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: The US FTC releases a four-year study of how Meta,...

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Amazon launches Amelia, an AI tool to help third-party sellers resolve account issues and fetch sales and inventory data, in beta for select US sellers (CNBC)

Amazon launches Amelia, an AI tool to help third-party...

CNBC: Amazon launches Amelia, an AI tool to help third-party sellers resolve account...

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Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after a long courtship; the lobbying group's other members are Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and WBD (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)

Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after a long...

Brooks Barnes / New York Times: Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after...

Tech Jobs Have Dried Up---and Aren't Coming Back Soon

Employment for software engineers has cooled as resources shift toward developing...

Meta to European Union: Your Tech Rules Threaten to Squelch...

The Facebook parent and other companies are warning in an open letter that the regulations...

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Economy high on voters' mind ahead of Sri Lanka presidential election

Economy high on voters' mind ahead of Sri Lanka presidential...

Sri Lankan voters will head to the polls this Saturday to choose a new president....

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US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for first time in four years

US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for first time in...

The US Federal Reserve lowered its key lending rate by a deeper-than-expected 0.5...

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Court filings: X has moved its official headquarters to Bastrop, Texas, a small town just outside of Austin that's also home to SpaceX and The Boring Company (Sarah Emerson/Forbes)

Court filings: X has moved its official headquarters to...

Sarah Emerson / Forbes: Court filings: X has moved its official headquarters to...

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Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sue Pocketpair, accusing the Palworld developer of infringing on "multiple patent rights" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sue Pocketpair,...

Jay Peters / The Verge: Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sue Pocketpair, accusing...

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Mercor, a jobs marketplace that uses AI to vet and interview candidates, raised a $32M Series A led by Benchmark at a $250M valuation and says it's profitable (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

Mercor, a jobs marketplace that uses AI to vet and interview...

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Mercor, a jobs marketplace that uses AI to vet and interview...

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US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by half a percentage point

US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by half a percentage...

The US Federal Reserve lowered its key lending rate by a deeper-than-expected 0.5%,...

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HTC unveils the $999 Vive Focus Vision, a standalone VR headset with built-in eye tracking, 16MP stereo color front-facing cameras, and more, for pre-order now (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)

HTC unveils the $999 Vive Focus Vision, a standalone VR...

Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: HTC unveils the $999 Vive Focus Vision, a standalone...

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TechInsights: China's YMTC upgraded its "Xtacking" tech, which stacks memory cells in layers, to rival NAND industry leaders, but significant challenges remain (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

TechInsights: China's YMTC upgraded its "Xtacking" tech,...

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: TechInsights: China's YMTC upgraded its “Xtacking” tech, which...

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Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Twilight, signs a deal with Runway to use generative AI in its movies and TV shows (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)

Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick,...

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games,...

Craigslist Founder Pledges $100 Million to Boost U.S. Cybersecurity

Donation brings Craig Newmark’s charitable commitments to around $400 million.

Want an iPhone 16 Review? Just Ask Joannabot

After more than a decade of reviewing iPhones, columnist Joanna Stern has handed...

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Norway now has more electric vehicles than petrol-powered cars

Norway now has more electric vehicles than petrol-powered...

Norway's road federation revealed on Tuesday that the number of electric vehicles...

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EU Commission chief von der Leyen unveils new top team

EU Commission chief von der Leyen unveils new top team

After weeks of negotiations, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has...

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The GSM Association plans to enable E2EE on messages between Android and iOS; Google is working to bring cross-platform E2EE to RCS chats "as soon as possible" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

The GSM Association plans to enable E2EE on messages between...

Emma Roth / The Verge: The GSM Association plans to enable E2EE on messages between...

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is concerned about the potential "chilling effect" of AI safety bill SB 1047, which awaits his signature, on AI development (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is concerned about...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is concerned about...

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CA Gov. Newsom signs three laws regulating election AI deepfakes, including holding large online platforms liable for not removing content after a user's report (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

CA Gov. Newsom signs three laws regulating election AI...

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: CA Gov. Newsom signs three laws regulating...

Amazon's Return-to-Office Plans Spark Concern and Debate...

Corporate staffers grumbled after the e-commerce giant told workers to be in the...

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European Commission president unveils who will get key economic portfolios

European Commission president unveils who will get key...

After weeks of negotiations, European Commission chief Ursula Von der Leyen has...

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Amazon CEO hopes to rekindle startup spirit by ending remote work

Amazon CEO hopes to rekindle startup spirit by ending remote...

In a long memo sent to Amazon staff on Monday, CEO Andy Jassy told the tech giant's...

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Boeing announces hiring freeze, sweeping cost cuts as strike continues

Boeing announces hiring freeze, sweeping cost cuts as strike...

Boeing has announced a hiring freeze and cost-cutting measures amid a crippling...

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Instagram unveils Teen Accounts, a sweeping update to boost privacy and limit intrusive effects for under-18 users, including making accounts private by default (New York Times)

Instagram unveils Teen Accounts, a sweeping update to boost...

New York Times: Instagram unveils Teen Accounts, a sweeping update to boost privacy...

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Apple Watch Series 10 review: bigger display, wide-angle OLED, faster charging, and sleep apnea detection, but no blood oxygen and another year of minor updates (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Apple Watch Series 10 review: bigger display, wide-angle...

Victoria Song / The Verge: Apple Watch Series 10 review: bigger display, wide-angle...

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Microsoft calls for "clarity and consistency" over US export controls that have held up shipping AI chips to UAE-based G42, in which Microsoft invested $1.5B (Financial Times)

Microsoft calls for "clarity and consistency" over US export...

Financial Times: Microsoft calls for “clarity and consistency” over US export controls...

Meta Bans Russia's RT From Facebook, Instagram for 'Foreign...

The ban follows U.S. sanctions against the media outlet for alleged attempts to...

Instagram Is Restricting Teen Accounts---and Blocking Sneaky...

The head of the social-media app said tightening the guardrails for teens will hurt...

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At an Oracle investor Q&A, Larry Ellison pitched a future where AI systems would constantly monitor citizens through an extensive network of cameras and drones (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

At an Oracle investor Q&A, Larry Ellison pitched a future...

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: At an Oracle investor Q&A, Larry Ellison pitched a...

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Meta says it's banning Russian media outlet RT from its apps globally, days after the Biden admin accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow's spy agencies (NBC News)

Meta says it's banning Russian media outlet RT from its...

NBC News: Meta says it's banning Russian media outlet RT from its apps globally,...

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A US federal jury finds Zynga infringed on two IBM patents related to web-based communications and orders the game maker to pay $44.9M; Zynga plans to appeal (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

A US federal jury finds Zynga infringed on two IBM patents...

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US federal jury finds Zynga infringed on two IBM patents...

iOS 18 Is Here: A Worthy iPhone Upgrade, No AI Necessary

Message scheduling, app icon customization, calculator tricks, improved texting...

AirPods 4 With Noise Cancellation: Your New Best Buds

Apple’s new earbuds hit the budget-feature sweet spot.

Intel CEO Moves to Further Cut Costs and Separate Chip...

Company will make manufacturing operations an independent subsidiary and pause construction...

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TikTok heads to court in fight against US order to sell or face ban

TikTok heads to court in fight against US order to sell...

TikTok's lawyers are heading to US federal appeals court to argue that a law forcing...

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Boeing annouonces hiring freeze and sweeping cost cuts as strike continues

Boeing annouonces hiring freeze and sweeping cost cuts...

Boeing announced a hiring freeze and costcutting measures amid a crippling strike...

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Sources: in 2022, Intel lost out to AMD and TSMC on a contract to design and fabricate Sony's PS6 chip, a significant blow to its contract manufacturing unit (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Sources: in 2022, Intel lost out to AMD and TSMC on a contract...

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Sources: in 2022, Intel lost out to AMD and TSMC on a...

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Elon Musk deleted an X post that said "no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala" after an apparent Trump assassination attempt, calling the post a joke (Business Insider)

Elon Musk deleted an X post that said "no one is even trying...

Business Insider: Elon Musk deleted an X post that said “no one is even trying to...

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Apple AirPods 4 review: ANC is impressive for an open design, upgraded sound, and wireless charging, but no proper multipoint and inconvenient volume controls (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Apple AirPods 4 review: ANC is impressive for an open design,...

Chris Welch / The Verge: Apple AirPods 4 review: ANC is impressive for an open design,...

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How Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are fighting an Ohio power company's proposal to increase the upfront energy costs they'll pay for their data centers (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)

How Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are fighting an...

Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: How Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are...

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The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware operation was behind an August 24 cyberattack and that it appears "some Port data was obtained by the actor" (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware operation...

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware...

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Research based on the US Census Bureau's data from 2008 to 2021 suggests online dating may be partially to blame for a rise in income inequality in recent times (Alexandre Tanzi/Bloomberg)

Research based on the US Census Bureau's data from 2008...

Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg: Research based on the US Census Bureau's data from...

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Nirvana, which provides insurance verification and cost estimates to healthcare providers and their patients, raised a $24.2M Series A led by Northzone (PYMNTS.com)

Nirvana, which provides insurance verification and cost...

PYMNTS.com: Nirvana, which provides insurance verification and cost estimates to...

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A look at the US DOJ's divestment case against TikTok, which relies on classified material that TikTok can't review, as oral arguments begin on September 16 (The Verge)

A look at the US DOJ's divestment case against TikTok,...

The Verge: A look at the US DOJ's divestment case against TikTok, which relies on...

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Some of the largest custodial banks are interested in crypto custody but are hindered by the SEC rule SAB 121, which establishes accounting standards (Bloomberg)

Some of the largest custodial banks are interested in crypto...

Bloomberg: Some of the largest custodial banks are interested in crypto custody...

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Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold teardown: impressive repairability for a foldable, with a modular design that separates high mechanical wear parts like the USB-C port (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)

Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold teardown: impressive repairability...

Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News: Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold teardown: impressive repairability...

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Apple's Activation Lock for iPhone components will make a huge dent in the market for stolen iPhones, though it introduces another barrier to DIY repairs (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)

Apple's Activation Lock for iPhone components will make...

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Apple's Activation Lock for iPhone components will make a...

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Maryland-based Aembit, a non-human identity and access management provider, raised a $25M Series A led by Acrew Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$45M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

Maryland-based Aembit, a non-human identity and access...

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: Maryland-based Aembit, a non-human identity and access...

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Doctor Web: malware dubbed Android.Vo1d has infected ~1.3M TV boxes running OSes based on Android Open Source Project in almost 200 countries, forming a botnet (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Doctor Web: malware dubbed Android.Vo1d has infected ~1.3M...

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Doctor Web: malware dubbed Android.Vo1d has infected...

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Recent announcements from Apple and Google show that AI is most useful as a feature in devices and software we already use, rather than a standalone product (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Recent announcements from Apple and Google show that AI...

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Recent announcements from Apple and Google...

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An overview of California's AI safety bill SB 1047, which easily passed the state's legislature, as it awaits Governor Newsom's signature or veto before Sep. 30 (Financial Times)

An overview of California's AI safety bill SB 1047, which...

Financial Times: An overview of California's AI safety bill SB 1047, which easily...

What Is AI Best at Now? Improving Products You Already...

Apple and Google are showing how AI is really a feature in other products at this...

Waymo to Offer Self-Driving Cars Only on Uber in Austin...

The latest partnership between the companies comes as self-driving cars are gaining...

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An EEOC analysis finds women made up 22.6% of US workers in high-tech roles in 2022, similar to the 22% in 2005, even as the number of lucrative jobs has soared (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

An EEOC analysis finds women made up 22.6% of US workers...

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: An EEOC analysis finds women made up 22.6% of US workers...

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Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI's staff that the company plans to move away from being controlled by a nonprofit sometime in 2025 (Kali Hays/Fortune)

Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI's staff that the company...

Kali Hays / Fortune: Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI's staff that the company plans...

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Google ad trial: an ex-Facebook ad exec testifies the company signed the 2018 Jedi Blue deal with Google because it couldn't compete against Google's "monopoly" (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Google ad trial: an ex-Facebook ad exec testifies the company...

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Google ad trial: an ex-Facebook ad exec testifies the company...

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The view from the Olympic finish line: Assessing the impact of the Paris Games

The view from the Olympic finish line: Assessing the impact...

The athletes have crossed the finish line of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games....

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Polaris Dawn mission: Valuable space race progress or vanity project?

Polaris Dawn mission: Valuable space race progress or vanity...

The most ambitious mission yet in the billionaire space race saw Jared Isaacman...

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Apple to allow alternative app stores and browser engines on iPads in the EU with iPadOS 18 on September 16, after the EU applied DMA rules on iPadOS in April (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Apple to allow alternative app stores and browser engines...

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Apple to allow alternative app stores and browser engines...

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Sources: Microsoft has pitched its AI to ExxonMobil, Chevron, and others to find and develop oil and gas reserves while publicly committing to reduce emissions (Karen Hao/The Atlantic)

Sources: Microsoft has pitched its AI to ExxonMobil, Chevron,...

Karen Hao / The Atlantic: Sources: Microsoft has pitched its AI to ExxonMobil, Chevron,...

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A profile of Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, which aims to create "spatial intelligence" in AI and raised $230M from a16z and others, reportedly at a $1B valuation (Steven Levy/Wired)

A profile of Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, which aims to create...

Steven Levy / Wired: A profile of Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, which aims to create...

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UK to expand ETA entry scheme for all visitors in 2025

UK to expand ETA entry scheme for all visitors in 2025

Visa-free travellers going to the UK will have to get permission prior to their...

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YC plans to expand to four cohorts per year, adding spring and fall sessions in 2025; each batch will be half the size of the most recent cohort of 256 startups (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

YC plans to expand to four cohorts per year, adding spring...

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: YC plans to expand to four cohorts per year, adding spring...

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Vox Media says its annual Code Conference has been put on hold, calling it a "strong franchise" but declining to share further information about its future (Oliver Darcy/Status)

Vox Media says its annual Code Conference has been put...

Oliver Darcy / Status: Vox Media says its annual Code Conference has been put on...

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All 25 staffers of Annapurna's gaming division resigned this month after CEO Megan Ellison pulled out of talks to spin off the unit as an independent entity (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

All 25 staffers of Annapurna's gaming division resigned...

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: All 25 staffers of Annapurna's gaming division resigned...

United Arab Emirates Fund in Talks to Invest in OpenAI

The ChatGPT creator has told potential backers its annualized revenue recently reached...

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Boeing factory workers to vote on new union contract and strike action

Boeing factory workers to vote on new union contract and...

Boeing workers in Washington and Oregon will be voting on Thursday night on whether...

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Spain's PM urges EU to drop proposed tariffs on Chinese-made EVs

Spain's PM urges EU to drop proposed tariffs on Chinese-made...

As the EU prepares to impose additional, heavy tariffs on Chinese-made electric...

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Analysis: VC investments in AI startups have reached $64.1B, ~30% of total VC dollars invested, so far in 2024 amid questions about whether it will pay off (Wall Street Journal)

Analysis: VC investments in AI startups have reached $64.1B,...

Wall Street Journal: Analysis: VC investments in AI startups have reached $64.1B,...

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Novatus, which helps financial companies like Revolut manage their data to comply with regulations, raised $40M at a ~$150M post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Novatus, which helps financial companies like Revolut manage...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Novatus, which helps financial companies like Revolut...

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Coinbase launches its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, on the Ethereum and Base networks, supported by various DeFi services for trading, lending, and as collateral (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

Coinbase launches its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, on the Ethereum...

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Coinbase launches its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, on the Ethereum...

Microsoft Lays Off 650 Videogame Workers

The terminations mark the second major round of job cuts for game employees since...

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Vancouver-based Spare, whose software helps transit agencies offer transport services based on riders' own needs, raised a CA$42M Series B led by Inovia Capital (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)

Vancouver-based Spare, whose software helps transit agencies...

Alex Riehl / BetaKit: Vancouver-based Spare, whose software helps transit agencies...

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A look at Apple's Private Cloud Compute for Apple Intelligence, which Craig Federighi says allows personal data to be "sealed inside of a privacy bubble" (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

A look at Apple's Private Cloud Compute for Apple Intelligence,...

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: A look at Apple's Private Cloud Compute for Apple Intelligence,...

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AST SpaceMobile's stock is up ~1,300% since a record low in April 2024 and following deals with AT&T and Verizon in May to provide wireless service from space (Bloomberg)

AST SpaceMobile's stock is up ~1,300% since a record low...

Bloomberg: AST SpaceMobile's stock is up ~1,300% since a record low in April 2024...

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Top EU court orders Apple to pay €13 billion in back taxes to Ireland

Top EU court orders Apple to pay €13 billion in back taxes...

In a major win for EU regulators, the European Court of Justice has ruled that Apple...

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US firm Cox Media accused of listening to private conversations to help push targeted ads

US firm Cox Media accused of listening to private conversations...

In this Science segment we tell you about how new revelations by the investigative...

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Trump, Harris clash on trade and tariff policies during debate

Trump, Harris clash on trade and tariff policies during...

During Tuesday's US presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris and former...

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A surge in scams poses a serious image problem for Revolut, which faces more complaints than its large UK rivals about authorized push payment scams (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

A surge in scams poses a serious image problem for Revolut,...

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: A surge in scams poses a serious image problem for Revolut,...

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Riot Platforms plans the world's largest bitcoin mine in Corsicana, a former Texas oil boom town, using a liquid immersion system, despite residents' protests (Joel Khalili/Wired)

Riot Platforms plans the world's largest bitcoin mine in...

Joel Khalili / Wired: Riot Platforms plans the world's largest bitcoin mine in Corsicana,...

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Mistral releases its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, available on GitHub and Hugging Face, and via API "soon" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Mistral releases its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B,...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Mistral releases its first multimodal model, Pixtral...

The AI Spending Spree, in Charts

Tech giants and investors are shoveling cash into artificial intelligence amid questions...

Amazon to Invest $10.5 Billion in U.K. for Cloud, AI Infrastructure

Amazon plans to spend about $10.5 billion over the next five years in cloud and...

Jack Ma Urges Alibaba to Trust in Market Forces, Innovation

Alibaba Group co-founder Jack Ma said competition will make the company stronger...

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Top EU court orders Apple to pay €13bn in back taxes to Ireland, upholds €2.4 bn fine on Google

Top EU court orders Apple to pay €13bn in back taxes to...

In a major win for EU regulators, the European Court of Justice ruled Apple must...

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MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in late 2022, says it's been acquired by PE firm K1 and names a new CEO, after filing to delist its shares from the NYSE (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in late 2022, says...

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in late 2022, says...

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Maryland-based Forterra, which develops autonomous driving tech for military and commercial vehicles, raised a $75M Series B (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Maryland-based Forterra, which develops autonomous driving...

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Maryland-based Forterra, which develops autonomous...

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AWS plans to spend £8B in the UK to grow its cloud business, expecting to support up to 14,000 jobs and contribute £14B to the UK GDP between 2024 and 2028 (Joe Mayes/Bloomberg)

AWS plans to spend £8B in the UK to grow its cloud...

Joe Mayes / Bloomberg: AWS plans to spend £8B in the UK to grow its cloud business,...

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Apple launches new iPhone with AI capabilities amid sales slump

Apple launches new iPhone with AI capabilities amid sales...

US tech giant Apple unveiled its new iPhone 16 on Monday in California, which it...

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Oracle shares are up 34% since January, well outpacing the Nasdaq's 14% rise, as it becomes an attractive cloud-computing provider for AI developers (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)

Oracle shares are up 34% since January, well outpacing...

Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: Oracle shares are up 34% since January, well outpacing...

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South Korean police arrest two former Samsung officials on suspicion of stealing tech worth $3.2B+ to build a chipmaking plant in China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

South Korean police arrest two former Samsung officials...

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: South Korean police arrest two former Samsung officials...

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Smartcat, which provides AI-powered translation tools for businesses, raised a $43M Series C led by Left Lane Capital, bringing its total funding to $70M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Smartcat, which provides AI-powered translation tools for...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Smartcat, which provides AI-powered translation tools...

Oracle's Missteps in Cloud Computing Are Paying Dividends...

The long-stagnant stock is up 34% thanks to the company’s neutral status in the...

Apple's Challenge in China Rises With New Rival Phones...

The company is at a disadvantage against phone makers offering artificial-intelligence...

AirPods 4, AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, AirPod…Hearing Aids?...

With four options to choose from—and a huge software update coming to the flagship...

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Google Pixel Watch 3 review: solid battery life, improved display, and comprehensive health-tracking features, but slightly bulky with some software quirks (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)

Google Pixel Watch 3 review: solid battery life, improved...

Cherlynn Low / Engadget: Google Pixel Watch 3 review: solid battery life, improved...

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The FBI says that losses from crypto-related frauds increased 45% YoY to $5.6B in 2023, with losses from investment scams accounting for 71% of the total (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

The FBI says that losses from crypto-related frauds increased...

Hannah Lang / Reuters: The FBI says that losses from crypto-related frauds increased...

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Ofcom: internet replaced TV as UK's most popular news source; 71% of adults get news online, vs. 70% via TV; 52% use social media for news, up from 47% in 2023 (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

Ofcom: internet replaced TV as UK's most popular news source;...

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: Ofcom: internet replaced TV as UK's most popular news...

How the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Compare With Last Year's...

The new lineup features better cameras, bigger screens and a new button. But the...

Apple Watch Series 10 Gets Bigger Screen, Thinner Body---and...

Apple celebrates the 10-year anniversary with a familiar yet streamlined redesign.

Apple Unveils an AI iPhone

The company, which has faced slumping sales in its signature product, released the...

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Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström's Atomico raised $1.24B, including a $754M growth-stage fund and a $485M early stage fund (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström's Atomico raised...

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström's Atomico raised $1.24B, including...

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Sources: Japanese chip startup Rapidus seeks to raise ~$696M from existing and new investors by issuing new shares to finance its chip development efforts (Taro Fuse/Bloomberg)

Sources: Japanese chip startup Rapidus seeks to raise ~$696M...

Taro Fuse / Bloomberg: Sources: Japanese chip startup Rapidus seeks to raise ~$696M...

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Miami-based finally, which offers bookkeeping, accounting, and finance tools for SMBs, raised a $50M Series B from PeakSpan and a $150M credit line (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Miami-based finally, which offers bookkeeping, accounting,...

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Miami-based finally, which offers bookkeeping, accounting,...

Google Faces Blockbuster Antitrust Case---Again

Weeks after a judge ruled the company stifled the competition in search, it faces...

Apple Looks to AI to End iPhone Slump

Artificial intelligence has yet to spur a wave of upgrades for other smartphone...

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Google faces new antitrust trial over advertising tech business

Google faces new antitrust trial over advertising tech...

A new antitrust trial for Google parent Alphabet gets underway, this time over its...

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Sources: Apple will launch Image Playground and Genmoji in iOS 18.2; Sonos cuts its plans to build ~1M units of Ace headphones per year, to ~100K per year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple will launch Image Playground and Genmoji...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple will launch Image Playground and Genmoji...

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London's e-bike boom is frustrating local councils over parking issues, as Lime and Forest expand; Lime trips during peak hours have grown 91% YoY in 2024 (Joshua Gabert-Doyon/Financial Times)

London's e-bike boom is frustrating local councils over...

Joshua Gabert-Doyon / Financial Times: London's e-bike boom is frustrating local...

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Bending Spoons plans to lay off 75% of WeTransfer staff after acquiring the file-sharing service in July 2024; WeTransfer reportedly has 350+ employees (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Bending Spoons plans to lay off 75% of WeTransfer staff...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Bending Spoons plans to lay off 75% of WeTransfer staff...

Musk's xAI Has Discussed Deal for Share of Future Tesla...

Under a proposed arrangement, the startup would give Tesla access to its artificial-intelligence...

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CelesTrak: SpaceX controls 62%+ of all active satellites in orbit, ~10x more than closest rival OneWeb, after launching its 7,000th Starlink satellite on Sep. 5 (Anthony Cuthbertson/The Independent)

CelesTrak: SpaceX controls 62%+ of all active satellites...

Anthony Cuthbertson / The Independent: CelesTrak: SpaceX controls 62%+ of all active...

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A look at the 2nd Circuit's incredibly damaging ruling favoring publishers in a copyright dispute over The Internet Archive's ebook lending program (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

A look at the 2nd Circuit's incredibly damaging ruling...

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: A look at the 2nd Circuit's incredibly damaging ruling...

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A profile of Texas-based Tyler Tech, which has become a dominant US local government software provider, despite a history of software flaws and release delays (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

A profile of Texas-based Tyler Tech, which has become a...

Austin Carr / Bloomberg: A profile of Texas-based Tyler Tech, which has become a...

Amazon Wants Your Palm and TSA Wants Your Face. What Saying...

Using your body’s data to pay or breeze through security is like unlocking your...

Nvidia Draws Antitrust Scrutiny as Enforcers Signal Early...

The Justice Department’s probe of the chip company highlights interest in being...

Musk's xAI Has Discussed Deal for Share in Future Tesla...

Under a proposed arrangement, the startup would give Tesla access to its AI technology...

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Hero Games' Daniel Wu reflects on his studio's 20% stake in Game Science, the creator of China's biggest PC game Black Myth: Wukong, which has sold 18M+ copies (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Hero Games' Daniel Wu reflects on his studio's 20% stake...

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Hero Games' Daniel Wu reflects on his studio's 20% stake...

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Payroll startup Warp, part of YC's W23 batch, disavows a racist post from an affiliate X account, amid claims its affiliates on X are posting "engagement bait" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Payroll startup Warp, part of YC's W23 batch, disavows...

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Payroll startup Warp, part of YC's W23 batch, disavows...

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Bluesky says it had over 9M users as of September 6, after adding 3M new users in the week or so since Brazil blocked X, and that video support is "coming soon" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Bluesky says it had over 9M users as of September 6, after...

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Bluesky says it had over 9M users as of September 6, after...

The Parents Opting Their Kids Out of Screens at School

After working to ban phones in the classroom, parents are now seeking a return to...

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Companies and customers say the cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia's A100 and H100 chips is lower in China than in the US despite the export controls (Financial Times)

Companies and customers say the cost of renting cloud services...

Financial Times: Companies and customers say the cost of renting cloud services...

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A look at the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business, as its trial is set to begin on September 9 (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

A look at the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit...

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: A look at the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit...

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Character.AI, Aleph Alpha, and other AI startups that raised hundreds of millions are struggling to compete against better-funded rivals and Big Tech companies (Bloomberg)

Character.AI, Aleph Alpha, and other AI startups that raised...

Bloomberg: Character.AI, Aleph Alpha, and other AI startups that raised hundreds...

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Telegram says the app's source code has not changed, and its FAQ has been changed only to make it clearer how to report content on Telegram, including via DSA (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Telegram says the app's source code has not changed, and...

Mia Sato / The Verge: Telegram says the app's source code has not changed, and its...

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S&P Global announces that Dell and Palantir will join the S&P 500, effective on September 23, 2024; DELL jumps 5%+ and PLTR jumps 7%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

S&P Global announces that Dell and Palantir will join the...

Jordan Novet / CNBC: S&P Global announces that Dell and Palantir will join the S&P...

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A look at LMSYS' Chatbot Arena and the issues surrounding the crowdsourced LLM benchmark platform, including biases, lack of transparency, and commercial ties (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

A look at LMSYS' Chatbot Arena and the issues surrounding...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: A look at LMSYS' Chatbot Arena and the issues surrounding...

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Intel, Nvidia suffer in tough week for chip-manufacturing industry

Intel, Nvidia suffer in tough week for chip-manufacturing...

It’s been another wobbly week for the global semiconductor industry. Nvidia suffered...

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Seeking balance: A new chapter for Sino-African trade relations?

Seeking balance: A new chapter for Sino-African trade relations?

As the representatives of over 50 African countries meet this week in Beijing for...

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The UK CMA objects to Google's ad tech practices, says Google harms competition by using its online display ad dominance "to favour its own ad tech services" (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

The UK CMA objects to Google's ad tech practices, says...

Ryan Browne / CNBC: The UK CMA objects to Google's ad tech practices, says Google...

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What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: four iPhone 16 models, two new AirPods, Apple Watch Series 10 with an updated look, Apple Intelligence, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: four iPhone...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: four iPhone...

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An interview with Bill Gates about What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates, an upcoming five-part Netflix docuseries examining issues like AI, misinfo, and more (Kourtnee Jackson/CNET)

An interview with Bill Gates about What's Next? The Future...

Kourtnee Jackson / CNET: An interview with Bill Gates about What's Next? The Future...

Testosterone Clinics Sell Virility. Some Men End Up With...

Promoters in the booming steroid business tout a boost in the gym and the bedroom,...

Musk Role in a Trump Presidency Raises Conflict-of-Interest...

Leading a government efficiency commission would give Musk influence over the federal...

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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is working with Samsung and Google on a mixed-reality set of smart glasses linked to a smartphone (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is working...

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is working with...

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Analysts raise questions over Brazilian digital bank Nubank's rising default rate, even as loans grow 28% YoY; ~60% of all Brazilian adults have Nubank's app (Bloomberg)

Analysts raise questions over Brazilian digital bank Nubank's...

Bloomberg: Analysts raise questions over Brazilian digital bank Nubank's rising...

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Pavel Durov calls his arrest by French authorities "misguided" and denies Telegram is an "anarchic paradise", in his first public comments since the detention (The Guardian)

Pavel Durov calls his arrest by French authorities "misguided"...

The Guardian: Pavel Durov calls his arrest by French authorities “misguided” and...

Nvidia and Other Investors Back Applied Digital With $160...

The fresh capital is expected to help the data-center and AI cloud-computing company...

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New Mexico's AG sues Snapchat, alleging it is a "breeding ground" for predators seeking to collect sexually explicit images of children and extort them (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

New Mexico's AG sues Snapchat, alleging it is a "breeding...

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: New Mexico's AG sues Snapchat, alleging it is...

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Federal prosecutors charge a man for allegedly using AI to create hundreds of thousands of songs by fake bands to get $10M in royalties from streaming services (Maia Coleman/New York Times)

Federal prosecutors charge a man for allegedly using AI...

Maia Coleman / New York Times: Federal prosecutors charge a man for allegedly using...

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Applied Digital, which leases out data-center space and has started an AI cloud-computing service with Nvidia chips, raised $160M from Nvidia and others (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

Applied Digital, which leases out data-center space and...

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: Applied Digital, which leases out data-center space...

Nvidia Invests in Japanese AI Company

Nvidia is investing in Sakana AI and partnering with the artificial-intelligence...

OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever's New AI Firm Raises $1...

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s new firm, aimed at building “safe” artificial...

North Korean Spies Are Infiltrating U.S. Companies Through...

Companies are unknowingly hiring North Koreans for hundreds of low-level jobs, giving...

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Xi Jinping makes fresh financial pledge to African continent

Xi Jinping makes fresh financial pledge to African continent

In a speech at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing, President Xi Jinping...

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Paylocity, which provides HR and payroll software, agrees to acquire corporate spending software company Airbase for $325M; Airbase was valued at $600M in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Paylocity, which provides HR and payroll software, agrees...

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Paylocity, which provides HR and payroll software,...

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C3.ai reports Q1 revenue up 21% YoY to $87.2M, vs. $86.9M est., and subscription revenue up 20% YoY to $73.5M, vs. $79.1M est.; its stock falls 16%+ after hours (Juby Babu/Reuters)

C3.ai reports Q1 revenue up 21% YoY to $87.2M, vs. $86.9M...

Juby Babu / Reuters: C3.ai reports Q1 revenue up 21% YoY to $87.2M, vs. $86.9M est.,...

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The US DOJ seizes 32 internet domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian interference in the 2024 US elections (CNN)

The US DOJ seizes 32 internet domains used in Russian influence...

CNN: The US DOJ seizes 32 internet domains used in Russian influence campaigns,...

SpaceX Pulls Employees From Brazil, Discourages Travel...

The moves show how Musk’s legal dispute about X is affecting SpaceX and its Starlink...

The Future of Airplane Wi-Fi Is Here. I Just Tested It.

What type of internet connection you get at 30,000 is hit or miss, but new satellite...

KKR Launches Tender Offer for Fuji Soft

Private-equity firm KKR will launch a tender offer to acquire Japan’s Fuji Soft...

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Volkswagen bosses clash with workers over possible plant closures

Volkswagen bosses clash with workers over possible plant...

Volkswagen's management went head to head with some 25,000 employees as leaders...

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Sources: a16z has shut its Miami office in May because staff weren't using it enough; VC funding to Miami-based companies has flagged since 2022's crypto rout (Anna J Kaiser/Bloomberg)

Sources: a16z has shut its Miami office in May because...

Anna J Kaiser / Bloomberg: Sources: a16z has shut its Miami office in May because...

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Robinhood launches a new feature in the UK to let retail investors lend stocks they own to interested borrowers, in a bid to grow its international footprint (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Robinhood launches a new feature in the UK to let retail...

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Robinhood launches a new feature in the UK to let retail investors...

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Palo Alto Networks says it closed a $500M deal to buy IBM's QRadar cloud security software assets, and plans to migrate customers to Palo Alto's Cortex XSIAM (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Palo Alto Networks says it closed a $500M deal to buy IBM's...

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Palo Alto Networks says it closed a $500M deal to buy...

Bain Counteroffer for Fuji Soft Could Mean Takeover Tussle

A takeover tussle could break out over Fuji Soft as two U.S. private-equity firms...

We Tested Wi-Fi on Over 50 Flights. It Often Stinks, but...

What type of internet connection you get at 30,000 is hit or miss, but new satellite...

Asian Chip Stocks Stumble as Recession Fears Resurface,...

Asian chip stocks took a hit on Wednesday as markets were unnerved by artificial-intelligence...

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From large infrastructure to 'small and beautiful': Chinese lending to Africa changes face

From large infrastructure to 'small and beautiful': Chinese...

As the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation kicks off in Beijing, we take a closer...

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Lebanon's ex-central bank chief arrested over alleged financial crimes

Lebanon's ex-central bank chief arrested over alleged financial...

Lebanon's former central bank governor, Riad Salameh, has been arrested in Beirut....

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Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI execs have been meeting with investors to advance a deal to spend tens of billions to build infrastructure for AI in the US (Bloomberg)

Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI execs have been meeting...

Bloomberg: Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI execs have been meeting with investors...

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Docs: Trump's crypto project, World Liberty Financial, is a DeFi lending service with four members who worked on Dough Finance, a similar app hacked in July (CoinDesk)

Docs: Trump's crypto project, World Liberty Financial,...

CoinDesk: Docs: Trump's crypto project, World Liberty Financial, is a DeFi lending...

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The White House publishes a roadmap to shore up the weak security of the Border Gateway Protocol, which has long been vulnerable to route hijacking (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

The White House publishes a roadmap to shore up the weak...

Thomas Claburn / The Register: The White House publishes a roadmap to shore up the...

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Ex-Lebanon central bank chief arrested over alleged financial crimes

Ex-Lebanon central bank chief arrested over alleged financial...

Lebanon's former central bank governor, Riad Salameh, has been arrested in Beirut....

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SAP CTO Juergen Mueller says he will leave the company by the end of September because of inappropriate conduct at a past company event (Sonja Wind/Bloomberg)

SAP CTO Juergen Mueller says he will leave the company...

Sonja Wind / Bloomberg: SAP CTO Juergen Mueller says he will leave the company by...

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Canva announces price raises, including hikes of 300% for some users, citing its new generative AI features, as it prepares for a US IPO (Denham Sadler/Information Age)

Canva announces price raises, including hikes of 300% for...

Denham Sadler / Information Age: Canva announces price raises, including hikes of...

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Some Big Tech critics worry that Kamala Harris' deep ties to tech companies could prompt her to abandon Democrats' recent aggressive stance toward the sector (Washington Post)

Some Big Tech critics worry that Kamala Harris' deep ties...

Washington Post: Some Big Tech critics worry that Kamala Harris' deep ties to tech...

Microsoft Rolled Out AI PCs That Can't Play Top Games---and...

Chips inside the laptops are incompatible with many leading titles, resulting in...

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Kamala Harris says US Steel should remain domestically owned

Kamala Harris says US Steel should remain domestically...

US vice president and presidential candidate Kamala Harris used a Labor Day speech...

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Brazil's Supreme Court panel unanimously upholds decision to suspend X

Brazil's Supreme Court panel unanimously upholds decision...

A panel of five Supreme Court justices in Brazil has unanimously upheld the decision...

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A US judge issued a last-minute partial block on Texas law HB 18, that would require some large web services to identify minors and filter what they see online (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

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Adi Robertson / The Verge: A US judge issued a last-minute partial block on Texas...

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Elon Musk boosts a post that disparages the abilities of "women and low T men", advocates a "Republic of high status males", and mentions a "Reich effect" (Ellsworth Toohey/Boing Boing)

Elon Musk boosts a post that disparages the abilities of...

Ellsworth Toohey / Boing Boing: Elon Musk boosts a post that disparages the abilities...

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A look at the growing use of tablets in US prisons, letting inmates make calls, send messages, and more, as the FCC imposes price caps on voice and video calls (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)

A look at the growing use of tablets in US prisons, letting...

Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal: A look at the growing use of tablets in...

Brazil Says Its Resistance to Elon Musk Is Global Example

Sharp words from the country’s president come after its Supreme Court rules to uphold...

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Brazil's supreme court panel unanimously upholds decision to suspend X

Brazil's supreme court panel unanimously upholds decision...

A panel of five Supreme Court justices in Brazil has unanimously upheld the decision...

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AfD surge alarms German businesses desperate for skilled immigrant labour

AfD surge alarms German businesses desperate for skilled...

The historic showing for Germany's far-right anti-immigrant AfD party in Sunday's...

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OKX says OKX SG received a Major Payment Institution license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and appoints former Grab exec Gracie Lin as OKX SG CEO (Bloomberg)

OKX says OKX SG received a Major Payment Institution license...

Bloomberg: OKX says OKX SG received a Major Payment Institution license from the...

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Sources: ByteDance is tapping banks, including Citigroup and JPMorgan, for a $9.5B loan, the biggest dollar-denominated corporate loan in Asia excluding Japan (Chien Mi Wong/Bloomberg)

Sources: ByteDance is tapping banks, including Citigroup...

Chien Mi Wong / Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance is tapping banks, including Citigroup...

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Sources: LobbyMatic, which offers AI tools for lobbying, is covertly run by far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons, including Jacob Wohl (Daniel Lippman/Politico)

Sources: LobbyMatic, which offers AI tools for lobbying,...

Daniel Lippman / Politico: Sources: LobbyMatic, which offers AI tools for lobbying,...

Mickey Mouse Smoking: How AI Image Tools Are Generating...

xAI and Google both released products that have created controversy over ethical...

Nvidia Takes an Added Role Amid AI Craze: Data-Center Designer

Beyond its chips, the company is playing a growing role in shaping the server farms...

Apple Helped Nix Part of a Child Safety Bill. More Fights...

As lawmakers debate how to regulate teen smartphone use, Apple is pushing back on...

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Dune Analytics: Pump.fun has generated over $100M in cumulative revenue from more than 1M memecoins created on the platform since its launch in January 2024 (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Dune Analytics: Pump.fun has generated over $100M in cumulative...

Zack Abrams / The Block: Dune Analytics: Pump.fun has generated over $100M in cumulative...

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A look at Sub.club, which aims to let users on ActivityPub-based platforms monetize content via subscriptions while taking a 6% cut, available in dev preview (Jay Peters/The Verge)

A look at Sub.club, which aims to let users on ActivityPub-based...

Jay Peters / The Verge: A look at Sub.club, which aims to let users on ActivityPub-based...

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Fidelity's latest valuation of X, 72% lower than when Musk took over, would mean top investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud is down $1.4B and Ellison $720M (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)

Fidelity's latest valuation of X, 72% lower than when Musk...

Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: Fidelity's latest valuation of X, 72% lower than...

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Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are building or testing AI tools and chatbots to generate icebreakers, coach users, and more, in a bid to bring back users (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are building or testing...

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are building...

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A look at France's J3 cybercrime unit behind Sky ECC and Encrochat prosecutions, which now leads the case against Telegram's Pavel Durov (Gabriel Stargardter/Reuters)

A look at France's J3 cybercrime unit behind Sky ECC and...

Gabriel Stargardter / Reuters: A look at France's J3 cybercrime unit behind Sky...

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A look at the surge of interest-based sites as users grow weary of big platforms; MAUs for Letterboxd, Strava, and AllTrails grew 55%, 20%, and 10% YoY in H1 (Teresa Xie/Bloomberg)

A look at the surge of interest-based sites as users grow...

Teresa Xie / Bloomberg: A look at the surge of interest-based sites as users grow...

I Tried a $1,000 Trash Can for Two Months---and I Get It

The Mill Food Recycler an easy, if pricey, way to reduce food waste, and eliminate...

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In a lawsuit, OSOM's ex-chief privacy officer alleges that the CEO of the smartphone startup misused funds to pay for his racing hobby and lavish lifestyle (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

In a lawsuit, OSOM's ex-chief privacy officer alleges that...

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: In a lawsuit, OSOM's ex-chief privacy officer...

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A look at the farcical situation at Bolt as it insists in a letter that Silverbear is on the hook to invest $200M; source: Bolt lost $310M on $27M 2023 revenue (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

A look at the farcical situation at Bolt as it insists...

Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: A look at the farcical situation at Bolt as it insists...

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How Brazil's experiment to fight fake news during the 2022 elections, giving a justice broad power to order social media content removal, led to the ban on X (New York Times)

How Brazil's experiment to fight fake news during the 2022...

New York Times: How Brazil's experiment to fight fake news during the 2022 elections,...

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Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot maker Covariant and ~25% of its staff, and signs a non-exclusive license to Covariant's robotic foundation models (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot maker Covariant...

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Amazon hires the founders of industrial robot maker Covariant...

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Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 protections is in jeopardy after a US court ruled TikTok's algorithmic curation is not protected by Section 230 (Matt Stoller/BIG)

Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 protections...

Matt Stoller / BIG: Social media companies' reliance on Section 230 protections...

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It's time for audio services like Spotify to deal with AI by using labels and banning or downweighting music made with AI tools that don't license training data (Ed Newton-Rex/Music Business Worldwide)

It's time for audio services like Spotify to deal with...

Ed Newton-Rex / Music Business Worldwide: It's time for audio services like Spotify...

The Threat to OpenAI Is Growing

More accessible artificial-intelligence systems are proliferating, giving the maker...

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has over 185M weekly active users and over 400M MAUs and it's "growing quickly" even without a rollout "in UK, Brazil, or EU yet" (Kalley Huang/The Information)

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has over 185M weekly active...

Kalley Huang / The Information: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has over 185M weekly...

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Brazilian judge orders Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app in Brazil and says those using a VPN to access X would face a fine of ~$9,000 a day (New York Times)

Brazilian judge orders Apple and Google to prevent downloads...

New York Times: Brazilian judge orders Apple and Google to prevent downloads of...

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An analysis of 6,599 keywords shows Google is offering AI Overviews for 17% of queries in the UK and US, but rarely for searches about current events (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)

An analysis of 6,599 keywords shows Google is offering...

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette: An analysis of 6,599 keywords shows Google is...

Brazil Bans X, Outlawing Access to App for Millions

The order follows months of back-and-forth between the social-media platform and...

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A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk and Tesla pumped up Dogecoin into a "pyramid scheme", finding that Musk's statements were "aspirational" (Rachel Graf/Bloomberg)

A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk...

Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk...

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Huione Guarantee, a Cambodia-based online marketplace that facilitates pig butchering and other scams, has processed $49B+ in crypto transactions since 2021 (Chainalysis)

Huione Guarantee, a Cambodia-based online marketplace that...

Chainalysis: Huione Guarantee, a Cambodia-based online marketplace that facilitates...

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AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep its website and articles live indefinitely (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)

AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware...

Ryan Smith / AnandTech: AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware...

Nvidia's Future Relies on Chips That Push Technology's...

As the company pushes the chip-making envelope, manufacturing hurdles are causing...

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MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $478.1M, vs. $464.1M est., and forecasts Q3 and FY 2025 revenue above estimates; MDB jumps 13%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $478.1M, vs. $464.1M...

Jordan Novet / CNBC: MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $478.1M, vs. $464.1M...

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Bridge, which aims to build a global payment network around stablecoins, raised $40M led by Sequoia and Ribbit, taking its total funding to $58M (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

Bridge, which aims to build a global payment network around...

Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Bridge, which aims to build a global payment network around...

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A US district judge dismisses, with prejudice, a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk and Tesla of defrauding investors by hyping Dogecoin and conducting insider trading (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

A US district judge dismisses, with prejudice, a lawsuit...

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US district judge dismisses, with prejudice, a lawsuit...