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Current and former Nvidia staff say that, despite a 3,776% stock jump since 2019, minting many millionaires, the work hours are still grueling and high-stress (Bloomberg)
US-listed PDD, which runs Temu and Pinduoduo, reports Q2 revenue up 86% YoY to ~$13.6B, below ~$14B est., and net income up 144% YoY to ~$4.5B, vs. $3.8B est. (Bloomberg)
Chicago-based G Squared raised $1.1B for a fund to buy secondary startup shares; G Squared bought ~$135M in Anthropic shares from FTX during its bankruptcy (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
Analysis: Elon Musk posted ~13,000 times on X in 2024 to July, or 61 posts per day, almost as much as in all of 2023, as he shifts to posting about politics (Wall Street Journal)
SVOM satellite, a symbol of the China-France friendship
China-built railway integrates Ethiopia, Djibouti with global markets
'War and Peace' by Vakhtangov Theater opens its first Chinese tour
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fines Uber a record €290M for failing to abide by European protection standards when sending sensitive driver data to the US (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
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