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eToro USA agrees to pay $1.5M and limit US user trading to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ether to settle SEC allegations that it operated as an unregistered broker (Teresa Xie/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Sam Altman and execs from Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, and power and utility companies met at the White House regarding US AI energy infrastructure (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Sources: Sam Altman and execs from Google, Anthrop...

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The Mental Health Coalition announces Thrive, a data-sharing program to reduce content on suicide and self-harm, with Meta, Snap, and TikTok as founding members (Sarah Fielding/Engadget)

The Mental Health Coalition announces Thrive, a da...

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The Mental Health Coalition announces Thrive, a data-sharing program to reduce content on suicide, with Meta, Snap, and TikTok as founding members (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

The Mental Health Coalition announces Thrive, a da...

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Mastercard agrees to buy Recorded Future, which uses AI-powered analytics to identify potential threats, from PE firm Insight Partners for $2.65B (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

Mastercard agrees to buy Recorded Future, which us...

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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 t...

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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 Revo...

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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 reach...

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Memo: Microsoft is laying off 650 staff from its gaming business, bringing the cuts in its gaming business to 2,550 jobs since acquiring Activision Blizzard (Wesley Yin-Poole/IGN)

Memo: Microsoft is laying off 650 staff from its g...

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A look at the tough options before Intel's board, including scaling back factory projects, selling off subsidiaries, or splitting Intel's core operations (Ian King/Bloomberg)

A look at the tough options before Intel's board, ...

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Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into Google's GDPR compliance over using the personal information of EU users for training foundational AI models (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into Google's...

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The UK gives data centers Critical National Infrastructure designation, enabling the government to coordinate better against hackers and unexpected cyber events (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

The UK gives data centers Critical National Infras...

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WhatsApp brings Meta Verified badges to small businesses in India, starting at ~$8/month, and gives them the ability to send customized messages to customers (TechCrunch)

WhatsApp brings Meta Verified badges to small busi...

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Researchers detail gaining the ability to generate counterfeit HTTPS certificates and more after acquiring an expired WHOIS server domain for the .mobi TLD (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Researchers detail gaining the ability to generate...

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A 397-page EC report, released shortly before CJEU's verdicts against Apple and Google, says the EU's competition enforcement can be "harmful to innovation" (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

A 397-page EC report, released shortly before CJEU...

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Centricity, a digital wealth management service for financial advisers and asset managers, raised a $20M seed led by Lightspeed India at a $125M valuation (The Economic Times)

Centricity, a digital wealth management service fo...

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Tune.fm, a music streaming service with an integrated NFT marketplace that offers blockchain micropayments to artists, raised $50M from Global Emerging Markets (Ana Paula Pereira/Cointelegraph)

Tune.fm, a music streaming service with an integra...

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Infineon says it has developed 300mm gallium nitride wafers, which can produce 2.3x more chips than 200mm wafers and speed their adoption for AI applications (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Infineon says it has developed 300mm gallium nitri...

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