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Sources: Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon, which raised $70M in 2022 from a16z and others, is refunding investors after failing to launch its Goddess Nature Token (Sarah Emerson/Forbes)

Sources: Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon, which raised $...

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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 reco...

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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 ...

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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 transi...

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Altera CEO denies a report that Intel plans to outright sell Altera, saying the plan is to sell a stake in the business and push for an IPO of the unit by 2026 (CRN)

Altera CEO denies a report that Intel plans to out...

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Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media closed down over 10% after Trump's debate with Harris, ending at their lowest level since they began publicly trading (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media closed do...

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Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise $6.5B in equity financing at a $150B valuation and raise $5B in debt from banks in the form of a revolving credit facility (Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise $6.5B in equi...

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Google adds Audio Overview to NotebookLM, letting users turn documents into audio discussions with two AI hosts that summarize and explain the source material (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Google adds Audio Overview to NotebookLM, letting ...

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Bluesky rolls out the ability to post videos of up to 60 seconds with optional attached subtitles; each post can contain one video, and adult content is allowed (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky rolls out the ability to post videos of up...

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Adobe says generative AI features powered by its Firefly Video model will be available before the end of 2024 on the Premiere Pro beta app and on a free website (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Adobe says generative AI features powered by its F...

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Seoul-based Spoon Labs, which operates an audio streamer called Spoon and a short video app called Vigloo, raised ~$89.3M from PUBG publisher Krafton (Marie Dealessandri/GamesIndustry.biz)

Seoul-based Spoon Labs, which operates an audio st...

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Google starts linking to The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine in Search, letting users view archived versions of pages as part of "About this page" feature (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Google starts linking to The Internet Archive's Wa...

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Qualifyze, which makes audit management and compliance software for pharmaceutical companies, raised a $54M Series B, bringing its total funding to $84M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Qualifyze, which makes audit management and compli...

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On second day of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, a former News Corp exec testified as a government witness, saying Google held publishers "hostage" (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

On second day of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focu...

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Chainalysis: payments in Singapore using stablecoins reached a record high of almost $1B in Q2, led by transactions at merchant outlets (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Chainalysis: payments in Singapore using stablecoi...

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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, Pixtr...

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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 m...

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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...

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