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Alibaba will let shoppers check out via Tencent's WeChat Pay on its Taobao and Tmall shopping platforms, as Chinese government crackdown on Alibaba ends (Bloomberg)

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Ubisoft stock fell by 10%+ to a ten year low in the past two days, giving it a market cap of €1.99B, following the lukewarm reception to Star Wars Outlaws (Tom Henderson/Insider Gaming)

Ubisoft stock fell by 10%+ to a ten year low in th...

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Blackstone agrees to acquire Australian data center operator AirTrunk in a deal valuing the company at around $16.1B (Bloomberg)

Blackstone agrees to acquire Australian data cente...

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In comments to UK's CMA from July 29, Microsoft says Apple's changes to App Review Guidelines aren't enough for it to operate a native iOS Xbox Cloud Gaming app (Tom Warren/The Verge)

In comments to UK's CMA from July 29, Microsoft sa...

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Tokyo-based Sakana AI, which unveiled several AI models for Japanese speakers, raised a $100M Series A led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux, with Nvidia participating (Min Jeong Lee/BNN Bloomberg)

Tokyo-based Sakana AI, which unveiled several AI m...

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Nvidia stock fell 9.5% on Tuesday, losing $279B in market value, the biggest single-day drop for a US company, as investors soften their optimism about AI (Reuters)

Nvidia stock fell 9.5% on Tuesday, losing $279B in...

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Intel should spin off its foundry business, and the US government should subsidize cutting-edge chipmaking in the US via purchase guarantees for US-made chips (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Intel should spin off its foundry business, and th...

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A look at X's shrinking clout in Brazil even before the ban; Twitter, the platform now known as X, once dominated Brazilian social media with 40M+ users (Terrence McCoy/Washington Post)

A look at X's shrinking clout in Brazil even befor...

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Amid poor sales, Sony halts sales and offers refunds for its FPS game Concord, which launched as a $40 PS5 and PC title on August 23 after years of development (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Amid poor sales, Sony halts sales and offers refun...

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Financial analysis: Reed O'Connor, a Texas federal judge overseeing X v. Media Matters, has at least three potential connections with Elon Musk-related entities (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Financial analysis: Reed O'Connor, a Texas federal...

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Researchers detail a side channel attack, requiring ~$11K of worth of equipment, which can be used to clone all YubiKeys running firmware prior to version 5.7 (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Researchers detail a side channel attack, requirin...

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Microsoft says Intel's Core Ultra 200V and AMD's Ryzen AI 300 chips will add Copilot+ AI features starting in November 2024, expanding beyond Qualcomm chips (Will Shanklin/Engadget)

Microsoft says Intel's Core Ultra 200V and AMD's R...

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A test of ~1,300 top games on Microsoft's new Copilot+ PCs finds only about half ran smoothly; Microsoft says some titles with demanding graphics may not play (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)

A test of ~1,300 top games on Microsoft's new Copi...

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Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans and was co-founded by Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, launches in London, its first city outside Sweden (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans...

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China-based MiniMax launches video-01, its text-to-video AI model that generates six-second clips with 1280x720 resolution at 25 fps (Ryan Morrison/Tom's Guide)

China-based MiniMax launches video-01, its text-to...

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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 th...

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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 Financ...

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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 be...

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