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LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims has been "thoroughly cleaned" of CSAM (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to tr...

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The City of Columbus, OH, sues security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of sharing data stolen by a ransomware gang with media (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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Google says Search AI Overviews, Gemini image generation, and other AI products will not respond to election-related topics ahead of the US elections (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Google says Search AI Overviews, Gemini image gene...

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Sources: the cryptology part of France's charges against Pavel Durov raises concerns at providers of messaging apps with E2EE, like Signal, Apple, and WhatsApp (New York Times)

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Investor note: 360 One values Indian startup VerSe, which operates popular news aggregator Dailyhunt, at $2.9B, down from $5B in April 2022 when it raised $805M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Investor note: 360 One values Indian startup VerSe...

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Once hesitant to openly comment about politics, German tech leaders publicly voice their opposition to the far-right AfD ahead of Sunday's state elections (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)

Once hesitant to openly comment about politics, Ge...

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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)

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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 marketpl...

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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)

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As Russia plans a trial of cross-border payments using crypto, some senior Russian leaders suggest it can help counter sanctions; experts doubt it will work (CoinDesk)

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Sources: Amazon's revamped "Remarkable" Alexa, due for release in October, will be powered by Anthropic's Claude, with plans to charge users $5 to $10/month (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Sources: Amazon's revamped "Remarkable" Alexa, due...

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China's top antitrust regulator says it has seen "effective results" that Alibaba has ceased the monopolistic practices that prompted an investigation in 2020 (Bloomberg)

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A look at Google's HeAR, a bioacoustics healthcare AI model trained 300M sounds, including 100M cough sounds, to analyze users' coughs and detect tuberculosis (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

A look at Google's HeAR, a bioacoustics healthcare...

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Sources: Tencent and NetEase reconsider or scale back Japanese game studio investments, after the strategy yielded few hit games and the Chinese market revived (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Intel explores options to cope with historic slump, including a split of its product and foundry units and potentially scrapping some factory projects (Bloomberg)

Sources: Intel explores options to cope with histo...

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Analysts and industry execs say Nvidia's Blackwell engineering challenges stem from combining two new processors and several memory components in a single chip (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

Analysts and industry execs say Nvidia's Blackwell...

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Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises $340M at a $5B valuation, up from $3.6B in June 2024, in a round led by General Catalyst (Reuters)

Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises...

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Alibaba releases Qwen2-VL, a new AI model that it says can analyze videos longer than 20 minutes to summarize and answer questions about the videos' content (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Alibaba releases Qwen2-VL, a new AI model that it ...

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