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A US district judge dismisses, with prejudice, a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk and Tesla of defrauding investors by hyping Dogecoin and conducting insider trading (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

A US district judge dismisses, with prejudice, a l...

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Bridge, which aims to build a global payment network around stablecoins, raised $40M led by Sequoia and Ribbit, taking its total funding to $58M (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

Bridge, which aims to build a global payment netwo...

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MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $478.1M, vs. $464.1M est., and forecasts Q3 and FY 2025 revenue above estimates; MDB jumps 13%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $478.1M, ...

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Meta is opening up Horizon Worlds to users aged 10 to 12 with parental approval, and rolls out a new age rating system for worlds to help parents supervise kids (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Meta is opening up Horizon Worlds to users aged 10...

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Source: a Brazilian Supreme Court justice blocks Starlink bank accounts in Brazil, to force Elon Musk to pay X's fines; the court has also threatened to block X (Daniel Carvalho/Bloomberg)

Source: a Brazilian Supreme Court justice blocks S...

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Dell Q2: revenue up 9% YoY to $25.06B, vs. $24.53B est., servers and networking revenue up 80% to $7.76B, net income up 85% to $841M; DELL jumps 7%+ after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Dell Q2: revenue up 9% YoY to $25.06B, vs. $24.53B...

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Affirm closed up ~32% on Thursday, its best day in almost three years and its third-biggest rally since Affirm's January 2021 IPO, after beating estimates in Q4 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

Affirm closed up ~32% on Thursday, its best day in...

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Sources: Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, the three most valuable tech companies, are in talks to join the funding round that would value OpenAI at over $100B (Bloomberg)

Sources: Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, the three m...

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Michael Lacey, co-founder of the classified ad site Backpage, gets five years in prison and a $3M fine for money laundering; two other executives get 10 years (New York Times)

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Sources: Apple is in talks to invest in OpenAI as part of a new fundraising round that would value the ChatGPT maker above $100B (Wall Street Journal)

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Magic, which makes AI tools for coding and to automate software development tasks, raised $320M from Eric Schmidt and others, bringing its total raised to $465M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Magic, which makes AI tools for coding and to auto...

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OpenAI says ChatGPT weekly active users doubled since last year to 200M+, 92% of Fortune 500 companies use its tools, and automated API usage doubled since July (Ina Fried/Axios)

OpenAI says ChatGPT weekly active users doubled si...

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Sources: truck sharing platform Fluid Truck, which raised $80M+, has ousted its sibling co-founders, including CEO James Eberhard, after losing tens of millions (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Sources: truck sharing platform Fluid Truck, which...

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Codeium, which offers enterprise AI coding tools, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.25B post-money valuation, and reports 700K+ users and 1K+ enterprise clients (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Meta says its Llama models were downloaded ~350M times, are used by AT&T and other companies, and usage via cloud providers more than doubled from May to July (Katie Paul/Reuters)

Meta says its Llama models were downloaded ~350M t...

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Anti-piracy group ACE says it worked with Hanoi police to shutter Hanoi-based Fmovies and its affiliates, "the largest pirate streaming operation in the world" (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)

Anti-piracy group ACE says it worked with Hanoi po...

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Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are "identical or strikingly similar" to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits ...

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In his upcoming book, Trump says Mark Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and he'd "spend the rest of his life in prison" if he did it again (Alex Isenstadt/Politico)

In his upcoming book, Trump says Mark Zuckerberg p...

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