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Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint venture between Sony and Web3 developer Startale, launches Soneium, a layer-2 blockchain to empower creators, devs, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

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Chinese AI startups, cut off from the most powerful AI chips, are focusing on monetization, writing more efficient code for LLMs, and building smaller models (Wall Street Journal)

Chinese AI startups, cut off from the most powerfu...

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Japanese chipmaker Kioxia applies to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, likely to be Japan's biggest IPO in 2024; source: Kioxia seeks to raise at least $500M (Leo Lewis/Financial Times)

Japanese chipmaker Kioxia applies to list on the T...

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Samsung Galaxy Ring teardown: disposable tech built not to last over two years due to lithium ion batteries that can't be replaced without destroying the device (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)

Samsung Galaxy Ring teardown: disposable tech buil...

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Dealroom: AI coding assistant startups such as Anysphere and Augment have raised $433M so far in 2024 alone, bringing the total since January 2023 to $906M (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Dealroom: AI coding assistant startups such as Any...

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Docs: state-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services from AWS or its rivals to access advanced US chips and AI models they cannot acquire otherwise (Reuters)

Docs: state-linked Chinese entities are using clou...

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Dallas-based Siepe, which provides data management software and services to the private credit industry, raised a $30M Series B led by WestCap (Dallas Innovates)

Dallas-based Siepe, which provides data management...

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The NLRB's general counsel office determines a group of Amazon drivers were employees of Amazon and of the "delivery service partner" company that hired them (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)

The NLRB's general counsel office determines a gro...

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The Pixel 9's AI features have made creating realistic and believable fake photos trivial, and Google's safeguards are astonishingly anemic (Sarah Jeong/The Verge)

The Pixel 9's AI features have made creating reali...

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Shareholders approve upgrading Alibaba's Hong Kong listing, which expects to attract billions of dollars in Chinese investment, to primary status on August 28 (Edwin Chan/Bloomberg)

Shareholders approve upgrading Alibaba's Hong Kong...

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Microsoft confirms the Windows Control Panel, which debuted in 1985 with Windows 1.0, is "in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app" (Sayan Sen/Neowin)

Microsoft confirms the Windows Control Panel, whic...

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Silverbear, an investor named in Bolt's financial docs for a $450M raise, says it was "never in this deal", as some investors consider legal action against Bolt (Forbes)

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Internal memo: Noam Shazeer, the ex-CEO of Character.AI who joined Google this month, will be Gemini co-technical lead and work with Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals (Erin Woo/The Information)

Internal memo: Noam Shazeer, the ex-CEO of Charact...

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Ex-FTX exec Ryan Salame's romantic partner is charged with campaign finance violations, a day after he said the US reneged on his plea deal by investigating her (Bloomberg)

Ex-FTX exec Ryan Salame's romantic partner is char...

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Uber and Cruise sign a "multiyear strategic partnership" to make Cruise's self-driving vehicles available to riders on Uber from 2025 in an undisclosed city (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)

Uber and Cruise sign a "multiyear strategic partne...

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Donald Trump promotes his family's forthcoming crypto platform, The DeFiant Ones, in a post on Truth Social, mentioning a Telegram channel but few other details (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

Donald Trump promotes his family's forthcoming cry...

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NFT marketplace Magic Eden launches a mobile wallet app and will begin using a token to be issued by a foundation that supports the Magic Eden ecosystem (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

NFT marketplace Magic Eden launches a mobile walle...

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Sources: Stripe plans a tender offer to buy back shares held by current employees with its own cash; Stripe is offering $27.51/share, implying a $70B valuation (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

Sources: Stripe plans a tender offer to buy back s...

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