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Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to ~$48B and net profit up 6% YoY to ~$1.08B, above ~$1.04B est., on strong AI server demand; its stock is up ~80% in 2024 (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)

Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to ~$48B and...

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xAI launches Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta with improved reasoning capabilities, available to X Premium and Premium+ users; the API will debut later in August (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

xAI launches Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta with i...

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Google says Gemini will replace Google Assistant as the default on the Google Pixel 9 lineup, but "users can go back to the classic Google Assistant" (Pranav Dixit/Engadget)

Google says Gemini will replace Google Assistant a...

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A look at challenges Google faces ahead of Pixel 9 launch in India; IDC: Google's smartphone shipments in India grew over 1,300% in 2023 to a 0.5% market share (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

A look at challenges Google faces ahead of Pixel 9...

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Guidewheel, which offers plug-and-play sensors to make factory machines smarter, raised a $31M Series B led by BlackRock and Temasek's Decarbonization Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Guidewheel, which offers plug-and-play sensors to ...

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Chinese self-driving startup WeRide gets permission to test its robotaxis with passengers in California after testing without passengers in San Jose since 2021 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Chinese self-driving startup WeRide gets permissio...

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A look at the growth of free streaming service Tubi, which does not require an account to use, is entirely dependent on ad revenue, and is not yet profitable (John Koblin/New York Times)

A look at the growth of free streaming service Tub...

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US District Judge Reed O'Connor recuses himself from X's advertiser lawsuit over an alleged ad boycott; O'Connor held stock in Tesla and Unilever (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

US District Judge Reed O'Connor recuses himself fr...

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US District Judge Reed O'Connor recuses himself from X's advertiser lawsuit over an alleged ad boycott; O'Connor held stock in Tesla and Unilever (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

US District Judge Reed O'Connor recuses himself fr...

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Filing: Intel sold its 1.18M shares in Arm during the second quarter, which, based on the stock's average price in Q2, would have raised ~$147M for the company (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Filing: Intel sold its 1.18M shares in Arm during ...

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A US judge rules that a group of artists can pursue some copyright infringement claims in their lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, and other companies (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

A US judge rules that a group of artists can pursu...

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Google announces Android accessibility updates, including an easier-to-use Guided Frame for photos, AI features for Magnifier, and new Live Caption languages (Abrar Al-Heeti/CNET)

Google announces Android accessibility updates, in...

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Researchers describe now-fixed vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Azure Health Bot Service that allowed a user to access and manage other customers' resources (Nathan Eddy/Dark Reading)

Researchers describe now-fixed vulnerabilities in ...

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Researchers describe now-fixed vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Azure Health Bot Service that allowed a user to access and manage other customers' resources (Nathan Eddy/Dark Reading)

Researchers describe now-fixed vulnerabilities in ...

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Hands-on with Pixel 9's AI camera features: Add Me, Reimagine, Autoframe, Zoom Enhance, and improvements to Video Boost and panoramas (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

Hands-on with Pixel 9's AI camera features: Add Me...

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Sources: after Google's monopoly ruling, the DOJ considers options including forcing a breakup of the company or requiring it to share more data with rivals (Bloomberg)

Sources: after Google's monopoly ruling, the DOJ c...

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NIST publishes its first three post-quantum cryptography standards; IBM's director of research thinks quantum computing will hit an inflection point around 2030 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

NIST publishes its first three post-quantum crypto...

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Deep-Live-Cam, a deepfake software project that lets users impersonate others on a webcam livestream, goes viral and was briefly the top trending GitHub repo (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Deep-Live-Cam, a deepfake software project that le...

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