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Sources: Netflix discussed adding streamers like Peacock and Fox One as it seeks to compete with YouTube and Roku in becoming a one-stop shop for TV content (John Koblin/New York Times)

Sources: Netflix discussed adding streamers like P...

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Irish lawmakers reconsider the country's 1999 ban on nuclear power as data centers' growing power demands account for ~25% of the country's electricity use (Jude Webber/Financial Times)

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Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking services across Asia and other emerging markets, raised $68M at a $1B valuation, after raising $51M in May (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking se...

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Sources: ByteDance is merging coding platform Trae and agent-building tool Coze into Doubao, and plans to launch Doubao Work to compete with Tencent's WorkBuddy (Bloomberg)

Sources: ByteDance is merging coding platform Trae...

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Ukraine says Russia used an Nvidia Jetson Orin computing module in its autonomous AI-guided drones; Nvidia says they are widely available on resale markets (Andrew E. Kramer/New York Times)

Ukraine says Russia used an Nvidia Jetson Orin com...

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Ukrainian officials say an AI-guided, fully autonomous Russian drone killed three Ukrainians in a strike on a gas station in the city of Zaporizhzhia (New York Times)

Ukrainian officials say an AI-guided, fully autono...

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Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures at a $6.3B valuation, with Tencent and Alibaba participating (Reuters)

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Xiaomi launches the Xring O3, a 3nm SoC for its mobile devices, as the company seeks to reduce reliance on longtime suppliers Qualcomm and MediaTek (Gao Yuan/Bloomberg)

Xiaomi launches the Xring O3, a 3nm SoC for its mo...

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Alibaba launches Wan3.0, a video generation model that can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages (Reuters)

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US business schools are racing to prepare students to become chief AI officers, even as companies are still figuring out what the newest C-suite role entails (Rthvika Suvarna/Bloomberg)

US business schools are racing to prepare students...

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Global central banks are pushing CBDCs to defend monetary sovereignty against USD stablecoins, but are struggling to find demand for the digital currencies (Jonathan Levin/Bloomberg)

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A look at the collapse of Zondacrypto, Eastern and Central Europe's biggest crypto exchange, which went dark in April and is facing money laundering allegations (Andrew Higgins/New York Times)

A look at the collapse of Zondacrypto, Eastern and...

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Oxford Economics: US corporate spending on equipment and facilities is set to rise 40% between 2021 and 2027, over 3x faster than Europe, driven by the AI race (Financial Times)

Oxford Economics: US corporate spending on equipme...

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New Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for under-16s, requiring "high risk" platforms to check user ages or face penalties of up to 10% of global revenue (Tracy Withers/Bloomberg)

New Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for u...

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Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang (Ina Fried/Axios)

Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to O...

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Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity valuing it at $30B+, after weighing a tech licensing deal and staff hires, as Perplexity hits $750M+ in ARR (The Information)

Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexit...

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Sources: Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury's CFIUS national security review of its $80M deal to buy US clothing retailer Everlane, an unusual move (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)

Sources: Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury'...

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At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records (Telegraph)

At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot m...

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