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Similarweb: Bluesky's mobile MAUs fell 27% YoY to 10.4M in June and DAUs fell 26% to 3M in July; X's mobile MAUs fell 3% to 302M and DAUs fell 7% to 123.7M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal agree to sell payments company Moneris to PE firm Francisco Partners for CA$2B in cash, splitting proceeds equally (Bloomberg)

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Sources: David Sacks' Craft Ventures is targeting around $1B for a new fund, its first since Sacks stepped down as the White House AI and crypto czar (The Information)

Sources: David Sacks' Craft Ventures is targeting ...

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SpaceXAI rolls out Grok Bot AI agent app in beta on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux, initially for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium users (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

SpaceXAI rolls out Grok Bot AI agent app in beta o...

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Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T+ parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models (The Information)

Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model w...

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Sundar Pichai says Gemini has hit 1B+ MAUs, the company's fastest-growing product ever and its 14th product to hit the 1B-user mark (Sundar Pichai/@sundarpichai)

Sundar Pichai says Gemini has hit 1B+ MAUs, the co...

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Brad Lightcap, who most recently led OpenAI's special projects division and formerly was its COO, says he is leaving the company "to start something new" (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Brad Lightcap, who most recently led OpenAI's spec...

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Flight tracking platform FlightAware sues Kalshi in New York, alleging Kalshi is using its data without permission to let users bet on flight cancellations (Jack Morphet/Wall Street Journal)

Flight tracking platform FlightAware sues Kalshi i...

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Sources: Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni pushed for and were aware for seven months of using "cookie stuffing" to claim affiliate commissions (Bloomberg)

Sources: Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia ...

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eToro agrees to acquire US-focused online brokerage TradeZero for up to $231M in cash and stock; TradeZero had ~$80M in revenue over the 12 months ended June 30 (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

eToro agrees to acquire US-focused online brokerag...

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Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple,...

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River Markets, which gives professional traders a single place to trade across multiple prediction markets, raised an $8.5M seed led by Haun Ventures (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)

River Markets, which gives professional traders a ...

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Manus says it will "soon return to operating as an independent company", implying it is close to finalizing the reversal of its acquisition by Meta (Jing Yang/The Information)

Manus says it will "soon return to operating as an...

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TSMC and Sony plan to establish Advanced Vision Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp, a $4.69B JV in Japan to make next-gen smartphone image sensors from 2029 (Reuters)

TSMC and Sony plan to establish Advanced Vision Se...

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Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B-parameter MoE model that it says delivers up to 4x faster output speeds, and an agentic AI model router (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30...

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Spotify plans to roll out AI Persona labeling in mid-September for profiles that do "not represent a real person"; the system uses human review and AI tools (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Spotify plans to roll out AI Persona labeling in m...

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Bumble rolls out a global update letting any user send an opening message after matching, a major reversal from its signature women-go-first model (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Bumble rolls out a global update letting any user ...

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Apple's iOS 27 beta 5 contains references to six unreleased iPhones: iPhone Air 2, iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, iPhone 18, iPhone Ultra, and iPhone 18e (Filipe Esposito/Macworld)

Apple's iOS 27 beta 5 contains references to six u...

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