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Sources: Taiwan detained an Nvidia employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China, after searching his home and office on July 24 (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Sources: Taiwan detained an Nvidia employee as par...

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Baidu begins testing its purpose-built Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis with human safety operators in outer London; Baidu plans to deploy the taxis on Lyft's Freenow (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Baidu begins testing its purpose-built Apollo Go R...

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LSEG data: prices for credit default swaps, a closely watched gauge of risk, tied to Oracle, SpaceX, Alphabet, Nvidia, and others rise sharply to record highs (Financial Times)

LSEG data: prices for credit default swaps, a clos...

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Meta and BlackRock form a strategic venture to develop a 1GW data center campus in El Paso, set to cost ~$14B and bring capacity online starting in 2028 (Meta Newsroom)

Meta and BlackRock form a strategic venture to dev...

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Sources: Nvidia signs leases worth up to $50B for Hut 8's planned 1GW data center in Texas, hosting hundreds of thousands of chips; Hut 8 didn't name its client (Financial Times)

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Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most ...

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A profile of Justin Sun, who made his fortune in t...

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Cursor introduces Cursor Start, a ~$7 monthly subscription exclusive to India, its third-largest market, priced below its standard $20 Pro monthly subscription (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Cursor introduces Cursor Start, a ~$7 monthly subs...

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How Chinese platforms like ActID and New Claw are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, often using vague licensing terms (Rest of World)

How Chinese platforms like ActID and New Claw are ...

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At market open, Korean chipmakers' stocks plunged, with Samsung Electronics dropping 9%+, SK Hynix down 11%+, and the Korea Composite Stock Price Index down 8%+ (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)

At market open, Korean chipmakers' stocks plunged,...

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ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy a...

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Several digital-asset treasury firms have pivoted to AI amid a slump in crypto prices, but their poor stock performance suggests the strategy is not working (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)

Several digital-asset treasury firms have pivoted ...

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Apple releases updates for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS with a huge number of security fixes; macOS Tahoe 26.6 alone addresses 155 CVEs (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Apple releases updates for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, wat...

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Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a "noindex" tag (Maddy Varner/Wired)

Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search resu...

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Dario Amodei says Anthropic has never backed an open-weights model ban, lists reasons top chips shouldn't be sold to China, calls for global model testing, more (Anthropic)

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has never backed an op...

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Cadence reports Q2 revenue up 24.2% YoY to $1.58B and raises its annual revenue forecast to between $6.26B and $6.34B vs. $6.21B est.; CDNS up 4%+ after hours (Reuters)

Cadence reports Q2 revenue up 24.2% YoY to $1.58B ...

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A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking Minnesota from enforcing a newly enacted law that banned prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction bl...

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French carrier Orange and infrastructure investor Morrison agree to create a data center platform in France targeting 400 MW, backed by a €3B investment program (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)

French carrier Orange and infrastructure investor ...

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