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China, the leading producer of rare minerals, has made it harder in recent weeks for foreign companies, particularly chip makers, to buy such materials in China (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)

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A look at Factorio, a strategy video game that is a cult hit among tech workers with ~4M copies sold over eight years, as it releases its first expansion pack (Financial Times)

A look at Factorio, a strategy video game that is ...

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Sources: Google plans to preview an AI product codenamed Jarvis, which takes over a user's web browser to complete tasks like booking a flight, in December (Erin Woo/The Information)

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An interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on his background and the founding of Salesforce, his vision for AI, Agentforce, data and disruption, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

An interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on h...

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An interview with Humane co-founders Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri on dealing with the reaction to the AI Pin, plans to license its CosmOS, and more (Om Malik/Crazy Stupid Tech)

An interview with Humane co-founders Bethany Bongi...

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Alibaba agrees to a $443.5M settlement in a US shareholder lawsuit alleging that Alibaba hurt investors by making misstatements about its exclusivity practices (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

Alibaba agrees to a $443.5M settlement in a US sha...

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Analysis: X is on track to fall well short of its goal of $100M in 2024 political ad revenue, raising just $15M to date, mainly from GOP and Trump campaigns (Financial Times)

Analysis: X is on track to fall well short of its ...

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The ramifications of a potential US crackdown against Tether, a noticeable player in the market for US debt, will extend beyond the digital asset industry (Bloomberg)

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Estimated Vision Pro 2024 sales are only slightly less than the reported peak production capacity, implying sales are almost in line with Apple's expectations (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Estimated Vision Pro 2024 sales are only slightly ...

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Chinese self-driving company WeRide's shares closed up 6.8% at $16.55, giving a market cap of ~$4.5B, after raising $440.5M in a US IPO and private placement (David Morris/Bloomberg)

Chinese self-driving company WeRide's shares close...

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Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary (Associated Press)

Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI'...

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Accel registers with the US SEC as an investment adviser to tap private markets, joining Sequoia, a16z, Bessemer, and other VC firms that made a similar move (Bloomberg)

Accel registers with the US SEC as an investment a...

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Accel registers with the US SEC as an investment adviser to tap private markets, joining Sequoia, a16z, Bessemer, and other VC firms that made a similar move (Bloomberg)

Accel registers with the US SEC as an investment a...

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Brain-computer interface company Science Corporation says its retinal implant, which has a 2mm chip, let some blind people read, play cards, and recognize faces (Emily Mullin/Wired)

Brain-computer interface company Science Corporati...

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Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize customer interactions, raised a $43M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $285M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and ...

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Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3M customers, and cost the carrier over $500M (David Shepardson/Reuters)

Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage ...

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A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that Masimo's smartwatches infringed Apple Watch design patents; Apple sought statutory minimum damages (Christopher Yasiejko/Bloomberg Law)

A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that ...

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The US Copyright Office denies a request from video game preservationists to let libraries, archives, and museums lend games via remote access for study (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

The US Copyright Office denies a request from vide...

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