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Nvidia lost $1T in market value over the past two months, dropping 16% from its May all-time-high, trading at 18x forward earnings, its lowest level since 2019 (Bloomberg)

Nvidia lost $1T in market value over the past two ...

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The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro (Madison Mills/Axios)

The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire No...

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Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds using its AI-based FlowGPT and Emochi tools, raised $60M from B Capital and others, and says Emochi has 2M DAUs (Corbin Bolies/Variety)

Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds us...

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Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)

Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches ...

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SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to raise ~$28B on the Nasdaq: highly leveraged to HBM, extensive ties to China, and health and safety issues (Tim Culpan/Culpium)

SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to...

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Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026 (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)

Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa ...

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DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block video ads by default, particularly those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists (Anna Washenko/Engadget)

DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, a...

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Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, with $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos (New York Times)

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B a...

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Filing: Chinese AI model maker Z.ai is seeking to raise ~$4B from the sale of 19.8M shares at ~$202 to ~$216 each, after its stock jumped 1,500% since January (Bloomberg)

Filing: Chinese AI model maker Z.ai is seeking to ...

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Israeli startup Velocity, which helps place targeted ads on consumer and B2B AI platforms, raised a $27M seed led by NFX and Red Dot, and serves 20 clients (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Israeli startup Velocity, which helps place target...

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Omdia expects a 22% YoY drop in global smartphone shipments priced below $400 for 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND costs; Q1 memory costs were ~60% of materials (Zaker Li/Omdia)

Omdia expects a 22% YoY drop in global smartphone ...

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Sources: Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model, dubbed M3 Pro and set for release as early as Q3, and plans to open-source it (Juro Osawa/The Information)

Sources: Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working o...

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Apple says it reached a $30B+ deal with Broadcom to produce 15B chips on US soil in the next five years, its largest pledge as part of its $600B US investments (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)

Apple says it reached a $30B+ deal with Broadcom t...

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South Korea's Kospi index is down 20%+ from its record high in June, falling 5%+ on Wednesday; Samsung and SK Hynix fall 5%+ amid long-term chip deal concerns (Financial Times)

South Korea's Kospi index is down 20%+ from its re...

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France's competition watchdog orders Meta to negotiate in good faith with news organizations over copyright payments, after two groups filed complaints in 2025 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

France's competition watchdog orders Meta to negot...

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China's CNVD says it found "security backdoor vulnerabilities" in Claude Code that "send sensitive information" like "location and identity to remote servers" (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

China's CNVD says it found "security backdoor vuln...

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The EU General Court dismisses Apple's legal challenges against its designation as a DMA "gatekeeper" for its App Store and iOS; Apple filed the case in 2024 (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

The EU General Court dismisses Apple's legal chall...

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Chip startup SambaNova raised a $1B Series F led by General Atlantic at an $11B valuation and signs JPMorgan as a customer to deploy its chips for in-house AI (Bloomberg)

Chip startup SambaNova raised a $1B Series F led b...

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