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How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became its wealthiest hub; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household incomes of $146K, 5x the average (New York Times)

How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, b...

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Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost $79.99, or $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; pre-orders start at midnight tonight (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for Nove...

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How Chicago is betting on quantum computing, including turning the site of the former US Steel mill into a campus, after largely missing the digital revolution (Jeanne Whalen/Wall Street Journal)

How Chicago is betting on quantum computing, inclu...

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Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, hiring entry-level staff, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels betw...

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Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing it at ~$2.5B and listing under ticker symbol AGLT (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public vi...

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SK Hynix says it is seeking to raise ~$29.4B in a US listing, expects trading to start on July 10, and intends to use the funds for building additional capacity (Bloomberg)

SK Hynix says it is seeking to raise ~$29.4B in a ...

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An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Disney's CEO, his legacy, new CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Chapek, Apple, Disney+, purchasing Pixar, AI, and more (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Dis...

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Sources: Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, based partly on connectivity tech from Alphawave Semi, which Qualcomm acquired in 2025 (Reuters)

Sources: Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chi...

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SK Hynix overtaking Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company is the culmination of 14 years of bets on HBM, which paid off as the AI boom took off (Reuters)

SK Hynix overtaking Samsung to become South Korea'...

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Sources: India drives 50%+ of WhatsApp's revenue, generating $1B+ annually, largely via business messaging, likely helping Kunal Shah get WhatsApp's top job (Moneycontrol)

Sources: India drives 50%+ of WhatsApp's revenue, ...

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London-based Isometric, which develops AI agents that work with human verifiers to automate industrial certification, raised a €34M Series A led by AVP (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)

London-based Isometric, which develops AI agents t...

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New York-based Probook, which is building an AI operating system for home service businesses, raised a $34M Series A led by a16z and a $6M seed led by Sequoia (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

New York-based Probook, which is building an AI op...

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AI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $83M and claims to have 30M users, releases the open weights for its image model Krea 2 under a custom license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

AI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $...

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Sources: Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar Hong Kong share sale after its stock surged 2,000% since its January IPO, pushing its market cap above $128B (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)

Sources: Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dolla...

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Customer engagement service MoEngage acquires Aampe, whose AI agents help brands personalize messaging, for "tens of millions", per a source; Aampe raised ~$28M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Customer engagement service MoEngage acquires Aamp...

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Sources: prices for Nvidia's AI chips on China's black market have more than doubled amid a US export crackdown; its flagship DGX B300 server has risen to $1.1M (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Sources: prices for Nvidia's AI chips on China's b...

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Flipkart says it plans to expand its network of micro-fulfillment centers in India to 1,500 by the end of 2026, as it also claims orders have grown ~400% YoY (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Flipkart says it plans to expand its network of mi...

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Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero, which has 19M+ registered users and $30M in annual recurring revenue; PitchBook: GPTZero is valued at $88M+ (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)

Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero, ...

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