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ESA satellite images show damage to two Amazon data centers in Bahrain, supporting Iran's claims last week that it struck the sites; Amazon declined to comment (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)

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Apple launches Apple Upgrade, a new US leasing program in partnership with Klarna that replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program, starting at $17.99/month for iPhones (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple launches Apple Upgrade, a new US leasing pro...

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PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $8.68B, above $8.47B est., transaction margin dollars up 1% YoY to $3.9B, and a $1.1B profit, down from $1.26B in Q2 2025 (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)

PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $8.68B, abo...

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Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating several flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)

Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, depreca...

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European police say Binance's April 2025 policy asking law enforcement to route certain requests to foreign governments significantly delays criminal probes (New York Times)

European police say Binance's April 2025 policy as...

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CXMT's IPO delivers a windfall for Hefei, an eastern China inland industrial city, with the government sitting on 5,000%+ paper gains after an early investment (William Sandlund/Financial Times)

CXMT's IPO delivers a windfall for Hefei, an easte...

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AI Forensics: seven out of the nine top AI image models on Hugging Face edited an image of a clothed woman into a topless one using a simple six-word prompt (Matt Burgess/Wired)

AI Forensics: seven out of the nine top AI image m...

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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)

Sources: Nvidia signs leases worth up to $50B for ...

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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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