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Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new exclusivity strategy, saying new games will be reviewed case-by-case and multiplayer games will stay multiplatform (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)

Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new excl...

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Sources: Spotify has approached concert promoters about licensing music festival livestreams, as it pivots to video to become a one-stop shop for music fans (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Sources: Spotify has approached concert promoters ...

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Sources: Beijing-based Moonshot, which makes the Kimi chatbot, is in talks to raise $1B+ that would value it at $30B, up from a $20B valuation in a recent round (Bloomberg)

Sources: Beijing-based Moonshot, which makes the K...

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Microsoft says it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry found Israel's Unit 8200 violated its ToS (The Guardian)

Microsoft says it will tighten human rights contro...

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UK-based Creator Fund closes a $56M fund to back European PhD founders, reaching them in universities before they're pulled into academia, Big Tech, or US labs (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

UK-based Creator Fund closes a $56M fund to back E...

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Fusion energy startup Helion raised a $465M Series G led by Thrive Capital, at a $15.5B valuation, nearly tripling the valuation from its January 2025 raise (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)

Fusion energy startup Helion raised a $465M Series...

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Nvidia and SK Hynix signed a multi-year pact to develop next-gen memory tailored for Nvidia's AI infrastructure roadmap, including for Vera Rubin (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Nvidia and SK Hynix signed a multi-year pact to de...

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Nvidia says South Korea's Naver will use its technology to build AI factories at "gigawatt scale" to meet rising global demand for AI services and physical AI (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)

Nvidia says South Korea's Naver will use its techn...

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As wealth managers confront an AI reckoning, the tech is, for now, easing their workloads by picking up routine tasks, freeing up more time to advise clients (Bloomberg)

As wealth managers confront an AI reckoning, the t...

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KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing (Wall Street Journal)

KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehe...

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Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Ap...

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Memory chip vendors say CXMT's DDR5 prices match Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, and it has a supply advantage in client markets as it is not prioritizing HBM (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)

Memory chip vendors say CXMT's DDR5 prices match S...

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Q&A with Google DeepMind's Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas and Epoch AI's Phil Trammell on what remains scarce after AGI, redistributing AI wealth, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

Q&A with Google DeepMind's Director of AGI Economi...

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ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet applauds the EU's tech sovereignty plans but says substantial EU involvement in steering "strategic projects" is a cause for concern (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet applauds the EU's tech...

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Industry data: India's six largest IT companies grew combined revenue from $95.9B in FY23 to $103.1B in FY26, while headcount remained broadly steady at ~1.9M (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)

Industry data: India's six largest IT companies gr...

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French carriers Bouygues Telecom, Orange, and Free-iliad sign an MOU with Altice France to acquire SFR for €20.35B, including debt, expected to close in H2 2027 (Reuters)

French carriers Bouygues Telecom, Orange, and Free...

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OpenAI plans to overhaul ChatGPT in the coming weeks, turning it into a superapp with coding tools and AI agents to serve as a gateway to higher-margin products (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

OpenAI plans to overhaul ChatGPT in the coming wee...

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How LinkedIn is transforming into a "post-cringe" ...

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