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GitLab is laying off 350 staff, or 14% of its workforce, as it pivots to become an AI-focused enterprise software development platform, and exits 22 countries (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

GitLab is laying off 350 staff, or 14% of its work...

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The EU General Court annuls the EU's designation of Meta's Marketplace as a DMA gatekeeper, citing partial evidence, but upholds the designation for Messenger (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

The EU General Court annuls the EU's designation o...

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Barcelona-based HR software startup Factorial raised a $150M Series D led by General Catalyst at a $2.5B valuation to expand AI agents and grow in Germany (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)

Barcelona-based HR software startup Factorial rais...

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Q&A with labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards on why much of the AI jobs panic is overblown, why the US should start planning for AI job loss outcomes, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Q&A with labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards on w...

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The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google AI search results, giving the company nine months to implement the changes (Imran Rahman-Jones/BBC)

The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be ...

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The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google AI search results, giving the company nine months to implement the changes (Imran Rahman-Jones/BBC)

The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be ...

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London-based Gigaton, which is developing AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass, and chemicals plants, raised a $26M Series A (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

London-based Gigaton, which is developing AI to au...

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French quantum computing startup Quobly, which is developing silicon-based quantum computers, raised a €115M Series A led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ, and STMicro (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

French quantum computing startup Quobly, which is ...

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How India's ambitions to build and export a sovereign AI template are colliding with structural constraints, including a dependence on foreign AI infrastructure (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

How India's ambitions to build and export a sovere...

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UnearthInsight: Indian IT companies have spent $7.1B on acquisitions since the start of 2025 to gain clients, as AI-led pricing pressure weakens organic growth (Shristi Achar/The Economic Times)

UnearthInsight: Indian IT companies have spent $7....

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Mastercard says it plans to offer on-chain settlement using several regulated USD stablecoins, initially supporting USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Mastercard says it plans to offer on-chain settlem...

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Google says it is testing a new toggle inside its Search Console with some UK domain owners, letting them decide whether their sites appear in AI search results (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

Google says it is testing a new toggle inside its ...

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Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~$7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL at a valuation of between ~$52B and ~$59B (Reuters)

Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~$7.4B in its fi...

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Current and former Meta employees detail Alexandr Wang's efforts to revive Meta's AI edge, as Muse Spark boosts confidence despite lagging rivals in coding (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Current and former Meta employees detail Alexandr ...

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University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a "worm" powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

University of Toronto researchers claim to have de...

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Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app t...

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Source: SpaceX plans to raise $75B in its IPO by selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, an unusual move since most companies set a price range before the roadshow (Echo Wang/Reuters)

Source: SpaceX plans to raise $75B in its IPO by s...

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Source: Google asked Google Play app devs to join a "confidential content offer pilot", offering to pay for access to codebases to use them to train AI tools (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Source: Google asked Google Play app devs to join ...

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