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Nvidia partners with startup Firmus on Project Southgate, a $2.9B initial undertaking to build renewable energy-powered AI data centers across Australia (Keira Wright/Bloomberg)

Nvidia partners with startup Firmus on Project Sou...

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South Korea's AI textbook program, meant to personalize learning, was rolled back after just four months after complaints about inaccuracies and extra workload (Junhyup Kwon/Rest of World)

South Korea's AI textbook program, meant to person...

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TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to ~$14.8B, beating est., after previously reporting a 30% rise in revenue, the latest sign of robust spending on AI chips (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to ~$14.8B, ...

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Sources: Microsoft aims to produce most new products, including servers and Surface laptops, outside China from 2026; AWS is also adopting a similar strategy (Nikkei Asia)

Sources: Microsoft aims to produce most new produc...

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Huawei's key partners SiCarrier and Qiyunfang showcased chipmaking gear and EDA software at a Shenzhen expo; SiCarrier's gear competes with older US products (Bloomberg)

Huawei's key partners SiCarrier and Qiyunfang show...

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YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K+ full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (David Wheeldon/YouTube Official Blog)

YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the...

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Investigation: the Trump family's crypto empire has reaped over $1B in pre-tax profits over the past year; Eric Trump says the true figure is "probably more" (Financial Times)

Investigation: the Trump family's crypto empire ha...

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The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and other corporate donors to the $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump (Wall Street Journal)

The White House says representatives from Microsof...

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OpenAI says all Sora 2 users can now generate videos up to 15 seconds on the app and web, while Pro users can generate videos up to 25 seconds on the web (@openai)

OpenAI says all Sora 2 users can now generate vide...

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Liberate, which builds AI agents to automate insurance operations, raised a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures at a $300M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Liberate, which builds AI agents to automate insur...

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Basis Theory, which provides data management and payments infrastructure tools, raised a $33M Series B led by Costanoa, taking its total funding to $50M (David Penn/Finovate)

Basis Theory, which provides data management and p...

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Sources: F5's breach is blamed on China, whose hackers had infiltrated F5's network for at least 12 months using the Brickstorm malware to steal source code (Bloomberg)

Sources: F5's breach is blamed on China, whose hac...

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Campfire, an AI-powered ERP and accounting services provider, raised a $65M Series B co-led by Accel and Ribbit Capital, after raising a $35M Series A in June (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Campfire, an AI-powered ERP and accounting service...

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Google releases Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), a 27B-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on its Gemma family of open models (The Keyword)

Google releases Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale...

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Paxos says it "mistakenly minted" $300T worth of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday and "burned" the tokens a little over 20 minutes later (Ryan S. Gladwin/Decrypt)

Paxos says it "mistakenly minted" $300T worth of P...

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Documents: Rhoda AI, which raised a $162.6M Series A in April, and Genesis AI, which raised a $105M seed earlier this year, have been developing humanoid robots (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Documents: Rhoda AI, which raised a $162.6M Series...

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Salesforce says it expects FY 2030 revenue of $60B+, vs. $58.37B est., excluding impact from the $8B pending acquisition of data management company Informatica (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Salesforce says it expects FY 2030 revenue of $60B...

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Sources: Apple executive Ke Yang, who was appointed just weeks ago as head of a team developing AI-driven web search for Siri, is leaving for Meta (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple executive Ke Yang, who was appointe...

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