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A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI (SemiAnalysis)

A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in t...

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Sources: Manus investors and management are discussing unwinding Meta's $2B buyout at the same valuation, with Tencent in talks to become the largest investor (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Sources: Manus investors and management are discus...

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Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a fivefold return for Carlyle (Financial Times)

Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and in...

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Oxylabs, which develops web data scraping infrastructure, received a $130M investment at a $3.6B valuation from Warburg Pincus, its first outside investment (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Oxylabs, which develops web data scraping infrastr...

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MiniMax is looking to raise as much as $1.9B by selling 35.6M shares at ~$34 each and offering ~$830M in convertible bonds due 2027 (Bloomberg)

MiniMax is looking to raise as much as $1.9B by se...

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1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give it 25 degrees of freedom of movement, nearly the same as a human hand (Boone Ashworth/Wired)

1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered han...

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How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books (Rose Horowitch/The Atlantic)

How the internet, smartphones, social media, and n...

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SAP will make it easier for customers to switch to rival service providers or end contracts, averting a possible EU antitrust fine after a September 2025 probe (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

SAP will make it easier for customers to switch to...

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SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for $149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed (Bloomberg)

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the largest ever US mark...

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Fidji Simo is stepping down from her full-time role at OpenAI because her medical condition has worsened, and will become a part-time adviser (Wall Street Journal)

Fidji Simo is stepping down from her full-time rol...

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Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforceme...

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Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worri...

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Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is stepping down after six years; VP of legal Molly Abraham moves into his role with the title of general counsel (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is st...

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Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI (Andrew Ackerman/Washington Post)

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andre...

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Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google says it will automatically add a disclosure...

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PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 20...

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Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fable 5 on July 12, aims to return the model to Claude's subscription plans "when sufficient capacity allows" (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fabl...

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The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp (Sam Clark/Politico)

The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech com...

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