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Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade to the Echo Show 15 from 2022, with a 21" 1080p display and auto-framing camera, and updates the Echo Show 15 (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

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A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to "time served", meaning no jail time; Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud charges after FTX collapsed (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

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GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile internet, or 57% of the world; mobile subscriber growth fell to 160M in 2024, down from 200M per year in 2015-2021 (Rest of World)

GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile inte...

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Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring company LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)

Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure ...

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Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source ent...

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Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: identical to the Watch 7 with similar health features, but has the guts of a three-year-old Watch 4, poor battery, and one size (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: identical to the W...

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Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024 (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes Online)

Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera rai...

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How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits (David Streitfeld/New York Times)

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of co...

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As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing AI training returns, a break from the market hype could be useful, just as with previous innovations (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see di...

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Google tightens its rules against "parasite SEO" content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on "reputation abuse" (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Google tightens its rules against "parasite SEO" c...

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SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China's chip self-reliance push (Bloomberg)

SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a S...

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Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the absence of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for an IPO (Richard Milne/Financial Times)

Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Eu...

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ProRata, which is launching an AI search engine next month, inks licensing deals with DMG Media and more; sources say DMG bought a stake that values it at $130M (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

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An investigation reveals how 3B+ phone coordinates collected by a US data broker Datastream expose movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany (Wired)

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How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn new skills and tasks (Financial Times)

How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision...

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How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI...

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AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI regulation to protect the public (Yoshua Bengio/Financial Times)

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's...

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TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply (Nikkei Asia)

TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate r...

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