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Berlin-based Distribusion, a B2B marketplace connecting ground transportation providers and online travel retailers, raised an $80M Series C led by TQ Ventures (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Berlin-based Distribusion, a B2B marketplace conne...

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Starlink crosses 4M customers; it started beta services in October 2020 and hit 1M subscribers in December 2022, 2M in September 2023, and 3M in May 2024 (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch)

Starlink crosses 4M customers; it started beta ser...

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Discord opens Activities, its ecosystem of apps and games, to all developers, letting them distribute and monetize apps on Discord via its Embedded Apps SDK (Rachel Kaser/VentureBeat)

Discord opens Activities, its ecosystem of apps an...

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Source: Amazon exceeded its goal of $1.8B in ad-spending commitments for its video-streaming offerings, including Thursday Night Football, in the coming year (The Information)

Source: Amazon exceeded its goal of $1.8B in ad-sp...

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Hugging Face surpasses 1M AI model listings for the first time; the platform began as a chatbot app in 2016 before becoming a hub for AI models in 2020 (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Hugging Face surpasses 1M AI model listings for th...

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Indian food delivery company Swiggy files for an IPO in India; source: Swiggy plans to raise $1.25B at a $15B valuation (Reuters)

Indian food delivery company Swiggy files for an I...

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X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked JD Vance dossier; X suspended the newsletter author Ken Klippenstein's account (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)

X is preventing users from posting links to a news...

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The US FCC levies a $6M fine on Steve Kramer, who used AI to mimic Biden's voice and made thousands of robocalls to New Hampshire voters in early 2024 (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)

The US FCC levies a $6M fine on Steve Kramer, who ...

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LG Display agrees to sell its stake in its large LCD display plant in China to TCL's LCD unit CSOT for ~$1.54B; LG will now no longer make LCD panels in China (Reuters)

LG Display agrees to sell its stake in its large L...

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Sources: Robinhood and Revolut are exploring offering their own stablecoins; Tether's USDT has grown to $120B, accounting for over two-thirds of market value (Bloomberg)

Sources: Robinhood and Revolut are exploring offer...

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Samsung unveils the 14.6" Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra and 12.4" Galaxy Tab S10+, which are "built with AI enhancements", available for $1,200+ and $999+, respectively (Billy Steele/Engadget)

Samsung unveils the 14.6" Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra and...

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Samsung unveils the $649+ Galaxy S24 FE, a "Fan Edition" value-focused version of the S24 with a 6.7" display, Exynos 2400e, and 8GB of RAM, in five colors (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Samsung unveils the $649+ Galaxy S24 FE, a "Fan Ed...

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Google updates its AI note-taking assistant NotebookLM to let users get summaries of YouTube videos and audio files, and create sharable AI audio discussions (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Google updates its AI note-taking assistant Notebo...

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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2426, which forces digital stores to tell customers they are getting a revocable license when "buying" digital media (Emma Roth/The Verge)

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2426, w...

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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2426, which forces digital stores to tell customers they are getting a revocable license when "buying" digital media (Emma Roth/The Verge)

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2426, w...

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Israel-based GEOX, which uses AI to analyze real estate risk from climate-related disasters, raised a $19M Series A, bringing its total funding to $23M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Israel-based GEOX, which uses AI to analyze real e...

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Sources: Tencent is the unidentified shareholder that raised about $206M after selling Chinese brokerage-platform Futu's American depositary shares (Bloomberg)

Sources: Tencent is the unidentified shareholder t...

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Sources: the DOJ is investigating Super Micro after a report by short-seller Hindenburg Research; an ex-employee accused the company of accounting violations (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: the DOJ is investigating Super Micro afte...

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