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Coinbase launches its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, on the Ethereum and Base networks, supported by various DeFi services for trading, lending, and as collateral (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

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Novatus, which helps financial companies like Revolut manage their data to comply with regulations, raised $40M at a ~$150M post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Novatus, which helps financial companies like Revo...

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Analysis: VC investments in AI startups have reached $64.1B, ~30% of total VC dollars invested, so far in 2024 amid questions about whether it will pay off (Wall Street Journal)

Analysis: VC investments in AI startups have reach...

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Memo: Microsoft is laying off 650 staff from its gaming business, bringing the cuts in its gaming business to 2,550 jobs since acquiring Activision Blizzard (Wesley Yin-Poole/IGN)

Memo: Microsoft is laying off 650 staff from its g...

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A look at the tough options before Intel's board, including scaling back factory projects, selling off subsidiaries, or splitting Intel's core operations (Ian King/Bloomberg)

A look at the tough options before Intel's board, ...

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Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into Google's GDPR compliance over using the personal information of EU users for training foundational AI models (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into Google's...

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The UK gives data centers Critical National Infrastructure designation, enabling the government to coordinate better against hackers and unexpected cyber events (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

The UK gives data centers Critical National Infras...

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WhatsApp brings Meta Verified badges to small businesses in India, starting at ~$8/month, and gives them the ability to send customized messages to customers (TechCrunch)

WhatsApp brings Meta Verified badges to small busi...

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Researchers detail gaining the ability to generate counterfeit HTTPS certificates and more after acquiring an expired WHOIS server domain for the .mobi TLD (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Researchers detail gaining the ability to generate...

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A 397-page EC report, released shortly before CJEU's verdicts against Apple and Google, says the EU's competition enforcement can be "harmful to innovation" (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

A 397-page EC report, released shortly before CJEU...

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Centricity, a digital wealth management service for financial advisers and asset managers, raised a $20M seed led by Lightspeed India at a $125M valuation (The Economic Times)

Centricity, a digital wealth management service fo...

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Tune.fm, a music streaming service with an integrated NFT marketplace that offers blockchain micropayments to artists, raised $50M from Global Emerging Markets (Ana Paula Pereira/Cointelegraph)

Tune.fm, a music streaming service with an integra...

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Infineon says it has developed 300mm gallium nitride wafers, which can produce 2.3x more chips than 200mm wafers and speed their adoption for AI applications (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Infineon says it has developed 300mm gallium nitri...

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Nevada is working with Google to launch a generative AI tool that will issue recommendations to human referees on whether unemployed workers should get benefits (Todd Feathers/Gizmodo)

Nevada is working with Google to launch a generati...

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Sources: Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon, which raised $70M in 2022 from a16z and others, is refunding investors after failing to launch its Goddess Nature Token (Sarah Emerson/Forbes)

Sources: Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon, which raised $...

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AST SpaceMobile's stock is up ~1,300% since a record low in April 2024 and following deals with AT&T and Verizon in May to provide wireless service from space (Bloomberg)

AST SpaceMobile's stock is up ~1,300% since a reco...

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A look at Apple's Private Cloud Compute for Apple Intelligence, which Craig Federighi says allows personal data to be "sealed inside of a privacy bubble" (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

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Vancouver-based Spare, whose software helps transit agencies offer transport services based on riders' own needs, raised a CA$42M Series B led by Inovia Capital (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)

Vancouver-based Spare, whose software helps transi...

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Altera CEO denies a report that Intel plans to outright sell Altera, saying the plan is to sell a stake in the business and push for an IPO of the unit by 2026 (CRN)

Altera CEO denies a report that Intel plans to out...

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Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media closed down over 10% after Trump's debate with Harris, ending at their lowest level since they began publicly trading (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media closed do...

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Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise $6.5B in equity financing at a $150B valuation and raise $5B in debt from banks in the form of a revolving credit facility (Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise $6.5B in equi...

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Google adds Audio Overview to NotebookLM, letting users turn documents into audio discussions with two AI hosts that summarize and explain the source material (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Bluesky rolls out the ability to post videos of up to 60 seconds with optional attached subtitles; each post can contain one video, and adult content is allowed (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky rolls out the ability to post videos of up...

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Adobe says generative AI features powered by its Firefly Video model will be available before the end of 2024 on the Premiere Pro beta app and on a free website (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Adobe says generative AI features powered by its F...

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Seoul-based Spoon Labs, which operates an audio streamer called Spoon and a short video app called Vigloo, raised ~$89.3M from PUBG publisher Krafton (Marie Dealessandri/GamesIndustry.biz)

Seoul-based Spoon Labs, which operates an audio st...

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Google starts linking to The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine in Search, letting users view archived versions of pages as part of "About this page" feature (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Google starts linking to The Internet Archive's Wa...

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Qualifyze, which makes audit management and compliance software for pharmaceutical companies, raised a $54M Series B, bringing its total funding to $84M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Qualifyze, which makes audit management and compli...

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On second day of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, a former News Corp exec testified as a government witness, saying Google held publishers "hostage" (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

On second day of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focu...

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Chainalysis: payments in Singapore using stablecoins reached a record high of almost $1B in Q2, led by transactions at merchant outlets (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

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Mistral releases its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, available on GitHub and Hugging Face, and via API "soon" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Mistral releases its first multimodal model, Pixtr...

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Riot Platforms plans the world's largest bitcoin mine in Corsicana, a former Texas oil boom town, using a liquid immersion system, despite residents' protests (Joel Khalili/Wired)

Riot Platforms plans the world's largest bitcoin m...

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A surge in scams poses a serious image problem for Revolut, which faces more complaints than its large UK rivals about authorized push payment scams (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

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An analysis finds 40+ examples of Facebook removing emergency-related posts during 20+ US wildfires since June 2024; Facebook says it is investigating the issue (Brianna Sacks/Washington Post)

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The former CEO of Everyday Robotics, Alphabet's AI robotics moonshot that was shut down in January 2023, reflects on its start and efforts to give AI a body (Hans Peter Brondmo/Wired)

The former CEO of Everyday Robotics, Alphabet's AI...

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Sergey Brin says he works at Google "pretty much every day" and that recent AI algorithmic improvements are "outpacing the increased compute" put into models (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Sergey Brin says he works at Google "pretty much e...

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CTIA: Americans used over 100T MB of wireless data in 2023, up 36% YoY, the largest single-year increase; the number of wireless connections rose 6% YoY to 558M (David Shepardson/Reuters)

CTIA: Americans used over 100T MB of wireless data...

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In a memo to commemorate Alibaba's 25th anniversary, Jack Ma said the competition will make the company stronger, urging trust "in the power of market forces" (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)

In a memo to commemorate Alibaba's 25th anniversar...

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Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option because it is not required to do so under privacy law (Jake Evans/ABC)

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult...

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A federal judge blocks Utah from enforcing the Minor Protection in Social Media Act, set to take effect on October 1, saying the law likely violates the 1A (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)

A federal judge blocks Utah from enforcing the Min...

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Taylor Swift says she's voting for Kamala Harris, noting that Donald Trump sharing an AI-generated image of her "endorsing" him prompted her to reveal her plans (Taylor Swift/Taylor Swift on Instagram)

Taylor Swift says she's voting for Kamala Harris, ...

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Matt Shumer, who was accused of fraud over HyperWrite's 70B-parameter AI model, says he "got ahead" of himself but doesn't explain why the model underperformed (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Matt Shumer, who was accused of fraud over HyperWr...

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AWS plans to spend £8B in the UK to grow its cloud business, expecting to support up to 14,000 jobs and contribute £14B to the UK GDP between 2024 and 2028 (Joe Mayes/Bloomberg)

AWS plans to spend £8B in the UK to grow its...

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Maryland-based Forterra, which develops autonomous driving tech for military and commercial vehicles, raised a $75M Series B (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Maryland-based Forterra, which develops autonomous...

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MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in late 2022, says it's been acquired by PE firm K1 and names a new CEO, after filing to delist its shares from the NYSE (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in late 2022, ...

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NYC-based Versana, a two-year-old platform that allows lenders to access data about $2.7T worth of loans, raised $26M from Barclays, Bank of America, and others (Jan-Henrik Foerster/Bloomberg)

NYC-based Versana, a two-year-old platform that al...

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Google plans to buy carbon removal credits from direct air capture provider Holocene for $100 per ton, far below current prices, for delivery by the early 2030s (Justine Calma/The Verge)

Google plans to buy carbon removal credits from di...

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Sources describe how Stripe was forced to scramble after its payments partnership with Wells Fargo ended and Goldman Sachs decided against taking up the role (Michael Roddan/The Information)

Sources describe how Stripe was forced to scramble...

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The NYT tech guild of 600+ staffers, the largest US union of tech workers with bargaining rights, authorizes a strike after two years of talks with no contract (Sara Fischer/Axios)

The NYT tech guild of 600+ staffers, the largest U...

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Google starts rolling out a Google One "Lite" plan in India that offers 30GB storage for Rs. 59, or ~$0.70, per month (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Google starts rolling out a Google One "Lite" plan...

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School of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards in spring 2024

School of Engineering faculty and staff receive aw...

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