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Election officials across the US say false election rumors spread by Elon Musk to his 197M+ followers often coincide with calls by locals to purge voter rolls (Washington Post)

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Sources: OpenAI aims to release its reasoning-focused Strawberry AI within two weeks as a model users can pick in ChatGPT; it will lack multimodal capabilities (The Information)

Sources: OpenAI aims to release its reasoning-focu...

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Glean, which uses AI to offer unified search across apps used at a company, raised $260M+ at a $4.6B valuation, after raising $200M at a $2.2B valuation in Feb. (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

Glean, which uses AI to offer unified search acros...

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Israel-based Quantum Source, which is developing photonic quantum computers, raised a $50M Series A led by Eclipse, bringing its total funding to $77M (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes Online)

Israel-based Quantum Source, which is developing p...

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Smartcat, which provides AI-powered translation tools for businesses, raised a $43M Series C led by Left Lane Capital, bringing its total funding to $70M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Smartcat, which provides AI-powered translation to...

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South Korean police arrest two former Samsung officials on suspicion of stealing tech worth $3.2B+ to build a chipmaking plant in China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

South Korean police arrest two former Samsung offi...

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Oracle shares are up 34% since January, well outpacing the Nasdaq's 14% rise, as it becomes an attractive cloud-computing provider for AI developers (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)

Oracle shares are up 34% since January, well outpa...

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Alibaba's stock rises 5%+ after being made directly accessible to mainland China investors for the first time, following an upgrade to Hong Kong primary listing (Financial Times)

Alibaba's stock rises 5%+ after being made directl...

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How VC John Hering bet his career, time, and money on Elon Musk's businesses, including investing $4B+, more than half of his firm Vy Capital's reported assets (Wall Street Journal)

How VC John Hering bet his career, time, and money...

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Huawei unveils Mate XT trifold smartphone with a 10.2-inch screen when unfolded, available in China on September 20 for $2,800+ (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Huawei unveils Mate XT trifold smartphone with a 1...

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Google loses its bid to reverse a €2.4B EU fine for abusing its monopoly power to crush rival shopping services, as EU's Court of Justice backs a 2017 decision (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Google loses its bid to reverse a €2.4B EU fi...

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The European Court of Justice rules against Apple over a record €13B Irish tax bill, backing a landmark decision from 2016 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

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An excerpt from the book Character Limit on Musk's acquisition of Twitter and how his inner circle employed hardball tactics in a touch-and-go transaction (Vanity Fair)

An excerpt from the book Character Limit on Musk's...

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Q&A with Mike Krieger on his new role as chief product officer at Anthropic, co-founding and selling news app Artifact, copyright issues, AI safety, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Mike Krieger on his new role as chief pro...

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MIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders

MIT graduate programs empower the next generation ...

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Startups say Pakistan's new China-like firewall is making it harder for them to raise funds, amid complaints about censorship and internet speeds falling by 40% (Kunwar Khuldune Shahid/Rest of World)

Startups say Pakistan's new China-like firewall is...

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Ofcom: internet replaced TV as UK's most popular news source; 71% of adults get news online, vs. 70% via TV; 52% use social media for news, up from 47% in 2023 (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

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The FBI says that losses from crypto-related frauds increased 45% YoY to $5.6B in 2023, with losses from investment scams accounting for 71% of the total (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

The FBI says that losses from crypto-related fraud...

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Google Pixel Watch 3 review: solid battery life, improved display, and comprehensive health-tracking features, but slightly bulky with some software quirks (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)

Google Pixel Watch 3 review: solid battery life, i...

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In the first day of the antitrust trial focused on ads, US prosecutors allege Google abused its size to dominate the sector through acquisitions and more (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

In the first day of the antitrust trial focused on...

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Oracle and AWS debut Oracle Database@AWS, to let customers access select Oracle products within AWS, following Oracle's partnerships with Azure and Google Cloud (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Oracle and AWS debut Oracle Database@AWS, to let c...

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Testing the Apple Intelligence beta shows the pre-release software still has a long way to go, with hallucinations, marking spam emails as priority, and more (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)

Testing the Apple Intelligence beta shows the pre-...

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MIT students combat climate anxiety through extracurricular teams

MIT students combat climate anxiety through extrac...

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HyperWrite's 70B parameter AI model, Reflection, has its performance questioned, after CEO Matt Shumer said something about its upload to Hugging Face was off (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

HyperWrite's 70B parameter AI model, Reflection, h...

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Tools for making imagination blossom at MIT.nano

Tools for making imagination blossom at MIT.nano

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Oracle reports Q1 revenue of $13.31B, up 7% YoY, vs. $13.23B est., with revenue from cloud infrastructure of $2.2B, up 45% YoY; ORCL jumps 8%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Oracle reports Q1 revenue of $13.31B, up 7% YoY, v...

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A fast and flexible approach to help doctors annotate medical scans

A fast and flexible approach to help doctors annot...

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Apple discontinues FineWoven iPhone cases, introduced last year to replace leather cases, and emphasizes its Clear and Silicone cases for the iPhone 16 lineup (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple discontinues FineWoven iPhone cases, introdu...

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iPhone 16 Pro, Pro Max hands-on: despite larger displays, they don't feel that much bigger, helped by thin bezels; the Camera Control button is ultra sensitive (The Verge)

iPhone 16 Pro, Pro Max hands-on: despite larger di...

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US charges leaders of white supremacist gang The Terrorgram Collective, which uses Telegram to celebrate attacks on minorities, with trying to incite a race war (Reuters)

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Apple will release iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, and watchOS 11 on September 16 (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

Apple will release iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, an...

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The iPhone 16 will start at $799 and the 16 Plus $899, and the iPhone 16 Pro starts at $999 and the Pro Max starts at $1,199; all base models have 128GB (Valentina Palladino/Engadget)

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The touch-sensitive Camera Control button on the iPhone 16 models can launch an AI-powered Visual Intelligence feature and be used to control the camera app (Pranav Dixit/Engadget)

The touch-sensitive Camera Control button on the i...

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Apple unveils iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max with larger 6.3" and 6.9" displays, four titanium finishes, Camera Control, A18 Pro, up to 15% faster than A17 Pro, more (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Apple unveils iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max with large...

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Apple Intelligence will launch in beta in October for US English language users, coming to more countries in December; support for other languages coming 2025 (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

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Apple announces hearing health related features for AirPods Pro 2, including a "clinical grade" hearing aid mode and a clinically-validated hearing test (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Apple announces hearing health related features fo...

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Apple debuts iPhone 16 and 16 Plus with Action button, the A18 3nm chip for 30% faster CPU performance vs iPhone 15, a new Camera Control along the side, more (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Apple debuts iPhone 16 and 16 Plus with Action but...

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Apple will bring sleep apnea detection to the Watch Series 10, Series 9, and Ultra 2 (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)

Apple will bring sleep apnea detection to the Watc...

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Apple announces two new AirPods 4 models with an H2 chip and USB-C; AirPods 4 for $129 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $179, coming Sept. 20 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Apple announces two new AirPods 4 models with an H...

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Apple announces Apple Watch Series 10, with a thinner design, a bigger screen, smaller bezels, a new polished aluminum Jet Black finish, faster charging, more (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Apple announces Apple Watch Series 10, with a thin...

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Livestream of Apple's "It's Glow Time" event from Apple Park (Apple)

Livestream of Apple's "It's Glow Time" event from ...

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A live blog of Apple's event, where four new iPhones are expected and rumors suggest a new Apple Watch and AirPods models could be announced (The Verge)

A live blog of Apple's event, where four new iPhon...

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A live blog of Apple's event, where four new iPhones are expected and rumors suggest a new Apple Watch and AirPods models could be announced (The Verge)

A live blog of Apple's event, where four new iPhon...

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AMD announces it will eventually move to a unified UDNA GPU architecture, bringing RDNA and CDNA together, as it hopes to rival Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)

AMD announces it will eventually move to a unified...

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Automation and IT monitoring company Progress agrees to acquire Raleigh-based file management platform ShareFile for $875M in cash and credit (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Automation and IT monitoring company Progress agre...

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Source: Sequoia Capital completed its $861M purchase of Stripe shares from Sequoia limited partners last week; Stripe didn't receive any proceeds (Dan Primack/Axios)

Source: Sequoia Capital completed its $861M purcha...

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Audible plans to invite some US-based audiobook narrators to train AI on their voices, to clone the voices for recordings through a royalty-sharing model (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Audible plans to invite some US-based audiobook na...

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The DOJ's case against Google's ad business may benefit major news organizations that pay Google to broker their website ads and have faced financial struggles (Washington Post)

The DOJ's case against Google's ad business may be...

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Miami-based finally, which offers bookkeeping, accounting, and finance tools for SMBs, raised a $50M Series B from PeakSpan and a $150M credit line (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Miami-based finally, which offers bookkeeping, acc...

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Sources: Japanese chip startup Rapidus seeks to raise ~$696M from existing and new investors by issuing new shares to finance its chip development efforts (Taro Fuse/Bloomberg)

Sources: Japanese chip startup Rapidus seeks to ra...

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