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A look at China's humanoids market, after the city of Beijing launched a $1.4B robotics fund in January and Shanghai announced in July plans for a $1.4B fund (Reuters)

A look at China's humanoids market, after the city...

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WazirX plans to start allowing limited Indian rupee withdrawals in two phases from August 26, after freezing them in the wake of a $230M exploit in July (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)

WazirX plans to start allowing limited Indian rupe...

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The US DOJ sues Georgia Tech and an affiliate company, alleging failures since at least 2019 to meet the DOD's cybersecurity standards for contract awardees (Connor Jones/The Register)

The US DOJ sues Georgia Tech and an affiliate comp...

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Some streamers say the Chinese game studio behind Black Myth: Wukong told them to avoid topics like "feminist propaganda" as part of an early access agreement (Megan Farokhmanesh/Wired)

Some streamers say the Chinese game studio behind ...

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Andrew Ng steps down as CEO of LandingAI, the computer vision startup he founded in 2017, and transitions to executive chairman; ex-COO Dan Maloney is named CEO (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Andrew Ng steps down as CEO of LandingAI, the comp...

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Study of disordered rock salts leads to battery breakthrough

Study of disordered rock salts leads to battery br...

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Meta says a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts linked to the Iran-backed hacking group APT42 targeted people affiliated with the Biden and Trump administrations (Shannon Bond/NPR)

Meta says a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts lin...

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The French AI startup called H, formerly Holistic, says three of its five co-founders are leaving over "operational differences", after raising $220M in May (The Information)

The French AI startup called H, formerly Holistic,...

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Sources: Apple plans to unveil new iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches on September 10; developer logs: Apple has ramped up testing of four new M4 Mac models (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple plans to unveil new iPhones, AirPod...

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Q&A with AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio on advocating for AI regulation, his support for California's AI safety bill, AI achieving human-level intelligence, and more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Q&A with AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio on advocating fo...

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In an email, Elon Musk says X plans to award stock options based on employees' anticipated impact, and tells them to submit a summary of their contributions (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

In an email, Elon Musk says X plans to award stock...

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Sources: Meta cancels plans for a premium headset, codenamed La Jolla and envisioned as a competitor to Apple's Vision Pro, after development began in November (The Information)

Sources: Meta cancels plans for a premium headset,...

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Microsoft to hold an event on September 10 with CrowdStrike and other cybersecurity vendors to discuss how to prevent incidents similar to the July outage (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Microsoft to hold an event on September 10 with Cr...

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The US DOJ sues RealPage, alleging the company's software helps property managers collude on setting rents in violation of antitrust law (Bloomberg)

The US DOJ sues RealPage, alleging the company's s...

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SEC filing: Oilfield-services company Halliburton says it has taken some systems offline after it discovered that an unauthorized party had gained access (Colin Kellaher/Wall Street Journal)

SEC filing: Oilfield-services company Halliburton ...

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Starlink says satellite internet kits purchased in one of six regions and activated in another may be subjected to a "outside region fee" of up to $300 (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)

Starlink says satellite internet kits purchased in...

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Reddit is winning over advertisers with interest-based targeting via subreddits, instead of personal data; analysis: Reddit's ad revenue to reach $1.1B+ in 2024 (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)

Reddit is winning over advertisers with interest-b...

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A look at the fading dominance of Apple Podcasts, as a study of 603 weekly podcast consumers finds 31% use YouTube, followed by Spotify at 21%, and Apple at 12% (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

A look at the fading dominance of Apple Podcasts, ...

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Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint venture between Sony and Web3 developer Startale, launches Soneium, a layer-2 blockchain to empower creators, devs, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint venture between...

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Chinese AI startups, cut off from the most powerful AI chips, are focusing on monetization, writing more efficient code for LLMs, and building smaller models (Wall Street Journal)

Chinese AI startups, cut off from the most powerfu...

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Japanese chipmaker Kioxia applies to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, likely to be Japan's biggest IPO in 2024; source: Kioxia seeks to raise at least $500M (Leo Lewis/Financial Times)

Japanese chipmaker Kioxia applies to list on the T...

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Samsung Galaxy Ring teardown: disposable tech built not to last over two years due to lithium ion batteries that can't be replaced without destroying the device (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)

Samsung Galaxy Ring teardown: disposable tech buil...

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Dealroom: AI coding assistant startups such as Anysphere and Augment have raised $433M so far in 2024 alone, bringing the total since January 2023 to $906M (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Dealroom: AI coding assistant startups such as Any...

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Toward a code-breaking quantum computer

Toward a code-breaking quantum computer

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Docs: state-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services from AWS or its rivals to access advanced US chips and AI models they cannot acquire otherwise (Reuters)

Docs: state-linked Chinese entities are using clou...

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Dallas-based Siepe, which provides data management software and services to the private credit industry, raised a $30M Series B led by WestCap (Dallas Innovates)

Dallas-based Siepe, which provides data management...

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The NLRB's general counsel office determines a group of Amazon drivers were employees of Amazon and of the "delivery service partner" company that hired them (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)

The NLRB's general counsel office determines a gro...

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The Pixel 9's AI features have made creating realistic and believable fake photos trivial, and Google's safeguards are astonishingly anemic (Sarah Jeong/The Verge)

The Pixel 9's AI features have made creating reali...

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Shareholders approve upgrading Alibaba's Hong Kong listing, which expects to attract billions of dollars in Chinese investment, to primary status on August 28 (Edwin Chan/Bloomberg)

Shareholders approve upgrading Alibaba's Hong Kong...

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Microsoft confirms the Windows Control Panel, which debuted in 1985 with Windows 1.0, is "in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app" (Sayan Sen/Neowin)

Microsoft confirms the Windows Control Panel, whic...

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Silverbear, an investor named in Bolt's financial docs for a $450M raise, says it was "never in this deal", as some investors consider legal action against Bolt (Forbes)

Silverbear, an investor named in Bolt's financial ...

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Internal memo: Noam Shazeer, the ex-CEO of Character.AI who joined Google this month, will be Gemini co-technical lead and work with Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals (Erin Woo/The Information)

Internal memo: Noam Shazeer, the ex-CEO of Charact...

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Ex-FTX exec Ryan Salame's romantic partner is charged with campaign finance violations, a day after he said the US reneged on his plea deal by investigating her (Bloomberg)

Ex-FTX exec Ryan Salame's romantic partner is char...

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Uber and Cruise sign a "multiyear strategic partnership" to make Cruise's self-driving vehicles available to riders on Uber from 2025 in an undisclosed city (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)

Uber and Cruise sign a "multiyear strategic partne...

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Donald Trump promotes his family's forthcoming crypto platform, The DeFiant Ones, in a post on Truth Social, mentioning a Telegram channel but few other details (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

Donald Trump promotes his family's forthcoming cry...

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NFT marketplace Magic Eden launches a mobile wallet app and will begin using a token to be issued by a foundation that supports the Magic Eden ecosystem (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

NFT marketplace Magic Eden launches a mobile walle...

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Sources: Stripe plans a tender offer to buy back shares held by current employees with its own cash; Stripe is offering $27.51/share, implying a $70B valuation (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

Sources: Stripe plans a tender offer to buy back s...

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An appeals court revived Washington, DC's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, saying it plausibly claimed Amazon's pricing policies illegally stifle competition (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

An appeals court revived Washington, DC's antitrus...

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In a pitch deck, AI search engine Perplexity told advertisers it plans to start running ads in Q4; a source says Perplexity's CPM prices will be $50+ (Hayden Field/CNBC)

In a pitch deck, AI search engine Perplexity told ...

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India's Open Network for Digital Commerce expands into financial services, starting with APIs for digital lending, and adds nine lending service providers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

India's Open Network for Digital Commerce expands ...

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The US charges Deniss Zolotarjovs, a member of the Russian Karakurt ransomware group that has ties to Conti, with money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

The US charges Deniss Zolotarjovs, a member of the...

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Apple unveils iOS 18 changes to comply with the EU's DMA: browser choice screen updates, more default app settings, and letting users delete some system apps (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Apple unveils iOS 18 changes to comply with the EU...

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Letter and sources: nearly 200 Google DeepMind workers, or 5% of its overall headcount, signed a letter dated May 16 calling to drop its military contracts (Billy Perrigo/TIME)

Letter and sources: nearly 200 Google DeepMind wor...

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Dublin, California-based Opkey, which provides AI-based ERP testing software, raised a $47M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Dublin, California-based Opkey, which provides AI-...

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Instagram announces a Myspace-like feature to let ...

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The Kamala Harris campaign launches a Twitch channel, and plans to stream her DNC address there; the campaign has hired 175+ staff to work across digital (Makena Kelly/Wired)

The Kamala Harris campaign launches a Twitch chann...

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Meta confirms users can now cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads globally, after rolling out Instagram and Facebook cross-posting in 2021 (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Meta confirms users can now cross-post from Instag...

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Ticketing service TickPick raised $250M from Brighton Park, which now has a majority stake, and Symphony; the app has 2M MAUs and processes nearly $1B annually (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg)

Ticketing service TickPick raised $250M from Brigh...

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Mike Lynch experienced some of the most extreme career highs and lows of any British tech entrepreneur, selling Autonomy for $11B before a 12-year legal ordeal (Financial Times)

Mike Lynch experienced some of the most extreme ca...

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The NHTSA closes a preliminary probe into Cruise's hard-braking and immobilization issues in 1,194 autonomous ride-hailing vehicles, after Cruise made updates (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

The NHTSA closes a preliminary probe into Cruise's...

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