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The US Commerce Department proposes banning Chinese software and hardware for internet connected vehicles, effectively banning Chinese vehicles in the US (Felicia Schwartz/Financial Times)

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A profile of Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who no...

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Mumbai-based Qure.AI, which uses AI to help identify and manage critical diseases at 3K+ imaging sites, raised a $65M Series D led by Lightspeed and 360 ONE (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Xiaomi asked India to recall its report that found the company and Walmart's Flipkart breached competition laws, saying it contains commercial secrets (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

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The US and India announce plans for a new chip plant in India, producing infrared, gallium nitride, and silicon carbide chips, as Narendra Modi visits the US (Swati Gupta/Bloomberg)

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Samsung plans to invest $1.8B to build a factory in northern Vietnam to make OLED displays for cars and tech equipment; Samsung has invested $22.4B in Vietnam (Phuong Nguyen/Reuters)

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Similarweb: daily X users in the UK fell from 8M in May 2023 to 5.6M now, with 33%+ of the fall coming after the summer riots; US DAUs fell by ~20% in that time (Jemima Kelly/Financial Times)

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The FBI arrests and charges two people in Miami over a conspiracy to steal and launder 4,100+ bitcoin, worth $230M+, using crypto exchanges and mixing services (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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Legacy carmakers struggle to keep pace as the focus shifts from engines to computing power; only Ford, GM, and BMW are in Gartner's digital performance top 10 (Financial Times)

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AI copilots are evolving into AI agents designed to take actions on behalf of users, as business software companies experiment with ways to sell generative AI (Financial Times)

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Behind Bot Farm Corporation, a Siberia-based operation that raked in millions of dollars by deploying advanced poker-playing AI software across gambling sites (Kit Chellel/Bloomberg)

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In an event that raised $27M, Kamala Harris vowed to help grow investments in AI and crypto, her first comments on crypto as the Democratic presidential nominee (Jennifer Epstein/Bloomberg)

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Profile of Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, which h...

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Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an equity-like investment of as much as $5B in Intel (Bloomberg)

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A profile of French billionaire Xavier Niel, a dri...

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An analysis shows that at least 26 US states have passed or are considering bills regulating the use of generative AI in election-related communications (Ivana Saric/Axios)

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Sources: TSMC and Samsung execs have visited the UAE and are considering building chip factories funded by the UAE, with a central role for Abu Dhabi's Mubadala (Wall Street Journal)

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A profile of SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, who transfo...

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Law enforcement agencies shut down a service offered by iServer, a phishing-as-a-service platform, which was used to unlock 1.2M+ stolen or lost mobile phones (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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Thoughts on the iPhone's slowing pace of hardware innovation, first impressions of the iPhone 16 Pro Max, and a closer look at Apple Intelligence roll out plans (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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With the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which can easily slot into people's lives, Meta has exceeded expectations in a year when many AI gadgets flopped (Victoria Song/The Verge)

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Inside Equinix's 114,300-square-foot data center in Northern Virginia, a region that is home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world (Washington Post)

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What to expect from Meta Connect 2024 keynote on September 25 at 1pm ET: new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, cheaper Quest 3S headset, and more (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

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Google says the UK risks being "left behind" in the AI race without more data centers and should relax laws barring AI models being trained on copyrighted works (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

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A look at Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concept, which envisions online communities acquiring land via crowdfunding, with the goal of becoming new countries (Gabriel Gatehouse/BBC)

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Sources: US Commerce Department plans to reveal proposed rules that would ban Chinese- and Russian-made hardware and software for smart cars as soon as Monday (Bloomberg)

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At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says Google will create a $120M fund to provide AI education globally, calls for "smart product regulation", more (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

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Memo: Zoom plans to cut back on stock-based compensation, saying equity has been issued at a rate that is "not sustainable", joining peers like Salesforce (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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Docs: in Perplexity's new ad model, brands will be able to bid for a "sponsored" question, which features an AI-generated answer approved by the advertiser (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

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Sources: many OpenAI staff were taken aback by a p...

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X capitulates in Brazil and could return next week, as the company's lawyers say it took down some accounts, paid fines, and named a new formal representative (New York Times)

X capitulates in Brazil and could return next week...

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Asus ROG Tessen review: brilliant mobile FPS performance

Asus ROG Tessen review: brilliant mobile FPS perfo...

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A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

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A Google threat analyst says the hacker behind the Snowflake breach recently broke into a "handful" of new orgs and is likely a male based in Canada in his 20s (Bloomberg)

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California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect minors, banning "addictive feeds", barring social media notifications from 12am to 6am, and more (Taryn Luna/Los Angeles Times)

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A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover the Great Firewall's domain blocklists; GFWeb data reveals China blocked ChatGPT on March 2, 2023 (Joanna Chiu/Rest of World)

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A profile of Santa Clara County Deputy DA Erin Wes...

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Nick Clegg criticized Rishi Sunak's doomerism after the PM held a summit on AI safety, saying Britain "wasted a huge amount of time" focusing on the risks of AI (Politico)

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Hands on with Plaud's ChatGPT-powered NotePin: deliberate design that uses tap to trigger the device, can manage multiple speakers in 59 languages, and more (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

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JPMorgan, Visa, and other financial firms join Project Agora, a blockchain-based project by Bank for International Settlements to overhaul cross-border payments (Bastian Benrath-Wright/Bloomberg)

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Intezer, which develops AI-powered tools for autonomous security operations, raised a $33M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking total raised to $60M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Motion, which sells analytics and research tools for creative strategists, raised a $30M Series B led by Inovia Capital, bringing its total funding to $42M (Josh Scott/BetaKit)

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Email: Linda Yaccarino announces X is launching a "video tab" feature and an X-exclusive women's soccer reality show, The Offseason, produced by Alexis Ohanian (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

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Brazil-based Cayena, which operates a marketplace to connect suppliers and buyers in the wholesale food industry, raised a $55M Series B led by Bicycle Capital (Daniel Cancel/Bloomberg)

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Functional Finance, which offers financial operations software for managing general agents, insurers, and wholesalers, raised a $20M Series A led by Walkabout (Avi Ben-Hutta/Coverager)

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The judge overseeing the Google ad trial calls Google's testimony that it faces "fierce competition" from the likes of Microsoft and Meta "highly questionable" (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

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Akur8, which uses AI to automate the generation of insurance pricing models, raised a $120M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total raised to $180M (FinTech Global)

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Filing: the US SEC says it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk for failing to appear for scheduled testimony for a probe into his $44B Twitter takeover (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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OpenAI's o1 models are dramatically better at reasoning than previous LLMs, but they struggle with spatial reasoning and are far from human-level intelligence (Timothy B Lee/Understanding AI)

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Sources: Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation; Black Forest raised a $31M seed (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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