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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)

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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)

Hands on with Plaud's ChatGPT-powered NotePin: del...

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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)

Intezer, which develops AI-powered tools for auton...

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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)

Motion, which sells analytics and research tools f...

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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)

OpenAI's o1 models are dramatically better at reas...

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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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Sources: Qualcomm made a takeover approach to Intel in recent days; Intel stock jumps 7%+ (Wall Street Journal)

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Twitch changes enforcement of community guidelines so that strikes for some offenses will depreciate over time, users will get more info on strikes, and more (Ash Parrish/The Verge)

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A two-dose schedule could make HIV vaccines more effective

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Sources: EU officials are preparing formal charges against Google under the DMA, targeting how it displays rival product results across its search services (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

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Tumblr says it has seen a 222.99% growth in communities and 349.55% growth in users since the X ban in Brazil, with DAUs up 30% from 110K prior to the ban (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Tumblr says it has seen a 222.99% growth in commun...

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Google Ventures CEO David Krane about the firm's first 15 years, operating independently from Alphabet, early investments in Nest and Uber, generative AI, more (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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Ukraine bans the use of Telegram on official devices used by state officials, military personnel, and critical workers over fears of Russian spying (Olena Harmash/Reuters)

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Source: most daily users of Meta AI do so through WhatsApp, followed by Facebook, and few via Instagram; the vast majority of Meta AI's users are outside the US (Kalley Huang/The Information)

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A profile of Xbox President Sarah Bond, who helped...

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A German court rules that Nokia Oyj can stop Amazon from selling Fire TV Sticks in Germany after Amazon lost a patent case; Nokia hasn't enforced the injunction (Jillian Deutsch/Bloomberg)

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Microsoft updates the Fluent design illustrations across its products, shifting towards 3D designs that bring back skeuomorphism with more playful designs (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft data centers (Bloomberg)

Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revi...

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Sources: Thrive Capital has already provided $1B+ to OpenAI as part of the $6.5B round; OpenAI's existing backers a16z and Sequoia Capital are not participating (George Hammond/Financial Times)

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Indian edtech startup Physics Wallah raises a $210M Series B led by hedge fund Hornbill Capital at a $2.8B valuation, up from $1.1B valuation in June 2022 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Indian edtech startup Physics Wallah raises a $210...

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Singapore-based crypto exchange BingX suffered a security hack on its hot wallet, resulting in a "minor" loss; PeckShield: the loss was $43M in cryptocurrencies (Vishal Chawla/The Block)

Singapore-based crypto exchange BingX suffered a s...

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French digital health insurance startup Alan raised €173M led by Belgian bank Belfius Bank at a €4B valuation, bringing its total raised since 2021 to €500M+ (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

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Nvidia partners with Abu Dhabi-based G42 to create a climate tech lab and develop AI to improve weather forecasting accuracy using Nvidia's Earth-2 platform (Abeer Abu Omar/Bloomberg)

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Engineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures

Engineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for buildin...

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Phoenix-based Virtuous, which offers a CRM and a marketing platform to help nonprofits increase donations, raised $100M from Susquehanna Growth Equity (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Phoenix-based Virtuous, which offers a CRM and a m...

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Huawei's $2,800 Mate XT trifold phone goes on sale in China, amid analysts' supply concerns; IDC: preorders surpassed 6.5M, versus ~3.9M foldables shipped in Q2 (David Kirton/Reuters)

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Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into the radio access network and could allow telcos to run third-party AI apps at the network's edge (Julia King/Fierce Network)

Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI int...

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Sources: OpenAI's $6.5B funding round, which nears completion as the company decides on backers, is oversubscribed with excess demand in the billions of dollars (Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI's $6.5B funding round, which nears...

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Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Firewalk, the studio behind the PlayStation flop, is left in limbo, with some staffers expecting mass layoffs (Ethan Gach/Kotaku)

Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Fi...

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Memo: Disney plans to stop using Slack in most of its businesses by the end of this year, after a hacking group leaked more than 1TB of company data in summer (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

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