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Affirm closed up ~32% on Thursday, its best day in almost three years and its third-biggest rally since Affirm's January 2021 IPO, after beating estimates in Q4 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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Sources: Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, the three most valuable tech companies, are in talks to join the funding round that would value OpenAI at over $100B (Bloomberg)

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Michael Lacey, co-founder of the classified ad site Backpage, gets five years in prison and a $3M fine for money laundering; two other executives get 10 years (New York Times)

Michael Lacey, co-founder of the classified ad sit...

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Sources: Apple is in talks to invest in OpenAI as part of a new fundraising round that would value the ChatGPT maker above $100B (Wall Street Journal)

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Magic, which makes AI tools for coding and to automate software development tasks, raised $320M from Eric Schmidt and others, bringing its total raised to $465M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Magic, which makes AI tools for coding and to auto...

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OpenAI says ChatGPT weekly active users doubled since last year to 200M+, 92% of Fortune 500 companies use its tools, and automated API usage doubled since July (Ina Fried/Axios)

OpenAI says ChatGPT weekly active users doubled si...

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Sources: truck sharing platform Fluid Truck, which raised $80M+, has ousted its sibling co-founders, including CEO James Eberhard, after losing tens of millions (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Sources: truck sharing platform Fluid Truck, which...

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Codeium, which offers enterprise AI coding tools, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.25B post-money valuation, and reports 700K+ users and 1K+ enterprise clients (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Meta says its Llama models were downloaded ~350M times, are used by AT&T and other companies, and usage via cloud providers more than doubled from May to July (Katie Paul/Reuters)

Meta says its Llama models were downloaded ~350M t...

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Anti-piracy group ACE says it worked with Hanoi police to shutter Hanoi-based Fmovies and its affiliates, "the largest pirate streaming operation in the world" (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are "identical or strikingly similar" to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits ...

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In his upcoming book, Trump says Mark Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and he'd "spend the rest of his life in prison" if he did it again (Alex Isenstadt/Politico)

In his upcoming book, Trump says Mark Zuckerberg p...

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Analysis: 16 of the biggest so-called undress and "nudify" websites use sign-in infrastructure from Google, Apple, Discord, X, Patreon, and Line (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Analysis: 16 of the biggest so-called undress and ...

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Media: Pavel Durov's lawyer says it is "totally absurd to think that the head of a social network could be involved in criminal acts that do not concern him" (Reuters)

Media: Pavel Durov's lawyer says it is "totally ab...

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Sources: the Netherlands PM Dick Schoof will likely not renew some ASML licenses to service and provide spare parts in China when they expire at the end of 2024 (Bloomberg)

Sources: the Netherlands PM Dick Schoof will likel...

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Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, the FT, The Atlantic, Vox Media, the USA Today network, and more block Apple's Applebot-Extended AI crawler (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, ...

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Interviews with 14 Chinese VCs and entrepreneurs show many are setting up Silicon Valley firms only to find that any investment with Chinese ties is a hard sell (Li Yuan/New York Times)

Interviews with 14 Chinese VCs and entrepreneurs s...

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Chinese state media: a Chinese official says the government has invested $6.12B+ in a nationwide project to build computing data centers over the past years (Reuters)

Chinese state media: a Chinese official says the g...

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Meta's 2024 Sustainability Report shows its market-based emissions are nearly half of its location-based emissions, highlighting the issue of tracking emissions (Justine Calma/The Verge)

Meta's 2024 Sustainability Report shows its market...

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The US says OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to let the US AI Safety Institute have early access to major new AI models to evaluate their capabilities and risks (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

The US says OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to let the...

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Sources: the EU is investigating if Telegram gave inaccurate user numbers to stay under the DSA's 45M threshold; Telegram reported 41M EU users in February 2024 (Financial Times)

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Automattic plans to shift Tumblr's backend over to WordPress, in a bid to make sharing work across the platforms easier, after buying Tumblr for $3M in 2019 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Automattic plans to shift Tumblr's backend over to...

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Huawei reports Q2 revenue up 33.7% YoY to ~$33.6B, rising for the sixth straight quarter, and net profit down 18.6% YoY to ~$5B, ahead of the Mate 70's launch (Bloomberg)

Huawei reports Q2 revenue up 33.7% YoY to ~$33.6B,...

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As Chinese EV manufacturers consolidate and close, EV owners say they're losing access to smartphone app updates and features that rely on cloud services (Tianyu Fang/Rest of World)

As Chinese EV manufacturers consolidate and close,...

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A look at Coin Master, a coin looter game that passed $6B in gross revenue, scaling from $0 in global monthly customer spend in 2015 to $113M in May 2020 (Samuel Aune/Sensor Tower)

A look at Coin Master, a coin looter game that pas...

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A look at the AI-safety community's loss of prominence and lessons learned, such as not to trust AI companies' promises to cooperate with regulators (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)

A look at the AI-safety community's loss of promin...

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Russians, from Kremlin officials to Putin's harshest critics, see Telegram as a source of both uncensored info, including on Ukraine, and problematic content (Bloomberg)

Russians, from Kremlin officials to Putin's harshe...

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Kuo: in the 2025 iPhone lineup, only iPhone 17 Pro Max will feature 12GB DRAM and an upgraded cooling system combining vapor chamber tech and graphite sheets (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

Kuo: in the 2025 iPhone lineup, only iPhone 17 Pro...

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Docs and sources reveal how OpenSea morphed into a "lite" version of Meta lost between the cultures of Big Tech and crypto, as the SEC and FTC make inquiries (Ben Weiss/The Verge)

Docs and sources reveal how OpenSea morphed into a...

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Docs and sources reveal how OpenSea morphed into a "lite" version of Meta lost between the cultures of Big Tech and crypto, as the SEC and FTC make inquiries (Ben Weiss/The Verge)

Docs and sources reveal how OpenSea morphed into a...

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Sources: Chris Barrett, a former top executive at Bungie, was fired in March 2024 after being accused by several female employees of inappropriate behavior (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia's new Blackwell chips will have "lots and lots of supply", and the company expects billions of dollars in revenue from the chips in Q4 (Bloomberg)

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's new Blackwell chips wil...

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Nvidia shares fall ~7% after hours, after the company failed to top the highest expectations and reported gross margin of 75.1%, vs. 75.5% est. (Financial Times)

Nvidia shares fall ~7% after hours, after the comp...

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California's State Assembly passes the AI safety bill SB 1047, which now goes back to the Senate for a process vote before requiring Governor Newsom's signature (Anna Tong/Reuters)

California's State Assembly passes the AI safety b...

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Yelp sues Google, alleging Google used its dominance in general search to gain an unfair advantage in local search services and local search advertising markets (Nico Grant/New York Times)

Yelp sues Google, alleging Google used its dominan...

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Threads now lets users see and like fediverse replies on other posts besides their own, and posts submitted via Threads API will be syndicated to the fediverse (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Threads now lets users see and like fediverse repl...

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Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 48% YoY to $659.2M, vs. $604M est., and says it expects to generate an operating profit by Q4 2025; AFRM jumps 14%+ after hours (Ciara Linnane/MarketWatch)

Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 48% YoY to $659.2M, v...

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CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $963.9M, vs. $958.6M est., and cuts its FY 2025 revenue and profit forecasts, after last month's Windows outage (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $963....

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HP reports Q3 revenue up 2.4% YoY to $13.5B, vs. $13.4B est., Printing revenue down 3% to $4.14B, and increases its share repurchase authorization to $10B (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

HP reports Q3 revenue up 2.4% YoY to $13.5B, vs. $...

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Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 122% YoY to $30B, vs. $28.7B est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est., and says it approved an additional $50B in share buybacks (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 122% YoY to $30B, vs....

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Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $9.33B, vs. $9.23B est., net income of $1.43B, compared to $1.27B a year ago, and says CFO Amy Weaver will step down (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $9.33B,...

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Pavel Durov is charged in France for alleged complicity in the spread of CSAM and other crimes on Telegram, and allegations he refused to help authorities (Gaspard Sebag/Bloomberg)

Pavel Durov is charged in France for alleged compl...

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Sources: OpenAI is in talks for a new funding round that would value it above $100B, with Thrive Capital and Microsoft among the investors (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: OpenAI is in talks for a new funding roun...

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A US court rules TikTok must face a lawsuit over a 10-year-old's death and the "blackout challenge", saying algorithmic curation isn't protected by Section 230 (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

A US court rules TikTok must face a lawsuit over a...

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Sources: Meta plans to release a new MR device codenamed Puffin in 2027, resembling a bulky pair of glasses with a second unit for battery and computing power (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)

Sources: Meta plans to release a new MR device cod...

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ESPN launches a Where to Watch feature on its website and app, which aims to be a universal guide for streaming sports with data from 250+ streaming services (David Pierce/The Verge)

ESPN launches a Where to Watch feature on its webs...

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French prosecutors say Telegram CEO Pavel Durov will be brought to court for a first appearance and a possible indictment and that his police custody has ended (Associated Press)

French prosecutors say Telegram CEO Pavel Durov wi...

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Google rolls out Imagen 3 to all Gemini users and Gems, which allows the creation of custom Gemini chatbots, to Gemini Advanced, Business, and Enterprise users (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google rolls out Imagen 3 to all Gemini users and ...

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Google plans to roll out image generation of people to Gemini paid users soon, after suspending the feature in February amid criticism about racial depictions (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

Google plans to roll out image generation of peopl...

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Environmental and health advocates accuse xAI of adding to pollution in Memphis, TN, by using unauthorized gas burning turbines at its new data center (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Environmental and health advocates accuse xAI of a...

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