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Walmart and its drone delivery partner DroneUp are ending drone delivery in Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Tampa to focus on the Dallas-Fort Worth area (Joann Muller/Axios)

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Caresyntax, which is building AI-powered surgical data analysis tools, raised a $180M Series C extension consisting of $80M in equity and $100M in debt (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)

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The European Commission asks Meta for information about its Content Library tool and API under the DSA, following Meta's decision to deprecate CrowdTangle (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

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Epic says its games are available on AltStore for iOS in the EU and plans to bring them to Aptoide's iOS store in the EU and ONE Store on Android (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Epic confirms that the Epic Games Store is available to download on Android devices worldwide, in addition to iPhones in the EU (Taylor Lyles/IGN)

Epic confirms that the Epic Games Store is availab...

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Epic launches a rival app store for iOS in the EU, offering its games, including Fortnite, and plans to start onboarding third-party devs' games from December (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

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EQT agrees to buy PropertyGuru, which runs real estate rental and sale listing sites in SE Asia, for $1.1B in cash; the deal is expected to close by early 2025 (Will Davies/Bloomberg)

EQT agrees to buy PropertyGuru, which runs real es...

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Chinese chip equipment maker AMEC sues the Pentagon for linking AMEC to the Chinese military, seeks to get off a blacklist that bars business with US firms (Bloomberg)

Chinese chip equipment maker AMEC sues the Pentago...

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Revolut secures a $45B valuation, up from $33B during a 2021 fundraising, in a share sale by employees; the sale was led by Coatue and D1 Capital Partners (Akila Quinio/Financial Times)

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The Biden administration approves $1.6B in Chips Act grants and $3B in loans for Texas Instruments, to support its one chip factory in Utah and two in Texas (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

The Biden administration approves $1.6B in Chips A...

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Appfigures: consumers spent $3.8B on entertainment apps for mobile devices worldwide in Q1 2024, including $2.1B on streaming apps and $0.9B on short video apps (Janko Roettgers/Lowpass)

Appfigures: consumers spent $3.8B on entertainment...

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Chainalysis: the value of crypto hacks increased by ~84% to $1.58B in the first seven months of 2024, likely due in large part to the rise in crypto prices (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Chainalysis: the value of crypto hacks increased b...

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Danish officials say Margrethe Vestager, known for hitting Big Tech with multibillion-euro fines, is not being considered as EU antitrust chief for a third term (Financial Times)

Danish officials say Margrethe Vestager, known for...

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Japan will apply foreign trade regulations to chipmaking equipment, which will require foreign investors to give prior notice when conducting direct investment (Bloomberg)

Japan will apply foreign trade regulations to chip...

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Court filing: TikTok says DOJ misstated its ties to China, made factual errors in the case, and the divestment law would strip TikTok of its free speech rights (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

Court filing: TikTok says DOJ misstated its ties t...

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Primate Labs releases Geekbench AI 1.0, formerly Geekbench ML, to test CPU, GPU, and NPU performance, available on Android, iOS, and desktop (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

Primate Labs releases Geekbench AI 1.0, formerly G...

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Binance resumes services in India, after completing registration with India's Financial Intelligence Unit, which imposed a ~$2.2M fine on Binance in June 2024 (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Binance resumes services in India, after completin...

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At a Crypto4Harris online event, Mark Cuban, Anthony Scaramucci, and other crypto advocates supporting Kamala Harris urged a reset in Democratic crypto policy (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

At a Crypto4Harris online event, Mark Cuban, Antho...

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California lawmakers weaken the AI safety bill with amendments proposed by Anthropic and other opponents, including giving the AG less power to sue AI companies (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

California lawmakers weaken the AI safety bill wit...

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Google makes Imagen 3 available to all US users via ImageFX, after unveiling the text-to-image AI model in May; some users criticize its strict content filters (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Google makes Imagen 3 available to all US users vi...

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Meta releases an app for the Quest 3, 2, and Pro to let the headset display video from devices with an HDMI or DisplayPort output; a capture card is required (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)

Meta releases an app for the Quest 3, 2, and Pro t...

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The San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu files a lawsuit that seeks to shut down 16 popular websites used to create nonconsensual deepfake pornography (Heather Knight/New York Times)

The San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu files a...

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California announces support for adding driver's licenses or state IDs to Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, rolling out "in the coming weeks" (Shawna Chen/Axios)

California announces support for adding driver's l...

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Threads announces new features, like the ability to store multiple drafts and an analytics page, rolling out on the web, and plans to test a scheduling feature (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Threads announces new features, like the ability t...

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Klarna rolls out a checking account-like product and a cashback offering in 12 markets including the US and across Europe, as it prepares for a US IPO (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

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Klarna rolls out a checking account-like product and a cashback offering in 12 markets including the US and across Europe, as it prepares for a US IPO (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Klarna rolls out a checking account-like product a...

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Some website publishers say they can't block the Googlebot crawler that covers AI Overviews, as the crawler also covers Search, hampering sites' discoverability (Bloomberg)

Some website publishers say they can't block the G...

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NYC-based Chaos Labs, which offers automated, on-chain risk management for DeFi protocols, raised a $55M Series A led by Haun Ventures (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)

NYC-based Chaos Labs, which offers automated, on-c...

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Israeli stock research service TipRanks says investment firm Prytek bought 40% of the startup for $80M, giving Prytek an 80% stake; TipRanks has raised $102M (CTech)

Israeli stock research service TipRanks says inves...

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Google says it will remove Showcase.apk from Pixel devices "out of an abundance of precaution", after iVerify said hackers could use the dormant app to spy (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Google says it will remove Showcase.apk from Pixel...

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Q&A with Google SVP Rick Osterloh on the new Pixel devices, Android, the history of the smartphone, integration, AI smartphones, Pixel trade-offs, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Q&A with Google SVP Rick Osterloh on the new Pixel...

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Google expands AI Overviews in Search to Brazil, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and the UK in local languages, and adds hyperlinks to the feature (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)

Google expands AI Overviews in Search to Brazil, I...

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Grab reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $664M, below $676.9M est., and a $53M net loss, down from $135M in Q2 2023, as competition with GoTo weighs on its growth (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

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Analysis: Kamala Harris has spent $57M on Google and Meta ads since Biden dropped out on July 21, compared to Trump's $5.6M; Biden-Harris spent $139M in 2024 (Financial Times)

Analysis: Kamala Harris has spent $57M on Google a...

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Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to ~$34B, below ~$34.9B est., and net income down 27% YoY to ~$3.4B, after aggressive promotions failed to drive spending (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to ~$34B, bel...

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Google says its new "affirmative litigation" policy of pursuing hackers and scammers in court, like two Russians behind the 2021 Glupteba botnet, has paid off (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Google says its new "affirmative litigation" polic...

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JD.com reports Q2 net revenue up 1.2% YoY to ~$40.7B, vs. ~$40.9B est., and a ~$1.7B net income, boosted by aggressive price cuts and the 618 shopping event (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

JD.com reports Q2 net revenue up 1.2% YoY to ~$40....

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Quantum Circuits, which aims to make error correction more efficient in quantum computers to help commercialization, raised $60M from the US' In-Q-Tel and more (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)

Quantum Circuits, which aims to make error correct...

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A survey of 430 first-time Gen Z voters: 60%+ oppose requiring kids under 16 to get parental consent to use social media and 85% oppose notification time limits (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)

A survey of 430 first-time Gen Z voters: 60%+ oppo...

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New Zealand signs an extradition order for Kim Dotcom to the US, where he faces criminal charges related to Megaupload; Dotcom has fought extradition since 2012 (Reuters)

New Zealand signs an extradition order for Kim Dot...

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New Zealand signs an extradition order for Kim Dotcom to the US, where he faces criminal charges related to Megaupload; Dotcom has fought extradition since 2012 (Reuters)

New Zealand signs an extradition order for Kim Dot...

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Unit 42: open-source projects from Google, Microsoft, AWS, and others leaked GitHub auth tokens via GitHub Actions; GitHub decided not to address the risk (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Unit 42: open-source projects from Google, Microso...

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How University of California doctors used brain implants and AI to help an ALS patient speak again; the implants recognize words, and AI replicates his voice (Benjamin Mueller/New York Times)

How University of California doctors used brain im...

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The UK's Civil Aviation Authority selects six projects, including Amazon's, to test drones for deliveries, inspecting infrastructure, and emergency services (Catarina Demony/Reuters)

The UK's Civil Aviation Authority selects six proj...

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A look at the rise in demand for data center technicians in the US; CompTIA says technicians' pay is up 43% in the past three years to a median of $75,100 (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)

A look at the rise in demand for data center techn...

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A profile of Chinese self-driving startup WeRide, ...

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Amsterdam-based payments giant Adyen reports H1 2024 net revenue up 24% YoY to €913.4M, vs. €908.9M est., and processed volume up 45% YoY to €619.5B (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)

Amsterdam-based payments giant Adyen reports H1 20...

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Lenovo reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $15.4B, vs. $14.1B est., a third consecutive quarter of revenue growth, a $243M net income, as the PC market recovers (Reuters)

Lenovo reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $15.4B, vs...

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Sources: SoftBank held talks with Intel about making an AI chip to compete with Nvidia but Intel couldn't meet demands; SoftBank is now in discussions with TSMC (Financial Times)

Sources: SoftBank held talks with Intel about maki...

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A look at the five-person Gen Z team running Kamala Harris' TikTok account @KamalaHQ, capitalizing on the VP's viral moments and averaging 6M views per post (CNN)

A look at the five-person Gen Z team running Kamal...

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