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On August 18, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice blocked SpaceX's bank accounts and threatened to block X in Brazil, in a bid to force Elon Musk to pay X's fines
- Starlink bank accounts blocked to pay for fines on X — Court threatens to block X for lack of Brazil representative
Sources: Tencent and NetEase reconsider or scale back Japanese game studio investments, after yielding few hit games and the Chinese market staged a comeback
- China's biggest game publishers are rethinking expansion plans — ‘Wukong’ success also encouraged looking domestically for hits
Sources: Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, the three most valuable tech companies, are in talks to participate in a funding round that would value OpenAI at $100B+
- Apple, Microsoft also have been in talks about participating — Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
Sources: Amazon's revamped “Remarkable” Alexa, due for release in October 2024, will be powered primarily by Anthropic's Claude, and cost $5 to $10 per month
Amazon's revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily …
Sources: Intel explores options after a 50%+ stock drop YTD, including splitting its product and foundry units and potentially scrapping some factory projects
- Once-dominant chipmaker looks to longtime bankers for help — Possible moves could include split of product, foundry units
A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk and Tesla pumped up Dogecoin into a “pyramid scheme”, finding that Musk's statements were “aspirational”
Investors who lost tens of thousands of dollars investing in the cryptocurrency faulted Musk for promoting …
Google rolls out Gmail Q&A, a feature that allows users who pay for Gemini to chat with the AI assistant about their emails, on Android and “coming soon to iOS”
Gmail users on Android devices can now chat directly with Google's AI assistant, Gemini, about their emails in the Gmail app.
Bridge, which aims to build a global payment network around stablecoins, raised $40M led by Sequoia and Ribbit, taking its total funding to $58M
The crypto industry has long sought a “killer app” to bring digital assets into the mainstream. Recently, though, some are pointing …
Sources: the cryptology part of France's charges against Pavel Durov raises concerns at US tech companies with E2EE messaging apps, like Signal, Apple, and Meta
The criminal charges against Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, raised concerns in Silicon Valley about encryption and the app's approach to privacy and security.
Huione Guarantee, a Cambodia-based online marketplace that facilitates pig butchering and other scams, has processed $49B+ in crypto transactions since 2021
Sensitive content warning — This article will touch on topics of criminal activity that readers may find distressing, including Child Sexual Abuse Material.
A look at Google's HeAR, a bioacoustics health care AI model trained on 300M sounds, including 100M coughs, to analyze patients' coughs and detect tuberculosis
Google got together last week with an Indian AI startup to roll out a bioacoustics health-care model to detect disease from human sounds.
Alibaba releases Qwen2-VL, a new AI model that it says can analyze videos longer than 20 minutes to summarize and answer questions about the videos' contents
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud services and storage division of the Chinese e-commerce giant, has announced the release of Qwen2-VL …
Meta is opening up Horizon Worlds to users aged 10 to 12 with parental approval, and rolls out a new age rating system for worlds to help parents supervise kids
With parental approval, children between the ages of 10 and 12 will be able to use Meta's 3D social platform — Meta has a few other protections in place for preteens: — • Voice chat is disabled fo...
Yelp sues Google, alleging Google abused its dominance in general search to gain an unfair advantage in the local search and local search advertising markets
Nico Grant / New York Times :
Dell Q2: revenue up 9% YoY to $25.06B, vs. $24.53B est., servers and networking revenue up 80% to $7.76B, net income up 85% to $841M; DELL rose 3%+ after hours
Kif Leswing / CNBC :
As Russia plans a trial of cross-border payments using crypto, some senior Russian leaders suggest it can help counter sanctions; experts doubt it will work
Meta says its Llama models were downloaded almost 350M times, are used by AT&T and others, and usage via cloud providers more than doubled from May to July 2024
we just published a bunch of updates on the adoption we're seeing. And yes, we have a lot more work to do on dev tools and resources which we're bringing online as quickly as we can. https://ai.meta....
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
«Russian government hackers found using #exploits made by spyware companies NSO and Intellexa: … Frederic Jacobs / @fj@mastodon.social : “Our latest n-day exploit reporting shows that in an attack on ...
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
doubling in a year Laurent Giret / Thurrott : OpenAI Says ChatGPT Doubled its User Base to 200 Million Weekly Active Users in a Year Iskra Petrova / PhoneArena : ChatGPT weekly active users grow to 20...
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
super proud of our team that made this possible. https://magic.dev/... Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin : I want all the tokens! Rowan Cheung / @rowancheung : Magic's new AI model has a 100M token context wi...
The US says OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to give the US AI Safety Institute early access to major new AI models to test and evaluate their capabilities and risks
which Leigh Drogen / @ldrogen : There was no way governments (rightly or wrongly) were going to allow the next steps in AI that are going to fundamentally reshape society without having a massive say ...
MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $478.1M, vs. $464.1M est., and forecasts Q3 and FY 2025 revenue above estimates; MDB jumps 13%+ after hours
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
China's top antitrust regulator says it has seen “effective results” that Alibaba has ceased the monopolistic practices that prompted an investigation in 2020
Bloomberg :
Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises $340M at a $5B valuation, up from $3.6B in June 2024, in a round led by General Catalyst
Delivering India's Quick Commerce Future Tushar Goenka / Moneycontrol : Zepto raises $1 billion in two months; closes $340 million round led by General Catalyst The Economic Times : Zepto bags $340 mi...
Investor note: 360 One valued Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs popular news aggregator Dailyhunt, at $2.9B in June 2024, down from its ~$5B valuation in 2022
Indian tech and media startup VerSe, which operates popular news aggregator Dailyhunt, is worth about 42% below its last private valuation …
Once hesitant to openly comment on politics, German tech leaders voice their opposition to the far right AfD party before September 1's elections in two states
J.D. Capelouto / Semafor :
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 :
Analysts and industry execs say Nvidia's Blackwell engineering challenges stem from combining two new processors and several memory components in a single chip
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal :
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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