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Thursday, July 31, 2025
The US SEC launches Project Crypto, an initiative to "modernize" securities regulations to allow for crypto-based trading (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
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July 31, 2025
https://ift.tt/aFuCrOf Tanaya Macheel / CNBC : The US SEC launches Project Crypto, an initiative to “modernize” securities regulations to...
Figma opens at $85 on the NYSE, after selling shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$50B valuation, more than a year after Adobe's $20B failed acquisition (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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July 31, 2025
https://ift.tt/pHuJ2Ky Jordan Novet / CNBC : Figma opens at $85 on the NYSE, after selling shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$50B valu...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg says "We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating" new risks posed by superintelligence and "careful about what we choose to open source" (Michael Kan/PCMag)
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July 30, 2025
https://ift.tt/7AZK1rw Michael Kan / PCMag : Mark Zuckerberg says “We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating” new risks posed by sup...
In a report, Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets urges regulators to clarify digital asset trading rules and ease adoption of new financial products (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)
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July 30, 2025
https://ift.tt/cv7xEqi Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg : In a report, Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets urges regulators to cl...
Google plans to roll out ML-powered age estimation in the US over the next few weeks to detect whether users are under 18 and then enable existing protections (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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July 30, 2025
https://ift.tt/gOIU62d Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google plans to roll out ML-powered age estimation in the US over the next few weeks to de...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Wag, the pet care tech company once valued at ~$650M following a $300M investment from SoftBank Vision Fund in 2018, has filed for bankruptcy (Stephen Council/SFGATE)
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July 29, 2025
https://ift.tt/iaSf2hB Stephen Council / SFGATE : Wag, the pet care tech company once valued at ~$650M following a $300M investment from ...
Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies about their video models and expect these revenue sources to eclipse studios (Rocket Drew/The Information)
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July 29, 2025
https://ift.tt/9skXHGu Rocket Drew / The Information : Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies...
Monday, July 28, 2025
Cadence Design agrees to plead guilty and pay more than $140M to resolve US charges for selling its chip design products to a Chinese military university (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
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July 28, 2025
https://ift.tt/bRoTNrd Karen Freifeld / Reuters : Cadence Design agrees to plead guilty and pay more than $140M to resolve US charges for...
EssilorLuxottica says sales of Ray-Ban Meta more than tripled year-over-year in the first half of 2025, and it expects "a very fast ramp-up" of Oakley Meta (Bloomberg)
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July 28, 2025
https://ift.tt/FilBM2m Bloomberg : EssilorLuxottica says sales of Ray-Ban Meta more than tripled year-over-year in the first half of 2025...
Faculty and students on Chinese campuses are enthusiastically embracing AI, and the level of public excitement for AI in China is far greater vs. the US and UK (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
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July 28, 2025
https://ift.tt/KtLFbfW Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review : Faculty and students on Chinese campuses are enthusiastically embracing AI, ...
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Q&A with SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary on the Alphabet spinoff's partnership with Aramco, how quantum AI can help turn captured CO2 into valuable products, and more (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
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July 27, 2025
https://ift.tt/sIgqcV0 Divsha Bhat / Rest of World : Q&A with SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary on the Alphabet spinoff's partnership wit...
Samsung announces a $16.5B deal to produce chips that runs through the end of 2033 and boosts its underperforming foundry unit; source: Tesla is the customer (Bloomberg)
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July 27, 2025
https://ift.tt/M57JZ3d Bloomberg : Samsung announces a $16.5B deal to produce chips that runs through the end of 2033 and boosts its unde...
AI tools like ChatGPT are helping neurodivergent individuals navigate social encounters with real-time guidance, though some experts warn of overreliance (Hani Richter/Reuters)
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July 27, 2025
https://ift.tt/YbA6tSd Hani Richter / Reuters : AI tools like ChatGPT are helping neurodivergent individuals navigate social encounters w...
AIUC, which offers enterprises insurance policies and audits for AI agents, emerges from stealth with a $15M seed led by Nat Friedman at NFDG (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
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July 27, 2025
https://ift.tt/reuFoY0 Sharon Goldman / Fortune : AIUC, which offers enterprises insurance policies and audits for AI agents, emerges fro...
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Germany-based Makersite, which helps clients like Microsoft improve product sustainability during the design process, raised a €60M Series B (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)
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July 26, 2025
https://ift.tt/nSw0lzM David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups : Germany-based Makersite, which helps clients like Microsoft improve product su...
The Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors' books to train AI models, citing concerns that "the window may be closing" for making AI deals (Ellie Wolfe/The Baltimore Banner)
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July 26, 2025
https://ift.tt/ptBbemz Ellie Wolfe / The Baltimore Banner : The Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors' books to tra...
A look at the tensions between Meta, Apple, and Google on whether apps or app stores should check if a user is a minor, as states work on age verification bills (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
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July 26, 2025
https://ift.tt/aTQDNKC Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg : A look at the tensions between Meta, Apple, and Google on whether apps or app stores ...
Sources: KKR is in talks to buy ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in a deal that could value the Asian digital infrastructure provider at more than $5B (Bloomberg)
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July 26, 2025
https://ift.tt/arsC2uF Bloomberg : Sources: KKR is in talks to buy ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in a deal that could value the Asian ...
Friday, July 25, 2025
Intel plans to spin off its Network and Edge Group into a standalone company and says it will seek outside investment for the business unit (Dylan Martin/CRN)
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July 25, 2025
https://ift.tt/3Hub8Kr Dylan Martin / CRN : Intel plans to spin off its Network and Edge Group into a standalone company and says it will...
Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity companies let Chinese hackers exploit SharePoint flaws (Bloomberg)
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July 25, 2025
https://ift.tt/Zvl07zm Bloomberg : Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity compani...
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Trunk Tools, which provides AI services to organize construction documentation, raised a $40M Series B led by Insight, bringing its total funding to $70M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
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July 24, 2025
https://ift.tt/62lwr4b Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE : Trunk Tools, which provides AI services to organize construction documentation, raised...
Walmart consolidates its AI agents into four "super agents", for customers, staff, engineers, and sellers/suppliers, using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
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July 24, 2025
https://ift.tt/T5vJl8M Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal : Walmart consolidates its AI agents into four “super agents”, for custo...
Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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July 24, 2025
https://ift.tt/y7SGNMs Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google S...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue rose 13% YoY to $9.8B, vs. $9.56B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $71.3B, up from $64.6B a year ago (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
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July 23, 2025
https://ift.tt/ntKpTGv Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net : Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue rose 13% YoY to $9.8B, vs. $9.56B est., ...