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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Bitcoin dropped below $50,000, its lowest level since February 2024 and down 17% since August 3, and ether dropped 15% to ~$2,300, as global markets plummet — Cryptocurrencies tumbled amid a global market sell-off spurred by recession fears. — The price of bitcoin was last lower by 7% …
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| Financial Times: |
Investor letter: Elliott Management says megacap tech stocks, particularly Nvidia, were in “bubble land”, and AI is “overhyped” and “not ready for prime time” — Hedge fund tells clients many supposed applications of the technology are ‘never going to actually work’
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| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft stocks led a tech stock sell-off amid US recession fears; AAPL drops 5%, NVDA drops 7%+, and MSFT drops 3%+ — Apple (AAPL.O) and Nvidia (NVDA.O) led a sell-off in technology stocks on Monday as U.S. recession fears and Berkshire Hathaway's …
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so — Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Elon Musk revives his OpenAI lawsuit, filing a complaint in California to allege that OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman breached OpenAI's founding contract — The Tesla chief executive has renewed claims that the A.I. start-up put profits and commercial interests ahead of the public good.
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| Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: |
AI chip startup Groq raised a $640M Series D led by BlackRock at a $2.8B valuation, up from $1B after raising $300M in 2021, and adds an Intel executive as COO — Cisco and Samsung invested in the $640 million deal — Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. has raised $640 million in new funding …
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| Washington Post: |
In a letter, the secretaries of state from PA, WA, MI, NM, and MN ask Elon Musk to change X's AI assistant Grok to stop it from spreading false election info — Grok, the AI search assistant on Musk's X platform, suggested that Kamala Harris had missed the ballot deadline in nine states. She hasn't.
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| Evan Gorelick / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: the vast majority of damages from July's CrowdStrike global IT outage will go uninsured; CrowdStrike reported nearly 24K enterprise customers in Q1 — - Insured losses estimated between $300 million and $1.5 billion — The days-long outage took a $5.4 billion toll on Fortune 500
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Source: Placer.ai, which provides AI-powered market research based on location data, raised $75M at a $1.45B valuation, up from $1B at its Series C — Location data, for better or worse, continues to be a part of the bedrock of how apps are built. Now a startup developing AI market research based … | Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
Illinois governor signs a bill amending Biometric Information Privacy Act to significantly curb the penalties for improperly collecting and using biometric data — Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has signed a bill into law that will significantly curb the penalties companies could face … | Michael Moritz / Financial Times: |
Silicon Valley's Trump supporters are making the same mistake as all powerful people who back authoritarians: they can't control him, and he won't keep promises — The financiers who support him have made the same error as all powerful people who back authoritarians — The writer is senior adviser, Sequoia Heritage
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| Washington Post: |
An analysis of AI chats in English: 21% of people use chatbots for creative writing, 18% for homework help, 17% for search, 15% for work, and 7% for coding — AI chatbots are taking the world by storm. We analyzed thousands of conversations to see what people are really asking them and what topics are most discussed.
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Investor letter: Josh Kushner says Thrive Capital raised a $1B early-stage fund and a $4B late-stage fund, its largest-ever pair, after backing OpenAI in 2023 — The fundraising reflects optimism over artificial intelligence despite the startup sector's broader struggles
More: PYMNTS.com, The Information, and Thrive Capital
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Memo from Microsoft's chief people officer: “everyone at Microsoft” now has “security” as a “Core Priority”, used in performance reviews — Microsoft will elevate security to the status of “core priority” for all employees as part of the process of focusing … | Bart Meijer / Reuters: |
The European Commission says TikTok agreed to permanently withdraw and not replace TikTok Lite's “Task and Reward Programme” in the EU to comply with the DSA — ByteDance's TikTok has agreed to permanently withdraw its TikTok Lite rewards programme from the EU to comply …
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| Mihai Matei / SamMobile: |
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