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A Brazilian Supreme Court justice blocks Starlink bank accounts in Brazil in a bid to force Elon Musk to pay X's fines; the court has also threatened to block X — - Starlink bank accounts blocked to pay for fines on X — Court threatens to block X for lack of Brazil representative
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Google rolls out Gmail Q&A, a feature that allows users who pay for Gemini to chat with and use the AI assistant for their emails, on Android and soon on iOS — Gmail users on Android devices can now chat directly with Google's AI assistant, Gemini, about their emails in the Gmail app.| Bloomberg: |
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 — - Apple, Microsoft also have been in talks about participating — Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
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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 — - Meta said earlier on Thursday adoption of its open source Llama models has also grown sharply.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel explores options to cope with historic slump, including a split of 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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
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' content — Alibaba Cloud, the cloud services and storage division of the Chinese e-commerce giant, has announced the release of Qwen2-VL … | Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
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 … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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 — As part of the rollout, parents will have a significant amount of control over what experiences their preteens can access …
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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 — Magic, an AI startup developing models to generate code and automate a range of software development tasks …
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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 — Dell reported quarterly results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations, powered by an 80% increase in server sales.
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Sources: Tencent and NetEase reconsider or scale back Japanese game studio investments, after the strategy yielded few hit games and the Chinese market revived — - China's biggest game publishers are rethinking expansion plans — ‘Wukong’ success also encouraged looking domestically for hits| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US district judge dismisses, with prejudice, a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk and Tesla of defrauding investors by hyping Dogecoin and conducting insider trading — Elon Musk and his electric vehicle company Tesla (TSLA.O) won the dismissal of a federal lawsuit accusing them of defrauding investors … Sponsor Posts
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