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| Denham Sadler / Information Age: |
Sydney-based Canva announces a price increase, including hikes of 300% for some users, citing its new AI and generative AI features, as it prepares for a US IPO — Not so affordable anymore. — Canva has announced a price increase of 300 per cent for some of its users …
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| Yuka Konishi / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple plans to use OLED displays in all iPhone models sold from 2025, switching its lower-priced iPhone SE models from LCDs to OLEDs made by BOE and LG — U.S. tech giant to switch iPhone SE's screen to OLEDs in 2025 — TOKYO — Apple will use organic light-emitting diode (OLED) …
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| Christiaan Hetzner / Fortune: |
Elon Musk said xAI brought its “Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online” over the weekend, which will “double in size to 200k (50k H200s) in a few months” — Say what you will about Elon Musk, but when the technological disruptor sets his mind to something, he plays to win.
More: Business Insider, PCMag, AI News, Tech Startups, Barron's Online, Cointelegraph, The Rundown AI, and Benzinga
| New York Times: |
Sources detail OpenAI's struggles to transform into a no-nonsense, profit-driven company; 80% of its 1,700+ staff started after ChatGPT's November 2022 release — The maker of ChatGPT is struggling to transform itself into a profit-driven company while satisfying worries about the safety of artificial intelligence.| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Spotter debuts a set of AI tools called Spotter Studio, to help creators brainstorm video ideas by analyzing 2B+ top YouTube videos and more, for $49/month — Spotter, the startup that provides financial solutions to content creators, announced Tuesday the launch of its new AI-powered creative suite.
More: Business Insider
| Bloomberg: |
Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, and their super PACs haven't donated to Trump or Harris, instead pursuing a strategy of targeted donations to congressional campaigns — - Crypto firm's donations are shaking up Congressional races — Critics say crypto influence is akin to corporate ‘Death Star’
More: Bitcoin Insider
| Sonja Wind / Bloomberg: |
SAP CTO Juergen Mueller says he will leave the company by the end of September due to “an incident at a past company event where my behavior was inappropriate” — - Mueller will leave by the end of the month after an incident — He apologizes for ‘inappropriate’ behavior at company event| Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: |
Seven leading SEO experts and publisher audience strategists on changing their approach due to Google Search's AI Overviews, how it may impact traffic, and more — Google's generative AI search feature is here to stay, but will it actually impact how digital outlets do business?
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LinkedIn: Tristan Loper, Bryan Flaherty, and Will Flannigan
| Washington Post: |
Some Big Tech critics worry that Kamala Harris' deep ties to tech companies could prompt her to abandon Democrats' recent aggressive stance toward the sector — Some critics of Big Tech worry that the Democratic presidential nominee's deep ties to large tech companies could prompt friendlier treatment.| Dhruv Khullar / New Yorker: |
The use of AI techniques has accelerated and improved drug discovery efforts, as antibiotic-resistant infections contribute to 1.5M deaths annually — The A.I. revolution is coming to a pharmacy near you. — When I first became a doctor, I cared for an older man whom I'll call Ted.
X: @erictopol
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Huawei's Ascend chips still lag far behind Nvidia's for model training and have stability issues, slower inter-chip connectivity, and inferior software — Tech group's Ascend artificial intelligence chips are being widely adopted but Chinese companies complain of performance problems
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Zilch says it made an operating profit in July 2024, hitting profitability within four years of its founding date, and crossed £100M in annual revenue run rate — British financial technology firm Zilch on Tuesday reported its first-ever month of profit, marking a key milestone …
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Dubai-based Ziina, a P2P payments app with 50,000 retail and business customers, raised a $22M Series A led by Altos, bringing its total funding to $30M+ — In June 2021, Ziina, fresh from completing YC's first cohort that year and securing a $7.5 million seed, launched its fintech app … | Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg: |
All five Brazilian judges on a Supreme Court panel vote to confirm the X ban in Brazil and fine those who don't comply with it by using a VPN; X can appeal — - Top court panel backs order by Moraes against social network — Justices also uphold fine for those who use VPN for access
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