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AMD announces it will eventually move to a unified UDNA GPU architecture, bringing RDNA and CDNA together, as it hopes to rival Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem — By Paul Alcorn Contributions from Jarred Walton published — Two become one. — Here in Berlin, Germany, at IFA 2024, AMD's Jack Huynh …
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The US DOJ's case against Google's ad business may benefit Meta, Amazon, and news organizations that pay Google a cut of revenue for brokering their website ads — Federal prosecutors are seeking a divestment of Google's multibillion-dollar online advertising business, saying its monopoly power harms advertisers and publishers.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Source: Sequoia Capital completed its $861M purchase of Stripe shares from Sequoia limited partners last week; Stripe didn't receive any proceeds — - It also could become a model for how VC firms deal with long-in-the-tooth portfolio companies. … - Some LPs exited completely … | The Verge: |
A live blog of Apple's event, where four new iPhones are expected and rumors suggest a new Apple Watch and AirPods models could be announced — We're here with the latest on Apple Intelligence, iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods. … It's glowtime, baby.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Automation and IT monitoring company Progress agrees to acquire Raleigh-based file management platform ShareFile for $875M in cash and credit — Progress, a Bedford, Massachusetts-based software firm, on Monday announced that it intends to acquire file management platform ShareFile for $875 million in cash and credit.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bending Spoons plans to lay off 75% of WeTransfer staff after acquiring the file-sharing service in July 2024; WeTransfer reportedly has 350+ employees — Italy-based app company Bending Spoons, which owns Evernote and Meetup, is planning to lay off 75% of the staff of file transfer service WeTransfer, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Miami-based Finally, which offers bookkeeping, accounting, and finance tools for SMBs, raised a $50M Series B from PeakSpan and secured a $150M credit line — The SMB-focused bookkeeping, accounting and finance startup Finally has raised $50 million in a Series B round of funding and secured …
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| Jack Apollo George / The Guardian: |
A writer who works for a tech company describes how he helps train AI models how to write, by making up pretend responses to hypothetical chatbot questions — Journalists and other writers are employed to improve the quality of chatbot replies. The irony of working for an industry …
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Audible plans to invite some US-based audiobook narrators to train AI on their voices, cloning them and paying for title recordings via a royalty-sharing model — The audiobook service is inviting some US-based narrators to train artificial intelligence on their voices| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
An interview with Iconiq Capital's Matthew Jacobson on the firm's focus on M&A and secondary markets, investing in startups creating AI “applications”, and more — Investment group that acts as family office of top entrepreneurs bets on M&A and secondary markets
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström's Atomico raised $1.24B for its sixth batch of new funds, including a $754M growth-stage fund and a $485M early-stage fund — LONDON — Atomico, an early investor in top European technology firms from Stripe to Klarna, announced Monday the launch …
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| Taro Fuse / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tokyo-based chip startup Rapidus seeks to raise ~$696M from existing and new investors by issuing new shares to finance its chip development efforts — - Government-funded startup is approaching Mizuho, SMBC and DBJ — Rapidus part of Japan's campaign to regain leadership in chips
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