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Tesla's Austin robotaxi service gets a limited launch, with ~10 Model Y vehicles and safety drivers; Elon Musk says initial users will pay “a $4.20 flat fee” — Self-driving technology on which Elon Musk has staked the future of his company debuts in Texas
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| Bloomberg: |
Videos captured by riders appear to show Tesla's self-driving taxis violating traffic laws, including entering the opposite lane and exceeding speed limits — In a video taken by Rob Maurer, an investor who used to host a Tesla podcast, the Model Y he's riding in enters an Austin intersection in a left-turn-only lane.
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| Reuters: |
A senior US official says DeepSeek is aiding China's military and intel operations, going beyond open-source AI model access, and evading US export controls — AI firm DeepSeek is aiding China's military and intelligence operations, a senior U.S. official told Reuters …
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| Andrew Solender / Axios: |
Source: the US House's CAO informed congressional staffers that WhatsApp is now banned on their government devices as the app is deemed “a high-risk to users” — The U.S. House's chief administrative officer informed congressional staffers Monday that messaging app WhatsApp …
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Google unveils new Gemini AI features, like select to search, for Chromebook Plus laptops like Lenovo's new $649+ 14" flagship with a MediaTek Kompanio Ultra — Features include select-to-search images and on-screen text, smart grouping of tabs and documents, and automated image editing.
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Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with an observability tool called Command Center and MCP support, and says 8,000 customers have signed up to deploy Agentforce — Salesforce launched Agentforce 3, which features Agentforce Command Center, support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) …
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| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple is locked in last-minute EU negotiations over App Store changes to avoid fines set for this week, and is expected to offer “steering” concessions — Tech group must make concessions to comply with Digital Markets Act or be hit by escalating levies from Thursday
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg discussed a possible acquisition with Runway AI; the deal talks never reached a formal offer level — The deal talks never reached a formal offer level where a dollar figure was discussed, and are no longer ongoing, according to people familiar with the matter … | Wall Street Journal: |
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Anthony Pompliano's ProCap raised $750M+, including $235M in convertible debt, and is going public via a SPAC; the new firm aims to hold up to $1B in bitcoin — The race to create publicly traded bitcoin treasuries is accelerating — and so is the capital pouring in.
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says it is testing a new aggregated gaming library in the Xbox PC app for Windows 11 with Xbox Insiders, integrating “leading PC storefronts” — Although the blog post doesn't say which PC stores are going to be integrated, at the very least, you'll be able … | Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google: |
Samsung unveils the Exynos 2500 chipset, built on a 3nm GAA node and featuring the 4th-gen Xclipse 950 GPU and an NPU with up to 59 TOPS of AI performance — It's far later into 2025 than Samsung likely hoped for, but its Exynos 2500 chipset is finally official, just ahead of next month's rumored Unpacked.| Bloomberg: |
Sanmai, which wants to build an AI-powered ultrasound device that costs less than $500 to help treat mental health conditions, raised $12M led by Reid Hoffman — LinkedIn Corp. co-founder Reid Hoffman is leading a $12 million funding round for Sanmai Technologies and joining the board of the startup …
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| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab reportedly raising $2B would be the largest seed round ever, far surpassing Yuga Labs' $450M seed round in 2022 — If you were to imagine the kind of startup likely to snag the largest seed round of all time, it would probably look something like Thinking Machines Lab.
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| Wired: |
Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say he “does not use a computer” after OpenAI accused Musk of not complying with the discovery process in his lawsuit against OpenAI — The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk's ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.
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| Sahil Patel / The Information: |
Sources: Google reduces its Google TV and Android TV budget by 10% and cuts Android TV and Google TV's ~300 employees by up to 25%, as it focuses on YouTube — Google has cut its smart TV budget and trimmed its team—marking the most concrete signs yet of the company's waning interest competing …
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| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Fiserv aims to launch its own stablecoin by 2025's end, and partners with PayPal and Circle to develop new products for financial institutions and merchants — Fiserv aims to have its FIUSD stablecoin available for customers by the end of the year, the firm said in a statement Monday.
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| Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: |
Legal AI startup Harvey raised a $300M Series E co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue at a $5B valuation and says it serves 337 clients like KKR and PwC globally — PwC partner Bivek Sharma (center) and Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg (right) speak to AI editor Jeremy Kahn at Brainstorm AI this week.
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Snowcap Compute, which is working on building AI computing chips using superconducting tech, raised a $23M seed and says Pat Gelsinger will join its board — Snowcap Compute, a startup working on building artificial intelligence computing chips using superconducting technology … | Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
The FTC approves Omnicom's $13.5B acquisition of rival Interpublic on the condition that the new company does not boycott platforms over political content — Omnicom's (OMC.N) $13.5 billion acquisition of rival Interpublic (IPG.N) can move forward on the condition that the new company does … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look at the AI landscape and its impact on Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, as well as the foundation model makers, including OpenAI and Anthropic — This is how I opened January 2023's AI and the Big Five: … Sometimes the accuracy of a statement is measured by its banality …
| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Decagon, which offers AI-powered customer service agents for enterprises, raised a $131M Series C co-led by Accel and a16z at a $1.5B valuation — Decagon, a startup providing customer service solutions powered by artificial intelligence, said on Monday it had raised $131 million in a funding round that valued it at $1.5 billion.
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| Esther Fung / Wall Street Journal: |
DHL, UPS, FedEx, and Walmart are using robots for warehouse logistics to cut costs, like by automating the backbreaking task of loading and unloading trucks — Technology breakthroughs are allowing DHL and other companies to automate the laborious, injury-prone work of loading and unloading| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based Finom, a neobank targeting SMBs, raised a €115M Series C led by AVP after raising €92.7M from General Catalyst in May — While funding may be scarce for some, Europe's fastest-growing startups still have their pick. — The latest beneficiary of that investor appetite is Finom …
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Study: only 32 countries, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, host AI data centers, with the US, China, and the EU controlling 50%+ of the world's top facilities — Only 32 nations, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, have A.I.-specialized data centers. — E.U. 28 — China — Other — Europe
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