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A look at Meta's recent hires for its nascent superintelligence unit, including Pei Sun, who developed two generations of Waymo's perception models — Meta's new hires offer a glimpse into its nascent superintelligence unit, aimed at making the social media company's AI capabilities more competitive with industry leaders.
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President Trump signs the One Big Beautiful Bill, which allows immediate deduction of US software labor; foreign R&D still must be amortized over 15 years — Today, the House passed the Senate's version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), marking a significant overhaul to federal tax policy.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
The term “superintelligence” is becoming increasingly popular among AI leaders, even as many in the industry question whether it is ill-defined and overhyped — A new AI buzzword is picking up speed in Silicon Valley. — But first.... AGI inflation| Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph: |
House GOP leaders announce a regulatory Crypto Week from July 14 to July 18 to consider three key crypto bills, including the Senate-led GENIUS Act — US Republican leaders say the House will look to pass bills on stablecoins, crypto market structure and CBDCs in mid-July in what they've dubbed “Crypto Week.”| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Over the past year, long-time Bitcoin whales have been selling off their holdings, leading to a reshaping of the market as institutions increase their buying — A silent transfer of control is reshaping the $2.1 trillion Bitcoin market. — A steady stream of sales by long-time whales … | Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Two dormant Bitcoin wallets, each holding 10,000 “Satoshi era” BTC since 2011, transferred the coins to new wallets using a modern, lower-fee address format — All of these moved coins are among the rarest class of BTC: mined or transacted during the “Satoshi era,” … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
A look at the annual Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, Ethereum's flagship European event, held in Cannes this year to showcase the network's growth — CANNES — Wall Street's new plumbing is being built on Ethereum and this week its architects took over the same French Riviera villas …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 15.8% YoY to ~$62B, driven by strong demand for iPhones and AI servers powered by Nvidia chips, meeting analysts' expectations — Revenue totaled NT$1.8 trillion ($62 billion) in the three months to June, largely in line with analysts' expectations, results showed Saturday.| Joshua Nevett / BBC: |
UK minister instructs the Turing AI institute, which has lately focused on responsible AI and ethics, to prioritize national security and defense instead — Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has written to the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) to tell its bosses to refocus on defence and security.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Doc: UK's Independent Publishers Alliance files an antitrust complaint with EU and the UK CMA against Google, alleging misuse of web content for AI Overviews — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from a group of independent publishers …
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| Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
Blackstone acquires Vista Equity Partners' minority stake in event software company Cvent, sources say for $1.3B; Blackstone acquired Cvent for $4.6B in 2023 — Blackstone is acquiring Vista's stake in Cvent for $1.3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
PitchBook: AI startups received 53% of all global VC dollars invested in H1 2025, rising to 64% in the US, and accounted for 29% of all global startups funded — Artificial intelligence is eating venture capital. Or at least its dollars. … - That percentage jumps to 64% in the U.S.
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| Ben Geman / Axios: |
Emerald AI, whose software lets AI data centers flexibly adjust power consumption, raised a $24.5M seed led by Radical Ventures, with NVentures participating — AI giant Nvidia and boldface names in tech and finance are backing a new startup that aims to transform data centers into flexible grid assets instead of liabilities.
More: NVIDIA, arXiv.org e-Print archive, Latitude Media, E&E News, VC News Daily, Emerald AI, Pulse 2.0, FinSMEs, and RCR Wireless News
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Tailor, which offers a headless ERP system for retail businesses that separates the frontend and backend, raised a $22M Series A from ANRI, NEA, YC, and others — Tailor, a San Francisco- and Tokyo-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round.
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