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Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks — We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls …
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The CFTC is asking for public comment by August 18 about trading spot crypto asset contracts listed on CFTC-registered futures exchanges — Takeaways by Bloomberg AI — Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Figma's stock dropped 27.4% to $88.60 on Monday after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation now sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer — Figma shares dropped 27% on Monday, cutting into the gains the design software company posted after hitting the market last week.| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
Source: Figma considered a higher IPO price, but its CEO wanted to bring on board certain long-term institutional shareholders and signed off on $33 per share — Figma Inc.'s record-breaking debut gains are cooling, but they have still handed a windfall to investors including the select institutions …
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| John Herrman / New York Magazine: |
SEO is being supplanted by generative-engine optimization, or GEO, which focuses on AI chatbots and does not benefit from longstanding SEO tricks — Search-engine optimization now feels dated. Generative-engine optimization is all about trying to trick AI chatbots.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google unveils Kaggle Game Arena, a benchmarking platform where AI models compete head-to-head in strategic games, starting with a chess tournament this week — The world's top performing artificial intelligence models, including OpenAI's o3 and 04-mini, Google LLC's Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash …
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT now offers “gentle reminders” to take breaks during long sessions, and it is building tools to better detect signs of emotional distress — OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will now remind users to take breaks if they're in a particularly long chat with AI.
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| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
Google agrees with two power utilities to pause non-essential AI workloads during peak demand or adverse weather events that reduce supply — Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday. — The web giant already does … | Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Transcripts from the trial over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash: Tesla withheld crash‑snapshot data and took years to admit it existed or was relevant to the case — Tesla was caught withholding data, lying about it, and misdirecting authorities in the wrongful death case involving Autopilot that it lost this week.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says Vine's video archive is being brought back, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine, available to X Premium+ subscribers, is “AI Vine” — Elon Musk says he's bringing back Vine — sort of. The X owner announced over the weekend that the company discovered …
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| Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone: |
The parents of a Parkland shooting victim created an AI version of their son to speak about gun safety, starting with an interview with journalist Jim Acosta — AI-generated Joaquin Oliver, which was created by his parents, discussed gun control measures and movies in a new interview| Nikkei Asia: |
DRAM prices remain high after doubling from May 2025 to June 2025, amid speculation that China's CXMT may have halted DDR4 production to focus on DDR5 and HBM — TOKYO — Prices for standard DRAM, a widely used type of memory chip, remain high after doubling in just one month on speculation … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Core Scientific's hedge fund shareholders may reject CoreWeave's all-stock merger bid, seeking better terms, as CRWV has fallen 30%+ post-announcement — Some investment funds may vote against deal unless protections are added to limit the potential downside — Unlock the Editor's Digest for free
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White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says the US is exploring software or physical methods to track the location of AI chips, as part of AI Action Plan — Takeaways by Bloomberg AI — Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback| The Information: |
Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to the ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing “we don't believe in work-life balance” — Cognition, a two-year-old artificial intelligence coding startup last valued at $4 billion, has offered buyouts …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new “hard tech”, AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base — In a scene in HBO's “Silicon Valley” in 2014, a character who had just sold his idea to a fictional tech company …
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