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Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 56% YoY to $46.74B, Data Center revenue up 56% to $41.1B, below $41.34B est., and approves an additional $60B in share buybacks — Nvidia reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue on Wednesday, and said sales growth this quarter will remain above 50% …
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Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers, dropping the Game Pass Ultimate requirement, and tests more PC game access — Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers are also getting access to some PC games.| Bloomberg: |
The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini — The US government on Thursday began distributing gross domestic product data on public blockchains, marking the latest Trump administration endorsement of the crypto industry.| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Apple says the UK CMA's proposed “EU-style” regulation is “bad for users and bad for developers”, “undermines” privacy and security, and “hampers” innovation — Apple has warned that “EU-style rules” proposed by the UK competition watchdog “are bad for users and bad for developers”.| Emily Brooks / The Hill: |
Two House Republicans open a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias into Wikipedia, citing an ADL report about anti-Israel bias on the site — Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Samsung rolls out Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in its 2025 lineup of TVs and monitors, letting users ask for movie suggestions, plot recaps, and more — An animated version of the AI assistant can provide movie recommendations or summarize the latest episode of your favorite show.
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| Danny Park / The Block: |
Google Cloud says its Universal Ledger, a layer-1 blockchain for financial products, is in a private testnet, and plans to reveal more details at a later date — Start trading crypto Get a crypto rewards card 1inch: Swap Sol ↔ EVM — Google Cloud is developing its own blockchain … | Everything Typepad: |
Typepad is shutting down on September 30 and users' “account and all related services will be permanently deactivated”; users can export content before then — We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025. What Does This Mean for You?
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| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Maisa AI, which offers an enterprise agentic automation service that uses a proprietary system to limit hallucinations, raised a $25M seed led by Creandum — A staggering 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, according to a recent report published by MIT's NANDA initiative.| Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Pixel Care+, replacing Preferred Care and Fi Device Protection in the US, with upgrades but slightly higher pricing than the previous offering — Google's post-purchase support for Pixel has never been fantastic — a quick glance at r/GooglePixel will make that abundantly clear … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
A review of the Honor Magic V5, the world's thinnest foldable phone at 8.8mm when folded, as it launches in Europe for €1,999, following a July launch in China — Honor's Magic V5 is the thinnest book-style foldable in the world, but you probably couldn't tell.
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
M0, which develops stablecoin infrastructure to boost interoperability and liquidity, raised a $40M Series B led by Polychain and Ribbit Capital — M0 cofounders Gregory Di Prisco (left) and Luca Prosperi. — COURTESY OF MO — Another stablecoin startup has raised serious cash.
More: CoinDesk
| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Dutch web design automation startup Framer raised $100M led by Meritech and Atomico with Accel participation at a $2B valuation, after raising $27M in 2023 — Framer, a Dutch company that makes tools for automating web design, has raised a funding round at a $2 billion valuation.
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, Silicon Canals, and DutchNews.nl
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI and Anthropic publish findings from joint safety tests of each other's models, aimed at surfacing blind spots in their internal evaluations — OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the world's leading AI labs, briefly opened up their closely guarded AI models to allow for joint safety testing …
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Forums: r/artificial, r/technews, r/technology, r/OpenAI, r/cybersecurity, and r/Anthropic
| Will Wade / Bloomberg: |
Commonwealth, which wants to build a fusion power plant, raised $863M from Nvidia's NVentures, Khosla Ventures, and Google, bringing its total raised to ~$3B — Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $863 million from investors including AI giant Nvidia Corp. to help complete a demonstration system … | Financial Times: |
UK banks face losses on billions of pounds in loans to dozens of alternative broadband network providers that have tried to challenge BT and O2's dominance — NatWest and Lloyds among lenders exposed as ‘altnets’ buckle under strain of rising costs and fierce fibre competition
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| Yueqi Yang / The Information: |
Rain, a stablecoin-backed Visa card issuer, raised a $58M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures, after raising a $24.5M Series A led by Norwest in March — Rain, a stablecoin-backed card issuer that works with Visa, said it raised $58 million in Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures …
More: Rain, PYMNTS.com, and The Block
| Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: |
Google plans to invest an additional $9B in Virginia through 2026 to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure, including a new data center in Chesterfield County — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is investing an additional $9 billion in Virginia through 2026 to enhance cloud and AI infrastructure across the state …
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