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An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the company's M&A strategy as it acquires Madrid-based data observability startup Onum for about $290M — George Kurtz, cofounder and CEO of CrowdStrike — COURTESY OF CROWDSTRIKE — Cybersecurity is more than just software … | Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Source: Indian fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League plans to lay off ~60% of its local workforce, after the government banned online real-money games — Indian online gaming app Mobile Premier League (MPL) will sack about 60% of its local workforce as part of a major downsizing … | Colleen Flaherty / Inside Higher Ed: |
A survey of 1,047 US college students on GenAI: 55% use the tech for brainstorming ideas, 18% now question the value of college more than they used to, and more — Key findings from Inside Higher Ed's student survey on generative AI show that using the evolving technology hasn't diminished … | J. Edward Moreno / Sherwood News: |
Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on three consecutive profitable quarters, co-founders leaving the board, the Freenow acquisition, robotaxi economics, and more — Lyft wants to shed its “second-place, domestic-only, only a business-to-consumer company” reputation. — 13M| Financial Times: |
A profile of Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon, whose share price has doubled since the start of August, supported by Beijing's aims for tech self-sufficiency — The young chipmaker has software advantages over much larger rival Huawei as it aids Beijing's race for tech self-sufficiency
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| Emily Mullin / Wired: |
A new policy document from seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030 — A new policy document outlines China's plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years … | Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
A critique of two contrasting research papers on AI's impact on US employment trends, along with caveats from a Stanford study on jobs in AI-exposed fields — Some top economists claim AI is now destroying jobs for a subset of Americans. Are they right? — The debate over whether AI …
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| Joshua Rothman / New Yorker: |
A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression — We're used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what's left for the human imagination?
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| Phil Hoad / The Guardian: |
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| Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
El Salvador splits its 6,000+ bitcoin across 14 wallets, describing the move as a precaution against quantum attacks, a merely theoretical threat for now — El Salvador has transferred its 6,274 Bitcoin into 14 new wallet addresses as part of a security measure to protect against the threat of quantum attacks.
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| Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: |
AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with a $30M seed led by Next47 — - Aurasell is emerging from stealth with $30 million in seed funding. — The one-year-old AI startup wants to disrupt legacy sales software.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
AI models' price per token has fallen since 2023, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks — With models doing more ‘thinking,’ the small companies that buy AI from the giants to create apps and services are feeling the pinch
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| John Tozzi / Bloomberg: |
Pharma commercialization company Eversana merges with Waltz Health, which provides drug price-comparison software to insurers, creating an entity valued at $6B — Eversana, a company that helps drugmakers sell their medicines, has acquired a smaller firm called Waltz Health that helps employers …
More: Fierce Healthcare, Built In, Eversana, MM+M, and Healthcare Finance News
| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the “most emotionally intelligent matchmaker”, planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more — She's spent nearly all of her working life atop the dating-app business, and believes artificial intelligence could be the matchmaker we all need| Dan Swinhoe / DatacenterDynamics: |
OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific silicon photonic chips, raised a $34M Series A as it targets the data center interconnect market — Company secures funds, targets data center interconnect market — OpenLight, a designer of custom application-specific photonic chips, has secured $34 million in funding.
More: Semiconductor Today, Tech in Asia, Lightwave, optics.org, and OpenLight Photonics
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