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WLFI, Trump's World Liberty Financial token, begins trading at ~$0.30, implying a ~$7.5B market cap; ~24.67% of its 100B supply was in circulation at the open — - The native token of World Liberty Financial, a DeFi project backed by Donald Trump and his family, began spot trading on exchanges.
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Sources: OpenAI is scouting local partners to set up a 1GW+ data center in India, although the exact timeline is unclear; Sam Altman is set to visit this month — OpenAI is seeking to build a massive new data center in India that could mark a major step forward in Asia for its Stargate …
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| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for employees at $1,381.06 per share, valuing Revolut at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale — Revolut Ltd. has kicked off a process for some employees to sell their shares in the company at a $75 billion valuation.
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| Kelsey Warner / Semafor: |
Source: G42 is talking to AWS, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI to become tenants at its UAE-US AI Campus, and aims to diversify chip suppliers beyond Nvidia — THE SCOOP — Abu Dhabi-backed G42 is still negotiating with major American technology firms — with no agreements yet … | Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China's AI content labeling law takes effect, aligned with increased AI scrutiny, as concerns grow over misinformation, copyright infringement, and online fraud — The law requires explicit and implicit labels for AI-generated text, images, audio, video and other virtual content
More: Global Times, CGTN, and The Decoder
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Analysis: porn sites ignoring the UK's age verification law have seen a burst of traffic from UK users, while sites complying saw declines from UK IP addresses — The age-verification laws rapidly expanding across the United States and United Kingdom are bringing with them some surprising downsides …
More: TechCrunch, PC Gamer, and The American Spectator
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| Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots are killing the web and journalism, how his pay-per-crawl initiative can fix it, and more — Sixteen years ago Matthew Prince and classmate Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School decided there was a better …
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AI shopping agents have prompted sellers and brands to rethink selling online, as advertisers employ new techniques to appear more prominently in AI results — OpenAI, Perplexity and Google create AI-powered features, leading brands to rethink how they sell products online| 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 … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
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 … | J. Edward Moreno / Sherwood News: |
Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on Lyft's three profitable quarters in a row, its co-founders leaving the board, acquiring Freenow, robotaxi economics, and more — Lyft wants to shed its “second-place, domestic-only, only a business-to-consumer company” reputation. — 13M| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Source: Indian fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League plans to lay off ~60% of its local workforce, after the Indian government banned online paid games — Indian online gaming app Mobile Premier League (MPL) will sack about 60% of its local workforce as part of a major downsizing … | Emily Mullin / Wired: |
A policy doc authored in July by 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 … | Financial Times: |
A profile of Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon, whose share price has doubled since the start of August, supported by Beijing's push for tech self-sufficiency — The young chipmaker has software advantages over much larger rival Huawei as it aids Beijing's race for tech self-sufficiencySponsor Posts
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