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WLFI, the token of Trump's World Liberty Financial, begins trading at ~$0.30 with a market cap of ~$7.5B; ~24.67% of its 100B supply is in circulation at open — - The native token of World Liberty Financial, a DeFi project backed by Donald Trump and his family, began spot trading on exchanges.| Bloomberg: |
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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Analysis: porn sites that don't comply with the UK's age verification laws have seen their traffic from UK users grow, while sites complying had declines — The age-verification laws rapidly expanding across the United States and United Kingdom are bringing with them some surprising downsides …
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Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more — Sixteen years ago Matthew Prince and classmate Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School decided there was a better … | 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 … | 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 … | 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 … | Financial Times: |
AI shopping agents are prompting sellers and brands to rethink how they sell online, as advertisers adopt 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| 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| Kelsey Warner / Semafor: |
Source: G42 is talking to Google, AWS, 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 … | 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| 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 …
More: CNET and Futurism
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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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