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Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not to train AI models — Microsoft says it isn't using your data to train its AI. … However, one user complained on ResetEra forums …
More: ResetEra, XDA Developers, TechRadar, Neowin, Guru3D, TechSpot, TechPowerUp, and Tech4Gamers
Forums: r/pcgaming and r/Games
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks — OpenAI recently made a splash with artificial intelligence that generates short videos from text prompts—say, a scene from …
More: Livemint, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, The Decoder, Digital Trends, and WinBuzzer
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right's campaign against it — Larry Sanger's long-standing claims of liberal bias and mismanagement at the world's dominant online encyclopedia are being enthusiastically embraced on the right.
More: HotAir, mrcfreespeechamerica.org, and Tom's Guide
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
French online carpooling marketplace BlaBlaCar says India now accounts for ~33% of its carpool passengers and expects to reach ~150M passengers globally in 2025 — Every few weekends, 21-year-old student Lavanya Jain opens the BlaBlaCar app to find a lift from Noida on the outskirts … 
| Bloomberg: |
The US AI data center boom is consuming capital, power, and people that the rest of the economy needs, and is crowding out Trump's manufacturing revival plans — Spending on factory construction is down 2.5% so far this year, while that for data centers is up almost 18%.| Aigerim Turgunbaeva / Reuters: |
Kyrgyzstan launches a national stablecoin and a CBDC in partnership with Binance; CZ says a national cryptocurrency reserve includes Binance's BNB token — Kyrgyzstan has launched a national stablecoin and a central bank digital currency in partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Binance, President Sadyr Japarov said on Saturday.
More: Gizmodo, CoinDesk, 24.kg, The Block, CryptoNinjas, Modern Diplomacy, Bitcoin Insider, Cointelegraph, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Bitcoinist.com
X: @cz_binance, @cz_binance, and @realyanxin
| Valida Pau / The Information: |
Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is exploring a sale after it struggled to complete a fundraising round; SambaNova was last valued at $5B in 2021 — Artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems is exploring a sale, after it struggled to complete a fundraising round, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Austin-based Roller, a provider of venue management software, raised $50M led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to over $100M — Roller, a venue management platform developer, raised a $50 million round led by Insight Partners, co-founder and CEO Luke Finn tells Axios Pro.
More: Insight Partners, FinSMEs, and ROLLER
| Christopher Marquis / Forbes: |
Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting drones, raised $60M in seed and Series A rounds led by Caffeinated Capital and Convective Capital — I write about businesses creating a more sustainable economic system. … Climate change is no longer a remote future threat.
More: Seneca, The Robot Report, Pulse 2.0, and DroneXL.co
| Bloomberg: |
How Changpeng Zhao's pardon frees him to refocus on reclaiming ground in the US market, where Binance.US only has a 0.75% share of bitcoin trading volume — Hours after receiving a pardon from President Donald Trump, Binance Holdings Ltd.'s billionaire co-founder Changpeng Zhao issued a thank …
More: crypto.news, NewsBTC, Politico, The Coin Republic, Inside Bitcoins, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Insider, Unchained, CoinDesk, and Benzinga
X: @cz_binance and @namdar
| Alex Scott / Chemical & Engineering News: |
Glasgow-based Chemify, which combines AI with robotics and chemistry to rapidly make novel molecules for pharmaceutical companies, raised a $50M+ Series B — Scottish firm will use the cash to advance its AI platform and robotics system to rapidly make novel molecules
More: Business Wire, UK Tech Investment News, Pulse 2.0, Unite.AI, and Silicon Canals
X: @andrewe_dunn, @kiranshaw, @wing_vc, and @kiranshaw
LinkedIn: Chemify Limited, Scottish Enterprise, Jamie Macfarlane, and Andrew Dunn
| Katrina Bianca Cuaresma / DealStreetAsia: |
Singapore-based wealth management platform Endowus raised $70M+, bringing its total funding to $130M+, and says the new capital will boost its AI advisory tools — Singapore-based wealth management platform Endowus has raised over $70 million in fresh funding to finance expansion and AI-driven capabilities … | RT Watson / The Block: |
Pave Bank, which lets businesses manage both fiat and digital assets in real time, raised a $39M Series A led by Accel, with Tether and others participating — - Pave Bank raised $39 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel, with participation from Tether Investments, Wintermute, and others.
More: The Economic Times, DealStreetAsia, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Tech in Asia, FinTech Global, TNGlobal, and FinTech Global
X: @simonvc and @accel_india
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