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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent, which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step tasks, powered by a new dedicated model, rolling out to paid users — One employee uses it to automate his weekly parking requests at OpenAI's San Francisco office.
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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
ChatGPT Agent uses a virtual browser to do tasks such as filling online forms and calling public APIs, and generates downloadable PowerPoint and Excel files — It's a PowerPoint generator! It's a date-night planner! It's ... another agent from OpenAI. — Isa Fulford, the research lead …
More: PCMag, Entrepreneur, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Law, and The Information. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Dan Shipper / Every: |
Hands-on with ChatGPT Agent: combines OpenAI's Operator and deep research tools and is incredibly simple to use, but less customizable than Claude Code — It's launching today! Here's our day-zero, hands-on report. … Surprise! Operator and deep research had a baby, and it's called ChatGPT Agent.
More: Ars Technica, Decrypt, Business Insider, OpenAI, Forbes, Tom's Guide, Maginative, and Mashable
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| Axios: |
The House passes the GENIUS Act, sending the first-ever regulatory framework for issuers of stablecoins to President Trump for his signature — The House passed legislation Thursday establishing the first-ever regulatory framework for issuers of stablecoins, sending the landmark GENIUS Act to President Trump for his signature.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that would open up 401(k) plans to cryptocurrency and other alternative investments — President preparing executive order to allow 401k plans to tap broad pool of alternative assets
More: The Block, TheStreet, Bitcoin Magazine, NewsBTC, Cryptopolitan, and Crypto Briefing
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| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $11.08B, vs. $11.07B est., net income of $3.13B, and forecasts 2025 revenue of $44.8B-$45.2B, up from $43.5B-$44.5B — Netflix posted an earnings beat Thursday, as revenue grew 16% during the second quarter of 2025.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| Tom Hals / Reuters: |
Meta shareholders suing Mark Zuckerberg and Meta leaders over alleged Cambridge Analytica privacy violations reach a settlement deal, ending an $8B trial — Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms (META.O) agreed on Thursday to settle claims seeking $8 billion …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber partners with EV maker Lucid and AV startup Nuro to deploy 20K+ robotaxis in the US over six years; Uber plans to invest $300M in Lucid and more in Nuro — The companies plan to launch 20,000 robotaxis in the US over the next six years, starting with the first city in 2026.
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports Q2 net income up 61% YoY to ~$13.5B, beating est. every quarter since 2021, and raises its 2025 sales growth guidance in USD from mid-20% to 30% — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. raised its outlook for 2025 revenue growth, shoring up investors' confidence in the momentum of the global AI spending spree.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is speeding up construction of its second and third Arizona plants “by several quarters” to meet chip demand from US clients — TOKYO — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. says it is speeding up construction of its second and third plants in Arizona … | New York Times: |
Substack raised a $100M Series C from Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds its social network and warms up to ads — Substack, originally a newsletter service, says its app now has millions of users interacting with its creators.
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| Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: |
Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation, making it Europe's newest unicorn; Lovable was founded in 2023 — Lovable, a Swedish artificial intelligence startup that streamlines software development, raised a $200 million fundraising round, making it Europe's newest unicorn.
More: TechCrunch, Forbes, Crunchbase News, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, Tech Funding News, and Analytics India Magazine. LinkedIn: Mattias Miksche
| Michael Teo Van Runkle / Ars Technica: |
Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: currently exclusive to Aston Martin, enhances center console integration, works smoothly with driver assist systems, and more — CarPlay Ultra takes over the main instrument display as well as the infotainment. — For the 2025 model year … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Mistral adds new features to its Le Chat chatbot, including a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing — French AI lab Mistral introduced a range of new features to its Le Chat chatbot on Thursday that bring it closer to the capabilities of rivals like OpenAI and Google.
More: Mistral AI, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, TestingCatalog, The Decoder, AI News, and WinBuzzer
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Perplexity jumped to a $18B valuation two months after it raised at $14B; its annualized revenues jumped from $35M in August 2024 to $150M this month — Artificial intelligence-powered search engine lures new investors to back higher price tag — Artificial intelligence search …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox taps Persona to estimate users' ages and verify they are 13+, renames Friends to Connections, and says only users over 13 can message Trusted Connections — Teens will have to prove they are older than 13 to make ‘Trusted Connections’ they can chat more freely with.
More: Roblox Corporate, Wired, Bloomberg, Engadget, MobileSyrup, Adweek, iPhone in Canada, PCMag, VideoGamer, Mashable, Fast Company, and Dexerto
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and r/gamingnews
| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google's Veo 3 video generation model launches on the Gemini API, with an eight-second video costing $6, making it one of the most expensive AI video options — Google's Veo 3 video generation model is now available through the Gemini API, with a price point that puts it among the more expensive options for AI video.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members with two new plans, including Audiobooks+ that offers more listening hours, in the UK and 10+ countries — Spotify on Thursday announced an expansion of its premium audiobooks service, with two new plans that offer additional listening hours … | Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google says threat actors are breaching fully patched, end-of-life cybersecurity company SonicWall's appliances and stealing sensitive data from organizations — Threat actors are stealing sensitive data from organizations by breaching end-of-life appliances made by cybersecurity company SonicWall.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The News/Media Alliance says the webhost of 12ft.io, which helped users bypass paywalls, took down the site on July 14 following the trade association's efforts — The News/Media Alliance says it will take action against similar tools in the future.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some Trump administration officials are holding up finalizing a deal for the UAE to buy Nvidia AI chips over concerns that China could access the chips — Some administration officials worry China could get access to advanced Nvidia chips and are holding up efforts to iron out the agreement| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Meta names long time executive Connor Hayes as head of Threads, starting in mid-September; Hayes joined Meta in 2011 — Longtime Meta executive Connor Hayes has been named head of Threads, Axios has learned, marking a significant milestone for the two-year old product.
More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, MediaPost, WeRSM, Social Media Today, and TVNewsCheck
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
AMD unveils the Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series CPUs, including the flagship $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with 96 cores, set for July 23 — The Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series starts at $1,649 and ships on July 23rd. … AMD's latest Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series … | Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Big Tech's acquihires of AI startups, like Meta's $14.3B Scale AI deal, leaves investors with modest or no returns and may further entrench Big Tech's dominance — Meta and Google's AI talent grab may lead to more sustainable tech companies. — If you're a venture capitalist …
More: Stratechery, Tom's Hardware, and The American Bazaar
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US judge rules that three authors suing Anthropic can bring a class action on behalf of all US writers whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI — A California federal judge ruled on Thursday that three authors suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for copyright infringement … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Jack Dorsey invests $10M in “and Other Stuff”, a nonprofit focused on funding open-source projects and tools built on open protocols like Nostr and ActivityPub — Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey isn't just vibe-coding new social apps, like Bitchat and Sun Day …
More: Techdirt, and Other Stuff, Engadget, Cryptopolitan, and KnowTechie
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X: @francispouliot_ and @callebtc
Forums: r/fediverse and r/technology
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation, following a $20M Series A in 2021 — - XMTP developer Ephemera has raised $20 million Series B at a $300 million equity and $750 million network valuation, with USV's Fred Wilson joining its board.| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Hadrian, which is building largely automated factories to produce space and defense parts, raised a $260M Series C, bringing its total funding to ~$500M — Investors are continuing to rally behind the call to reindustrialize American industry, this time by building out a $260 million war chest …
More: CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Breaking Defense, Hadrian, CNBC, and Arizona Business Know How
| Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung Electronics Chair Jay Y. Lee wins a full reprieve from South Korea's Supreme Court in a protracted fight over fraud and stock manipulation allegations — South Korea's Supreme Court upholds acquittal for Lee Jae-Yong at a sensitive moment for the tech conglomerate
More: Reuters, The Korea Herald, and Korea Joongang Daily
| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment — A popular and contentious game, Revenge on Gold Diggers, sheds light on misogyny, inequality and the feeling among many men that they are economic victims.
Forums: r/China
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