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August 11, 2025, 10:05 PM

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Ina Fried / Axios:
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he is leaving to “become a startup founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization  —  GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday that he plans to step down, with Microsoft opting not to directly replace the position …
Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg:
Trump says he met with Lip-Bu Tan and that the Intel CEO will continue talks with his Cabinet members in the coming days, after calling for his resignation  —  President Donald Trump said members of his Cabinet would continue discussions with Lip-Bu Tan in the coming days after meeting …
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Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Trump family's World Liberty Financial is using a publicly listed company, ALT5 Sigma, to raise $1.5B for the purchase of its WLFI token  —  World Liberty Financial cofounders Zach Witkoff (left) and Eric Trump.  —  The Trump family's crypto business, World Liberty Financial …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing most of its pages after it caught AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine  —  The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it's going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Paxos applies to create a US national trust bank, which would allow it to manage and hold assets for customers, following applications by Circle and Ripple  —  Paxos Trust Company, the cryptocurrency firm behind PayPal's stablecoin, said it is applying to create a national trust bank in the U.S. …
Omair Pall / Mashable India:
xAI makes Grok 4 free for all users worldwide after making Grok Imagine free for all US users; Grok 4 Heavy remains exclusive to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers  —  xAI releases Grok 4 free, rivals GPT-5 launch.  —  Elon Musk-owned xAI has officially made the latest version of its AI model …
Charles Capel / Bloomberg:
SEC filing: crypto exchange Bullish increased the size and price of its US IPO to sell 30M shares for $32 to $33 each, up from 20.3M shares for $28 to $31 each  —  Bullish increased the size and price of its initial public offering, boosting the potential deal size to $990 million …
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages  —  The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, has sued the generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement.
Sam Tobin / Reuters:
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges  —  The operator of Wikipedia on Monday lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain's Online Safety Act, which sets tough new requirements …
VideoCardz.com:
Nvidia announces two low-power Blackwell workstation GPUs, the RTX PRO 4000 SFF and RTX PRO 2000, both featuring compact designs and available later this year  —  NVIDIA updates RTX Pro Blackwell series with entry-level SKUs  —  Based on GB203 and GB206 GPUs.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic adds a memory feature for Claude to reference information from past chats, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, and soon for other plans  —  Anthropic has introduced a helpful new feature for Claude that solves a problem similar to one ChatGPT already addressed.

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