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Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal — With its unsolicited bid for Google's browser, AI startup seeks to take advantage of uncertainty over pending antitrust ruling
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Forums: Hacker News, r/google, r/perplexity_ai, r/diabrowser, r/artificial, and r/technology
| Joedy McCreary / MedPage Today: |
Study: endoscopists used to AI-assisted colonoscopies detected fewer precancerous growths after AI assistance was removed, compared to before AI was introduced — - The adenoma detection rate (ADR) in more than 1,400 non-AI assisted colonoscopies dropped 6 percentage points, from 28.4% to 22.4% … | Mark Gurman / @markgurman: |
In response to Elon Musk's claims that the App Store favors the ChatGPT app, Apple says the App Store “is designed to be fair and free of bias” — Apple on @elonmusk's claims: “The App Store is designed to be fair and free of bias. We feature thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations, and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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| New York Times: |
Sources: investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least in part responsible for a recent hack of the US federal court filing system — Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities.
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| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
In US court, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon says he will plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud under an agreement with prosecutors — Terraform Labs Pte. co-founder Do Kwon pleaded guilty to charges in a US fraud prosecution tied to the $40 billion collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin in 2022.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI is preparing to back a Neuralink rival called Merge Labs, co-founded by Sam Altman, that aims to raise $250M at an $850M valuation — OpenAI in talks to invest in brain implant start-up that would compete with Musk's company — Ivan Levingston in London …
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| ABC: |
An Australian federal judge rules Apple and Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct by misusing their app store market power, but rejects Epic's other claims — In a landmark decision, the federal court has today ruled against tech giants Apple and Google in a major win for consumers …
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| Redd Brown / Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave Q2: revenue up 207% YoY to $1.21B, vs. $1.08B est., adjusted net loss of $130.8M, vs. $96.3M est., up from $5M in Q2 2024; CRWV drops 10%+ after hours — CoreWeave Inc. posted steeper losses as it continued to build to meet demand from artificial intelligence developers … | Emily Price / Fast Company: |
Meta says Threads has 400M monthly active users, up from 350M MAUs in April — Meta's Twitter rival has hit 400 million monthly users, closing the gap with X on mobile. — Meta's Threads is on a roll. — The social networking app is now home to more than 400 million monthly active users, Meta shared with Fast Company on Tuesday.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic updates Claude Sonnet 4 to support a 1M token context window, letting it process prompts up to 750K words or 75K lines of code, up 5x on its old limit — Anthropic is increasing the amount of information that enterprise customers can send to Claude in a single prompt …
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| Financial Times: |
Anthropic signs a deal to offer Claude to US lawmakers for $1/year, following OpenAI; a source says Google is in talks to offer Gemini on similarly cheap terms — Group follows rival OpenAI in making enterprise tools available to government branches — Anthropic will offer its Claude chatbot …
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| James Hunt / The Block: |
Circle reports Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $658M, USDC circulation up 90% YoY to $61.3B, a $482M net loss, and unveils Arc, a stablecoin-focused Layer 1 blockchain — - Circle is planning to launch a stablecoin-focused EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain called Arc.| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
Character.AI says it's generating revenue at a run rate of $30M+ and has 20M MAUs who spend, on average, 75 minutes a day chatting with a bot — Startup Character.AI once promised superintelligence. Its new CEO says it's now an entertainment company with 20 million users.
X: @kyliebytes and @kyliebytes
| Adrian Zmudzinski / Cointelegraph: |
Qubic, a layer-1 blockchain project that pools mining resources, has been trying a 51% attack on Monero and says it succeeded, causing Monero's price to fall — at 1:30 pm UTC): This article has been updated to add a Qubic announcement. Layer-1 blockchain Qubic said it has …
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| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Sources: Microsoft is trying to poach Meta's AI talent and is making multimillion-dollar offers, with a mandate to match Meta's compensation for top talent — - Microsoft targets Meta employees in AI talent war, internal documents show. — The software giant has an internal list of its most-wanted Meta engineers.| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
OpenAI is adding Connectors for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts in ChatGPT for Pro users, with Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu plans to follow — OpenAI wants ChatGPT to know more about you, including your emails, calendar events in Google Calendar, and even your Google contacts, to reference everything in a conversation.| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
NYC-based Profound, which helps brands optimize visibility in AI search responses, raised a $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $58.5M — Profound co-founders James Cadwallader and Dylan Babbs, who are betting big on helping brands get discovered in AI search
More: Profound, FinSMEs, Sequoia Capital, and Adweek
X: @dbabbs, @rabois, @biad_anas, @sartaj_rajpal, @tbpn, and @scottbelsky
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google launches Preferred Sources in the US and India, allowing users to personalize the news in Search's “top stories” section by selecting favorite outlets — A new feature will let you pick the news outlets you see in Google Search's top stories.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's RBI grants Paytm “in-principle” approval to operate as a payment services provider for online merchants, after China's Ant Group sold its entire stake — Indian fintech giant Paytm has received long-awaited approval from the country's central bank to operate …
More: PYMNTS.com, ET Now, The Economic Times, Inc42 Media, Entrackr, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Reuters, Fortune India, and Inc42 Media
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese authorities urge local companies to avoid using less advanced US chips, particularly Nvidia's H20s, for government or national security work — Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. Sign up here. — Beijing has urged local companies …
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X: @rnaudbertrand, @shakeelhashim, and @chinabeigebook
Forums: r/hardware and r/China
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