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WLFI, run by the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, falls 25% to ~$0.21 on its first trading day, giving it a ~$6B market cap; Trump's WLFI is worth ~$3.6B — WLFI tokens in circulation have a total nominal value of $6.4bn — The crypto token of a project backed by US President Donald Trump fell …
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| 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 … | Vauhini Vara / Bloomberg: |
A look at AI adoption across US schools and colleges, as tech companies invest in AI education initiatives, including partnerships with major teachers' unions — Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Alibaba's shares jumped 19% in Hong Kong on September 2, after strong Q1 results from its cloud computing unit on August 29 and reports of its new AI chip — Alibaba's Hong Kong listed shares surged more than 19% on Monday as the Chinese tech giant's cloud computing unit drove strong quarterly results … | Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for employees at $1,381.06 per share, valuing Revolut at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale — Revolut Ltd. has kicked off a process for some employees to sell their shares in the company at a $75 billion valuation.
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| Luke James / Tom's Hardware: |
TrendForce: Q2 global chip foundry revenue surged 14.6% QoQ to $41.7B, with TSMC securing a 70% market share, followed by Samsung with 7.2% and SMIC with 5.1% — China's SMIC also takes a 1.7% hit. — The second quarter of 2025 was a windfall for the world's chipmakers …
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| Kelsey Warner / Semafor: |
Source: G42 is talking to AWS, Google, 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 … | 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 … | Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China's new AI content labeling law goes into effect, as part of a broad effort to address AI-related risks such as misinformation and copyright infringement — The law requires explicit and implicit labels for AI-generated text, images, audio, video and other virtual content
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UK fintechs, including Revolut and Starling, step up plans to buy US banks to get US licenses and lend across all 50 states as Trump admin eases merger rules — Revolut and Starling among start-ups weighing acquisition of nationally chartered banks — British fintechs are stepping up plans … | Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Tokyo-based LayerX, which uses AI to help enterprises automate back-office workload, raised a $100M Series B led by TCV, taking its total funding to $192.2M — Aging demographics, labor shortages, the adoption of GenAI, and the 2023 implementation of e-invoicing are driving companies to automate finance …
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| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition, staying in Europe, and more; the company now has 2.3M+ active users, including 180K paying subscribers — Every seat in Copenhagen's Bella Center was full as Anton Osika, the co-founder of the vibe coding app Lovable, took the stage at this year's TechBBQ conference.| Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder: |
Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks — Chinese tech giant Tencent has open sourced two specialized translation models, claiming they outperform established tools …
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| Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots are killing the web and journalism, how his pay-per-crawl initiative can fix it, and more — Sixteen years ago Matthew Prince and classmate Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School decided there was a better …
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