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Parmy Olson / Bloomberg:

AI companies' bet on prediction token-based LLMs may make them vulnerable to disruption by a novel approach, especially as new models face diminishing returns — Fortunes are riding on one AI technique, even as cracks start to show. — Every investor knows not to put all your eggs in one basket.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos / Wired:

Atlantic Council: the number of US-based investors in spyware companies nearly tripled in 2024 to 31, compared to just 11 in 2023, topping Israel's 26 investors — A new report warns that the number of US investors in powerful commercial spyware rose sharply in 2024 and names new countries linked to the dangerous technology.

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Financial Times:

How Larry Ellison, briefly the world's richest man, and Oracle CEO Safra Catz capitalized on the AI boom and vaulted Oracle into contention with industry giants — Tech billionaire capitalised on the AI boom to briefly claim the title of world's richest person

Tim Anderson / The Register:

Microsoft releases its first preview of Visual Studio 2026, the first major version update since November 2021, with a new design and deeper AI integration — New look for Visual Studio but the core still runs on the old .Net Framework — Microsoft has released a preview of Visual Studio 2026 …

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New York Times:

Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting, first posted to X, also spread to Instagram, Threads, YouTube, and Telegram within hours, amassing millions of views — First posted to X, they amassed millions of views on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and Telegram within hours.

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Sam Schube / Wall Street Journal:

Interviews with Tim Cook, Apple VP of Industrial Design Molly Anderson, and others about iPhone Air design choices, cross-body straps, the iPhone Pro, and more — As Apple releases its lightest, leanest iPhone ever, the company explains the thinking behind its ultra-slim design, which has buyers deciding between capacity and chic

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Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

F5 plans to acquire CalypsoAI, which helps companies secure their generative AI infrastructure, for $180M; CalypsoAI raised $43.2M — Seattle-based security and application delivery giant F5 will pay $180 million to acquire CalypsoAI, a startup founded in 2018 that helps companies secure their generative AI infrastructure.

More: Silicon Republic, F5, Inc., and Help Net Security

Declan Harty / Politico:

CFTC nominee Brian Quintenz says the Winklevosses asked Trump to pause his confirmation after he refused to make promises “rectifying” a prior Gemini settlement — “Our complaint raises serious questions and concerns about the culture of the agency that you are about to chair …

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Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: OpenAI signs a contract with Oracle to purchase $300B in computing power over roughly five years, requiring 4.5 gigawatts of capacity, starting in 2027 — The vast majority of new revenue revealed by Oracle will come from OpenAI deal, sources say — OpenAI signed a contract …

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Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:

An iOS support page says AirPods' Live Translation feature won't be available to users in the EU with an EU-region Apple Account, likely due to EU regulations — Apple's new Live Translation feature for AirPods will be off-limits to millions of European users when it arrives next week …

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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:

The FTC orders Google, OpenAI, Meta and Instagram, Snap, xAI, and Character.AI to provide information on how their AI chatbots impact children and teens — The Federal Trade Commission ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google, OpenAI Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and four other makers of artificial intelligence chatbots …

More: Reuters, CNBC, and Federal Trade Commission

Reuters:

Digital banking group NOBA plans to list on Nasdaq Stockholm in Q3 2025, in a deal expected to value the company at around $3.74B — Digital banking group NOBA has announced plans to list on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange sometime in the third quarter of this year in a deal expected to value …

Bloomberg:

Blockchain-based lender Figure and some of its backers raised $787.5M in a Nasdaq IPO, selling 31.5M shares at $25 each, valuing the credit company at ~$5.3B — Blockchain-based credit company Figure Technology Solutions Inc. and some of its backers raised $787.5 million in an initial public offering …

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Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg:

Ant Group unit Robbyant showcases its first LLM-powered humanoid robot, the R1, at a conference in Shanghai, joining an intensifying effort by Chinese companies — Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co. showcased its first humanoid robot on Thursday, formally joining an intensifying effort …

More: The Verge and Benzinga

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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:

President Trump told reporters “it's imperative” for CNN to be sold: “Any deal it should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it or sold separately”

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

CBS names Tony Dokoupil as the new anchor of CBS Evening News as part of a major overhaul under Bari Weiss; Dokoupil is currently an anchor on CBS' morning show

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Bloomberg:

Vantage Data Centers raised $1.6B from GIC and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority to expand in APAC, including the acquisition of a Malaysian data center campus

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Pranav Mukul / The Economic Times:

Sensor Tower: in July, Rapido had nearly 50M MAUs on Android in India, above Uber's 30M; Rapido has a nearly 30% share in four-wheeler cabs and Uber has ~50%

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Meir Orbach / CTech:

Koi, which applies a centralized protection layer to enterprise endpoints, raised a $38M Series A led by Battery and Team8, taking its total funding to $48M

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Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal:

Opendoor names Shopify COO Kaz Nejatian as its CEO, following Carrie Wheeler's ouster, and appoints co-founder Keith Rabois as its chairman; OPEN jumps 50%+

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The Information:

Source: Perplexity has secured commitments from investors for $200M in new funding at a $20B valuation, less than two months after raising at an $18B valuation

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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:

YouTube debuts multilanguage audio after a two-year pilot, saying creators saw 25%+ of watch time on average come from views in the video's non-primary language

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Jody Godoy / Reuters:

US Senator Ted Cruz introduces a bill that would let AI companies apply for exemptions from federal regulation to help them experiment in developing new tech

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Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:

Analysis: 13+ datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M+ YouTube videos from 2M+ channels, including 1M how-to videos

More: The Decoder, The Atlantic, and WinBuzzer

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