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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares jumped 19%, driven by demand for its memory chips in the AI race — Micron topped a $1 trillion market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares popped 19%, driven by insatiable artificial intelligence demand for its memory chips.| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years to become executive chairman, replaced by Ashraf Alkarmi, who is SVP and GM of Dropbox Core — Drew Houston founded Dropbox nearly two decades ago out at age 24, eventually becoming a household name in Silicon Valley …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Qualcomm reached a deal with ByteDance to supply millions of ASICs for AI data centers to support AI agents in the Doubao chatbot; QCOM jumps 4.48% — Qualcomm Inc. reached a deal with TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. to supply chips for artificial intelligence data centers … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese government agencies begin imposing overseas travel restrictions on individuals involved in advanced AI work, including at Alibaba and DeepSeek — China is restricting overseas travel for top AI professionals in private firms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and DeepSeek …
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| Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of authentication IT supplier Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl, citing “a possible risk to the public interest” — BRUSSELS — The Dutch government is blocking a United States-based company's attempts to acquire a key online identification IT supplier.
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| Leslie Josephs / CNBC: |
American Airlines picks SpaceX's Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi on more than 500 planes; SpaceX already has contracts with United Airlines, Southwest, and others — American Airlines plans to outfit more than 500 of its narrow-body aircraft with Starlink, handing another win to Elon Musk's SpaceX unit …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the information ecosystem with Search changes, putting AI agents in everything, when AI will replace him as CEO, and more — Today, I'm talking with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in a conversation we recorded just after the Google I/O developer conference.| David Jeans / Reuters: |
Sources: SpaceX successfully lobbied the Pentagon to pay more for use of Starlink on LUCAS kamikaze drones amid increasing tensions over Starlink's pricing — As U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk's Starlink network began to make visible gains in the war against Iran …
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Atlanta-based e-commerce logistics company Stord raised a $250M Series F led by Strike at a $3B valuation, up from $1.5B after a $200M Series E in May 2025 — E-commerce logistics company Stord has raised a $250 million round at a $3 billion valuation, it announced Tuesday.
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| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
Spain says it is blocking Polymarket and Kalshi as a precautionary measure while it probes possible gambling law violations over the next three to four months — The government said companies seeking to provide clients with gambling services need a license
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| Axios: |
Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~$5B, up from $2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise $250M+ — Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI music startup Suno, which would be valued at around $5 billion, Axios Pro has learned.| Max Buondonno / The Shortcut: |
Google Fitbit Air review: slim, comfortable, and stylish, robust tracking, seven-day battery life, and cheaper than Whoop, but can only be worn on the wrist — 🏆 Rating: 4/5 — ✅ Pros — 📐 Slim design that fades into the background — ⌚️ Comfortable and stylish band options
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
OpenRouter raised $113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a $1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400+ models weekly, up from 5T six months ago — An investment arm of Alphabet is backing OpenRouter, which helps companies choose among hundreds of models for different software tasks.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles “individually for $1.99” — More than 650 long-form articles are available starting today as part of Spotify's audiobook library.
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LinkedIn: Mary Liz McCurdy and Ben Schwartz
| Koh Ewe / BBC: |
China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal — Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court — Chinese authorities have executed a man for murdering his associate, billionaire gaming tycoon Lin Qi.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000+ camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more — In the last few years, India's online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public …
More: Inc42, Moneycontrol, and Entrackr
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia officially retires its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years, following the porting of all of its major features to the Nvidia app — Nvidia has now ported across all of the major Control Panel features to its Nvidia app. … Nvidia announced more than two years ago that it was working …
More: VideoCardz.com, NVIDIA, XDA Developers, Neowin, MakeUseOf, Digital Foundry, and Tom's Hardware
| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as CMO for its business segment; he succeeds Kate Rouch, who stepped down earlier this year to focus on her health — OpenAI has hired ServiceNow chief marketing officer Colin Fleming as CMO for its business unit, a move that signals the AI company … Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
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