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Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a €21B valuation, up from €11.7B a year ago, as it expands into data centers beyond developing AI models — Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.
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Sources: Anthropic has walked away from talks to acquire Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup — Anthropic PBC has decided against acquiring artificial intelligence startup Decart AI, people familiar with the matter said. — Anthropic had been exploring a deal …
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| Dustin Volz / New York Times: |
Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability — The attack, discovered by A.I. researchers, could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.| Bloomberg: |
Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML's High NA EUV machines by 2028 and 2030, joining Intel, with all four agreeing to shift from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks — ASML Holding NV has won commitments from top chipmakers to use its latest semiconductor production gear, while embarking …
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| The Block: |
The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched — - The attacker who withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC from a Liquid Federation wallet has returned 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes had been patched.
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Sources: Huawei is investing in Chinese lithography companies and helping them secure deals with leading fabs like SMIC to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers — Tech giant plays ‘project management’ role to build components needed for DUV machines and avoid export controls
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| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
Arm debuts Neoverse CSS N4, its next-gen semi-custom chip design platform, and says it supports 8 to 128 Neoverse N4 cores at up to 3.8 GHz on TSMC's N3P node — Putting a little pep in Neoverse N-series' step. … Arm is bringing its next-gen Neoverse CSS N4 platforms to the cloud …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google rolls out changes to search results in the EU to comply with the DMA, saying they mark the largest reduction in quality of service in Search's history — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday rolled out changes to its online search results in Europe to satisfy EU antitrust regulators …
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| Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
NYC-based Blee, which makes marketing compliance software for financial services companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Fin Capital and SMBC and a $7M seed — Blee, a marketing compliance software startup, raised $27 million in seed and Series A financing, founder and CEO Guy Shahar tells Axios exclusively.| Leila Miller / Reuters: |
Argentina's Patagonia region is drawing interest from hyperscalers and data center developers due to its cold climate, expanses of land, and renewable energy — Argentina's rugged Patagonia is drawing increasing interest from investors searching for sites for mega data centers who are enticed … | Minxiao Chang / South China Morning Post: |
DeepSeek says it is seeking ~150 senior engineers in an “unprecedented” hiring spree to overhaul its backend systems, strained by high user demand and AI agents — The company cited a rapid surge in user demand for AI and increased complexity of its computing systems
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| Howard Liu / South China Morning Post: |
China says its AI compute capacity rose 177% YoY to 2,185 eflops by the end of June, and targets 9,800 eflops by 2030 via ~$532B in IT infrastructure spend — China plans to deploy artificial intelligence computing clusters containing 100,000 accelerator cards and sharply expand …
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Analysis of LG smart TVs shows its ad software tracks nearby devices, security flaws can allow hackers to eavesdrop via a built-in microphone, and more — SUPPORT THE DATA DRAGNET SERIES: https://store.gamersnexus.net/data- dragnetThe LG Smart TVs we've tested have first-party ACR (automatic content recognition)...
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| Julia Kollewe / The Guardian: |
Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users' HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law — US-owned dating app allegedly allowed ad firms access to private information in breach of UK law — Grindr will pay £26m to settle a lawsuit brought …
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