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July 15, 2024, 2:50 PM

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Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
A look at the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series, its AI PC chip family for laptops, and the Ryzen 9000 series for desktops, both built on the new Zen 5 CPU architecture  —  Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's opening keynote.
Sean Endicott / Windows Central:
Bloomberg:
IDC and Counterpoint say the global smartphone market grew 6.5% and 6%, respectively, in Q2 2024, helped by China's 618 event discounts; iPhone sales stabilized  —  - Apple's iPhone sales stabilized after a tough first quarter  — Key China market accelerated its growth in the summer
Dan Primack / Axios:
Source: Sequoia emailed LPs in funds raised between 2009 and 2011, offering to buy up to $861M of Stripe shares at $27.51 per share, valuing Stripe at $70B  —  - The purchasers would be other, more recent Sequoia Capital funds — a process partially enabled by the firm's 2021 restructuring.
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
An interview with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, who presides over the company's $17B content budget, on catering to different tastes and more  —  She presides over a $17bn budget and is looking for local hits with global potential  —  Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief hitmaker …
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz, founded in 2020, and its four co-founders, as Alphabet prepares a $23B deal; a source says each owns ~9% of Wiz  —  Cloud cybersecurity company founded by a group of ex-Israeli military officers is close to landing the tech industry's biggest exit in years
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
Source: Apple's India revenue rose ~33% YoY to almost $8B from March 2023 to March 2024, and up from $4.1B the year before; pricey iPhones were 50%+ of sales  —  - Sales jump shows Apple is succeeding in winning users in India  — Apple wants to challenge Android's dominance in the country
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Kindo, which helps enterprises securely adopt and manage AI tools, raised $20.6M led by Drive Capital, and buys open-source security project WhiteRabbitNeo  —  Kindo, an enterprise AI security platform, has raised $20.6 million in funding and it also acquired open-source security project WhiteRabbitNeo.

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