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Sources: Amazon's revamped “Remarkable” Alexa, due for release in October 2024, will be powered primarily by Anthropic's Claude, and cost $5 to $10 per month — Amazon's revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep AnandTech's website and articles live indefinitely — It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I've ever needed to write here at AnandTech.
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tencent and NetEase reconsider or scale back Japanese game studio investments, after yielding few hit games and the Chinese market staged a comeback — - China's biggest game publishers are rethinking expansion plans — ‘Wukong’ success also encouraged looking domestically for hits
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel explores options after a 50%+ stock drop YTD, including splitting its product and foundry units and potentially scrapping some factory projects — - Once-dominant chipmaker looks to longtime bankers for help — Possible moves could include split of product, foundry units
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| Chainalysis: |
Huione Guarantee, a Cambodia-based online marketplace that facilitates pig butchering and other scams, has processed $49B+ in crypto transactions since 2021 — Sensitive content warning — This article will touch on topics of criminal activity that readers may find distressing, including Child Sexual Abuse Material.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, the three most valuable tech companies, are in talks to participate in a funding round that would value OpenAI at $100B+ — - Apple, Microsoft also have been in talks about participating — Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Bridge, which aims to build a global payment network around stablecoins, raised $40M led by Sequoia and Ribbit, taking its total funding to $58M — The crypto industry has long sought a “killer app” to bring digital assets into the mainstream. Recently, though, some are pointing …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out Gmail Q&A, a feature that allows users who pay for Gemini to chat with and use the AI assistant for their emails, on Android and soon on iOS — Gmail users on Android devices can now chat directly with Google's AI assistant, Gemini, about their emails in the Gmail app.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases Qwen2-VL, a new AI model that it says can analyze videos longer than 20 minutes to summarize and answer questions about the videos' content — Alibaba Cloud, the cloud services and storage division of the Chinese e-commerce giant, has announced the release of Qwen2-VL … | Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: |
A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk and Tesla pumped up Dogecoin into a “pyramid scheme”, finding that Musk's statements were “aspirational” — Investors who lost tens of thousands of dollars investing in the cryptocurrency faulted Musk for promoting …
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| Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg: |
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice blocks Starlink bank accounts in Brazil in a bid to force Elon Musk to pay X's fines; the court has also threatened to block X — - Starlink bank accounts blocked to pay for fines on X — Court threatens to block X for lack of Brazil representative
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Investor note: 360 One values Indian startup VerSe, which operates popular news aggregator Dailyhunt, at $2.9B, down from $5B in 2022 when VerSe raised $805M — Indian tech and media startup VerSe, which operates popular news aggregator Dailyhunt, is worth about 42% below its last private valuation … | New York Times: |
Sources: the cryptology part of France's charges against Pavel Durov raises concerns at providers of messaging apps with E2EE, like Signal, Apple, and WhatsApp — The criminal charges against Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, raised concerns in Silicon Valley about encryption and the app's approach to privacy and security.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
A look at Google's HeAR, a bioacoustics healthcare AI model trained on 300M sounds, including 100M coughs, to analyze users' coughs and detect tuberculosis — Google got together last week with an Indian AI startup to roll out a bioacoustics health-care model to detect disease from human sounds.
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| J.D. Capelouto / Semafor: |
Once hesitant to openly comment about politics, German tech leaders publicly voice their opposition to the far-right AfD ahead of Sunday's state elections — The News — DRESDEN — The rise of populist candidates in Germany is spurring the country's tech scene into the political fray.
More: Deutsche Welle
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