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Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft data centers — Constellation to invest $1.6 billion to restart dormant reactor as data-center power demand surges.
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Source: most daily users of Meta AI do so through WhatsApp, followed by Facebook, and few via Instagram; the vast majority of Meta AI's users are outside the US — A year after Meta Platforms introduced its artificial intelligence assistant, a picture is emerging of how people are using it …
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Sources: Thrive Capital has already provided $1B+ to OpenAI as part of the $6.5B round; OpenAI's existing backers a16z and Sequoia Capital are not participating — Venture groups believe ChatGPT-maker will eventually be the world's dominant AI company and worth trillions of dollars| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Xbox President Sarah Bond, who helped mollify the UK CMA concerning the Activision acquisition and is leading a transformation of the Xbox division — A relative outsider, Sarah Bond is leading a high-stakes transformation of a company that's lagging behind Sony and Nintendo.
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macOS 15 Sequoia appears to have broken security tools made by CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft, and others; CrowdStrike had to delay support for Sequoia — On Monday, Apple released its latest computer operating system update called macOS 15, or Sequoia.
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| Ethan Gach / Kotaku: |
Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Firewalk, the studio behind the PlayStation flop, is left in limbo, with some staffers expecting mass layoffs — Ryan Ellis was the hero shooter's game director at Firewalk Studios — It's been two weeks since Sony announced it was taking …
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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Disney plans to stop using Slack in most units by the end of 2024, after a hacking group leaked 1TB+ of its data, including 44M Slack messages, in July — The company said in a memo that most of its businesses would stop using the tool by the end of this year| Julia King / Fierce Network: |
Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into the radio access network and could allow telcos to run third-party AI apps at the network's edge — - Nvidia thinks that AI could be the answer to the very problems it is causing — AI-RAN will leverage billions of data points …
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| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Singapore-based crypto exchange BingX suffered a security hack on its hot wallet, resulting in a “minor” loss; PeckShield: the loss was $43M in cryptocurrencies — - BingX suffered an apparent security exploit on its hot wallet. — Security analysts at PeckShield estimated …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates the Fluent design illustrations across its products, shifting towards 3D designs that bring back skeuomorphism with more playful designs — Microsoft is overhauling the illustrations it uses throughout its products and services to make them less flat and more playful and interesting.
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| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Huawei's $2,800 Mate XT trifold phone goes on sale in China, amid analysts' supply concerns; IDC: preorders surpassed 6.5M, versus ~3.9M foldables shipped in Q2 — Huawei and Apple's latest smartphones go on sale in China on Friday, with the Chinese tech company's much-anticipated $2,800 …
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| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
French digital health insurance startup Alan raised €173M led by Belgian bank Belfius Bank at a €4B valuation, bringing its total raised since 2021 to €500M+ — - French startup to also provide insurance to Belfius employees — Alan has raised more than half a billion euros since 2021Sponsor Posts
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