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Amazon pauses second phase of construction of its HQ2 in Virginia as it reassesses office needs following its deepest-ever job cuts; phase one nears completion — Amazon.com Inc. is pausing construction on its sprawling second headquarters near Washington, a decision that coincides …
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Meta cuts the price of Quest Pro, its mixed and virtual reality headset focused on business users, from $1,500 to $1,000; 256GB Quest 2 drops from $500 to $430 — Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the Meta Quest Pro, the company's mixed and virtual reality headset focused on business users …
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Sources: Founders Fund cut the size of its Fund VIII, which hasn't begun deploying capital, from ~$1.8B to ~$900M; the money will be pushed to its ninth fund — Founders Fund has quietly cut the size of its eighth venture capital fund in half, from around $1.8 billion to around $900 million, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
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Internal docs detail efforts by Tether Holdings and Bitfinex to maintain access to the global banking system by using shadowy intermediaries and shell companies — Tether Holdings and related crypto broker obscured identities, documents show — In late 2018, the companies behind …
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US lawmakers warn about AI, but few are trying regulation and many struggle to understand the tech and its dangers; EU policymakers proposed AI rules in 2021 — Tech innovations are again racing ahead of Washington's ability to regulate them, lawmakers and A.I. experts said.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Foxconn plans to invest ~$700M to build a plant for iPhone parts on a 300-acre site in Bengaluru, India; the plant is expected to create ~100K jobs — Apple Inc. partner Foxconn Technology Group plans to invest about $700 million on a new plant in India to ramp up local production …
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Coinbase acquires One River, a crypto asset management startup that serves only institutional clients, like pension funds; One River was valued at $186M in 2021 — Coinbase Global Inc., still reeling from a plunge in trading volume on its exchanges, is expanding into a less-volatile corner …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Brave Search debuts Summarizer, a feature that offers a search results synopsis for some queries using Brave's LLM trained to fight “unsubstantiated assertions” — It is raining AI-powered features all across search engines. Today, Brave Search launched a new “Summarizer” … | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Sources: Inflection AI, founded by LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman and DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman, is in talks to raise up to $675M, after raising $225M in May 2022 — DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn Creator Reid Hoffman's start-up is building a personal assistant for the web
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| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta plans to fully or partly implement 26 of the Oversight Board's 32 recommendations for its VIP cross-check system, including regular transparency reports — Meta Platforms accepts most recommendations from its oversight board, but rejects key provisions| Washington Post: |
US civil liberties and digital rights groups are speaking out against calls to ban TikTok, arguing the move would violate users' First Amendment rights — Happy Thursday! If you've ever thought some people in Washington should be in straitjackets, well, I guess you got your wish.
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| James Hale / Tubefilter: |
London-based Electrify Video Partners, which invests in and acquires YouTube channels, raised $50M led by MEP Capital — Electrify Video Partners has raised $50 million to invest in and acquire YouTube channels. — London-based Electrify was co-founded in May 2021 by Ian Shepherd … Sponsor Posts
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UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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