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Uber to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Lucid and Nuro in massive robotaxi deal

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Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are now building Generative AI-based products, up by 198 since May 2024, and have collectively raised $20B+ to date (Elihay Vidal/CTech)

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Slack says its AI can make sense of your company’s jargon

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Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation, making it Europe's newest unicorn; Lovable was founded in 2023 (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)

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Roblox taps Persona to estimate users' ages and verify they are 13+, renames Friends to Connections, and says only users over 13 can message Trusted Connections (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Big Tech's acquihires of AI startups, like Meta's $14.3B Scale AI deal, leaves investors with modest or no returns and may further entrench Big Tech's dominance (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

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Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats

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Denmark taps Microsoft to build world’s most powerful quantum computer

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Sources: in a Trump meeting last week, Jensen Huang argued US chips should be the global standard and was backed by David Sacks, who disliked Biden's chip rules (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

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The Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Danish government plan to invest €80M to buy and run a Microsoft-powered quantum computer, due to take on work by early 2027 (Sanne Wass/Bloomberg)

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Sources: some Trump administration officials are holding up finalizing a deal for the UAE to buy Nvidia AI chips over concerns that China could access the chips (Wall Street Journal)

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Amazon's 2024 sustainability report says Amazon emitted 68.25M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, up 6% from 2023 and the first increase in three years (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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Samsung Electronics Chair Jay Y. Lee wins a full reprieve from South Korea's Supreme Court in a protracted fight over fraud and stock manipulation allegations (Wall Street Journal)

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The US FCC aims to introduce a ban on companies that use certain Chinese tech and equipment from building submarine communication cables connecting to the US (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

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Jack Dorsey invests $10M in "and Other Stuff", a nonprofit focused on funding open-source projects and tools built on open protocols like Nostr and ActivityPub (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment (Li Yuan/New York Times)

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How AI and automation are transforming agriculture, enabling autonomous tractors and fruit-picking robots, and improving crop management via data and analytics (William Boston/Wall Street Journal)

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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is speeding up construction of its second and third plants in Arizona "by several quarters" to meet robust US chip demand (Nikkei Asia)

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TSMC reports Q2 net profit up ~60% YoY to ~$13.53B, beating estimates, and forecasts ~30% sales growth in USD terms in 2025, up from mid-20% previously (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

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TikTok is putting the spotlight on songwriters

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