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Kalshi referred 32 possible insider traders to the CFTC in the three months through June; sources: CFTC has up to 20 ongoing probes using just Kalshi's evidence (Sharon LaFraniere/New York Times)
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times : Kalshi referred 32 possible insider traders to…
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Sources detail moves behind Google's AI reshuffle; Sergey Brin urged key staff to go all in on Gemini, and some teams shifted from DeepMind to corporate Google (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)
Kenrick Cai / Reuters : Sources detail moves behind Google's AI reshuffle; Serg…
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Sources: Apple hired Nate Gatten, an American Airlines exec with GOP ties, as government affairs VP, seeking someone who could align with Trump administration (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple hired Nate Gatten, an American Airlines ex…
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Filings show Uber divested from long-time partner Serve Robotics in Q2, as the companies clash over how to deploy delivery robots; Serve has a DoorDash deal (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg : Filings show Uber divested from long-time partner Serve …
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Similarweb: Bluesky's mobile MAUs fell 27% YoY to 10.4M in June and DAUs fell 26% to 3M in July; X's mobile MAUs fell 3% to 302M and DAUs fell 7% to 123.7M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Similarweb: Bluesky's mobile MAUs fell 27% YoY to 10…
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Sources: David Sacks' Craft Ventures is targeting around $1B for a new fund, its first since Sacks stepped down as the White House AI and crypto czar (The Information)
The Information : Sources: David Sacks' Craft Ventures is targeting around $1B …
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YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, w…
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Sources: Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR, and other financial groups are partnering with Nvidia on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Sources: Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR, and other financial …
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol, to some partners and expands its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative (Sam Sabin/Axios)
Sam Sabin / Axios : OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive version …
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Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)
Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare : Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI c…
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An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist (ABC)
ABC : An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw a…
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US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development (Shane Burke/The Information)
Shane Burke / The Information : US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late J…
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A look at Chinese state-owned investment bank CICC, which sponsored multibillion-dollar listings of China's tech champions, including CXMT and Zhongji Innolight (Financial Times)
Financial Times : A look at Chinese state-owned investment bank CICC, which sponsor…
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Data Insight: Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which owes Russian banks $10B+ in loans, has lost as much as $5B in inventory to Ukrainian attacks (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Data Insight: Russia's largest online retailer Wildberrie…
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A look at "Spiralism", a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory (Hayden Field/The Verge)
Hayden Field / The Verge : A look at “Spiralism”, a quasi-spiritual movement that g…
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