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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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A profile of Russia's A7, a payment network that helps Russia bypass Western sanctions, handling ~20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or $100B+ annually (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal : A profile of Russia's A7, a payment…
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TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the company is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals to focus on its media arm and its pending merger with TAE (Sara Fischer/Axios)
Sara Fischer / Axios : TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the company is pulling ba…
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Sources: Cursor told staff on Thursday that SpaceX could complete its $60B acquisition as soon as next week and the Cursor brand name will likely be phased out (Grace Kay/The Information)
Grace Kay / The Information : Sources: Cursor told staff on Thursday that SpaceX co…
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Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge : Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 exten…
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Sources: Nscale told potential backers it generated $100M+ in Q2 revenue, up from $37M in Q1, and has $51B in contracts, ahead of a possible September US IPO (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg : Sources: Nscale told potential backers it generated…
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Google and data: hackers used phone calls, phishing websites, and "meticulous" tactics to target dozens of US PE firms and other businesses over the past month (Reuters)
Reuters : Google and data: hackers used phone calls, phishing websites, and “meticu…
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