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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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Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent p…
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Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by Jack Ma, invested ~$30M in AI insurance tech startup Corgi, leading a round that reportedly valued Corgi at $4B (Business Insider)
Business Insider : Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by Jack Ma, invest…
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Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools that rely on LLMs to help moderators manage their communities, and plans a full launch later this year (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge : Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools tha…
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Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, vs. $1.8B est., US commercial revenue up 149%, and raises FY 2026 revenue guidance; PLTR jumps 9%+ after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
Samantha Subin / CNBC : Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, vs. $1.8B…
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Samsung says it's restricting app registrations and removing apps with SDKs that can turn smart TVs into residential proxy exit nodes, after a similar ban by LG (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch : Samsung says it's restricting app registrations a…
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US satellite internet provider Hughesnet files for Chapter 11 after losing subscribers to Starlink and plans to focus on business and government customers (Michael Kan/PCMag)
Michael Kan / PCMag : US satellite internet provider Hughesnet files for Chapter 11…
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Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six years (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg : Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent'…
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LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy : LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating …
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