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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e02aa5cce7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered AI coding agent that designs and optimizes advanced algorithms using an evolutionary framework</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bee82aafda&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@andrewcurran_:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e5db772eb6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">From the paper: 'AlphaEvolve was able to find a simple code rewrite that removed unnecessary bits, a change validated by TPU designers for correctness. ... Integrated into an upcoming TPU, this improvement represents Gemini's first direct contribution to TPU arithmetic circuits' [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=29f26a9509&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Excited to announce AlphaEvolve A powerful AI coding agent developed by our team in @GoogleDeepMind that is able to discover impactful new algorithms for important problems in Maths and Computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators. [video]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cd5d709d6e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">It's incredible to me that a single system can contribute to numerous open problems in maths & CS (from faster matrix multiplication to sphere packing to analysis inequalities) AND improve Google's production infrastructure (data centers, TPU design, and AI training) (2/2) [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cfdda4832f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI releases GPT-4.1 for Plus, Pro, and Team users in ChatGPT, and replaces GPT-4o mini with GPT-4.1 mini for all ChatGPT users</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=628e1508e7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">By popular request, GPT-4.1 will be available directly in ChatGPT starting today. GPT-4.1 is a specialized model that excels at coding tasks & instruction following. Because it's faster, it's a great alternative to OpenAI o3 & o4-mini for everyday coding needs.</a>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=222ab65075&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@emollick:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7ffa791ab8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Not bad from GPT-4.1: “create something I can paste into p5js that will startle me with its cleverness in creating something that invokes the control panel of a starship in the distant future” First go, no errors. [video]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d3d51428f8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Max is HBO Max again, CNN is launching a streamer...if the spirit of 2020 is raging in 2025...somewhere Jeffrey Katzenberg is starting to send out Quibi memos.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=306b2033e8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I want to emphasize a point here. When AT&T invented HBO Max, the point behind the name was HBO was too small and it needed to compete with Netflix. And now, WBD is returning to HBO Max because it DOESN'T want to compete with Netflix, emphasizing quantity over quality.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4f8c153586&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US Commerce Department issues guidance stating that “using Huawei Ascend chips anywhere in the world violates US export controls” as they likely use US tech</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5dbec36ca3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Uber debuts Route Share, a pooled rides option that is similar to a bus and up to 50% cheaper than UberX, available during commuting hours in SF, NYC, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Natalie Lung / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d0534f6d5d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Databricks agrees to acquire cloud database startup Neon for ~$1B, set to close in Databricks' Q2 2025; Neon's platform is based on the open-source PostgreSQL</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Belle Lin / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=36ff71aa67&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Apple is developing a Vision Pro feature that lets users scroll content with their eyes, as part of visionOS 3</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=54f4069bd9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at the Nintendo Switch 2's final specs: a custom Nvidia T239 SoC, an Ampere-based GPU with 1,536 CUDA cores, 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM, DLSS support, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Richard Leadbetter / </span><span class="pub_name">Eurogamer.net</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fedc82af4c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft extends security updates for Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10 until October 10, 2028, after previously planning to end support on October 14, 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tom Warren / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8f8c04b220&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">FTC v. Meta: Meta's lead attorney disparaged tech journalists Kara Swisher and Om Malik, calling Malik a “failed blogger”, resurfacing years-old media tensions</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lauren Feiner / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5f36e4cd9e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Guangzhou-based autonomous driving company Pony AI confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO; Pony AI raised ~$413M in a US IPO in November 2024</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e8529495c4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">China sentences Zhao Weiguo, ex-chair of state-backed chip firm Tsinghua Unigroup, to death with a two-year reprieve, a de facto life sentence, for corruption</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chun Han Wong / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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artificial intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b6ee2980dd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Anthropic has new versions of Claude Sonnet and Opus, set to come out in the upcoming weeks, that can switch back to “reasoning” mode if they get stuck</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Stephanie Palazzolo / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4b9858a1a3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Perplexity partners with PayPal to let US customers book travel, buy products, and secure concert tickets via Perplexity's chatbot, paying with PayPal or Venmo</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">MacKenzie Sigalos / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cff46f8261&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Analysts, VCs, executives, and 11 former DeepSeek employees detail how the Chinese AI company works and how it fits into China's broader AI ambitions</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=47b68eaf56&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Grok replied with information about South Africa's “white genocide” when X users asked it to fact-check unrelated topics; the issue appears to have been fixed</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jay Peters / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=35837671ae&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta releases the Open Molecules 2025 dataset and the Universal Model for Atoms, a family of AI models, to accelerate the development of new drugs and materials</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Reed Albergotti / </span><span class="pub_name">Semafor</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=da74c22e5b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Q&A with Marc Benioff on how AI is disrupting work, Salesforce's AI agent platform Agentforce, the Trump administration's tariffs and economic policy, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Stephen Morris / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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earnings
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7761b3d570&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sony reports Q4 revenue down 24% YoY to ~$17.7B, PlayStation 5 units sold in FY 24 down 11% YoY to 18.5M, and expects a ~$700M impact from US tariffs in FY 25</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fa73cf24cc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$54B, net profit up 91% YoY to ~$1.38B, above est.; cloud and networking, like AI servers, was 34% of its Q1 revenue</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sherry Qin / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6011d44ff2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to ~$25B, above ~$24.3B est., net profit up 14% YoY to ~$6.6B, below ~$7.3B est., driven by its gaming business' growth</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Arjun Kharpal / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ee398d1a3e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CoreWeave reports Q1 revenue up 420% YoY to $981.6M, vs. $853M est., and net loss of $314.6M, up from $129.2M a year earlier</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jordan Novet / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=78a7fd8592&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $14.15B, vs. $14.08B est., forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates, and announces CFO Scott Herren will retire on July 26</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jordan Novet / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d6c885a574&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sea reports Q1 revenue up 29.6% YoY to $4.84B, vs $4.89B est., net profit of $403M, vs. a $23M net loss in Q1 2024, and e-commerce revenue up 28.3% YoY to $3.5B</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tsubasa Suruga / </span><span class="pub_name">Nikkei Asia</span>)</span>
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privacy
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e47b57e7aa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple supports KOSA</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lauren Feiner / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=76389d5d5f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The CFPB withdraws its proposal for new rules to more tightly regulate US data brokers and their ability to sell sensitive information about Americans</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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chipmakers
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e29b405777&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AMD approves a new $6B share buyback program, boosting its total repurchase authority to ~$10B, with no termination date; AMD jumps 4.7% but is down 2.5% YTD</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Deborah Sophia / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f1c00afca4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Foxconn receives approval from India's cabinet to build a new $435M semiconductor plant, expected to open in 2027, in a joint venture with IT giant HCL Group</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jagmeet Singh / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b7e82d2a90&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">At a JP Morgan event, Intel CFO David Zinsner says committed volumes of chips using Intel's 18A and 14A processes for customers are currently “not significant”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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video games
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=28175624dd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Epic has submitted a new version of Fortnite to the US App Store after pulling the one it submitted on Friday, citing an update with new content</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Juli Clover / </span><span class="pub_name">MacRumors</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=caf79a47ac&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources, including former AbleGamers staff, detail abuse, financial mismanagement, and other issues at the nonprofit dedicated to promoting gaming accessibility</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Grant Stoner / </span><span class="pub_name">IGN</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1109aefd15&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Appfigures: mobile gamers spent $65.4B in 2024, up 4% YoY, but less than $4B went to games released in 2024; studios launched 126K games in 2024, down 43% YoY</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Vlad Savov / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=aa3c8dfb99&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Waymo recalls 1,212 vehicles to update software and address collision risks, after the NHTSA opened an investigation in May 2024 following reports of incidents</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=31cc7879b3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon's Zoox offers free fixed route robotaxi rides to users that employees invite in Las Vegas, after Nevada approved it to accept payments in Clark County</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Perry / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=39ec662acb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Baidu plans to test its Apollo Go robotaxi service in Switzerland by the end of 2025, its first expansion in Europe, and also launch it in Turkey</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c08153ac72&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US SEC filing: GD Culture Group, a struggling China-linked company that has only eight staff, plans to buy $300M in BTC and $TRUMP, creating ethical conflicts</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=40d7a77d59&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A profile of Tether Chief Investment Officer Richard Heathcote, who manages a $150B asset portfolio and has helped deepen Tether's ties with Cantor Fitzgerald</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ryan Weeks / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c20f079593&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: Arista plans to acquire Broadcom's VeloCloud, which provides SD-WAN tech to telecoms, for less than $1B; VMware bought VeloCloud for ~$450M in 2017</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kevin McLaughlin / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d7d94dd263&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Filing: Cantor Equity Partners bought $458.7M in BTC as part of a pending merger with Twenty One Capital, the BTC investment vehicle backed by Tether and others</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Krisztian Sandor / </span><span class="pub_name">CoinDesk</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=be45b26a08&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Shenzhen government-owned chip equipment maker SiCarrier, a key Huawei supplier, is seeking ~$2.8B at an $11B valuation in its first fundraising round</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=53a1b72747&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers AMD-powered cloud infrastructure, raised $100M led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, taking its total funding to $146.7M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyle Wiggers / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alan Neuhauser / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jessica Lyons / </span><span class="pub_name">The Register</span>)</span>
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