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With more than 1B repos and forks, 150M+ developers, and Copilot continuing to lead the most thriving market in AI with 20M users and counting, GitHub has never been stronger than it is today.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=db566a2e6f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@mariorod1:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d3eecba7ec&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Today we celebrate @ashtom, who is stepping down as GitHub's CEO. And while I'm excited for what comes next for him, I can't help but reflect on the journey we've shared since 2018. When we started, we had a simple obsession: give developers the best tools on the planet. That north star mission- accelerating human progress through developer collaboration- has driven every late night, every prototype, every customer meeting, and every hard decision we've made together.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8960b824fb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@simonw:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3282d55fd0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I expect this is going to make the confusion over what “Copilot” is even more intense. seeing as Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot are presumably both under the same “Microsoft CoreAI” group now</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7d501020df&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Trump says he met with Lip-Bu Tan and that the Intel CEO will continue talks with his Cabinet members in the coming days, after calling for his resignation</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Skylar Woodhouse / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250811/i28.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">President Donald Trump said members of his Cabinet would continue discussions … </span> <span class="cite">(Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e5d6c5fb54&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@patrickmoorhead:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=35d6b2c856&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">OK, looks like we have an extension. LBT made it to the next round. I would say this is a neutral outcome with some positive words. $INTC [image]</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9f6f0c39d1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@trumpdailyposts:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=693cdf9f43&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I met with Mr. Lip-Bu Tan, of Intel, along with Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent. The meeting was a very interesting one. His success and rise is an amazing story. Mr. Tan and my Cabinet members are going to spend time together, and bring suggestions to me during the next week. Thank you for your attention to this matter!</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=99cb2ce5d2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@edludlow:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=750f184155&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Intel statement on CEO meeting with President Trump: “Earlier today, Mr. Tan had the honor of meeting with President Trump for a candid and constructive discussion on Intel's commitment to strengthening U.S. technology and manufacturing leadership. We appreciate the President's strong leadership to advance these critical priorities and look forward to working closely with him and his Administration as we restore this great American company.”</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;background-color:#f4f4f4;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:middle;"> <span class="label" style="display: block;color: #686860;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;padding: 2px 0;">SPONSOR</span> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1474ff150e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The #1 Coding Agent</a></span> <span class="excerpt" style="color: black;font-size: 16px;"> — #1 on Terminal-Bench. 71% on SWE-bench Verified. Trusted by 600K+ devs. Try the top agentic dev tool for $1 for 1st month with code TECHMEME.</span> </td> <td style="padding:0 20px 0 15px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;"> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=154d6ac1d4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;"> <img class="sponsor_image" src="https://techmeme.com/simg/warp.png"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=00124e877c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Trump says “it's possible” to make a deal to let Nvidia sell Blackwell chips “enhanced in a negative way” in China and calls H20 “an old chip” China already has</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250811/i17.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">US president confirms he negotiated … </span> <span class="cite">(Financial Times)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b15fc3dbb1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@acyn:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0b9294cca4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Trump on Nvidia: This is an old chip that China already has... I said I want 20% if I'm going to approve this for you for our country. He said will you make it 15%. So we negotiated a deal. On the Blackwell, I think he's coming to see me about that. [video]</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=97dba387cd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@danprimack:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8b3e005a98&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Just to make sure I understand: It's a national security risk to sell chips to China, but a 15% export fee somehow eliminates that risk?</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=886ed1a12a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@bznotes:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b47a4ed615&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">We agreed to allow AI chips sales to China if companies paid some money. Even though we said this was a national security issue. Relatedly, are there other critical things founders are working feverishly to move on-shore that may become moot if gov't changed its mind on China?</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> <table class="clustered_items" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:0px 10px 0 32px;"> <ul style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;"> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bb9adce740&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">President Trump says that he initially asked Nvidia for a 20% cut of H20 sales to China, but the number came down to 15% after Jensen Huang negotiated with him</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kif Leswing / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span> </li> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1513a97485&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Trade experts: Nvidia's and AMD's deals to export AI chips to China and pay the US 15% of revenue is “unprecedented” and a sign of “a new and dangerous world”</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </li> </ul> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=599fa402dc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Trump family's World Liberty Financial is using a publicly listed company, ALT5 Sigma, to raise $1.5B for the purchase of its WLFI token</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ben Weiss / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=39e4f325c5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing most of its pages after it caught AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine</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> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8a33bbd3b1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">SEC filing: crypto exchange Bullish increased the size and price of its US IPO to sell 30M shares for $32 to $33 each, up from 20.3M shares for $28 to $31 each</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Charles Capel / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6928aa95c9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">xAI makes Grok 4 free for all users worldwide after making Grok Imagine free for all US users; Grok 4 Heavy remains exclusive to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Omair Pall / </span><span class="pub_name">Mashable India</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7d316bcc7b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sam Tobin / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=931283ef64&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: StubHub now aims to hold its IPO in September after pausing plans in April; it updated its IPO prospectus, reporting Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to $397.6M</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> artificial intelligence </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a594a22019&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CB Insights: there are now 498 AI unicorns, with a combined value of $2.7T, including 100 founded since 2023, and over 1,300 AI startups are valued above $100M</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Robert Frank / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="clustered_items" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:0px 10px 0 32px;"> <ul style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;"> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=225860aff9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AI-focused hedge funds have raised billions; source: ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness manages $1.5B+ as a “brain trust on AI”</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Peter Rudegeair / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span> </li> </ul> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=25f5997b4f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sam Altman says OpenAI is “significantly increasing rate limits for reasoning” for ChatGPT Plus users, as the share of users using reasoning models increases</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Luc Olinga / </span><span class="pub_name">Gizmodo</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4d7b93d5df&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Anthropic adds a memory feature for Claude to reference information from past chats, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, and soon for other plans</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zac Hall / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Mac</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d4ae1f39b9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nvidia debuts new Omniverse SDKs and Cosmos world foundation models for robotics devs, including Cosmos Reason, a 7B-parameter reasoning vision language model</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rebecca Szkutak / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=78087d8eb4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew Deck / </span><span class="pub_name">Nieman Lab</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c4d08d643a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Western pharma giants have struck multibillion-dollar deals with Chinese biotech firms that use AI, signaling confidence in China's AI drug discovery research</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Leslie Liang / </span><span class="pub_name">Rest of World</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2d3f77d7c6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Malaysian startup Zetrix unveils NurAI, a chatbot for Muslims that it built using similar techniques to DeepSeek's V3, and plans AI avatars of Islamic scholars</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Saritha Rai / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> M&A </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=372c806534&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The EU Commission approves Prosus' €4.1B takeover of Just Eat Takeaway in a bid to create a “European tech champion” to rival DoorDash, which acquired Deliveroo</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fa8dca1e86&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Rumble says it plans to acquire German AI cloud group Northern Data in an all-stock deal; estimates show the deal could be valued at ~$1.17B, a 32% discount</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> e-commerce </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1925fe3454&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">UK retailer M&S resumes click-and-collect services 15 weeks after disclosing a cyberattack, set to cost it ~£300M; M&S resumed online delivery orders on June 10</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">James Davey / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=51feae34ed&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sea is nearing a $100B market cap after its stock has soared 300%+ since early 2024, driven by Shopee's in-house, community-based logistics network SPX Express</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> more news </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=00afa30440&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">UK researchers estimate 80 game cheat-selling websites generate $12.8M to $73.2M annually from 30K to 174K monthly buyers across North America and Europe alone</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matt Burgess / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=84b0fa6de1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nvidia announces two low-power Blackwell workstation GPUs, the RTX PRO 4000 SFF and RTX PRO 2000, both featuring compact designs and available later this year</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">VideoCardz.com</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;background-color:#f4f4f4;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:middle;"> <span class="label" style="display: block;color: #686860;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;padding: 2px 0;">SPONSOR</span> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8188d64364&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Protecting your Cloud Applications Data</a></span> <span class="excerpt" style="color: 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satellites via SpaceX's Falcon 9 after four launch attempts were delayed by weather issues, taking its total to 102 in orbit</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Annie Palmer / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=555155dfe8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The CSA releases Matter 1.4.2 to improve reliability, stability, and cross-platform coordination, like Wi-Fi-only commissioning to lose its Bluetooth dependency</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2677f0ef59&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: GM plans a renewed push on driverless cars, focused on personal use rather than a robotaxi service, and is trying to bring back some ex-Cruise workers</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">David Welch / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=470580f4eb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Revel plans to wind down rideshare operations in its home city of New York after four years, pivoting to an EV-charging business that counts Uber as a partner</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> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7b5008f414&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tahoe Therapeutics, which is building AI models of living cells, raised $30M led by Amplify Partners at a $120M valuation, taking its total funding to $42M</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Knapp / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9365471cf9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A long-running campaign of cyber attacks between Israel and Iran has continued since the June ceasefire, with Israel appearing to land the most telling blows</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3ec92a7019&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Wondery's restructure suggests the end of the “Serial” podcasting era and the start of a new one, marked by investment tied to video and the creator economy</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ashley Carman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=afed360dbf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Paxos applies to create a US national trust bank, which would allow it to manage and hold assets for customers, following applications by Circle and Ripple</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Hannah Lang / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> 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