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Gov. Tim Walz activates the Minnesota National Guard to help St. Paul address a cyberattack detected Friday that led the city to shut down many of its systems (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-30

Docs: Groq revised its 2025 revenue projections to $500M+ within the past month, citing delays in data center capacity, after projecting $2B+ earlier this year (www.theinformation.com)
2025-7-30

Daniel Ek says Spotify's ad business has “been moving too slowly”; Spotify ad chief Lee Brown left on July 28 to join DoorDash as its chief revenue officer (www.theinformation.com)
2025-7-30 Spotify

The US SEC approves in-kind creations and redemptions for crypto ETFs, allowing institutional investors to exchange ETF shares for the underlying BTC or ETH (decrypt.co)
2025-7-30 ETF ETH

Cisco Donates the AGNTCY Project to the Linux Foundation (linux.slashdot.org)
2025-7-30 Linux Cisco

ChatGPT's New Study Mode Is Designed To Help You Learn, Not Just Give Answers (news.slashdot.org)
2025-7-30

EA reports Q1 net bookings up 3% YoY to $1.3B, above $1.29B est., and forecasts Q2 net bookings of $1.8B to $1.9B, below estimates of $2.01B (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-30

Google begins rolling out new AI Mode features: Search Live with video, Canvas for planning, and PDF upload, plus AI Mode in Google Lens in desktop Chrome (9to5google.com)
2025-7-30 Google AI Chrome

EPA Moves To Repeal Finding That Allows Climate Regulation (news.slashdot.org)
2025-7-30 Climate

Sources: Groq is set to raise ~$600M in a funding round led by Disruptive, which committed more than $300M to the deal that would give Groq a ~$6B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-30

Opera Accuses Microsoft of Anti-Competitive Edge Tactics (slashdot.org)
2025-7-30 Microsoft

Yelp is making AI videos about restaurants, using AI generated scripts and voice-overs based on reviews, incorporating pictures and videos posted by users (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-30 AI

Wag, the pet care tech company once valued at ~$650M following a $300M investment from SoftBank Vision Fund in 2018, has filed for bankruptcy (www.sfgate.com)
2025-7-30

Google Failed To Warn 10 Million of Turkey Earthquake Severity (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-7-30 Google

Minnesota activates National Guard after St. Paul cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-7-30

Apple Loses Fourth AI Researcher in a Month To Meta (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-7-30 AI Apple

An interview with Anthropic's Dario Amodei and how his father's passing from an illness, four years before a breakthrough made it 95% curable, shaped his path (www.bigtechnology.com)
2025-7-30 Interview

Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies about their video models and expect these revenue sources to eclipse studios (www.theinformation.com)
2025-7-30 AI Robot Autonomous Car

Sources: Apple loses a fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta's superintelligence team; the AFM team is in flux and Apple has marginally increased their pay (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-30 AI Apple

Source: over a dozen people at Thinking Machines Lab were approached by Meta; one offer was $1B+ over a multi-year span; not a single person has taken the offer (www.wired.com)
2025-7-30

Russian airline Aeroflot grounds dozens of flights after cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-7-30 Russia

Train for IT, security, and cloud roles with this $25 CompTIA course bundle deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-7-30

YouTube is rolling out age estimation tech in the US to identify teen users and serve more age-appropriate content, regardless of the birthday given at signup (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-30 YouTube

60% of Americans Use AI for Search, Only 37% for Workplace Tasks, New Poll Finds (slashdot.org)
2025-7-30 U.S. AI

OpenAI launches study mode in ChatGPT, designed to encourage students to engage with learning material, available to logged-in Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users (www.wired.com)
2025-7-30

Sparrow, which uses AI to consolidate fragmented leave management processes, raised a $35M Series B led by Silver Lake Waterman, for $64M in total funding (venturebeat.com)
2025-7-30 AI Silver

Sources: Anthropic is nearing a deal to raise $5B in a funding round led by Iconiq, valuing it at $170B; Anthropic was valued at $61.5B in March (t.co)
2025-7-30

OpenAI launches ChatGPT ‘study mode' in India: How to use the free multilingual, interactive learning tool? (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-30 India

Anthropic Nears Deal To Raise Funding at $170 Billion Valuation (slashdot.org)
2025-7-30

Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity company CyberArk Software; a typical premium could put the deal well above $20B (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-30 Israel

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