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Firestorm Labs, which has contracts with the US DOD for its 3D printed drones, raised a $47M Series A and plans to grow its fleet of airliftable xCell factories (www.axios.com)
2025-7-18 Drone

Cancer Death Rates Fall One-Third in US Since 1990s as Prevention Efforts Take Hold (science.slashdot.org)
2025-7-18

A US judge rules that three authors suing Anthropic can bring a class action on behalf of all US writers whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-18 AI

Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members with new plans, including Audiobooks+, offering more listening hours, in the UK and 10+ countries (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-18 Spotify

Uber Plans 20,000 Robotaxis in Six-Year Rollout with Lucid and Nuro (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-7-18 Uber

Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the browser as AI's killer app, AI talent wars, why users will eventually pay thousands for a single AI prompt, more (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-18 AI Browser

WeTransfer revises terms of service after user backlash over AI training concerns (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-18 AI

Oppo launches entry-level tablet Pad SE in India: Features, pricing details, and more (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-18 India OPPO

Substack raised $100M from the Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds a social network and focuses on advertising (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-18

Cinemas Weigh Launching New Large Screen Brand To Challenge Imax (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-7-18

Trial begins as Meta investors, Zuckerberg square off over alleged privacy violations (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-18 Zuckerberg

XAI in talks to lease data center capacity in Saudi Arabia: Report (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-18 Arabia Saudi Arabia

OpenAI working on payment checkout system within ChatGPT: Report (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-18

Meta shareholders suing Mark Zuckerberg and Meta leaders over Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy violations reach a settlement deal, ending an $8B trial (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-17 Facebook Zuckerberg

NASA to launch sounding rocket to study sun's chromosphere (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-17 NASA

Flipkart GOAT Sale: Last day to save on iPhone 16, Pixel 9 Pro, Galaxy S24 FE (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-17 iPhone

In H1 2025, hackers stole $2.17B+ from crypto services, including the DPRK's record $1.5B Bybit hack, surpassing all of 2024 and up 17% on H1 2022 (www.chainalysis.com)
2025-7-17

Uber plans to make “multi-hundred-million dollar investments” in Nuro and Lucid and aims to deploy “20,000 or more” robotaxis in the US over the next six years (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-17 Uber

Zoho unveils foundational LLM ‘Zia', alongside enterprise AI agents and speech recognition tech (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-17 AI

Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are focused on generative AI in 2025, up by 198 since May 2024, and they have collectively raised $20B+ to date (www.calcalistech.com)
2025-7-17 Israel Startup AI

Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation, making it Europe's newest unicorn (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-17 Europe Startup AI Sweden

Roblox partners with Persona to estimate user ages and verify they are 13+, renames Friends to Connections, and says 13+ users can message Trusted Connections (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-17

Intel follows Microsoft with 5,000+ layoffs in one of July's biggest tech job cuts (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-17 Microsoft Intel Layoffs

This refurbished MacBook Pro deal is in limited supply (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-7-17 MacBook

Meta AI introduces ‘Imagine Me' feature in India; lets users create generative AI images of themselves using text prompts (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-17 India AI

Candy Crush makers are losing jobs to AI they helped build: Report (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-17 AI

Big Tech acquihiring AI startups, like Meta's Scale AI deal, gives VCs only modest returns compared to traditional exits and may entrench Big Tech's dominance (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-17 Startup AI

Sources: in a Trump meeting, Jensen Huang argued US chips should be the global standard and leveraged support from David Sacks, who disliked Biden's chip rules (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-17 Trump

The Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Danish government plan to invest €80M to acquire and run a Microsoft-powered quantum computer, set to operate in early 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-17 Microsoft Quantum

VMware Reboots Its Partner Program Again With New Invite-Only Program (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-7-17 VMware

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