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Does a future with AI scare you?: That’s what Haje Jan Kamps is asking in his newest TechCrunch+ article that shows just how well artificial intelligence is changing video. (TC+)
All the news that’s fit to post: The Agence France-Presse news agency sued Elon Musk’s X for refusing to enter into news reuse payment talks.
Hacked off: Russia-backed hackers used Microsoft Teams to breach government agencies.
Stepping on the brakes: XPeng’s head of autonomous driving quits and is rumored to have joined Nvidia.
Did they call you?: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission means business. The agency fined a robocaller a record $300 million after blocking billions of their scam calls.
No one in the driver’s seat: Waymo is bringing its robotaxi service to Austin.
Give me some of that green: Emtech will advance its regtech and CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) stack solutions following a $4 million round led by Matrix Partners India.
Testing the public markets: TikTok competitor Triller files to go public, and the S-1 is quite telling.
Just kidding: Kenya may not ban Worldcoin after all . . . if everyone comes to a mutual agreement.
Back in prehistoric times…: Datasaur lets you build a model automatically from a set of labels.
Here’s what’s going on with your favorite social apps: Let’s start off with Pinterest, which beat its second-quarter earnings estimate and is celebrating its partnership progress with Amazon. And over on Instagram, a new feature protects users from unwanted images and videos in DMs.
What a tangled web we CoreWeave: Get out the Scrooge McDuck–sized vault. CoreWeave, a company providing cloud infrastructure for AI training, secures a $2.3 billion loan.
Developers still like crypto: Fewer venture capital checks are being written to crypto companies and there’s those pesky regulatory issues, but developers haven’t written off the space. (TC+)
Much ado about Nothing: Nothing will launch earbuds and a smartwatch under its new budget line, CMF.
IPO will we see one this year?: Yes, it’s just August, but we know how time flies, so now’s the time to ponder if we will see any IPOs happening this year. Perhaps Triller? See above. (TC+)
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