Meta promotes Benjamin Joe, its longtime VP for Southeast Asia, to VP of Asia Pacific and expands India VP Sandhya Devanathan's role to include Southeast Asia (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)
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Huione Guarantee, a Telegram-based black market for crypto scammers and money launderers that enabled $27B+ in transactions, shuts down after mass account bans (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
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OpenAI launches the Safety Evaluations Hub, a page showing how the company's models score on various tests for harmful content, jailbreaks, and hallucinations (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Austin Russell, the founder and CEO of lidar manufacturer Luminar, resigns following an ethics inquiry and is replaced by former Nuance CEO Paul Ricci (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
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Samaya AI, which is building AI models to assist financial analysts, raised a $43.5M Series A led by NEA, with participation from Eric Schmidt and others (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
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CoreWeave plans to spend $20B to $23B in 2025 on AI infrastructure and data center capacity to meet demand, including from Microsoft; CRWV drops 7%+ after hours (Reuters)
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Uber and delivery service iFood partner to integrate their services into each others' apps in Brazil; Uber ended its Uber Eats service in Brazil in March 2022 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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Microsoft plans to shut down Bing Search APIs on August 11; a source says the largest customers will retain access, and DuckDuckGo confirms it won't be affected (Paresh Dave/Wired)
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Chinese sites like JD.com are offering discounts of up to 2,530 yuan, ~$350, on iPhone 16 models, an effort to spur sales after Q1 shipments fell (Reuters)
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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 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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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; CRWV jumps 9%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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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 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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Epic has submitted a new version of Fortnite to the US App Store, saying it needs to release a weekly update, after pulling the version it submitted on Friday (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
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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 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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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 (Reuters)
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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 (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
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Netflix says its ad-supported tier now has 94M MAUs, up from 70M in November 2024, and reaches more 18- to 34-year-olds than any US broadcast or cable network (Sara Salinas/CNBC)
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The CFPB withdraws its proposal for new rules to more tightly regulate US data brokers and their ability to sell sensitive information about Americans (Wired)
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Sources: Microsoft is set to stave off a possible hefty EU antitrust fine, after it unbundled Teams from Office in 2023, following a complaint by Slack in 2020 (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
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Meta releases the Open Molecules 2025 dataset and the Universal Model for Atoms family of models to accelerate the development of new drugs and materials (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
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Sources: Apple is developing a Vision Pro feature that lets users scroll content with their eyes, as part of visionOS 3 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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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 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
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Stock trading app eToro began trading at $69.69 on Nasdaq after pricing its IPO at $52, above its $46-$50 expected range (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered AI coding agent that designs and optimizes advanced algorithms using an evolutionary framework (Google DeepMind)
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A look at the Nintendo Switch 2's final specs: a custom Nvidia T239 SoC, Ampere-based GPU with 1,536 CUDA cores, 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM, DLSS support, and more (Richard Leadbetter/Eurogamer.net)
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