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Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $13.8B in 2024, up from $2.3B in 2023; OpenAI's marketshare in enterprise AI declined from 50% to 34% (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI...

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Chinese AI company DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, a "reasoning" AI model that it claims is competitive with OpenAI's o1, and plans to open source it (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Chinese AI company DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek-R1-Li...

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Threads begins rolling out the ability to create custom feeds globally, giving users options beyond "For You" and "Following" feeds (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Threads begins rolling out the ability to create c...

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Sources: Trump's team is talking with the crypto industry over whether to create a White House post dedicated to cryptocurrency policy and is vetting candidates (Bloomberg)

Sources: Trump's team is talking with the crypto i...

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US prosecutors charge five alleged members of the Scattered Spider hacking group for their role in the hacks of 29+ individuals and theft of $11M+ in crypto (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

US prosecutors charge five alleged members of the ...

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DCG founder Barry Silbert announces a subsidiary called Yuma to help build decentralized AI services called "subnets" on the Bittensor blockchain network (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

DCG founder Barry Silbert announces a subsidiary c...

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French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in May 2024, announces its first product, Runner H, an "agentic" AI model, available in private beta (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in ...

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Meta unveils new Messenger features, including audio and video voicemail, AI backgrounds for video calls, and hands-free calling and messaging via Siri (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Meta unveils new Messenger features, including aud...

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Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing Xbox game libraries, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers stream 50 supported games they already own (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing X...

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The Biden admin finalizes $1.5B CHIPS Act incentives for GlobalFoundries, meaning it can start receiving federal funding for facilities in Vermont and New York (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

The Biden admin finalizes $1.5B CHIPS Act incentiv...

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Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade to the Echo Show 15 from 2022, with a 21" 1080p display and auto-framing camera, and updates the Echo Show 15 (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade t...

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A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to "time served", meaning no jail time; Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud charges after FTX collapsed (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to "...

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GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile internet, or 57% of the world; mobile subscriber growth fell to 160M in 2024, down from 200M per year in 2015-2021 (Rest of World)

GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile inte...

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Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring company LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)

Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure ...

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Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source ent...

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Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: identical to the Watch 7 with similar health features, but has the guts of a three-year-old Watch 4, poor battery, and one size (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: identical to the W...

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Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024 (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes Online)

Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera rai...

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How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits (David Streitfeld/New York Times)

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of co...

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