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Connecticut-based Amphenol plans to acquire North Carolina-based CommScope's broadband connectivity and cable unit for ~$10.5B, including debt, amid the AI boom (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Spotify says it is updating prices across South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific; an example email had a €1/month rise (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 Europe U.S. Asia Africa Latin America Spotify

Amazon denies it is closing its Wondery podcast studio, but says it will break up its operations; a source says ~110 jobs will be cut due to the reorganization (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 Amazon

Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks (blog.cloudflare.com)
2025-8-7 Robot

OpenAI says ChatGPT will hit 700M weekly active users this week, up from 500M in March and up 4x YoY, and now has 5M paying business users, up from 3M in June (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-7

Elon Musk says that xAI will bring back Vine's video archive, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine feature, available to X Premium+ subscribers, is “AI Vine” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 AI Elon Musk

Transcripts from the trial over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash: Tesla withheld crash‑snapshot data and took years to admit it existed or was relevant to the case (electrek.co)
2025-8-7 Tesla

ChatGPT now offers “gentle reminders” to take breaks during long sessions and OpenAI is building tools to better detect signs of mental or emotional distress (www.engadget.com)
2025-8-7

Google unveils benchmarking platform Kaggle Game Arena, where LLMs compete head-to-head in strategic games, starting with a chess tournament from August 5 to 7 (siliconangle.com)
2025-8-7 Google

Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $1B, vs. $940M est., and boosts full-year outlook guidance to $4.142B-$4.150B, up from $3.89B-$3.90B; PLTR jumps 5%+ (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-7

Google says Big Sleep, DeepMind and Project Zero's vulnerability research tool “powered by Gemini”, found 20 flaws in various popular open-source software (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 Google

Source: Figma considered a higher IPO price, but CEO Dylan Field wanted to bring on board certain long-term institutional shareholders and approved $33/share (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 IPO

Figma's stock dropped 27.38% to $88.60 on August 4 after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-7 IPO Adobe

Broadcom unveils Jericho4, a new version of its networking chip that can connect 1M+ processors across multiple data centers and handle distances of over 100km (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7

Search-engine optimization feels dated as marketers look to generative-engine optimization, or GEO, which focuses on tricking AI chatbots rather than Google (nymag.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI chatbot

Google signs a deal with two power utilities to lower its power use by pausing non-essential AI workloads during demand surges or weather-based grid disruptions (www.theregister.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

A term sheet shows Ant will sell its remaining 5.84% Paytm stake via block deals that could total ~$433.72M; Ant sold a 4% stake in May and 10.3% in August 2023 (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-7

Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to its ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing “we don't believe in work-life balance” (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-7

The CFTC is asking for public comment by August 18 about trading spot crypto asset contracts listed on CFTC-registered futures exchanges (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 Asset CFTC

A Parkland shooting victim's parents created an AI version of their late son to speak about gun safety, starting with an interview with journalist Jim Acosta (www.rollingstone.com)
2025-8-7 Interview AI

Source: Reflection AI, founded by ex-Google researchers and which makes the AI agent Asimov, has raised most of the $1B+ it is seeking to build open-source LLMs (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

Sources: TSMC fires several employees for violating rules on obtaining sensitive information about its 2nm tech; TSMC says it detected “unauthorized activities” (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-7

Sources: Core Scientific's hedge fund shareholders may reject CoreWeave's all-stock takeover, seeking better terms, as CRWV has fallen 30%+ post-announcement (t.co)
2025-8-7

White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says the US is exploring software or physical ways to track the location of AI chips, as part of its AI Action Plan (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 AI

DRAM prices remain high after doubling from May 2025 to June 2025, amid speculation that China's CXMT may have halted DDR4 production to focus on DDR5 and HBM (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-7 China

As Delta experiments with AI-driven ticket pricing, regulators and travelers alike worry about dynamic fare schemes that “go beyond the human cognitive limits” (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Shareholder letter: Reddit cites Profound's analysis showing it is the most cited domain across AI models, as often as Wikipedia and ahead of YouTube and others (pressgazette.co.uk)
2025-8-7 AI YouTube Reddit

Users say AI notetaking tools for meetings can misinterpret context when generating summaries or share content meant for a select audience with all participants (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 VR Fintech Tencent

India's IT giants face revenue declines due to challenges like corporations establishing their own global capability centers in the country and the rise of AI (indiadispatch.com)
2025-8-7 India AI

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