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Google posts an official look at the Pixel 10 Pro Fold

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OpenAI is adding Connectors for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts in ChatGPT for Pro users, with Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu plans to follow (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

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Judge Orders ICE to Improve Squalid Manhattan Lockup Conditions

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Eric Adams Aide Pleads Guilty in Illegal Campaign Fundraising Scheme

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NYC-based Profound, which helps brands optimize visibility in AI search responses, raised a $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $58.5M (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

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Circle announces it will offer 10M shares to the public, of which 8M will be sold by existing stockholders; CRCL drops 6%+ after hours (Christina Cheddar Berk/CNBC)

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Perplexity Made an Offer to Buy TikTok — Well, Half of TikTok — Back in January

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CoreWeave Q2: revenue up 207% YoY to $1.21B, vs. $1.08B est., adjusted net loss of $130.8M, vs. $96.3M est., up from $5M in Q2 2024; CRWV drops 8%+ after hours (Redd Brown/Bloomberg)

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CoreWeave shares drop even as revenue and guidance top estimates (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Sources: OpenAI is preparing to back a Neuralink rival called Merge Labs, co-founded by Sam Altman, that aims to raise $250M at an $850M valuation (Financial Times)

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eToro reports Q2 crypto revenue up 17% YoY to $1.9B, assets under administration up 54% to $17.5B, and adjusted non-GAAP net income up 23% to $54.2M (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

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Sources: investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least in part responsible for a recent hack of the US federal court filing system (New York Times)

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League of Legends is testing a new WASD control scheme, 16 years in

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Match is settling with the FTC for $14M and a number of changes like making it easy to cancel subs, after the FTC sued in 2019 over false advertising and more (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

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The best foldable phone you can buy

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Perplexity Jumps the Shark, Makes Clownish $34.5 Billion Stunt Offer to Buy Chrome From Google

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Reddit Will Block the Internet Archive

Michael Tsai

GitHub CEO Resigns, Not Replaced

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JSONSerialization Can Throw NSExceptions

Michael Tsai

SwiftData Runtime

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