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Techmeme - 2025-08-29T12:40:48-04:00

French President Emmanuel Macron vows a strong response if any country takes measures that undermine Europe's digital sovereignty (Richard Bravo/Bloomberg) - 2025-08-29T12:40:01-04:00

Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel has left after nine months; its ad business reportedly generated only about $20,000 in Q4 2024 (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek) - 2025-08-29T12:25:02-04:00

Valve adds credit card-based age checks for UK users to access "mature content" games on Steam; Discord and others are using selfies for verification (Tom Warren/The Verge) - 2025-08-29T12:05:02-04:00

FriendliAI, which aims to help companies run AI model inference faster and cheaper, raised a $20M extension to its $6M seed fund from late 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) - 2025-08-29T11:10:01-04:00

The US makes it harder for Samsung, SK Hynix, and Intel to produce chips in China by revoking waivers for the use of US equipment in their Chinese operations (Karen Freifeld/Reuters) - 2025-08-29T10:15:02-04:00

Sources: the US government restored xAI to its vendors list after removing it for Grok's antisemitic content; email: the White House asked GSA to add xAI "ASAP" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired) - 2025-08-29T10:10:03-04:00

EU competition commissioner Teresa Ribera says the EU must be ready to walk away from the US trade deal if the US demands a watered-down DSA and DMA (Financial Times) - 2025-08-29T10:00:34-04:00

Reliance launches a subsidiary called Reliance Intelligence, aiming to create national-scale AI infrastructure in India, in partnership with Google and Meta (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2025-08-29T09:40:03-04:00

Sources: DeepSeek plans to use Huawei's Ascend AI chips to train smaller versions of its upcoming R2 models but will still use Nvidia chips for largest models (The Information) - 2025-08-29T09:25:00-04:00

A judge rules Nvidia must face trial over allegations that it benefitted from autonomous driving data stolen by an engineer who defected from Valeo in 2021 (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg) - 2025-08-29T09:05:01-04:00

In a trial over a fatal Autopilot crash, Tesla denied having crash-snapshot data, until a hacker hired by the plaintiffs recovered the data from the vehicle (Washington Post) - 2025-08-29T08:35:01-04:00

Sources: Alibaba developed a new AI inference chip to compete with H20; it is manufactured by a Chinese company unlike an earlier AI chip made by TSMC (Wall Street Journal) - 2025-08-29T08:05:01-04:00

Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$34.6B, below ~$35.4B est., and net income up 76% to ~$5.9B, above ~$4B est., as AI demand drives cloud sales up 26% (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) - 2025-08-29T07:15:16-04:00

Sources: ChatGPT co-creator Shengjia Zhao threatened to quit Meta within days of joining and return to OpenAI; later, he was given the chief AI scientist title (Financial Times) - 2025-08-29T07:10:01-04:00

Huawei reports H1 2025 revenue up 3.9% YoY to ~$58.5B, driven by soaring AI compute demand and a rebound in phone sales, and net profit down 32% YoY to ~$5.2B (Bloomberg) - 2025-08-29T06:40:01-04:00