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Disney and TikTok Set Creator Clip Deal After Sora Talks Collapse

Disney and TikTok agreed a creator clip programme for Disney films and franchises, with a US launch, no disclosed financial terms and unresolved creator-safety guardrails.

#devices consumer tech #Disney #TikTok

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Moove Reaches $2.1bn Valuation After Mubadala-Led Series C

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Moove Reaches $2.1bn Valuation After Mubadala-Led Series C

UAE mobility company Moove was valued at $2.1bn after a $250m Series C round led by Mubadala, Woven Capital and Ion Pacific to fund new markets, hiring and autonomous fleet infrastructure.

#Moove #Mubadala #autonomous mobility

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Time Tests Bot-Facing Ads As Publishers Seek AI Search Revenue

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Time Tests Bot-Facing Ads As Publishers Seek AI Search Revenue

Fast Company Middle East reported on Time's test of ads written for AI crawlers, creating a possible way to monetize machine traffic while raising disclosure and measurement questions.

#AI advertising #publisher monetization #Time

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LeCun Joins 224 Ventures As AI Insiders Formalize A New Funding Network

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LeCun Joins 224 Ventures As AI Insiders Formalize A New Funding Network

TNW reported that Yann LeCun and Oriol Vinyals joined 224 Ventures, a new AI-focused firm with more than $100 million in assets under management and a plan to back early startups through insider technical networks.

#AI funding #Yann LeCun #224 Ventures

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Sapiom Raises $35M As AI Agent Costs Face First Hard Audit

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Sapiom Raises $35M As AI Agent Costs Face First Hard Audit

TNW reported that Sapiom raised a $35 million Series A for software that routes AI-agent calls to lower-cost models and tools, turning agent deployment from a capability race into a budget-control problem.

#AI agents #Sapiom #Anthropic

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Anthropic Builds Custom Silicon Team For Claude Scaling

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Anthropic Builds Custom Silicon Team For Claude Scaling

The Next Web reported that Anthropic publicly confirmed an in-house silicon team for Claude, while saying AWS, Google, Nvidia and AMD hardware remain part of its multi-chip scaling strategy.

#Anthropic #Claude #custom silicon

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Ajman Starts Executive Phase Of Government AI Program

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Ajman Starts Executive Phase Of Government AI Program

Economy Middle East reported that Ajman has begun the executive phase of its Artificial Intelligence Program, moving toward government-wide implementation, a unified operating framework and 100 initiatives aligned with Ajman Vision 2030.

#Ajman #artificial intelligence #agentic AI

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Frore LiquidJet Claim Targets Rubin GPU Cooling Efficiency

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Frore LiquidJet Claim Targets Rubin GPU Cooling Efficiency

Tom’s Hardware reported that Frore Systems says its LiquidJet coldplate could lower Nvidia Rubin GPU junction temperatures by 6°C to 12°C in an analytical thermal model. Frore Systems' white paper claims a 10°C reduction would raise token generation efficiency by about 15%, while Tom’s Hardware noted that delidded packages add mechanical risk.

#Frore Systems #LiquidJet #Nvidia Rubin

August 5, 2026Read More →

Dubai Duty Free Starts Crypto.com Pay at Airport Checkouts

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Dubai Duty Free Starts Crypto.com Pay at Airport Checkouts

Dubai Duty Free has launched Crypto.com Pay for eligible UAE residents at DXB, Al Maktoum International Airport and dubaidutyfree.com. The payment flow settles in UAE dirhams and follows Crypto.com’s Central Bank of the UAE stored-value licence.

#Dubai Duty Free #Crypto.com Pay #crypto payments

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MacPaw And Liquid AI Build Local Inference Path For SetApp Developers

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MacPaw And Liquid AI Build Local Inference Path For SetApp Developers

TechCrunch reported that MacPaw is working with Liquid AI on on-device inference for its Eney assistant and a developer stack for SetApp, shifting part of its AI plan from cloud access to local processing.

#on device AI #AI app stores #MacPaw

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Macquarie Commits A$240 Million to Land for a 200MW Sydney Campus — Approvals Still Decide the Timeline

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Macquarie Commits A$240 Million to Land for a 200MW Sydney Campus — Approvals Still Decide the Timeline

Macquarie Data Centres said it exercised an option to buy a 34,200-square-metre Macquarie Park site for A$240 million. The company plans a Sydney North Zone campus of about 200MW, with initial construction estimated for late calendar year 2029 if planning and other approvals are secured.

#Macquarie Data Centres #Sydney data centres #Macquarie Park

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Agentic AI Is Moving Fraud Decisions Into the Payment Itself

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Agentic AI Is Moving Fraud Decisions Into the Payment Itself

PYMNTS published i2c CEO Amir Wain's argument that agentic AI in payments depends on unified data, audit trails and human oversight before autonomous systems make transaction-level decisions.

#agentic AI #payments #fraud management

August 5, 2026Read More →