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How AI startups are fueling Google’s booming cloud business

Google Cloud is one of the company’s fastest-growing business lines, and continues to rack up new customers.

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Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and more attend Trump’s UK state banquet

Top tech names were on the guest list for the banquet thrown for President Trump during his second state visit to the UK on Wednesday. 

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US government charges British teenager accused of at least 120 ‘Scattered Spider’ hacks

Thalha Jubair, 19, was arrested in London on Thursday and accused by U.K. and U.S. authorities of involvement in dozens of hacks, including London’s transit system and the U.S. Courts.

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Uber is trying drone delivery again

The company is partnering with Flytrex to make Uber Eats deliveries later this year. Uber is also making a small investment in Flytrex.

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Google now lets you share your custom Gemini AI assistants known as Gems

Google now lets you share your custom AI chatbots, Gemini Gems.

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Google partners with UK nonprofit to detect and remove nonconsensual intimate images from Search

Google has been slow to adopt StopNCII’s system, as its partnership with the nonprofit comes a year after Microsoft integrated the tool into Bing.

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ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech

Homeland Security Investigations, the law enforcement arm of ICE, adds phone unlocking tech made by Magnet Forensics to its arsenal of technology used to power the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown.

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Google and PayPal team up on agentic commerce

PayPal and Google are teaming up on agentic commerce.

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US House committee summons CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit to testify on online radicalization

The House Oversight Committee has requested that the CEOs of Discord, gaming platform Steam, Twitch, and Reddit testify on October 8th about online radicalization.

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Dawn Capital’s Shamillah Bankiya breaks down the state of the Euro venture market

Dawn Capital’s latest partner, Shamillah Bankiya, stopped by Equity this week to talk about the European landscape and the biggest misconceptions Americans have about the European startup world. 

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