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Filings show Uber divested from long-time partner Serve Robotics in Q2, as the companies clash over how to deploy delivery robots; Serve has a DoorDash deal (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

August 11, 2026

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Filings show Uber divested from long-time partner Serve Robotics in Q2, as the companies clash over how to deploy delivery robots; Serve has a DoorDash deal  —  Uber Technologies Inc. has divested from long-time partner Serve Robotics Inc. as the two companies clash over how to deploy delivery robots …



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Similarweb: Bluesky's mobile MAUs fell 27% YoY to 10.4M in June and DAUs fell 26% to 3M in July; X's mobile MAUs fell 3% to 302M and DAUs fell 7% to 123.7M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

August 11, 2026

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Similarweb: Bluesky's mobile MAUs fell 27% YoY to 10.4M in June and DAUs fell 26% to 3M in July; X's mobile MAUs fell 3% to 302M and DAUs fell 7% to 123.7M  —  Decentralized social network Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk's X in November 2024, following the U.S. elections.



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Sources: David Sacks' Craft Ventures is targeting around $1B for a new fund, its first since Sacks stepped down as the White House AI and crypto czar (The Information)

August 11, 2026

The Information:
Sources: David Sacks' Craft Ventures is targeting around $1B for a new fund, its first since Sacks stepped down as the White House AI and crypto czar  —  Craft Ventures, the VC firm helmed by former White House AI czar David Sacks, is raising its first fund since Sacks stepped away …



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YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

August 10, 2026

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1  —  YouTube announced on Monday that new creators will have to meet higher thresholds to begin earning money from ads and subscriptions.



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Sources: Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR, and other financial groups are partnering with Nvidia on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development (Financial Times)

August 10, 2026

Financial Times:
Sources: Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR, and other financial groups are partnering with Nvidia on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development  —  Apollo, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are among groups working with chipmaker to raise capital for data centre boom



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Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)

August 09, 2026

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare:
Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M  —  series B funding funding round Artificial Intelligence  —  QuantHealth, which uses artificial intelligence …



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An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist (ABC)

August 09, 2026

ABC:
An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist  —  By national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Specialist Reporting Team's Rhiannon Hobbins  —  abc.net.au/news/ai-assistant-hacks- gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986



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