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Reliance’s Jio Platforms partners with Nvidia to build AI cloud infrastructure and work on building an LLM trained on India’s diverse languages (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Reliance’s Jio Platforms partners with Nvidia to build AI cloud infrastructure and work on building an LLM trained on India’s diverse languages  —  Reliance Industries’s Jio Platforms has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained on India’s diverse languages …

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How Google plans to win its antitrust trial

Illustration: The Verge This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today, let’s talk about the US government’s first major antitrust trial against a tech giant in a generation. If the Justice Department succeeds in its case against Google, it could

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Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paying subscribers that offers up to 20 hours of content per month, as part of an audiobook push (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paying subscribers that offers up to 20 hours of content per month, as part of an audiobook push  —  Audio streamer to test program with listeners to learn about customer demand for audiobooks  —  Spotify plans to test …

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Sources: Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance, encouraged by the Indian government, is in talks with foreign chipmakers to enter semiconductor manufacturing (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance, encouraged by the Indian government, is in talks with foreign chipmakers to enter semiconductor manufacturing  —  Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RELI.NS) has begun exploring a foray into semiconductor manufacturing, a move that could address …

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Square says it has resolved a day-long outage that has left some small business owners unable to access accounts or process credit card payments (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Square says it has resolved a day-long outage that has left some small business owners unable to access accounts or process credit card payments  —  Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments.

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Local media: Turkey sentenced Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196 years; 400K+ users of Thodex have lost $2B+ in deposits (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: Local media: Turkey sentenced Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196 years; 400K+ users of Thodex have lost $2B+ in deposits  —  Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing.

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