SAIC Mobility Robotaxi, an arm of state-owned Chinese automaker SAIC that aims to launch an autonomous taxi service, raised a $148M Series B at a $1B+ valuation (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

AtoB, which offers a payment system specially designed for truckers, raised a $155M Series B led by Elad Gil and General Catalyst, valuing the company at $800M (Amy Feldman/Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Top publicly-traded US bitcoin miners Core Scientific, Marathon Digital, and Riot Blockchain lost $862M, $192M, and $366M in Q2 respectively after impairments (David Pan/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Israel-based Pliops, which makes chips for data centers that boost the performance of databases and other apps that run on flash memory, raised a $100M Series D (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Sources: for years, the SEC and CFTC were hindered by banks' usage of messaging apps like WhatsApp to skirt archiving rules; ~10 banks may be fined ~$2B total (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Analysis: in 2022 through July, crypto transaction volumes are lagging behind 2021; illicit volumes are down 15% YoY and legitimate volumes are down 36% YoY (Eric Jardine/Chainalysis) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Apple has laid off about 100 recruiter contractors in a rare move in the past week as part of a push to rein in hiring and spending (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Idaho-based Kochava sues the FTC, claiming the agency is threatening to sue it for marketing geolocation data that might be used to track abortion clinic visits (John D. McKinnon/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Dianxiaomi, an e-commerce SaaS provider for SMBs in China, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, has raised a $110M Series D led by Vision Fund 2 and Sequoia China (Rita Liao/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Filing: Elliott Management sold all of its 10M shares in Twitter in Q2 amid Musk's takeover bid; the hedge fund had no common stock in Twitter as of June 30 (Antoine Gara/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5