Keza MacDonald / The Guardian: Indie games were the real stars of the Summer Game Fest 2024; the top 10 bestselling games of 2024 so far on Steam in terms of units sold are almost all indie  —  In this week's newsletter: While the blockbuster end of the games industry is in the doldrums, independent developers are leading a creative resurgence

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: Nigeria drops tax evasion charges against Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, who still face money laundering charges  —  The executives, Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, are still named in a money-laundering case.  — Tax charges against Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan …

Ankit Patel / NVIDIA Blog: Nvidia announces Nemotron-4 340B, a family of models that developers can use to generate synthetic data for training LLMs for commercial applications  —  Nemotron-4 340B, a family of models optimized for NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, includes cutting-edge instruct and reward models, and a dataset for generative...

The Information: Source: Sam Altman recently told some investors that OpenAI is considering changing to a for-profit benefit corporation that its nonprofit board doesn't control  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently told some shareholders that the artificial intelligence developer is considering changing …

Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: US prosecutors charge two men with operating Empire Market, a dark web marketplace for illicit goods and services that did $430M+ in sales between 2018 and 2020  —  - Prosecutors say ‘Empire Market’ did $430 million in sales  — Drugs and malicious computer programs were sold, US says

Riley de León / CNBC: Tempus AI's shares closed up 8.8% at $40.25 in the company's Nasdaq debut, giving it a market value of about $6.6B, after raising $410.7M in its IPO  —  WATCH NOW  —  Tempus AI, a health-care diagnostics company that uses AI to interpret medical tests to help physicians provide …