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Aug 31

Fox News

The Trump administration launches Project Watershed 250, a six-month cybersecurity pilot to protect Texas water systems from cyberattacks

Aug 31

Andreessen Horowitz

A16z says its fifth growth fund has closed additional capital, bringing its total to $8.5B

Aug 31

Jim Pickard / Financial Times

The UK unveils a £100M Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme for domestic AI startups focused on public services, amid growing opposition to Palantir contracts

Aug 31

Major Joe Rossignol / MacRumors

MapQuest becomes the top free iPhone app on the App Store in Canada and fourth on the US App Store after refusing to change Lake Ontario to Lake America

Aug 31

Niko Gallogly / New York Times

Together AI, which serves open models, announces a deal to use compute from Humain in Saudi Arabia, where it can bypass US backlash over data centers

Aug 31

Justin Papp / CNBC

South Korea's dismissal of a US congressional report saying it discriminated against US-based Coupang is causing strains between the two countries

Aug 31

Brian Schwartz / Wall Street Journal

Former NY GOP Rep. George Santos receives Kalshi's first lifetime ban after the CFTC alleged he made $17K by betting on his appearance at the State of the Union

Aug 31

Karissa Bell / Engadget

Instagram says it will reduce the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated personas if they don't use a new "AI-generated profile" label

Aug 31

The Information

CXMT has begun producing HBM3E memory chips in small quantities and plans to expand production in 2027, a major advance for China's chip industry

Aug 31

Major Bloomberg

Nvidia plans to invest $3.5B into MediaTek through convertible bonds; MediaTek forecasts AI chip revenue of about $2B this year

Aug 31

Major Ashley Capoot / CNBC

OpenAI says its ad business has hit $1B in annualized revenue run rate and is expanding globally, as it touts its "diversified business model" ahead of an IPO

Aug 31

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters

A Chinese court froze up to $300M of assets held by Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, giving its Chinese parent company Wingtech leverage in its bid to regain control

Aug 31

Bloomberg

Filing: Tencent-backed AI chipmaker Enflame prices its Shanghai IPO at ~$21 per share, aiming to sell 43M shares and raise ~$911M

Aug 31

Bloomberg

Z.ai reports H1 2026 revenue up 400% to ~$142M, below its $200M projection; Z.ai's market value surged 800% since its January listing, peaking at $137B

Aug 31

Bloomberg

Huawei reports H1 2026 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$69.57B, with net income down 36% to $3.54B; it is now the top smartphone brand in China with a 20%+ market share

Aug 31

Major Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg

The EU designates ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox as very large online platforms after each hit 45M monthly users in the bloc, opening them up to more DSA scrutiny

Aug 31

Major Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing

The Hugging Face and Mythos 5 incidents show AI agents can self-organize, raising questions about how much agency they should have and when to seek human input

Aug 31

Major Simon Goodley / The Guardian

Bank of England Governor warns that advanced AI could destabilize the highly interconnected global financial system via cyber disruption across jurisdictions

Aug 31

Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times

Google approached Disney, Universal, and other studios to license characters and films for its AI tools, but legal and union concerns stalled deals

Aug 31

Elaine Moore / Financial Times

A look at Pangram, the AI detector at the center of disputed accusations against writers, including a pulled novel and a Commonwealth Prize-winning short story

Aug 31

The Information

OpenAI starts letting some major customers pay only when its AI completes tasks, as Salesforce and other AI providers test outcome-based pricing

Aug 31

Financial Times

Big Tech reported Q2 "other income" rose significantly to $160B+, driven by investments in AI companies, raising concerns of paper gains overstating the AI boom

Aug 31

Major Hannes Rudolph / OpenClaw Blog

OpenClaw releases OpenClaw 2.0, its largest update to date built by 933 contributors, with a simplified installation process, a rebuilt browser app, and more

Aug 31

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal

IPO documents: SoftBank's SB Energy plans to file for an IPO as soon as this week, aiming to raise $5B to $7B, and has awarded OpenAI warrants worth ~$5.5B

Aug 31

Major Charlotte Yang / Bloomberg

Shein raised $1.7B in its Hong Kong IPO, giving it a $26B market cap, far below its ~$100B valuation in 2022, as growth slows amid tariffs and competition

Aug 31

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia

Taiwanese authorities raided the office of PCB maker Unimicron, an Nvidia and Intel supplier, alleging it illegally labeled China-made parts as made in Taiwan

Aug 31

Jason Douglas / Wall Street Journal

The US-led AI boom is offsetting the global growth squeeze from the energy crunch; ING says the boom accounts for about a third of recent US economic growth

Aug 31

Chris Metinko / Axios

Chip design startup Agentrys has raised a $19.1M seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4M pre-seed led by MediaTek

Aug 30

Major Huo Jingnan / NPR

Analysis: popular chatbots debunked false narratives spread by Russia, China, and Iran most of the time; search engine AI summaries did too, but at a lower rate

Aug 30

Major Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer

Anthropic signs out some Claude users, removes saved payment methods, and issues refunds after infostealer malware on user PCs hijacked sessions to drain usage

Aug 30

Major Aaron Tilley / The Information

OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Macs for RL, Anthropic rents them, Nvidia sees Apple as its main local AI rival as Macs gain traction with AI devs

Aug 30

Major Mark Bergen / Bloomberg

A look at the race to build quantum computers, as the tech becomes a geopolitical battleground with potential to transform cybersecurity, finance, and more

Aug 30

Major Ajeya Cotra / Planned Obsolescence

The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident feels like we are halfway to losing control of AI entirely, and as AI advances rapidly we may not get another warning shot

Aug 30

Major Dealroom.co

Faro, which develops data models and AI tools to speed up clinical trials, raised a $37.3M Series B co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and S32

Aug 30

Major Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal

Industry insiders say Chinese robot makers currently rely on Nvidia silicon and software; Nvidia's physical AI business generates ~$10B in annual revenue

Aug 30

Major Kieran Smith / Financial Times

Grindr CEO George Arison plans premium services push, including a product costing up to $350 per month; Grindr averaged 1.4M paying users among 15M MAUs in Q2

Aug 30

Major Taylor Nicole Rogers / Bloomberg

Glassdoor analysis finds 47% of Gen X workers write positively about their companies' AI use, compared with 40% of millennials and 33% of Gen Z workers

Aug 30

Major Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge

Music producers are calling out tracks suspected of using AI tools like Suno, as the internet becomes increasingly filled with AI-generated music

Aug 29

Major Luke James / Tom's Hardware

California's legislature passes a bill exempting open-source OSes like Linux from a 2025 age-verification law; Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android remain in scope

Aug 29

Major Sheena Meng / Bloomberg

Data center development is driving demand for acoustic consultants, as developers and neighboring communities hire acousticians to assess noise emissions

Aug 29

Major Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information

Elon Musk says SpaceX is "doing in-house casting" for blades and vanes, which can accelerate natural gas turbines "coming online by up to 18 months"

Aug 29

Major @claudedevs

Anthropic will "permanently" raise weekly Claude Code limits by 25% on Sept. 14 for most plans, which will work out a 17% reduction, given the current 50% boost

Aug 29

Major New York Times

Sources detail how Meta's $17.1B settlement with state AGs came together as Meta wanted to avoid going to trial following losses in cases in LA and New Mexico

Aug 29

Major Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide

Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs

Aug 29

Major Amir Efrati / The Information

Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be "neutral"; Musk says he "couldn't care less"

Aug 29

Major Financial Times

New AI-powered video tools have accelerated the surge in AI dramas in China; DataEye: 89 of the top 100 animated dramas on Douyin in May were AI productions

Aug 29

Major Wall Street Journal

Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians opposing data center projects, warning that blocking the projects endangers building-related jobs

Aug 29

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE

Minneapolis-based Yardstik, a provider of workforce monitoring tech, raised a $30M Series B led by Harbert Growth Partners, taking its total funding to $65M

Aug 29

Financial Times

An analysis of the 50 largest bitcoin treasury companies by BTC holdings finds their combined market cap has plunged from $150B in July 2025 to just $67B now

Aug 29

Major Bloomberg

SK Hynix breaks ground for its $4B advanced memory chip packaging facility in Indiana, with mass production of next-generation HBM scheduled to begin in H2 2029

Aug 29

Major Summer Zhen / Reuters

Xiaomi and CXMT say the Xiaomi 18 Fold smartphone will debut CXMT's LPDDR6 DRAM chips, alongside Xiaomi's in-house 3nm Xring O3 SoC, launching in September

Aug 29

Major Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post

Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 14.4% YoY to $15.62B and adjusted net profit of $372M, ending a three-quarter losing streak as the food delivery price war cooled

Aug 29

Major Vallari Sanzgiri / The Hindu BusinessLine

Jio Platforms, which owns India's largest carrier and counts Meta and Google as investors, gets regulatory approval to float India's largest-ever IPO of ~$4B

Aug 29

Major Reuters

CXMT sues the Pentagon over its Chinese military company designation, saying it isn't affiliated with the Chinese military and its chips aren't for military use

Aug 29

Major Ayden Runnels / The Texas Tribune

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock cameras; an investigation found an agency allocating $30M+ to build Texas' Flock network

Aug 29

Ngai Yeung / Endpoints News

Metriport, whose tools help doctors retrieve patient data, raised $26M in Series A and seed funding led by Matrix GP TJ Parker, taking its total raise to $28.4M

Aug 28

Major Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with $10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model

Aug 28

Major Emily Forgash / Bloomberg

Shares of French quantum computing company Pasqal closed up 95% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday following a merger with a SPAC

Aug 28

Major Lauren McCarthy / New York Times

An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws

Aug 28

Flavio Copes

A deep dive into Grok Bot, including its architecture, use cases, and alternatives, as xAI adds shareable bot templates and online purchases through Stripe Link

Aug 28

Emily Graffeo / Bloomberg

AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~$1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft

Aug 28

Major Joe Guszkowski / Restaurant Business

Owner, which makes AI agents that manage restaurants' websites, marketing, and other functions, raised a $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation

Aug 28

Major VideoCardz.com

Modders get an experimental version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering library running in over a dozen games after it leaked in NBA 2K27's early access build

Aug 28

Major Fin / @fi56622380

Unlike internet's one-dimensional, flat-fee growth, AI grows across two exponentials, user penetration and tokens per user, allowing AI labs' economics to work

Aug 28

The Information

The US is drafting a rule to close an export controls loophole that lets Chinese companies access AI chips via data centers in countries like Thailand

Aug 28

Sydney Bradley / Business Insider

Filing: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M+ Series A from Thrive Capital and others

Aug 28

Major Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch

A16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to "open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI"

Aug 28

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg

Stock trading app Ajaib raised a $270M Series C from SBI Holdings, the largest round since 2022 in Indonesia, where startups raised just ~$340M last year

Aug 28

Top Story Todd Spangler / Variety

Apple TV raises prices in the US, with the monthly price up by $2 to $14.99, its fourth increase in four years; the individual Apple One tier rises $2 to $21.95

Aug 28

Harry McCracken / Fast Company

How Meta founded FAIR in 2013, fell behind as it was distracted by the metaverse, and is spending an unprecedented amount of money trying to catch up

Aug 28

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia

Aug 28

Top Story Paresh Dave / Wired

Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs

Aug 28

Major Bloomberg

Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT reports H1 revenue of ~$22.4B, more than double its 2025 sales, and ~$11.5B in profit, compared to a loss a year earlier

Aug 28

Bloomberg

A look at Beijing's AGI Bar, the unofficial clubhouse for China's AI industry where entrepreneurs trade gossip, recruit talent, and court investors over beers

Aug 28

Major Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal

South Korea unveils a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, a move that treats AI like a public utility

Aug 28

Major Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Bluesky launches a feature to let users hide their posts from non-followers in its Discover feed; other AT Proto apps can choose whether to respect the opt-out

Aug 28

Reuters

How Shein pivoted to a Hong Kong IPO and sought to build Chinese government ties, after its New York and London bids failed to secure Beijing's approval

Aug 28

Major Bloomberg

Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter open model with 1M context window, and says it outperforms Z.AI and Moonshot models in internal tests

Aug 28

Major Financial Times

The UK Treasury tells the Bank of England to boost innovation in payment systems and digital money, as it seeks to promote the UK as a hub for stablecoins

Aug 28

Major Wall Street Journal

Some tech companies are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House

Aug 28

Major Tanaya Macheel / CNBC

BitGo agrees to buy NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, expanding BitGo's derivatives offerings; ~30 NYDIG employees are joining BitGo

Aug 28

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal

Federal authorities prepare to charge a US serviceman and a KPMG employee with insider trading on prediction markets, as part of a new batch of cases

Aug 28

Major Bloomberg

Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B

Aug 28

Major Jack Queen / Reuters

A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was "illegal and baseless"

Aug 28

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch

CISA says that cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure targeted 100+ internet-exposed water and wastewater systems in July, largely attacking PLCs

Aug 27

The Information

Cognition is generating ~$900M in annualized revenue, up more than 3x since the start of the year, and executives project it will end 2026 with $1.5B+

Aug 28

Brody Ford / Bloomberg

Workday reports Q2 revenue up 12.8% YoY to $2.65B vs. $2.63B est., and total subscription revenue backlog up 8% YoY to $27.4B, vs. $28.6B est.

Aug 27

Madison Mills / Axios

Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1

Aug 27

Major Bloomberg

The FTC has been investigating whether YouTube broke consumer protection laws by violating its own policies when suspending accounts or banning content

Aug 27

Major Wall Street Journal

Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place

Aug 27

Newcomer

Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures

Aug 27

Reuters

Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation

Aug 27

Major Wall Street Journal

Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family's planned crypto bank

Aug 27

Major Alistair Gray / Financial Times

Alphabet agrees to pay £260M to settle a UK class action lawsuit claiming it levied "unfair" charges on software downloaded from the Google Play app store

Aug 27

CNBC

Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong

Aug 27

Emma Roth / The Verge

Google adds Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook, letting users import eligible titles they own in Google Play Books to ask questions, generate podcasts, more

Aug 27

CJ Haddad / CNBC

Salesforce stock closed up 22.6% on Thursday, its second-best day ever, after the company reported a beat on Q2 earnings and expanded its Anthropic partnership

Aug 27

The Information

Anthropic has been working on a plan to allow secondary stock sales in its IPO while also considering lockup periods longer than the standard 180 days

Aug 27

Major Anna Washenko / Engadget

YouTube adds Amazon to its shopping affiliate program, enabling US creators to tag Amazon products in Shorts, longform videos, and livestreams

Aug 27

Major Will Knight / Wired

Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms

Aug 27

Hugh Langley / Business Insider

Internal memo: Meta's AI agent Hatch "has its own computer" to perform tasks, works when the app is closed, can connect to email, Instagram, OpenTable, and more

Aug 27

Major Sam Sabin / Axios

OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is "a limited window" to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for "collective action"

Aug 27

Courtney Rozen / Reuters

Nvidia plans an employee-funded political action committee called NVPAC, as it seeks to step up its efforts to influence US policy

Aug 27

Leo Schwartz / The Information

Some Trump administration officials circulated a draft EO to create a self-regulatory organization for AI, but it needs buy-in from Trump and others

Aug 27

Maxwell Zeff / Wired

OpenAI is testing a "Persistent mode" in Codex, designed to let AI agents "continue working until put to sleep" and proactively generate follow-up tasks

Aug 27

Major Google

Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more

Aug 27

Top Story Lauren Feiner / The Verge

Meta's AG settlement says its age verification framework will use "reliable age signals" shared with it by "OS and app stores operated by Apple and Google"

Aug 27

Google DeepMind

Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic "box" to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP

Aug 27

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch

CivilGrid, which collects data about utility assets, property ownership, and more to build a "Google Maps for the underground", raised a $26M Series A

Aug 27

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps, including memory-use limits, citing "significant hardware supply constraints" due to the AI boom

Aug 27

New York Times

Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic

Aug 27

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg

Plaud unveils Plaud One, a $250 pair of 4G, eSIM-enabled AI earbuds with coverage in 80+ countries and $200 in AI feature credits; Plaud is making 2,000 units

Aug 27

Major Politico

The Trump administration is weighing sweeping new tariffs on chips and other products like laptops and consoles, despite warnings from tech companies

Aug 27

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News

Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity

Aug 27

Reuters

Japan's Kioxia and Sandisk plan to spend $31B+ in Japan through 2032 to drive chip tech and expand production capacity, including an $11.3B Kitakami plant

Aug 27

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

OpenAI launches ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India, where it has 100M+ weekly active users, and plans to launch an ad manager next month

Aug 27

Clara Hudson / Wall Street Journal

Kalshi partners with Weather Co. to verify climate and weather prediction market settlements; Kalshi says weather vertical trading volume will hit $1.1B in 2026

Aug 27

Chris Welch / Bloomberg

Samsung unveils the Galaxy S26 FE, offering an Exynos, not Qualcomm, chipset, 12GB of RAM, a dialed-back camera system from the S26, for $700+, a $50 price jump

Aug 27

Major Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security

Australian Federal Police arrest two Western Australia men, aged 21 and 23, believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group

Aug 27

Raphael Satter / Reuters

Gambit Security: Russian-speaking ransomware gang Aur0ra used SpaceX's Cursor AI coding assistant to breach at least seven companies between April 8 and May 21

Aug 27

Bloomberg

Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio

Aug 27

New York Times

Donald Trump Jr. told GOP state AGs at a March event that gambling companies' "vested interest" was misleading states to attack prediction markets

Aug 27

Brian Steinberg / Variety

X launches NFL Gametime, an integrated NFL feed and hub featuring live data, scores, statistics, creator content, and more through to the 2027 Super Bowl

Aug 27

Carl Zimmer / New York Times

Cambridge, MA-based Transfyr emerges from stealth with a $25M seed to use AI to address science's reproducibility crisis and capture labs' "tacit knowledge"

Aug 27

Major Thom Waite / Dazed

Rockstar executives discuss GTA VI, including interactive systems that let in-game player habits like diet alter characters' appearance and in-game social media

Aug 27

Reuters

Singapore-based Shein is set to price its Hong Kong IPO at ~$6.20, or near the midpoint of its marketed range, raising $1.73B and valuing it at ~$26.5B

Aug 27

Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times

UK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them

Aug 27

Anthropic

Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let three external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks

Aug 27

Claer Barrett / Financial Times

A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, which has been downloaded 42M times since launching in 2014 and can identify 11,000 bird species

Aug 27

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post

A federal judge, in his US Court of Appeals ruling, urged SCOTUS to reconsider the issue of CSAM and revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI

Aug 27

Priyanka Salve / CNBC

Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche

Aug 27

Wall Street Journal

DeepSeek is set to soon raise $7.4B at a $74B valuation from existing and new investors to fund R&D and its expansion into computing infrastructure

Aug 27

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable

Google starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies

Aug 27

Bloomberg

The US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating

Aug 27

Major Hayden Field / The Verge

OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach

Aug 27

Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack

Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers

Aug 27

Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal

SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft

Aug 27

The Information

SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a $6B valuation; 1X sought $1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50%

Aug 27

Wall Street Journal

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January

Aug 27

Business Insider

Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing

Aug 27

Andrew Solender / Axios

Sen. Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's "collection, retention, and dissemination of the data" from its AI-powered surveillance cameras

Aug 26

Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal

Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person "AI responsibility" team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit

Aug 26

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat

Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills

Aug 27

Tim Starks / CyberScoop

Trump signs an EO banning the use of certain foreign-made bulk-power equipment, including associated critical software, deemed to pose national security risks

Aug 26

Jordan Novet / CNBC

Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $11.35B, vs. $11.32B est., net income up 87% to $3.5B, forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; CRM jumps 13%+ after hours

Aug 26

Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg

CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.47B, vs. $1.44B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; CRWD jumps 9%+ after hours

Aug 26

Major Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal

AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $350M

Aug 26

Dina Bass / Bloomberg

HP reports Q3 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $15.7B, PC revenue up 18% to $11.8B, but units down 16%, and Printing revenue down 2% to $3.9B; HPQ drops 9%+ after hours

Aug 26

Ben Bergman / Business Insider

Product management startup Linear topped $100M in annual recurring revenue and held a $99M employee tender offer at a $2.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in 2025

Aug 26

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer

Medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific says a cyberattack disrupted some of its IT systems and global operations, including order processing and shipping

Aug 26

Abner Li / 9to5Google

Google debuts Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that powers Gboard Rambler and is coming to Chrome, in public preview for developers and enterprises

Aug 26

Brody Ford / Bloomberg

Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45B over six years to rent about 460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips

Aug 26

Major Zac Hall / 9to5Mac

Apple announces a "Surprise and shine" event on September 9 at 10am PT at Apple Park, where its first foldable iPhone, iPhone 18 Pro, and more are expected

Aug 26

Courtenay Brown / Axios

The Trump administration has struck data-sharing deals with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other tech companies to track how AI is affecting jobs and hiring

Aug 26

Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal

Deep Cogito, which develops open-weight models and helps companies build their own specialized AI models, raised a $43M Series A led by TQ Ventures

Aug 26

Todd Bishop / GeekWire

Amazon agrees to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind open-source database DuckDB, for an undisclosed sum; DuckDB will remain open source

Aug 26

Alex Heath / Time

Interviews with OpenAI leaders, employees, and others on the company's reboot; Sam Altman says OpenAI would have a system he would call AGI by the end of 2026

Aug 26

Wall Street Journal

Banks are warming up to launching their own stablecoins as nonbank companies enter the market; sources: JPMorgan Chase evaluated launching its own stablecoin

Aug 26

Reuters

The US DOJ says it disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins at the DOJ, NASA, the Fed, Senate, and others, seizing two platforms' domains

Aug 26

Tom Warren / The Verge

Xbox announces a disc-to-digital feature that will allow users to digitize their existing physical games, rolling out for Xbox Insider testers on August 31

Aug 26

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Bengaluru-based Runable, whose AI agents let small businesses find customers, run ad campaigns, and more, raised a $21M Series A at a $65M post-money valuation

Aug 26

Counterpoint Research

In Q2, Apple's base iPhone 17 was the global best-selling smartphone, with a 6% share, followed by the iPhone 17 Pro Max; Apple and Samsung had all 10 top spots

Aug 26

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Amazon's Ring unveils a new proprietary encryption architecture called TAKE, set to begin rolling out in September as the default encryption for all cameras

Aug 26

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios

Sword Health plans to acquire mental health company Headspace for between $200M and $300M in cash, far below its ~$3B valuation in 2021

Aug 26

Major Z.ai

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal GLM-5 series model, with 320B parameters, and says it served the model as Ox Alpha on Chinese chips

Aug 26

Dan Primack / Axios

Vanguard agrees to acquire RIA software startup Altruist, a source says for $4.6B in cash; Altruist raised $600M and had a $1.9B valuation in early 2025

Aug 26

Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal

Microsoft faces investor criticism over opaque financial reporting across capex, its OpenAI deal, and Azure, which is buried in the Intelligent Cloud segment

Aug 26

Major Luz Ding / Bloomberg

Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash

Aug 26

Fabrice Deprez / Financial Times

Volodymyr Zelenskyy awards Elon Musk with Ukraine's Order of Freedom; sources say Zelenskyy asked Musk to authorize Starlink use up to 200km inside Russia

Aug 26

Andy Masley

Public polling suggests the US' severe anti-data center backlash is primarily driven by local environmental and economic concerns, not anti-Big Tech sentiment

Aug 26

Major John Walker / Kotaku

Rockstar says GTA 6 gameplay leaking "in this way has been heartbreaking", calling it "unfortunate" that the "game experience may now be impacted" by spoilers

Aug 26

Katie Paul / Reuters

Investigation: Meta explored slashing many teams by ~60% to become "AI native", but pulled back after staff revolted and data showed AI agents were ineffective

Aug 26

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast

Q&A with SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on Anthropic and OpenAI controlling global compute, $11T of AI capex between 2024 and 2029, China's compute, and more

Aug 26

Reuters

Moonshot AI is in early talks over revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host Kimi K3, and is seeking up to a 30% share

Aug 26

Wall Street Journal

A profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, who worked for SBF and OpenAI before launching Situational Awareness; Aschenbrenner married Dario Amodei's chief of staff

Aug 26

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg

Sources and documents: Huawei proposes exporting its high-end Ascend 950-series chips to build Egyptian government AI data centers, testing US tech diplomacy

Aug 26

Bloomberg

Shanghai-based MiniMax reports H1 2026 revenue up 283% YoY to ~$116.6M, above 2025's 159% YoY growth, as its M3 model lags behind rivals like Z.ai's GLM-5.2

Aug 26

Major Ina Fried / Axios

Bill Gates says his Jeffrey Epstein association was a "huge mistake" driven by a desire to raise funds, and hopes the ties will not undermine his AI arguments

Aug 26

Nate Doughty / Washington ...

Navitas Semiconductor agrees to buy Claros, which develops data center power management hardware and software, for ~$232.8M; Claros raised a $30M seed in March

Aug 26

Charlie Wells / Bloomberg

Revolut rolls out its euro-pegged stablecoin EURR, initially to eligible customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal; Stripe-owned Bridge issues the stablecoin

Aug 26

Pew Research Center

Survey: 28% of Americans use AI chatbots to get health information quickly, 25% to figure out symptom causes, and 22% to get health information at no cost

Aug 26

Financial Times

The US AI data center buildout is posing complex challenges to major lenders as they stretch themselves to finance, insure, and underwrite a novel asset class

Aug 26

The Information

DeepSeek generated $70.7M in revenue and posted a $106M net loss in the first seven months of 2026, ~10x its full-year 2025 revenue on a $139M net loss

Aug 26

Financial Times

Transport for London's delay in producing robotaxi guidance has frustrated some prospective operators, who play down the chances of launching in 2026

Aug 26

Laura Bicker / BBC

A look at China's push to automate manufacturing, which employs 120M people, amid a shrinking population and aging workforce, raising job loss concerns

Aug 26

Tobias Mann / The Register

Intel says Xeon 7, aimed at HPC and debuting in 2027, will support up to 256 cores and 22 chiplets, with 16 built on its bleeding-edge 18A-P process

Aug 26

Financial Times

YMTC, which seeks to raise $5B in an IPO, told investors in IPO prep meetings that it aims to become the largest NAND flash supplier by the end of 2027

Aug 26

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg

Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence orders 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and plans to offer 1GW of computing capacity as part of an $8B project

Aug 26

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC

HP signs a multi-year global agreement with Huawei to license certain standard essential Wi-Fi patents, a sign of adoption of Huawei's technology outside China

Aug 26

Major Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill

Pennsylvania's AG sues Snap, alleging Snapchat fails to protect teens from compulsively using the app, two weeks after filing a similar lawsuit against TikTok

Aug 26

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire

Digs, which is building AI software for residential construction, raised a $25.3M Series A led by building materials giant Builders FirstSource

Aug 26

Joyce Lee / Reuters

South Korean AI services platform Wrtn raised a ~$72.2M Series C at a $722M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$166M

Aug 26

Major Annie Palmer / CNBC

AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans

Aug 26

Major Bloomberg

Meta and state AGs have discussed a possible mid-trial settlement of the social media addiction lawsuit, which is currently in its second week of trial

Aug 25

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline

Aug 25

Wall Street Journal

Intuit reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.35B, vs. $4.27B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue growth of 9% to 10%, below ~11% est.; INTU drops 8%+ after hours

Aug 25

Brody Ford / Bloomberg

Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $1.28B, vs. $1.27B est., enterprise revenue up 7.8% to $787.5M, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS below estimates

Aug 25

Major Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal

Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, has left the company amid a broader exodus

Aug 25

Skild AI

Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning

Aug 25

Anna Heim / TechCrunch

Keenable, which is building a web search index for AI agents and says several AI labs are using its API, raised a $26M seed led by Accel

Aug 25

Todd Spangler / Variety

UK filing: in FY 2025, OnlyFans paid out $6.3B to creators, net revenue rose 10% YoY to $1.55B, and creator accounts hit 5M; 5,076 creators made $1M+ since 2016

Aug 25

Top Story David Gewirtz / ZDNET

Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out

Aug 25

Maxine Joselow / New York Times

The EPA plans to eliminate a federal rule that US states must publicize and solicit public input on air pollution permit applications for data centers

Aug 25

Corbin Bolies / Variety

Stability AI, which has deals with UMG, WMG, and EA to build AI models from their IP, raised a $76M Series B from them, Sony Music, and others

Aug 25

Eugene Demaitre / The Robot Report

Nvidia unveils the Jetson Orin Nano 2 edge AI computer that it says doubles inference performance, with 78 TOPS of AI compute and an eight-core Arm CPU

Aug 25

Major Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal

Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019

Aug 25

Major SemiAnalysis

A detailed look at Jalapeño, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-weight models

Aug 25

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg

Uber launches an optional safety feature allowing parents or guardians to watch a livestream of their teen's ride via the driver's front-facing phone camera

Aug 25

Kylie Madry / Reuters

Mexico-based Primero, which aims to modernize legacy software used by Latin American companies with AI, raised a $12M seed co-led by Kaszek and General Catalyst

Aug 25

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg

Tel Aviv- and NYC-based Alice, which works to protect AI models from misuse and rogue behavior, raised $140M led by Apax Digital at a valuation "close to $1B"

Aug 25

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat

Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform running fully on-device with zero token costs, starting with Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX Linux PCs

Aug 25

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg

Waymo plans to offer ride-hailing services in Germany, starting with Munich, by the end of 2027, marking its third international market and the first in the EU

Aug 25

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch

Autonomous trucking startup Gatik raised $200M, two months after striking a multi-year commercial agreement with PepsiCo, bringing its total funding to ~$500M

Aug 25

Top Story Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal

Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are $899+ and $1,699+, $100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is $5,499+, up $200

Aug 25

Major Aisha Malik / TechCrunch

WhatsApp upgrades its two-step verification, letting users replace the six-digit PIN with a longer alphanumeric password, and adds support for multiple passkeys

Aug 25

Major Sean Hollister / The Verge

Asus opens pre-orders for the standalone Xbox Ally X20 at $1,300+, with shipments from October 15; a $2,500 bundle includes the X20 and ROG Xreal R1 glasses

Aug 25

Major Aisha Malik / TechCrunch

Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil the $250 Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety band, set to ship in early 2027

Aug 25

Mike Scarcella / Reuters

Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey

Aug 25

Iris Deng / South China Morning Post

Xiaomi unveils the Xring O100, a 6nm AI accelerator to boost its MiMo models when paired with its O3 mobile chip, and the 3nm Xring D100 for autonomous driving

Aug 25

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters

Accelerated Understanding launches an enterprise-focused physics AI model that uses neural operators and handled 5T pieces of data in a single prompt in tests

Aug 25

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC

OpenAI bans a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to evade restrictions and run an influence operation, including creating social media comments

Aug 25

Sri Muppidi / New York Times

Emerald AI, which uses AI to optimize data center power consumption based on grid demands, raised $150M led by DCVC and Energize Capital at a $1.05B valuation

Aug 25

Adrienne Klasa / Financial Times

A profile of French software maker ChapsVision, which won a contract to replace Palantir at France's domestic intel agency in June and targets an IPO by 2030

Aug 25

Major Adamya Sharma / Android Authority

Google is rolling out Motion Assist, a feature to reduce motion sickness by showing visual cues on the screen, to Android 17, starting with select Pixel devices

Aug 25

Major Newley Purnell / Bloomberg

Qustodio: 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 were on TikTok in July, just one percentage point below pre-ban levels, and 10-to-12-year-olds' usage is up

Aug 25

Major Aaron Tilley / The Information

Tim Cook is set to step down on September 1, and a source says Apple hosted an intimate farewell party; sources say Cook's assistant will work with John Ternus

Aug 25

Cam Wilson / ABC

Australia's ARIA says songs created mostly or entirely by AI will be excluded from its charts; a song that used AI became the most-played song on radio in July

Aug 25

Major Lee Ying Shan / CNBC

Bitcoin rises above $80K after jumping 20%+ last week, its biggest three-day gain since 2023; US spot bitcoin ETFs had $1.92B in net inflows last week

Aug 25

Major Jordyn Holman / New York Times

Q&A with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on lessons from Apple's Beats acquisition, creativity, being pro-AI music creation, AI as a tool like drum machines, and more

Aug 25

Reuters

Unitree shares fell 45% after surging more than 5x in their August 19 Shanghai debut, cutting its valuation from $66B to $36B, raising robotics bubble concerns

Aug 25

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M

Aug 25

Major Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac

OpenAI restores five-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute

Aug 25

Top Story Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple plans to launch a new Mac mini, its first refresh in two years, potentially before its September iPhone event; Apple tested M5 and M6 versions

Aug 25

Major Bloomberg

Neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation, and its 2026 revenue is expected to reach $1.5B+; Lambda raised $1.5B+ in 2025

Aug 25

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE

Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed in 2024

Aug 25

Major Mark Anderson / Bloomberg

Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cyberattacks across many Chinese state-linked groups, primarily using open-weight models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek

Aug 24

Major Juli Clover / MacRumors

Apple reverses its plan to move iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses to private.icloud.com after user backlash; the feature will continue using the icloud.com domain

Aug 24

Jyoti Mann / The Information

Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October

Aug 24

Bloomberg

Smart ring maker Oura and some of its backers seek to raise up to $3B in a US IPO that could take place as soon as September and value it at over $16B

Aug 24

Colin Campbell / Axios

Canada-based logistics software company Descartes acquires Tai, a California-based transportation management system provider, for $100M in cash

Aug 24

Major Dan Primack / Axios

Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June

Aug 24

Major Michael Kan / PCMag

Mercury Research: AMD's share of x86 client CPU shipments tops 30% for the first time, hitting 30.3% in Q2, up from 21.1% in Q2 2024, below Intel's 69.7% share

Aug 24

Grace Kay / The Information

At his first Cursor all-hands, Elon Musk says Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic leads the AI race, and more

Aug 24

Major Raphael Boyd / The Guardian

The UK backs Ofcom to take "tough action" under the OSA against social media sites failing to remove dangerous driving videos, after a crash killed seven people

Aug 24

Major Cassandre Coyer / Bloomberg Law

Alabama AG Steve Marshall launches an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures following the Hugging Face breach in July

Aug 24

Major Financial Times

The UK becomes the first foreign nation to gain access to Ukrainian combat data used to train AI models to strike Russian targets, as part of an AI partnership

Aug 24

Major Andrew Kreighbaum / Bloomberg

The Trump administration proposes a $103,265 fee on H-1B applicants hired within the US after a court blocked a more limited fee on workers from outside the US

Aug 24

Major The Register

Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX racks delivered 3,400 tokens per second in an Artificial Analysis benchmark running Gemma 4 31B with a 100,000-token input sequence

Aug 24

Major Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal

A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots

Aug 24

Major Tom Rees / Bloomberg

The UK's Office for National Statistics: UK digital infrastructure investment crossed £11B in 2025, hitting dot-com boom levels, amid an AI data center surge

Aug 24

Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal

Temu and Pinduoduo owner PDD reports Q2 revenue up 8.1% YoY to ~$16.72B, missing est. of ~$17.17B, and net profit down 12% YoY to ~$4.04B, above ~$3.63B est.

Aug 24

Major Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat

IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications

Aug 24

Major Reuters

Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export 74 high-end AI servers to China

Aug 24

J.D. Capelouto / Semafor

China's Bilibili relaunches its international app and plans an English-language site; it has been pushing MrBeast and others to post on its Chinese site

Aug 24

Major Wall Street Journal

Sources detail how Trump intervened to get a settlement before the DOJ's antitrust trial against Live Nation, after CEO Michael Rapino met White House officials

Aug 24

Major Jody Godoy / Reuters

The US FTC settles its lawsuit against Zillow, resolving claims that Zillow violated antitrust law by paying Redfin $100M to stop competing in rental listings

Aug 24

Major Meir Orbach / CTech

Minimus, a cybersecurity startup started by Twistlock founders, shuts down after failing to gain enough commercial momentum; Minimus raised a $51M seed in 2023

Aug 24

Major John Koblin / New York Times

Netflix has discussed adding streamers like Peacock and Fox One as it seeks to compete with YouTube and Roku in becoming a one-stop shop for TV content

Aug 24

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk

Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking services across Asia and other emerging markets, raised $68M at a $1B valuation, after raising $51M in May

Aug 24

Jude Webber / Financial Times

Irish lawmakers reconsider the country's 1999 ban on nuclear power as data centers' growing power demands account for ~25% of the country's electricity use

Aug 24

Bloomberg

ByteDance is merging coding platform Trae and agent-building tool Coze into Doubao, and plans to launch Doubao Work to compete with Tencent's WorkBuddy

Aug 24

Major Gao Yuan / Bloomberg

Xiaomi launches the Xring O3, a 3nm SoC for its mobile devices, as the company seeks to reduce reliance on longtime suppliers Qualcomm and MediaTek

Aug 24

Major Reuters

Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures at a $6.3B valuation, with Tencent and Alibaba participating

Aug 24

Major Reuters

Alibaba launches Wan3.0, a video generation model that can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages

Aug 24

Rthvika Suvarna / Bloomberg

US business schools are racing to prepare students to become chief AI officers, even as companies are still figuring out what the newest C-suite role entails

Aug 24

Jonathan Levin / Bloomberg

Global central banks are pushing CBDCs to defend monetary sovereignty against USD stablecoins, but are struggling to find demand for the digital currencies

Aug 24

Andrew Higgins / New York Times

A look at the collapse of Zondacrypto, Eastern and Central Europe's biggest crypto exchange, which went dark in April and is facing money laundering allegations

Aug 24

Major Ina Fried / Axios

AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang

Aug 24

Major Tracy Withers / Bloomberg

New Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for under-16s, requiring "high risk" platforms to check user ages or face penalties of up to 10% of global revenue

Aug 24

Financial Times

Oxford Economics: US corporate spending on equipment and facilities is set to rise 40% between 2021 and 2027, over 3x faster than Europe, driven by the AI race

Aug 24

Major The Information

Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity's new equity round valuing it at $30B+; Nvidia considered a tech licensing deal and hiring some of its staff

Aug 24

Major Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg

Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury's CFIUS national security review of its $80M deal to buy US clothing retailer Everlane, an unusual move

Aug 24

Major Rebecca Falconer / Axios

Trump says communities that oppose data centers are "making a mistake" as they create "tremendous amounts of jobs and money", amid bipartisan backlash

Aug 24

Major Natasha Singer / New York Times

A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools

Aug 24

Major Telegraph

At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records

Aug 23

Truman Dickerson / Business Insider

Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade "a lot of liberty for safety"

Aug 23

Major Katie Roof / Business Insider

Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to evaluate bidders' interest

Aug 23

Major George Hammond / Financial Times

Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5

Aug 23

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Foldable iPhone feels durable, fits well in a pocket, has useful iPad-like app layouts, excels as a camera viewfinder but lacks telephoto and Face ID

Aug 23

Major Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal

The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development

Aug 23

Jeffrey Kopp / CNBC

A profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and oversaw the Musk v. Altman trial

Aug 23

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025

Aug 23

Major Financial Times

The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course

Aug 23

Major Financial Times

Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses

Aug 23

Major Telegraph

Iran-linked hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, coinciding with a wave of Iran-affiliated attacks on US water utilities

Aug 23

Major Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal

Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi

Aug 23

Major Reuters

Sources and documents detail how Tether's plan to build two bitcoin mining sites in Uruguay fell apart amid a dispute with state utility UTE over power supply

Aug 22

Major Anna Heim / TechCrunch

London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings

Aug 22

Major Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal

AI agents' growing capabilities are driving productivity FOMO among some startup founders, who feel compelled to work long hours managing and guiding the agents

Aug 22

Major Bloomberg

Some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027

Aug 22

Major Sonja Wind / Bloomberg

Apparel retailers like Zalando, Zara, and ASOS are betting on AI virtual fitting rooms to create a better online shopping experience and cut costly returns

Aug 22

Major Emmett Lindner / New York Times

Carrier Pidge hit 75K users and Roost 650K downloads, as slow messaging apps delivering texts at pigeon speeds attract users tired of constant notifications

Aug 22

Major Rohail Saleem / Wccftech

Ox Alpha, a "stealth model" from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter

Aug 22

Major Zeyi Yang / Wired

Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have made Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, a data center hub, with ~100 data centers built or under construction

Aug 22

Major Financial Times

Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's "ChatGPT moment" has yet to come

Aug 22

Major Hayden Field / The Verge

OpenAI President Greg Brockman's role has expanded significantly, giving him control over its product and scaling teams following a wave of executive departures

Aug 22

Major Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE

Rundoo, a provider of AI-powered business operations software for independent supply stores, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures

Aug 22

SemiAnalysis

With each successive era of LLMs, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model

Aug 22

Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times

Following abandoned IPO attempts in NYC and London, Shein is struggling to grow as it nears a Hong Kong listing at a fraction of its peak valuation of $100B

Aug 22

Major New York Times

Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B+ in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors

Aug 22

Major Sebastian Herrera / Fortune

Amazon raises prices for its Echo smart speakers, Fire TV line, Kindle devices, and eero mesh networking systems to offset increases in memory and storage costs

Aug 21

Madison McLauchlan / BetaKit

Helcim, a payments processor for SMBs, raised a CA$53M Series C led by Business Development Bank of Canada's Growth Venture Fund at a CA$250M valuation

Aug 21

Major Chance Miller / 9to5Mac

Gurman: as part of Vision Pro cuts, Apple is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming and reducing the size of a unit producing immersive video content

Aug 21

Major Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico

OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks

Aug 21

Major Anzar Mehraj / Reuters

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens

Aug 21

Rashika Singh / Reuters

Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites

Aug 21

Katie Roof / Business Insider

Devoted Health, which uses AI to help coordinate medical care for those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, is raising new funding at a $25B valuation

Aug 21

Terry Chen / NVIDIA Technical Blog

Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels

Aug 21

Major Dina Bass / Bloomberg

Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips

Aug 21

Omarchy News

DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others

Aug 21

Major Ashley Gold / Axios

The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024

Aug 21

Major Claude

Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools

Aug 21

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg

London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September

Aug 21

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch

The US Department of Energy is investigating whether Chinese lidar sensors might pose a security risk if they become widely used on vehicles in the US

Aug 21

Major Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says its stores will get the tech, which supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, by the end of 2026

Aug 21

Jamie John / Financial Times

Filings: Apple paid Ireland $17B in taxes in 2025, 40% of its $43B in global corporate income tax total, after an EU court ordered it to pay €13B in back taxes

Aug 21

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch

Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M

Aug 21

Major Financial Times

A Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without informing them, in the second largest fine under GDPR

Aug 21

Reuters

Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a company tentatively named KakaoAI and relist it on the Korea Exchange on January 27, 2027

Aug 21

Reuters

Filings: The Shanghai Stock Exchange accepted China-based chipmaker YMTC's application to list its shares on the STAR Market; YMTC seeks to raise ~$4.9B

Aug 21

Major Bloomberg

DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests

Aug 21

Major Financial Times

A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services

Aug 21

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge

Patreon announces new and overhauled features, including recommendation algorithm changes aimed at making it easier for smaller creators to get discovered

Aug 21

Major Jenny Lee / CNBC

Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it "the largest ever by a Korean company"

Aug 21

Major Diana Olick / CNBC

CBRE: NYC becomes the top tech talent market for the first time with 394,300 jobs, beating the Bay Area's 375,730, amid SF job cuts and NYC finance sector hires

Aug 21

Major Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg

Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition

Aug 21

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post

China grants Geely a two-year permit for the country's first private satellite IoT trial, letting Geely offer connectivity to sectors like transport and energy

Aug 21

Major CNBC

How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho: new millionaires, job growth, traffic, soaring housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution

Aug 21

Dawn Kopecki / Reuters

How crypto, AI, and online betting companies emerged as the biggest industries shaping the 2026 US midterm races, as corporate spending reaches a record $517M

Aug 21

Marcela Ayres / Reuters

Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek

Aug 21

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch

AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at $150M-$200M

Aug 21

Diana Novak Jones / Reuters

A NJ teenager drops her lawsuit against Meta, Google, and Snap over alleged social media addiction, without any payment; TikTok previously settled her claims

Aug 21

Tom Hals / Reuters

A US judge tosses part of the conviction of ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, who was found guilty of stealing AI trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies

Aug 20

Major Zac Hall / 9to5Mac

OpenAI rolls out an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT read, search, and analyze chats, prepare and send messages, and more

Aug 20

Major Kristin Robinson / Billboard

Email: Apple Music tells industry partners that songs tagged as "materially generated using AI" by content providers will be visibly labeled on the service

Aug 20

Amanda Gerut / Fortune

Super Micro says its independent probe found no evidence its CEO or senior management knew of an alleged scheme to smuggle $2.5B worth of Nvidia chips to China

Aug 20

Major Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog

GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center

Aug 20

Major Bloomberg

Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise $60B+ in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies

Aug 20

Major Matt G. Southern / Search Engine Journal

Google rolls out an embeddable "Preferred Sources" button, natural language Discover controls, and custom audio briefings in the Google News app on Android

Aug 20

Chris Metinko / Axios

San Mateo-based Twin1 AI, which creates professional digital twins that integrate with tools like Slack, launches from stealth with a $20M seed

Aug 20

Major Newcomer

Poolside struck a non-exclusive $6B licensing deal with Nvidia, plus a $1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation; 109 staffers get Nvidia job offers

Aug 20

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter

Charter closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition, announced in May 2025, uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband providers, and completes its Liberty deal

Aug 20

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after launching it in Brazil last month

Aug 20

Major Bloomberg

Anthropic expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record-setting IPO, as it prepares to file publicly for its IPO as soon as the end of August

Aug 20

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg

Anthropic plans a change for later this year that still requires enterprises to retain data for 30 days but lets them do so on their own cloud systems

Aug 20

Major Qianer Liu / The Information

Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules

Aug 20

Google

Google DeepMind says its Gemma family of open models has surpassed 1B downloads and developers have published 100K+ Gemma model variants over the past two years

Aug 20

Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat

Astromech, which uses genomic data to build predictive AI models of biological change, raised $20M at a $3.8B valuation, bringing its total funding to $60M

Aug 20

Major Ram Iyer / TechCrunch

Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using internally over the past three years, in the US; Router is free to use for the rest of 2026

Aug 20

Olivia Carville / Bloomberg

Two US senators demand answers from TikTok about a "depraved" test that withheld a safety feature from 10% of US users, including a teenager who died by suicide

Aug 20

Reuters

The Chinese city of Hangzhou deploys traffic-control robots that operate autonomously, using cameras and radar to signal traffic and flag violations

Aug 20

Major Alexander Gladstone / Wall Street Journal

A bankruptcy court delays Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants objected, seeking assurance their info would be removed

Aug 20

Iain Martin / Forbes

Filing: in 2025, TikTok generated $702.5M in net profit in Europe, Africa, and Latin America, its first annual profit, on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% YoY

Aug 20

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg

Circana: US video game hardware spending fell 29% YoY in July to $282M, the lowest since COVID, shipments fell 39% YoY, and console prices grew 16% YoY to $542

Aug 20

Julia Hornstein / The Information

Anthropic-backed enterprise AI venture Ode acquires four-year-old AI consultancy Casper Studios for an unknown amount; Ode employs 100+ after buying Fractional

Aug 20

Major Douglas Gillison / Reuters

Study: 150+ Polymarket wallets may have traded on internal US military information, making $8M overall with a 97.2% average win rate and attracting copycat bets

Aug 20

Robert Purchese / Eurogamer.net

GTA 6 leaker CyberLeek releases more footage, including a video of a character spelling "leek" with bullet holes in a wall, suggesting direct access to the game

Aug 20

Major Brody Ford / Bloomberg

Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year to use trillions of AI tokens weekly via Azure, quietly becoming one of Microsoft's largest AI customers

Aug 20

Major Jess Weatherbed / The Verge

Slack launches Slack Code, adding dedicated, project-specific code channels that let teams collaborate with AI coding agents "like teammates" across all plans

Aug 20

Yash Roy / Bloomberg

Muon Space, which is building a spacecraft platform for orbital data centers and AI computing, raised a $250M Series C, with participation from Google

Aug 20

Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal

PitchBook: 4,000+ California-based startups have raised ~$366B in venture capital in 2026 so far, more than triple the total of all other 49 US states combined

Aug 20

Christine Chen / Reuters

Australia passes the News Bargaining Incentive, which will tax tech giants 2.5% on their Australian ad revenue if they don't strike deals with local news media

Aug 20

Hugo Lowell / Wired

Trump officials expect Elon Musk to spend $100M to $200M in the November midterm elections, with a focus on voter turnout in key races, including Texas

Aug 20

Major Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal

Stripe's OpenRouter acquisition, its largest yet, is a bet on a future where users turn to a mix of AI models and tokens are the central currency for businesses

Aug 20

Major Luz Ding / Bloomberg

Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$39.64B, meeting est., and net income down 75% to ~$1.54B due to heavy AI spending and weak domestic retail consumption

Aug 20

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Binance launches Agent OS, a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf; users set limits on AI agents' access and trades

Aug 20

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters

Uber, Verne, and Pony.ai launch autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city where users can book such rides via Uber's app

Aug 20

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg

South Korea media: SK Hynix and its union reach a tentative deal on a 6.3% wage hike and paying out 60% of profit-sharing bonuses in shares and 40% in cash

Aug 20

Cecilia Kang / New York Times

Virginia's Loudoun County hosts 250+ data centers, generating huge tax revenues, as it moves to slow construction in response to pushback from residents

Aug 20

Bloomberg

London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, the UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others

Aug 20

Major William Langley / Financial Times

China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns

Aug 20

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab

A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers

Aug 19

Major Reuters

Former Meta engineering director Arturo Béjar testifies that Mark Zuckerberg prioritized growth and engagement over child safety on Facebook and Instagram

Aug 19

Major Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg

YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently

Aug 19

Major Bloomberg

Trump urges Congress to pass the Clarity Act at a White House event with execs including the CEOs of Coinbase and Robinhood; the bill has stalled in the Senate

Aug 20

Meir Orbach / CTech

German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M and was last valued at $1.35B in 2021

Aug 20

Alan Friedman / PhoneArena

Samsung announces a virtual Galaxy event for August 27 at 8am ET, where the Galaxy S26 FE is expected

Aug 20

Wall Street Journal

The US Army is phasing out its drone assault battalion, as part of a "back-to-basics" approach; it was created in January to learn from the conflict in Ukraine

Aug 20

Jacob Parry / Politico

The EU appears to be shifting from outsized regulatory fines against Big Tech to technical DMA orders that force compliance, such as sharing search data

Aug 20

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times

Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for "free porn" in June

Aug 20

Nikkei Asia

China is restricting or delaying exports to Taiwan of germanium- and quartz-based materials used in fiber optics, photonics, and chip manufacturing

Aug 19

Major Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide

Google announces new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus student offers for Google AI plans

Aug 19

Major Bloomberg

SpaceX approached Cognition about a potential acquisition, but Cognition didn't engage; Cognition CEO Scott Wu says the company is "not for sale"

Aug 19

Major CNBC

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands that OpenAI "will be a public company in 2027", or sooner if "our business continues to inflect"

Aug 19

Bloomberg

AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise ~$600M at a $6.5B pre-money valuation, up from ~$1B in May, and has an initial ~$250M deal with Anthropic

Aug 19

The Information

Nvidia has discussed an investment in Mercor as part of a round valuing the startup at $20B; Nvidia paid Mercor tens of millions of dollars last quarter

Aug 19

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal

The US FTC says businesses must disclose when they use personalized pricing and it will "deploy enforcement resources" against companies that do not disclose it

Aug 19

Bloomberg

Stripe Agrees to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter; No Terms Disclosed

Aug 19

Major Emma Roth / The Verge

Meta launches a Mac app for Meta AI and says Meta AI can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace

Aug 19

Major Ina Fried / Axios

OpenAI is testing Private Safety Processing, a new technique to identify misuse patterns while preserving zero data retention protections, with early customers

Aug 19

Major Nicola M White / Bloomberg

The US CFTC bans former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang from trading for five years, as part of a settlement over their roles at FTX

Aug 19

Loree Seitz / The Wrap

Nielsen rolls out changes to make its ratings more accurate, including using data from smartwatch-like devices worn by its panelists without requiring logins

Aug 19

Major Cameron Faulkner / The Verge

Google Pixel 11 review: a great design, fantastic camera features, and some Pro phone specs, but few gen-to-gen hardware improvements and it's expensive at $899

Aug 19

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch

Rivian spinout Also, which is developing autonomous driving tech, raised a $150M Series D led by Prysm Capital, after announcing a $200M round in March 2026

Aug 19

Major Alex Isenstadt / Axios

Memo: the GOP asks AI companies to stem the public backlash against data centers, saying the issue could kill its chances of holding a vital Senate seat in Ohio

Aug 19

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's Bengaluru-based fintech Navi raised $100M from Prosus, its first institutional funding, sources say at a ~$1.3B valuation

Aug 19

Brian Gormley / Wall Street Journal

Network Bio, which is developing an AI foundation model from datasets of patient tissue and blood samples created by pooling access to biobanks, raised $50M

Aug 19

Murad Hemmadi / The Logic

Veeda, which is developing world models and is led by ex-Nvidia VP of AI Research Sanja Fidler, raised a $90M+ seed and is backed by Khosla and Radical

Aug 19

Major Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the US, automatically upgrading users even if they don't subscribe to Prime

Aug 19

Major Dana Wollman / Bloomberg

Marvell and Google expand their chip development deal, and Marvell grants Google a warrant to buy up to nearly 59M shares at $206.58 each, totaling up to $12.2B

Aug 19

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware

A hacker known as Cyberleek leaks two GTA VI gameplay clips and the full map in protest of Rockstar Games' digital-only release; Rockstar issues DMCA takedowns

Aug 19

Major Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC

Nvidia is working as a matchmaker to connect companies holding its GPUs with Nordic data center operators that have available capacity to deploy them

Aug 19

Major Jess Weatherbed / The Verge

Amazon appears to have leaked Jason Statham's new film Mutiny, streaming it in full on Prime Video in the US, two days before it is supposed to hit theaters

Aug 19

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE

Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI raised $22M from Integrity Growth Partners, marking the nine-year-old startup's first-ever outside capital raise

Aug 19

Major Trishla Ostwal / Adweek

OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others

Aug 19

Major Matt Day / Bloomberg

Amazon plans to expand Prime Air drone deliveries to cities in at least five more US states in the coming months, including Chicago and Atlanta by 2026's end

Aug 19

Financial Times

UK-based automotive dealership software maker Pinewood agrees to a £545M cash takeover by US private equity firm Ridgeview, after an Apax takeover fell through

Aug 19

Major Wired

Reconstructed code from Flock's login pages reveals OS Investigate, a new AI system that integrates license plate scans, arrest records, case files, and more

Aug 19

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information

Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs

Aug 19

Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg

Kuaishou reports Q2 revenue flat at ~$5.2B, meeting est., net income down 36% YoY to ~$467M, the biggest drop since 2021, and Kling AI sales up 200%

Aug 19

Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal

SMR startup Oklo is currently building its reactor in Idaho, a step towards supplying Meta with power; there are an estimated 22 active US reactor projects

Aug 19

Denny Thomas / Bloomberg

Filing: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending

Aug 19

Reuters

Samsung raises prices for advanced 4nm and 5nm chipmaking services by up to 15% for new orders in July, driven by AI demand and TSMC's tight capacity

Aug 19

Angus Whitley / Bloomberg

WiseTech says Australian antitrust authorities raided its office, seeking documents and data as part of an alleged competition law breach probe; WTC falls 8%+

Aug 19

Major Alexander Martin / The Record

AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over unanswered questions

Aug 19

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat

Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0

Aug 19

Ari Levy / CNBC

Nvidia, with quarterly free cash flow up 18x over the past three years to $48.5B, is using its balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat

Aug 19

Kieran Smith / Financial Times

FDM CCS Insight: ~134M travel eSIMs will be used in 2026, up from 101.8M in 2025, challenging established carriers that make 3% to 5% of revenue from roaming

Aug 19

Major Carl Franzen / VentureBeat

Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40/1M input tokens and $4.40/1M output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2; Kimi K3 costs $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens

Aug 19

Top Story Thomas Claburn / The Register

OpenAI says new monitoring and security safeguards will add 20% compute overhead to monitored inference workloads; costs will not be passed on to customers

Aug 19

Mike Stone / Reuters

Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In

Aug 19

Major Zijing Wu / Financial Times

Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks

Aug 19

Max A. Cherney / Reuters

Cerebras unveils CS-4, a server rack powered by three WSE-3 Turbo chips and built around its new Nexus architecture, with first shipments starting in Q3 2026

Aug 19

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune

Rillet, which is developing an AI-native accounting platform, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Iconiq, bringing its total funding to $200M+

Aug 19

Bloomberg

Open-source orchestration platform developer Temporal is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $12B+ valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in February

Aug 18

Anthropic

Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and analytical chemistry, and says it plans an access program for scientists

Aug 19

Pew Research Center

Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30

Aug 18

Major Wall Street Journal

OpenAI's Q2 sales grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B as its losses widened from $9.3B to $12.3B; Anthropic's sales grew 2x+ to $11.6B, with a small operating profit

Aug 18

New York Times

Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they "could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information"

Aug 18

Major Reuters

In opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejected the claims

Aug 18

Major Allan Smith / NBC News

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials

Aug 18

Major The Information

Anthropic prepares to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure; Amodei owns ~2% of Anthropic

Aug 18

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News

VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024

Aug 18

Major Bloomberg

The US SEC proposes exempting certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements, with exemptions for offerings up to $5M and $75M

Aug 18

Major Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its Xfinity XB7 and newer gateways, a free opt-in feature that enables its routers to detect movement at home

Aug 18

Major Bloomberg

The EU says it "welcomes Apple's changes"; Apple will reduce its fees in the EU, charging 26% for apps with IAP, 20% for alt payments, and 15% for link-outs

Aug 18

Melia Robinson / Business Insider

Harvey announces Harvey Tenet, its first in-house, proprietary model for legal work, trained on mock disputes and case files using its own version of Kimi K3

Aug 18

Major Wired

Meta ran ads for a nudify app; one ad showed a porn video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician; Apple removed the app from the App Store

Aug 18

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios

Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021

Aug 18

Shane Goldmacher / New York Times

Google quietly rolled out a new program to let verified political campaigns more easily bypass Gmail's spam filter, after years of complaints from the GOP

Aug 18

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE

Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a $20M Series A, following a $10M seed in January 2025

Aug 18

Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters

Velaura AI, which makes low-power chips and software for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation

Aug 18

Hannah Lang / Reuters

As sweeping US crypto legislation stalls, the SEC and CFTC are moving to write new rules; the SEC is set to exempt certain token offerings from securities laws

Aug 18

Andy Greenberg / Wired

Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging "a hundred million people" from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more

Aug 18

Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal

Klarna says CFO Niclas Neglén and CMO David Sandström plan to step down in early 2027, and lowers its full-year GMV guidance to $149B-$151B; KLAR falls 20%+

Aug 18

Major Julian Chokkattu / Wired

Dutch company Fairphone launches its $650 flagship repairable Fairphone (Gen. 6+) in the US and plans to keep launching new phone generations every two years

Aug 18

Bloomberg

Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue down 6.1% YoY to ~$16.2B and net income down 21% to ~$1.4B, above est., amid a persistent memory shortage and weaker smartphone demand

Aug 18

Major Cecilia Kang / New York Times

OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens, a mode that limits high-risk chats about self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and more, and has studying tools and guardrails

Aug 18

Major Juro Osawa / The Information

Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models

Aug 18

Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg

Alibaba's Alipay launches a new "all-in-one" platform for businesses to use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock jumps 5%+ and is up 40%+ since June

Aug 18

Top Story Jay Peters / The Verge

Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android

Aug 18

Madeleine Cuff / New Scientist

Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts

Aug 18

Bloomberg

China orders some state-linked entities to uninstall a government-tailored version of Windows 10, ahead of its February 2027 retirement timeline

Aug 18

Major Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal

AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July

Aug 18

Bloomberg

Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals

Aug 18

Major Juli Clover / MacRumors

Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC has references to unreleased products: a Home Hub, home accessories, new Beats, AirPods Pro 4, Apple Intelligence in China, and more

Aug 18

Owen Dahlkamp / Politico

AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch

Aug 18

Jason Parham / Wired

Rogue Studio, which calls itself a "playground for creative ethical mischief", launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool to make adult content of Hollywood quality

Aug 18

Lauly Li / Nikkei Asia

Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel phone, smartwatch, and wireless earbud manufacturing out of China in 2027 amid US-China tensions

Aug 18

Associated Press

Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil, after the country's data protection authority ordered it last week, saying Discord failed to protect children and teens

Aug 18

Wall Street Journal

Situational Awareness offered part of its $5B Anthropic stake at a 20% discount as it scrambled for cash; word of its trouble left it "being hunted"

Aug 17

Alan Neuhauser / Axios

Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B

Aug 17

Samantha Cole / 404 Media

Pornhub parent company Aylo agrees to pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from CSAM

Aug 17

Major David Sacks / @davidsacks

David Sacks says "Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize" after Amodei shared policy ideas

Aug 17

Major Stacy Cowley / New York Times

BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023

Aug 17

Major Bloomberg

The US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies

Aug 17

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch

African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed from 8VC and others, and says it is on track to book $100M in contracts

Aug 17

Major Cursor

Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more

Aug 17

Major Emma Roth / The Verge

YouTube will start counting a view as soon as a video starts to play, from August 24, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos

Aug 17

James Nani / Bloomberg Law

Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models

Aug 17

Tobias Burns / CNBC

Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations

Aug 17

Simon Foy / Financial Times

Monzo Chair Gary Hoffman is leaving after some of Monzo's biggest shareholders called for his removal following the board removing TS Anil as CEO in December

Aug 17

Major Reuters

A German regulator says Apple will make changes to ATT, after finding Apple gave its apps more favorable consent prompts than those of third-party developers

Aug 17

Major Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer

Microsoft says the outage affecting GitHub's API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services has been mitigated, three hours after it first confirmed the outage

Aug 17

Major Bloomberg

Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to $105B to support SB Energy's new Ohio data center campus OpenAI is set to lease; Nvidia agrees to invest $1.5B in SB Energy

Aug 17

Major Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media

Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility

Aug 17

Major Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal

Uber and Zipline partner to launch Uber Eats drone deliveries in Dallas and Houston by late 2026, aiming to scale nationwide and hit 1M daily deliveries in 2029

Aug 17

Lawrence Delevingne / Reuters

Trump-backed WLF is working with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw; 43 of the 90 AI models on WorldClaw are from Chinese companies flagged as security risks

Aug 17

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE

ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, an autonomous control appliance for retrofitting onto excavators

Aug 17

Major Greg Brockman

Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident "a watershed moment" and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses

Aug 17

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg

Groq raised $350M led by Disruptive at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.9B in September 2025 before Nvidia struck a licensing deal and hired much of its talent

Aug 17

Financial Times

Meta and BlackRock's $14B El Paso data center project is not insured against total loss, exposing lenders to credit risks and big potential liabilities

Aug 17

Major Allie Garfinkle / Fortune

Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers

Aug 17

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News

Chip giants participated in startup funding rounds collectively valued at $250B+ YTD; Nvidia leads the sector with a record 59 known rounds, up from 53 in 2025

Aug 17

Major Anton Zverev / Reuters

Russian law enforcement docs: Binance provided Russia with IT specialist Yuri Belenkiy's transaction history and passport number, leading to terrorism charges

Aug 17

Financial Times

An analysis of 60 of the largest planned US data centers: they could together produce 101.5M tons of CO2 per year, or ~7% of US power sector emissions in 2025

Aug 17

Reuters

Singapore-based Shein is aiming to hit a ~$25B valuation in its Hong Kong IPO, down from its $30B-$40B goal earlier in August after investor meetings

Aug 17

Major Wall Street Journal

Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their ~$600B in reported capex

Aug 17

Major Bob Tita / Wall Street Journal

How US industrial companies like Caterpillar, Cummins, Eaton, and Ford are pivoting their businesses to feed a booming AI data-center market for power equipment

Aug 17

Major Robert Booth / The Guardian

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing

Aug 17

Major Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph

Chainalysis sues the US government over ICE's $94.6M contract to buy forensic software and services from its competitor TRM Labs, calling the deal "arbitrary"

Aug 17

Major James Fontanella-Khan / Financial Times

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B in January

Aug 17

Major Financial Times

Singapore hopes access to advanced AI models will stem the flow of finance talent to Hong Kong, where financial firms struggle to access the latest US AI models

Aug 17

Major John Gruber / Daring Fireball

Anthropic's text watermark alters word probabilities to embed a fingerprint, which could degrade Claude's writing, despite its claim of no impact on quality

Aug 17

Major Reggie Ugwu / New York Times

A look at companies like Inception Point creating AI personas for media, fashion, film, and music industries that could host podcasts, model clothes, and more

Aug 16

Major Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal

How Anthropic's Claude made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis, aided by a staffer's encouragement

Aug 16

Major Phil Serafino / Bloomberg

French PM Sebastien Lecornu plans to hold a crisis meeting on Monday over a June-July cyberattack on France's tax agency that compromised 678K accounts

Aug 16

Major Bloomberg

Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; founded in 2023, OpenRouter had a $1.3B valuation in May

Aug 16

Major Washington Post

How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US

Aug 16

Major Alex Janin / Wall Street Journal

Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases