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Challenger: US tech sector job cuts rose to 18,720 in March, up 24% YoY, taking the Q1 total to 52,000+; AI accounted for 25% of
04/02/26 - 05:45AM MST
Microsoft launches in-house AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, as it
04/02/26 - 05:15AM MST
How AI helped Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs with just two full-time employees, hit $401M in 2025 sales
04/02/26 - 04:05AM MST
OpenClaw launches an official China mirror, with ByteDance providing the servers to host the Chinese-language service, as OpenCl
04/02/26 - 03:50AM MST
Sources: Chinese optics company and Nvidia supplier Innolight confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $3B+; In
04/02/26 - 03:25AM MST
UK National Education Union poll: 66% of secondary school teachers in England say pupils using AI are losing their capacity for
04/02/26 - 03:10AM MST
Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US
04/02/26 - 03:01AM MST
Cloudflare debuts EmDash, an MIT-licensed, TypeScript-based CMS built on Astro, designed as a serverless "spiritual successor" t
04/02/26 - 02:50AM MST
Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model it launched within three days, saying it has "drast
04/02/26 - 02:40AM MST
A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, who paused some data center expansions in 2025, a decision some say led to its current supp
04/01/26 - 11:15PM MST
IDC: Chinese GPU and AI chipmakers captured ~41% of China's AI server market in 2025, significantly eroding Nvidia's share, whic
04/01/26 - 11:00PM MST
Ofcom: the share of adult UK social media users that actively post, share, or comment falls from 61% in 2024 to 49%, as users sa
04/01/26 - 10:50PM MST
Sources: Oracle has cut ~10,000 jobs in India, or ~20% of its Indian workforce, as part of a restructuring that reportedly affec
04/01/26 - 10:05PM MST
Sources: AI startup Poolside held talks with Google and others to revive a Texas data center project after a CoreWeave deal and
04/01/26 - 09:55PM MST
Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Nasdaq on April 1, marking its entry into US public markets after its $1.2B
04/01/26 - 08:25PM MST
Intel agrees to pay $14.2B to repurchase Apollo's 49% stake in the Fab 34 joint venture in Leixlip, Ireland, and plans to issue
04/01/26 - 06:20AM MST
India says foreign investment gains made before 2017 are exempt from its General Anti-Avoidance Rules, after a court required Ti
04/01/26 - 05:25AM MST
Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally leaking Claude Code source code, issuing copyright takedown reques
04/01/26 - 05:05AM MST
Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81% of the funding; just four compan
04/01/26 - 04:15AM MST
Austin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR
04/01/26 - 03:45AM MST
How a small German state's bid to replace Microsoft with open-source alternatives like Linux and Kamailio faces issues, as the E
04/01/26 - 03:25AM MST
Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in dat
04/01/26 - 03:10AM MST
As Apple turns 50, a look at how a management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality and i
04/01/26 - 02:55AM MST
Microsoft says it is on track to invest $5.5B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Singapore through 2029, after announcing plans t
04/01/26 - 02:40AM MST
Malta is opposing EU plans to centralize crypto supervision under ESMA, seeing it as a politically motivated assault on its succ
04/01/26 - 12:15AM MST
South Korean trade data: chip shipments hit a record-high value of $32.83B in March 2026, up 151.4% YoY, pushing total exports t
04/01/26 - 12:05AM MST
The LA and New Mexico jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some design features as defective, distinct from what Se
03/31/26 - 11:30PM MST
An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant t
03/31/26 - 10:50PM MST
Analysis: 50% of Asia's 10 most volatile stocks are recent AI IPOs, such as Chinese companies Moore Threads and MiniMax, driven
03/31/26 - 10:25PM MST
Nvidia invests $2B in chipmaker Marvell and says the two companies plan to work on silicon photonics tech, enabling high-speed d
03/31/26 - 05:40AM MST
Fabless AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400M in a pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation, bringing its total funding to $850M, w
03/30/26 - 06:10AM MST
New York-based Qodo, which offers AI agents for code review, testing, and governance, raised a $70M Series B led by Qumra, takin
03/30/26 - 05:50AM MST
OpenAI's ChatGPT app store now has 300+ app integrations six months after its launch, but faces sluggish adoption due to limited
03/30/26 - 05:05AM MST
Finnish startup IQM Quantum Computers raised €50M from BlackRock to accelerate its global growth, ahead of a planned dual US and
03/30/26 - 04:45AM MST
London-based money transfer company Wise plans to launch UK bank accounts, joining an increasingly crowded market; Monzo reports
03/30/26 - 04:35AM MST
Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $170M Series A led by Benchmark and EQT at a $1.1B valuation, and plans to launch S
03/30/26 - 04:20AM MST
How Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean has been an outspoken voice on politics, a rare tech leader openly criticizing Tru
03/30/26 - 04:05AM MST
A study finds ~$143M in suspicious profits on Polymarket over two years, using patterns consistent with the use of nonpublic inf
03/30/26 - 03:50AM MST
Some schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Michigan are reevaluating classroom tech usage, including Chromebooks, a
03/30/26 - 03:35AM MST
Q&A with NYU professor Julian Togelius on his recent paper about LLMs' limitations in playing video games, why coding is a kind
03/30/26 - 03:15AM MST
Amazon MGM's Project Hail Mary becomes its highest-grossing film ever, crossing $300M globally, including $54.1M just this weeke
03/30/26 - 03:01AM MST
AI has led some employers like L'Oréal to return to in-person assessments during recruiting, as senior HR leaders see a steep ri
03/30/26 - 02:35AM MST
Some thoughts about companies and people in San Francisco adapting to AI workflows, AI's sycophancy, "cognitive offloading" and
03/30/26 - 02:00AM MST
A look at Amazon's major push into rural US areas, including building 24-hour delivery distribution centers in recent years, enc
03/30/26 - 01:40AM MST
Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mist
03/30/26 - 01:30AM MST
A look at some themes at this year's Hill and Valley Forum: embracing government-led industrial policy to onshore manufacturing,
03/28/26 - 03:35AM MST
Prediction market bets decided on linguistic technicalities expose how hard it is to turn language into a binary market, with pa
03/27/26 - 11:35PM MST
Meta's longtime content policy chief Monika Bickert is leaving the company to teach at Harvard; she will stay at Meta until Augu
03/27/26 - 11:20PM MST
Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak
03/27/26 - 11:10PM MST
Sony says it plans to raise the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles globally beginning on April 2; the PS5 will cost $650, PS5 D
03/27/26 - 05:45AM MST
Unity plans to shut down its ironSource advertising network on April 30 and has begun the process of divesting Supersonic, its c
03/27/26 - 05:15AM MST
SoftBank says it has secured a $40B bridge loan maturing in 2027 from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and other banks, to fund fu
03/27/26 - 03:50AM MST
Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance plan to order Huawei's new 950PR AI chip after tests show better CUDA compatibility; Huawei targe
03/27/26 - 02:40AM MST
Sources: Moonshot AI may scrap its Cayman structure for a China or Hong Kong entity to prepare for a Hong Kong IPO and plans to
03/26/26 - 11:10PM MST
Meta's Oversight Board says Community Notes aren't a proper substitute for fact checking, and warns expanding them beyond the US
03/26/26 - 10:10PM MST
Tazapay, which builds cross-border payment infrastructure for fintech and web3 firms, says it closed a Series B extension, bring
03/26/26 - 09:00PM MST
Steno, which offers an AI-powered case transcript analysis tool for legal professionals, raised a $49M Series C led by Savano Ca
03/26/26 - 08:35PM MST
Miami-based telehealth company eMed raised a $200M Series A at a $2B+ valuation to advance its agentic AI platform and more; Tom
03/26/26 - 08:20PM MST
Senior Trump officials say SMIC has been sending chipmaking tools to Iran for about a year; the US has sanctioned the company ov
03/26/26 - 07:45PM MST
NY-based Blossom Health, which makes an "AI copilot" to augment psychiatrists' clinical decisions and automate office tasks, rai
03/26/26 - 07:15PM MST
Sources: SpaceX's IPO plans include investor visits to its sites, unusual lockup periods, and preferential treatment for investo
03/26/26 - 06:30PM MST
Source: Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX's IPO to individual investors, at least three times the usua
03/26/26 - 06:05PM MST
Q&A with New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez about the New Mexico and LA social media trials, Big Tech's "Big Tobacco" moment, what it mea
03/26/26 - 05:50PM MST
Source: Thrive Holdings has landed $1B in commitments for a new fundraising deal and is considering raising at least another $1B
03/26/26 - 05:20PM MST
Nvidia Chief Software Architect Jonathan Ross discusses the $20B Nvidia-Groq deal; sources say Groq's annual revenue was near $1
03/20/26 - 10:30PM MST
Super Micro names VP DeAnna Luna as acting chief compliance officer, after SMCI closed down 33% on March 20 amid a chip smugglin
03/20/26 - 06:20PM MST
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing Altman of sexual abuse from 1997 to 2006, as the claims expired i
03/20/26 - 06:05PM MST
Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals,
03/20/26 - 05:40PM MST
Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the military has deployed it, denying DOD accusations that Anthropic cou
03/20/26 - 05:20PM MST
Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption ac
03/20/26 - 05:00PM MST
The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with ph
03/20/26 - 04:55PM MST
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals throws out a 2024 FTC order barring Intuit from advertising TurboTax products as "free" when
03/20/26 - 04:20PM MST
The US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center wit
03/20/26 - 03:25PM MST
A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower pri
03/20/26 - 02:47PM MST
The White House releases an AI policy framework, explicitly calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws, create age-gating requ
03/20/26 - 06:15AM MST
Filing: Unitree, China's leading robot company, is aiming to raise ~$610M in its Shanghai IPO; it brought in ~$247M in revenue i
03/20/26 - 05:50AM MST
Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne unit is developing "Transformer", a phone that syncs with Alexa; it would be Amazon's second smartphon
03/20/26 - 03:35AM MST
Shareholder letter: crypto exchange Gemini has cut ~30% of its staff since the beginning of 2026 and had 445 employees as of Mar
03/20/26 - 02:55AM MST
Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, a source says for $6B; ByteDance
03/20/26 - 02:50AM MST
Xiaomi unveils its MiMo-V2 AI models, including the 1T-parameter MiMo-V2-Pro, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which Xiaomi says benchmar
03/20/26 - 02:05AM MST
Filing: the SEC approved a Nasdaq rule change allowing some securities to trade in tokenized form; the new approach will be test
03/19/26 - 11:00PM MST
Alibaba and Tencent lost a combined $66B in market value over about 24 hours as investors reacted to unclear monetization plans
03/19/26 - 09:45PM MST
Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwo
03/19/26 - 09:00PM MST
Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked third on Arena AI's text-to-image leaderboard behind only models from Google and OpenAI,
03/19/26 - 08:30PM MST
Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K solar-powered satellites as part of Project Sunrise, its proposed
03/19/26 - 08:10PM MST
Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies th
03/19/26 - 07:50PM MST
How AI startups and founders use "taste" as the latest buzzword for describing and distinguishing their products, in an attempt
03/19/26 - 07:20PM MST
A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 T
03/19/26 - 06:45PM MST
MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own r
03/19/26 - 06:05PM MST