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Anthropic signs a 20-year, $19B lease to use a TeraWulf data center in Kentucky, set to have a ~400MW capacity, with the first p
07/06/26 - 05:25AM MST
AI agent training platform Bespoke Labs raised $40M across a seed led by 8VC and a Series A led by Wing, saying the funding give
07/06/26 - 05:15AM MST
Filing: Brookfield-backed data center company Csquare seeks to raise up to $1.35B in an IPO, selling 50M shares at $23 to $27 ea
07/06/26 - 04:50AM MST
How Masayoshi Son is remaking SoftBank in his own image, betting on AI; SoftBank trades at a ~50% discount to its net asset valu
07/06/26 - 04:35AM MST
A profile of Samsung union leader Choi Seung-ho, who helped win a ~$26B bonus package for chip employees, as he tries to resolve
07/06/26 - 04:10AM MST
An interview with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via a SPAC, the physical layer as its co
07/06/26 - 03:55AM MST
AI-driven drops in labor income and gains in capital income could hit Ireland's tax base, with 6%+ of its workforce in tech and
07/06/26 - 03:40AM MST
Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage,
07/06/26 - 03:20AM MST
Ripple secures CASP authorization from Luxembourg's financial regulator, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services
07/06/26 - 03:05AM MST
Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan an
07/06/26 - 03:01AM MST
SK Hynix launches a US share sale on the Nasdaq to raise ~$28B, selling 17.79M new shares; the final listing price is due Thursd
07/06/26 - 02:35AM MST
Document: a draft US Treasury Department report is set to warn about the AI market's risks, likening some key aspects to the dot
07/06/26 - 02:30AM MST
Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 seem worse at tool calls than older models, likely due to post-training that assumes Claude Code-li
07/06/26 - 01:35AM MST
Analysis: ~1M $TRUMP retail buyers lost a combined $3.81B, while ~500K mostly-early wallets captured $4B in gains, a textbook me
07/05/26 - 05:00AM MST
A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury tri
07/04/26 - 11:00PM MST
Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged inte
07/04/26 - 10:30PM MST
NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge funds, raised a $22M Series A co-led by AVP, Atinu
07/04/26 - 10:10PM MST
Sources: Uber halts plans to launch food delivery in five of the seven European countries it had targeted for expansion as it pu
07/04/26 - 09:45PM MST
India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an act
07/04/26 - 09:40PM MST
AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, si
07/04/26 - 06:55PM MST
Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit
07/04/26 - 04:30PM MST
Indonesia's enforcement of social media restrictions for under-16s has been patchy, with tech companies ignoring the rules and y
07/04/26 - 02:05PM MST
A look at the troubled rollout of the EU's automated biometric entry/exit border system, as airport operators warn of severe del
07/04/26 - 10:05AM MST
How ByteDance is making Hollywood inroads with its Seedance video generator, thanks to low pricing, striking realism, and featur
07/04/26 - 08:20AM MST
Q&A with Doug Brooks, senior product manager of Apple silicon, about Mac minis becoming preferred AI agent machines, future of o
07/04/26 - 06:55AM MST
How Jeff Bezos' changing relationship with President Trump has impacted his companies, including increased federal contract awar
07/03/26 - 05:25AM MST
Filing: GoDaddy challenges a New Delhi court ruling requiring domain sellers to stop offering privacy by default, saying it coul
07/03/26 - 03:51AM MST
India's IT secretary said the country is investigating a data breach at Apple supplier Tata, which exposed files that included p
07/03/26 - 03:10AM MST
Pitch document: Chris Larsen and Palmer Luckey invested an undisclosed amount in APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the son
07/03/26 - 03:06AM MST
Sources: Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computer
07/03/26 - 02:45AM MST
A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture sh
07/02/26 - 11:25PM MST
Sources: Anthropic moves to close loopholes that let Chinese firms like Ant use its models via workarounds including cloud provi
07/02/26 - 10:15PM MST
Blackstone's QTS abandons plans to build its portion of a 2,100-acre data center campus in Virginia, following years of local op
07/02/26 - 09:00PM MST
Letter: chip sector group SEMI, including Micron and Samsung, warns Scott Bessent US policies affecting prices or production cap
07/02/26 - 07:30PM MST
Sources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently in training, codenamed Watermelon, matches GPT-5.5 and uses an "order of magn
07/02/26 - 06:35PM MST
Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of
07/02/26 - 06:10PM MST
Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincide
07/02/26 - 05:00PM MST
Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2% in its Nasdaq debut Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.9B
07/02/26 - 04:10PM MST
At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and its reorganization was not
07/02/26 - 02:00PM MST
President Trump says Micron will invest $250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a
07/02/26 - 03:10AM MST
Abu Dhabi-based MGX raised a $49B AI-focused fund, exceeding its $45B target, and plans to spend as much as $10B annually over t
07/01/26 - 06:25AM MST
Letter: the US says Anthropic "agreed to proactively detect and address security risks" of Fable 5 and Mythos 5; a source says A
07/01/26 - 06:20AM MST
Sony says it is closing the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 ahead of global store closures for the PS3 and
07/01/26 - 06:01AM MST
Sources: Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models, to
07/01/26 - 05:52AM MST
A researcher says a vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email tool lets anyone discover a real email address; first reported in Jun
07/01/26 - 05:35AM MST
Taiwanese authorities detain two Super Micro staff and an Albatron manager after a raid of Super Micro's local offices this week
07/01/26 - 05:30AM MST
Sony says all new PlayStation games from both first- and third-party developers will be sold in digital formats from January 202
07/01/26 - 05:20AM MST
Stockholm's Patent and Market Court orders Google to pay nearly $2B to Klarna's PriceRunner in a dispute over abuse of power in
07/01/26 - 05:10AM MST
Twelve Labs, which is building AI models to make video searchable and understandable, raised a $100M Series B co-led by NEA and
07/01/26 - 05:00AM MST
Together AI, which offers access to open-source models, raised $800M led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 at an $8.3B valuation, ta
07/01/26 - 04:50AM MST
Wayve files to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange's new Private Securities Market, the first major company to test it, and
07/01/26 - 04:35AM MST
A UN panel co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio warns that AI capabilities are outpacing scientific understanding, the "potential benefit
07/01/26 - 04:15AM MST
How the rapid rise in US- and China-made AI abilities is leading to both a transformation in AI use at work, and sudden lurches
07/01/26 - 04:00AM MST
Anthropic says it is rolling back a covert Claude Code tracking feature to identify users based in China or affiliated with Chin
07/01/26 - 03:35AM MST
How a new Amazon-built transatlantic fiber-optic link in Ireland is symbolic of the country's AI ambitions, but also of its chro
07/01/26 - 03:25AM MST
An Indonesian court sentences Gojek co-founder and ex-education minister Nadiem Makarim to 10 years in prison for power abuses o
06/30/26 - 05:05AM MST
Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning Grindr into an "AI-native company", "impos[ing]" AI on staff, facing "opposition",
06/30/26 - 03:50AM MST
How Spain's LaLiga uses nationwide IP blocking to combat illegal sports streams, impacting an estimated 550K+ domains, putting i
06/30/26 - 03:25AM MST
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new
06/30/26 - 03:01AM MST
Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese proc
06/30/26 - 02:45AM MST
AI and vibe coding fuel a surge in game releases; ATTN Economy says 181K mobile games launched in six months to May, up 118% on
06/30/26 - 02:05AM MST
The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment "steering" rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google say
06/30/26 - 01:45AM MST
Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future compe
06/30/26 - 12:45AM MST
AI may help transform air traffic control by processing vast amounts of data, spotting collision risks early, and easing staff s
06/29/26 - 11:25PM MST
Dubai- and London-based 1001, which uses AI to improve aviation, port, and energy infrastructure efficiency in the Gulf, raised
06/29/26 - 11:10PM MST
US political campaign managers and consultants are using AI to analyze voter data, create campaign materials, and more; survey:
06/29/26 - 10:45PM MST
Five Chinese tech and advanced manufacturing companies launch Hong Kong listings, seeking to raise up to $5.6B, led by Apple sup
06/29/26 - 09:50PM MST
Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026 shipment targets, with Xi
06/29/26 - 09:40PM MST
Source: the Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating shares to Trump Accounts, which provide children with tax
06/29/26 - 08:55PM MST
Nebex, a fintech startup aiming to act as a broker platform connecting US space tech suppliers, foreign governments, and investo
06/29/26 - 07:40PM MST
LSEG: tech companies have raised $3.1B from mainland China stock market listings YTD, up 5x+ from a year earlier, as AI and chip
06/27/26 - 04:35PM MST
Sports clips' rise on platforms like YouTube has left broadcasters debating whether to use them to attract younger viewers or pr
06/27/26 - 12:35PM MST
Tokyo-based Sakana AI's Fugu and China-based 360's cybersecurity model Tulongfeng claim to rival Anthropic's banned Mythos and F
06/27/26 - 10:35AM MST
AI executives and lobbyists say they are seeking regulatory clarity from the Trump administration but are wary of pressing for a
06/27/26 - 08:45AM MST
Apple says "the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage"; the Mac
06/25/26 - 05:54AM MST
Australian payments startup Airwallex raised $320M led by Lee Fixel's Addition at an $11B valuation, and is incubating blockchai
06/25/26 - 05:30AM MST
Exponential View: global AI sales, excluding China, hit $25B in Q1, exceeding an estimated $21B in data center and chip deprecia
06/25/26 - 05:05AM MST
Preliminary findings: the EU says Azure and AWS are "the largest and second largest" cloud services in the EU, as the bloc weigh
06/25/26 - 03:40AM MST
How risk modelers like Fathom and Verisk are using AI and diffusion models to bypass the limits of physics-based "cat" models to
06/25/26 - 03:30AM MST
IBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that utilizes a "nanostack" 3D transistor architecture, which it says could conti
06/25/26 - 03:15AM MST
A profile of incoming WhatsApp CEO Kunal Shah, who studied philosophy, advised Sequoia India, and joins a growing pool of Indian
06/25/26 - 03:00AM MST
Alibaba's Hong Kong stock closed down 4.43% after Anthropic accused Alibaba of "illicitly" accessing its AI models, down 36.24%
06/25/26 - 02:40AM MST
Arm EVP Mohamed Awad says its chip architecture now accounts for 50%+ of the hyperscale cloud computing market, as AI demand tra
06/25/26 - 02:30AM MST
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is designing data center chips specifically for Chinese customers that are in compl
06/25/26 - 02:11AM MST
Chinese cybersecurity company 360 unveils new AI tools: Tulongfeng, which it claims is "China's version of Mythos", and Yitianzh
06/24/26 - 06:25AM MST
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine mon
06/24/26 - 06:15AM MST
Google Home Speaker review: the $100 speaker, the company's first such device in six years, works for Gemini power users but has
06/24/26 - 06:10AM MST
Amazon plans to expand Amazon Now to 300 Indian cities and towns, up from 100 at present, as CEO Andy Jassy visits India; a sour
06/24/26 - 05:55AM MST
Qualcomm plans to acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B
06/24/26 - 05:45AM MST
Rockstar says physical GTA 6 copies will contain a download code, not a disc; physical copies will be available from November 12
06/24/26 - 04:50AM MST
The US FDA drops an enforcement complaint against Whoop over its blood pressure tracking tool, reversing a July 2025 warning let
06/24/26 - 04:45AM MST
An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning
06/24/26 - 04:30AM MST
How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became its wealthiest hub; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household inc
06/24/26 - 04:05AM MST
Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost $79.99, or $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; preo
06/24/26 - 03:50AM MST
How Chicago is betting on quantum computing, including turning the site of its former US Steel mill into a campus, after largely
06/24/26 - 03:35AM MST
Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, entry-le
06/24/26 - 03:15AM MST
Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing Agility at ~$2.5B, lis
06/24/26 - 03:00AM MST
SK Hynix says it is seeking to raise ~$29.4B in a US listing, expects trading to start on July 10, and intends to use the funds
06/24/26 - 02:45AM MST
An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Disney's CEO, his legacy, new CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Chapek, Apple, Disney+, acqui
06/24/26 - 02:10AM MST
Meta's Starfire glasses with Kylie Jenner include a tiny gemstone on the lens, a metal nose pad to prevent absorbing makeup, and
06/23/26 - 06:25AM MST
Meta says Meta Glasses are its first AI glasses to launch with Meta AI powered by Muse Spark from day one, and come in 26 styles
06/23/26 - 06:20AM MST
In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes leaders warn AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months aw
06/22/26 - 06:25AM MST
Meta invests $900M into Indian fintech startup Cred, and plans to appoint Cred founder Kunal Shah as the new leader of WhatsApp,
06/22/26 - 06:11AM MST