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Amazon rolls out Alexa+ on the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android, letting Alexa+ Early Access users request obscure informatio
11/04/25 - 07:20AM MST
AWS says it is developing the Fastnet subsea cable to connect Maryland and Ireland, aiming to launch by 2028 with a capacity of
11/04/25 - 07:10AM MST
Jimmy Wales says Wikipedia's "Gaza genocide" page fails to meet its neutrality standards; the article is listed as "protected" u
11/04/25 - 06:55AM MST
A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an ar
11/04/25 - 05:45AM MST
The UK's High Court rules against Getty in its lawsuit against Stability AI over its image generator; the judge calls the ruling
11/04/25 - 05:20AM MST
Goldman Sachs: just 33 US counties accounted for 72% of all US data center capacity as of July; places like Umatilla have been t
11/04/25 - 04:20AM MST
How Portugal is investing ~4.6% of its GDP around the port of Sines, seeking to transform it from a tourism-dependent economy to
11/04/25 - 04:00AM MST
Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's turnaround, AI, paying drivers more, Uber, partnership with Tensor for autonomou
11/04/25 - 01:50AM MST
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue up 90% YoY to ~$3.7B, vs. ~$3B est., ~$667M net profit, vs. ~$412M est., and expects 19M Switch 2 sa
11/04/25 - 12:15AM MST
Grab reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to $873M, vs. 869M est., and an adjusted EBITDA of $136M, helped by offerings like group food
11/03/25 - 08:50PM MST
Sources: China offers to cut data center power bills by up to 50% for Alibaba, ByteDance, and others if they use domestic chips
11/03/25 - 07:30PM MST
A profile of David Bailey, Trump's informal crypto advisor who organizes the Bitcoin Conference, as he seeks to turn a Utah heal
11/02/25 - 07:00AM MST
AI browsers can bypass some paywalls; OpenAI's Atlas seems to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, providing summaries or
11/02/25 - 03:00AM MST
Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software serves organizations in 80+ countries, raised a €30M Series B co-led by Ac
11/01/25 - 11:50PM MST
Nexperia's China unit says it has "sufficient inventories" to sustain order fulfillment "through year-end and beyond", after the
11/01/25 - 11:00PM MST
Analysis: sports volumes on Kalshi approach $1B a week, with open interest in sports contracts regularly above $100M, significan
11/01/25 - 11:00PM MST
How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil
11/01/25 - 10:45PM MST
Oxford Economics: the AI boom is lifting global trade, with ~60% of US data center capex spent on imported IT gear, mainly from
11/01/25 - 09:40PM MST
Big Tech's dominance on the S&P 500 is becoming more extreme; the eight biggest tech stocks account for 60% of the gains since t
11/01/25 - 08:10PM MST
How Google Cloud has become one of Alphabet's fastest-growing businesses under Thomas Kurian, driven by investments in AI, data
11/01/25 - 06:40PM MST
A profile of Aaron Greenspan, who has spent years on a crusade to expose what he believes are financial problems at Tesla and at
11/01/25 - 05:10PM MST
Microsoft's AI tools still lag behind OpenAI's, as Microsoft struggles to create a cohesive AI experience and add new features b
11/01/25 - 03:40PM MST
Grokipedia content often closely mirrors Wikipedia except for some political topics but its use of AI makes it better than Wikip
11/01/25 - 02:50PM MST
The White House says China has agreed to effectively end rare earth export controls issued in 2025 and 2022, and will also close
11/01/25 - 02:05PM MST
Q&A with Sam Altman and Satya Nadella about the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, OpenAI's restructuring and $100B revenue target fo
11/01/25 - 12:30PM MST
Turkish state media reports that Faruk Fatih Ozer, the former CEO of failed crypto exchange Thodex, has been found dead in his p
11/01/25 - 10:20AM MST
MediaTek says it is on track to generate $1B in revenue from its data center AI accelerator ASIC chips in 2026, after reporting
11/01/25 - 06:05AM MST
Singapore seizes more than $115M in assets linked to Cambodia's Prince Group, which the US and UK accuse of stealing billions of
11/01/25 - 04:05AM MST
China says it will allow some Nexperia semiconductor chip exports to resume to ease critical supply shortages impacting global a
11/01/25 - 02:05AM MST
Nvidia says it will supply 260K+ of its most advanced AI chips to the South Korean government and major companies, including Sam
11/01/25 - 01:35AM MST
Despite the hype around large AI models, many companies like Meta are using small models for routine tasks, finding them more pr
10/31/25 - 11:35PM MST
Shares of Seagate and Western Digital have sharply outperformed the broader market in 2025, surging ~200% on AI-related infrastr
10/31/25 - 11:25PM MST
Vista Equity Partners buys a majority stake in Nexthink, which uses AI to let businesses track employees' device and app perform
10/31/25 - 11:20PM MST
Vodafone agrees to acquire Skaylink, a German company specializing in managing cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure and AWS, for
10/31/25 - 11:10PM MST
NEC to buy US-listed CSG, a SaaS provider of customer care and billing services for telcos and other companies, for ~$2.9B in a
10/31/25 - 10:30PM MST
Mumbai-based Snapmint, a BNPL partner to brands that lets consumers pay in monthly instalments via India's UPI, raised a $125M S
10/31/25 - 10:05PM MST
Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, letting them keep the debt
10/31/25 - 05:55PM MST
New York-based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platform for government agencies to offer services like utility billing, raised
10/31/25 - 04:20PM MST
Sources: Coinbase is in late stage talks to buy stablecoin infra startup BVNK in a ~$2B deal; Coinbase expects to close the deal
10/31/25 - 02:50PM MST
In its Q3 earnings, Alphabet said the profit included "net gains on equity securities of $10.7B," in part from a private company
10/31/25 - 02:35PM MST
Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Pe
10/31/25 - 02:01PM MST
Ofcom chief Melanie Dawes warns social media companies to prove their algorithms protect under-18s from seeing harmful content,
10/30/25 - 11:01PM MST
Filing: Gloo, a developer of AI tools for Christian churches with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as its head of technology, seeks an
10/30/25 - 08:30PM MST
SEC filing: Snowflake says an executive shared unauthorized financial guidance with an Instagram influencer; an Oct. 26 video in
10/30/25 - 07:20PM MST
Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.3B vs. $1.25B est., forecasts Q4 sales above est., agrees to buy identity platform St
10/30/25 - 04:50PM MST
WhatsApp launches passkey-encrypted backups for iOS and Android, letting users encrypt their stored message history using their
10/30/25 - 06:10AM MST
OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including "character cameos" to create AI deepfakes of pets, illustrations, and more, clip
10/30/25 - 05:30AM MST
Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says "AI Overviews drive meaningful query gr
10/30/25 - 05:10AM MST
Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 48% YoY to $1.36B, DAUs up 70% YoY to 151.5M, above 132.3M est., and bookings up 70% YoY to $1.9B,
10/30/25 - 05:00AM MST
After Trump and Xi's meeting, China says it will suspend its rare earth export controls issued on October 9 for one year, but sa
10/30/25 - 04:40AM MST
Sources: the US Commerce Department proposed banning TP-Link Systems' networking devices due to TP-Link's China ties, gaining su
10/30/25 - 04:20AM MST
Swedish startup Legora, whose AI tools help legal teams research and more, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.8B valuation, up from
10/30/25 - 04:00AM MST
China's Commerce Ministry says it will work with the US to resolve issues related to TikTok, stopping short of saying it agreed
10/30/25 - 03:45AM MST
Google, Meta, and Microsoft collectively spent nearly $80B on AI infrastructure in Q3, dividing the market on whether they can t
10/30/25 - 03:40AM MST
Netflix, Anthropic, and others are paying researchers up to $25K to find and report flaws; HackerOne paid a record $81M in rewar
10/30/25 - 03:35AM MST
Scale AI and CAIS' Remote Labor Index benchmark, which tests AI agents on freelance tasks, finds the best AI could perform just
10/30/25 - 03:25AM MST
President Trump and Xi Jinping agree a yearlong truce that rolls back many contentious tariffs and retaliatory measures; the cur
10/30/25 - 03:15AM MST
Elon Musk's lawyer pledges to fight OpenAI's for-profit restructuring and says California's and Delaware's AGs "cannot sanitize
10/30/25 - 03:05AM MST
President Trump says he and Xi Jinping discussed Nvidia and other chipmakers' access to China, and that they didn't discuss appr
10/30/25 - 02:50AM MST
TrendForce estimates DRAM in 2026 will bring in over 4x as much revenue as the 2023 trough, reaching a record ~$231B, driven by
10/30/25 - 02:40AM MST
Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after its acquisitions of Superhuman Mail in June and Coda in December 2024; the standalone wri
10/29/25 - 06:15AM MST
Character.ai plans to limit under-18s to two hours of conversations per day, gradually reducing the time limit before banning th
10/29/25 - 06:10AM MST
Grokipedia hands-on: many articles clone Wikipedia, but deviate significantly on topics conflicting with Elon Musk's worldview;
10/29/25 - 05:55AM MST
The US FCC votes 3-0 to tighten restrictions on telecom equipment from Chinese companies on its Covered List, including Huawei a
10/29/25 - 05:45AM MST
Uber plans to launch its first robotaxi in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 2026, built on Lucid's Gravity SUV, after testing
10/29/25 - 05:30AM MST
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-safeguard, its open-weight reasoning models for safety classification tasks, available in 120B and 20B p
10/29/25 - 05:20AM MST
PitchBook: Nvidia invested in 59 AI startups in 2025 so far, including 10 in the past two months, surpassing 55 investments in 2
10/29/25 - 04:45AM MST
Etsy appoints Chief Growth Officer Kruti Patel Goyal as its new CEO, starting January 1, 2026, replacing Josh Silverman after ei
10/29/25 - 04:30AM MST
Big Tech's EU lobbying hit €151M in 2025, up from €113M in 2023 and €97M in 2021; between January and June 2025, Big Tech had 14
10/29/25 - 04:15AM MST
Jensen Huang says the US needs "finesse" to maintain its AI lead over China and Nvidia is an "awkward place" as President Trump
10/29/25 - 04:05AM MST
Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies are laying off tens of thousands of white collar workers, as executives ho
10/29/25 - 03:55AM MST
Internal memo: Amazon makes "significant role reductions" to its game division and will cut down on big budget titles, as it foc
10/29/25 - 03:45AM MST
IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models ranging from 350M to 1.5B parameters, designed to run on consumer hardw
10/29/25 - 03:30AM MST
A look at the FGC-9, a 3D-printed semiautomatic gun created by a German incel that scholars and lawmakers say is the most popula
10/29/25 - 03:15AM MST
French lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes
10/29/25 - 03:05AM MST
Substrate, which aims to challenge TSMC, raised $100M+ from Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and others at a $1B+ valuation as i
10/28/25 - 06:10AM MST
Microsoft says it supports the OpenAI board moving to form a public benefit corporation and recapitalization, and now holds a ~$
10/28/25 - 06:07AM MST
OpenAI says it has "completed our recapitalization", the OpenAI Foundation now has equity valued at ~$130B, and it continues to
10/28/25 - 06:03AM MST
An analysis of 30+ US data center proposals in 14 states: in most cases, local officials signed NDAs and worked with apparent sh
10/28/25 - 05:40AM MST
Livestream marketplace Whatnot raised $225M at an $11.5B valuation, after raising $265M at a $4.97B valuation in January, taking
10/28/25 - 05:30AM MST
Adobe unveils Project Moonlight, an AI agent on its Firefly platform designed to act as a creative director for social media cam
10/28/25 - 05:25AM MST
Adobe partners with YouTube to offer a Create for YouTube Shorts feature in the Premiere mobile app, letting creators instantly
10/28/25 - 05:20AM MST
Adobe plans to support custom AI models in Firefly, updates Firefly to generate soundtracks and speech, adds an AI assistant to
10/28/25 - 05:15AM MST
At its Adobe Max event, Adobe unveils AI tools for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom, and says Firefly Image 5 can generate
10/28/25 - 05:10AM MST
Appfigures: between September 30 and October 18, OpenAI's Sora had 2.6M iOS downloads, above the Meta AI app, which had 1.1M; So
10/28/25 - 05:05AM MST
An ex-OpenAI staffer of four years says it isn't doing enough to protect users, especially those with mental health issues, and
10/28/25 - 04:50AM MST
Fireworks AI, which helps developers access AI chips and models, raised a $254M Series C at a $4B valuation, split into a $230M
10/28/25 - 04:15AM MST
Sources: Uber plans to invest in the Hong Kong listings of Pony AI and WeRide, deepening its Chinese robotaxi ties, including ~$
10/28/25 - 03:55AM MST
PayPal CEO Alex Chriss says the company signed a deal with OpenAI to let shoppers use PayPal's digital wallet in ChatGPT to pay
10/28/25 - 03:42AM MST
IBM launches Digital Asset Haven, a digital assets platform built with crypto wallet provider Dfns for financial institutions, g
10/27/25 - 05:25AM MST
X plans to retire the Twitter.com domain, prompting users to re-enroll their security keys for 2FA, and will lock accounts that
10/27/25 - 04:50AM MST
Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is finalizing $350M in funding led by Felicis at a $10B valuation; founded in 2023, Me
10/27/25 - 04:10AM MST
Sources: JPMorgan Chase is giving staff the option to use its in-house LLM to write year-end performance reviews, a shortcut to
10/27/25 - 04:00AM MST
Microsoft's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant, including putting OpenAI-related losses into a $4.7B "other, net" expense
10/27/25 - 03:40AM MST
How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the
10/27/25 - 03:25AM MST
Indonesia and other developing countries are becoming AI hubs amid the multitrillion-dollar spending boom, in part driven by an
10/27/25 - 03:10AM MST
The US DOJ's rigged-poker-game indictment involved hacking DeckMate, a casino-standard, suitcase-sized, $10K+ card shuffling mac
10/27/25 - 02:55AM MST
Japanese fintech JPYC launches a yen-pegged stablecoin, the country's first, and its issuance platform JPYC EX, targeting $65.4B
10/27/25 - 02:05AM MST
Real estate agents are using AI tools like AutoReel to replace videographers and stagers, cutting costs but generating distorted
10/27/25 - 01:50AM MST
Q&A with Bill Ready, who became Pinterest's CEO in 2022, about changes during his tenure, winning over Gen Z, Pinterest's busine
10/27/25 - 01:25AM MST
An interview with Mauro Porcini, who became Samsung's first Chief Design Officer in April, about creating a "consistent experien
10/27/25 - 12:55AM MST
Papers, patents, and tenders show China's military is integrating DeepSeek and Qwen models in weapons like AI-powered drones, an
10/26/25 - 10:40PM MST
In Vietnam, 65 countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite tech companies' and activists
10/26/25 - 09:40PM MST
A look at Cal State's plans to become an "AI-empowered" university via partnerships with Amazon and a $16.9M deal to provide Cha
10/26/25 - 09:10PM MST
Rumble plans to roll out a bitcoin tipping feature, developed in partnership with Tether, to its 51M creators in December; Tethe
10/26/25 - 05:10AM MST
French online carpooling marketplace BlaBlaCar says India now accounts for ~33% of its carpool passengers and expects to reach ~
10/26/25 - 02:05AM MST
The US AI data center boom is consuming capital, power, and people that the rest of the economy needs, and is crowding out Trump
10/25/25 - 11:00PM MST
Defakto, which lets enterprises secure automated interactions between internal systems and AI agents or other non-human actors,
10/25/25 - 10:00PM MST
Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-gam
10/25/25 - 09:55PM MST
Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting drones, raised $60M in seed and Series A rounds led by Caffeinated Capital a
10/25/25 - 09:50PM MST
Austin-based Roller, a provider of venue management software, raised $50M led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to o
10/25/25 - 09:40PM MST
Singapore-based wealth management platform Endowus raised $70M+, bringing its total funding to $130M+, and says the new capital
10/25/25 - 08:05PM MST
Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is exploring a sale after it struggled to complete a fundraising round; SambaNova was last va
10/25/25 - 05:05PM MST
Kyrgyzstan launches a national stablecoin and a CBDC in partnership with Binance; CZ says a national cryptocurrency reserve incl
10/25/25 - 02:05PM MST
Glasgow-based Chemify, which combines AI with robotics and chemistry to rapidly make novel molecules for pharmaceutical companie
10/25/25 - 11:45AM MST
Pave Bank, which lets businesses manage both fiat and digital assets in real time, raised a $39M Series A led by Accel, with Tet
10/25/25 - 10:00AM MST
A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling
10/25/25 - 08:30AM MST
Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guit
10/25/25 - 06:55AM MST
Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboardin
10/25/25 - 05:45AM MST
A look at AI startups aiming to address loneliness among the elderly; a study predicts the AI market for aging and elderly care
10/25/25 - 02:40AM MST
How Changpeng Zhao's pardon frees him to refocus on reclaiming ground in the US market, where Binance.US only has a 0.75% share
10/24/25 - 11:35PM MST
Xiaomi says surging memory chip prices have raised the cost of making smartphones, after pricing of its new Redmi K90 series dis
10/24/25 - 11:15PM MST
Grab is investing an undisclosed amount in May Mobility as part of a multiyear deal, which includes bringing robotaxis to Southe
10/24/25 - 10:40PM MST
Shares of Japanese optical fiber maker Fujikura are up ~171% YTD, outpacing the Nikkei's 22% and lifting its market cap to $33B+
10/24/25 - 10:25PM MST
Sources: PayPal to take over Carlyle's stake in Shopware, a German provider of e-commerce tools to merchants, with PayPal's stak
10/24/25 - 10:15PM MST
Lindo St. Angel, VP of hardware at Amazon's Lab126 R&D unit since 2010, plans to leave on October 31; he helped develop the Echo
10/24/25 - 09:35PM MST
Oreo maker Mondelez has spent $40M+ on an AI tool, developed with Publicis and Accenture, to cut costs for the production of mar
10/24/25 - 05:40PM MST
Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who joined in January, has left; X's CFO Mahmoud Reza Banki left in early October aft
10/24/25 - 03:35PM MST
Sources detail how Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others brokered a call between SF Mayor Daniel Lurie and Trump to
10/24/25 - 03:01PM MST
Microsoft plans to bring its Halo franchise to the PlayStation for the first time with the launch of a 25th‑anniversary remake o
10/24/25 - 01:55PM MST
Grindr board members Ray Zage and James Lu, part of an investor group that owns more than 60%, offer to take Grindr private for
10/24/25 - 01:35PM MST
Source: President Trump has picked Michael Selig, the chief counsel for the SEC's crypto task force, to chair the CFTC, amid a c
10/24/25 - 12:55PM MST
With an influx of Meta alums, some OpenAI staffers worry it is adopting Meta's tactics, like using social media dynamics with So
10/24/25 - 12:40PM MST
IBM says it was able to run a key quantum computing algorithm in real-time on commonly available field programmable gate array c
10/24/25 - 04:15AM MST
Sources: JPMorgan plans to allow institutional clients globally to use their holdings of bitcoin and ether as collateral for loa
10/24/25 - 03:55AM MST
The EU accuses Meta and TikTok of violating their obligations to give researchers adequate access to public data on their platfo
10/24/25 - 03:45AM MST
EU accuses Meta under DSA of failing to give users easy ways to flag illegal content and adequate tools to appeal moderation dec
10/24/25 - 03:40AM MST
Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October
10/23/25 - 11:35PM MST
A US judge says Meta lawyers told staff to block or remove parts of internal teen mental health research to limit liability; Met
10/23/25 - 08:35PM MST
Apple may turn off App Tracking Transparency in Europe due to "intense lobbying efforts" in Germany and other countries over all
10/23/25 - 08:05PM MST
Sources: Snap is in talks with investors, including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, to raise at least $1B for its AR glas
10/23/25 - 06:55PM MST
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright urges FERC to limit the process for connecting data centers to power grids to 60 days, a proces
10/23/25 - 06:20PM MST
Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove
10/23/25 - 05:00PM MST
Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft won't provide erotica AI services and that "other companies will build that", after Sam Altman s
10/23/25 - 03:55PM MST
EA and Stability AI announce a partnership to build game developer tools, including "smarter paintbrushes" to quickly generate h
10/23/25 - 02:50PM MST
Amazon relaunches its game streaming service Luna, available at no additional cost for Prime subscribers, and adds new beginner-
10/23/25 - 06:15AM MST