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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
UK-based AI law firm Garfield, which received regulatory approval in 2025, wins a case in the English courts for the first time;
06/22/26 - 05:15AM MST
NYC-based Prosper AI, whose health care AI tool is designed to answer patient phone calls, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z, f
06/22/26 - 05:00AM MST
Electric bike rental company Lime is seeking to raise up to $180.9M in its US IPO, offering 6.7M shares at $24 to $26 each, givi
06/22/26 - 04:45AM MST
Chevron signs a 20-year deal with Microsoft to provide natural-gas power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be o
06/22/26 - 04:30AM MST
Netherlands-based Nearfield Instruments, which makes atomic force microscopes to measure chip features, raised $380M led by Fide
06/22/26 - 04:05AM MST
JD.com founder Richard Liu says robots will replace the company's 700K delivery workers "sooner or later", and it will help retr
06/22/26 - 03:40AM MST
Analysis: Taiwanese car display chip maker Himax, which makes driver integrated circuits for Ferrari, VW, and others, nets its f
06/22/26 - 03:30AM MST
SK Hynix overtakes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company, closing up 5.6% for a ~$1.4T market cap; South Korea's
06/22/26 - 03:10AM MST
Getty signs a licensing deal with OpenAI, letting its image library appear in ChatGPT's search and discovery features; GETY jump
06/22/26 - 03:00AM MST
Bain says it uses AI coding tools to recreate pieces of target companies' software, making hundreds of rough prototypes in recen
06/22/26 - 02:45AM MST
S&P and IBM: 22% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hit Japan, the most targeted country, as it scrambles to improve its substandard
06/22/26 - 02:10AM MST
Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a few AI labs "doing all of the learning for the world", as Microsoft moves to p
06/22/26 - 01:36AM MST
A look at JD Vance's "AI doctrine", which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power co
06/22/26 - 01:15AM MST
A look at Russia's push to develop homegrown AI talent, as the country is hampered by scarce access to AI hardware and a brain d
06/20/26 - 03:30AM MST
Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online child safety efforts risk mass surveillance, leaving the markets that demand
06/19/26 - 11:30PM MST
Sources: the UK government is expected to consult as early as this month on rules to make public service news more prominent on
06/19/26 - 10:40PM MST
Sources: PC makers, including HP, are in talks with their supply-chain partners about using CXMT's memory chips in products boun
06/19/26 - 10:35PM MST
Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kem
06/19/26 - 09:50PM MST
Sources: Bain Capital stands to make $15B+ in profits on its 2018 Kioxia buyout, a ~20x return, as Kioxia's stock has surged 5,0
06/19/26 - 09:40PM MST
An interview with Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki on his early decision not to prioritize ad revenue, whether every mega platform becom
06/19/26 - 05:45PM MST
Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis says the phonemaker won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone serie
06/19/26 - 03:25PM MST
DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of $8M+ in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for
06/19/26 - 02:45PM MST
Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX is exploring buying Singapore-based data center operator DayOne; last month, sources said DayOne planne
06/19/26 - 01:45PM MST
Docs: OpenAI burned through $3.7B in Q1, on revenue of $5.7B, and ended the quarter with $73B+ in cash and marketable securities
06/19/26 - 01:10PM MST
The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete w
06/19/26 - 12:45PM MST
South Korean media: Hyundai plans to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M to make the US robotics c
06/19/26 - 12:20PM MST
Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amo
06/19/26 - 11:31AM MST
Oura Ring 5 review: impressive thinness, live activity tracking, and conversational AI, but not very durable, LEDs are distracti
06/19/26 - 10:45AM MST
Amazon MGM Studios drops Luca Guadagnino's mostly finished movie on Sam Altman; Amazon struck a major deal with OpenAI in Februa
06/19/26 - 06:25AM MST
John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workpl
06/19/26 - 05:30AM MST