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Sources: SoftBank has completed its $40B investment in OpenAI (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
12/30/25 - 07:16AM MST
China's draft AI rules have measures to protect kids, like time limits and parental consent, ban gambling promotion content, and
12/30/25 - 06:35AM MST
Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax is seeking to raise $600M+ from its Hong Kong IPO, set for January 2026, and has secured Ali
12/30/25 - 05:20AM MST
Sources: China is requiring chipmakers to use at least 50% domestically made equipment for adding new capacity, in a rule that i
12/30/25 - 05:00AM MST
Sources, PitchBook data, and news reports: the founders of Perplexity, Figure AI, Safe Superintelligence, Harvey, and others joi
12/30/25 - 04:10AM MST
Sources: Satya Nadella is focused on the increasing AI competition from Amazon and Google; Microsoft Deputy CTO Dee Templeton sa
12/30/25 - 03:45AM MST
Fast delivery apps like Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy are expanding into India's Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, driven by rising incomes
12/30/25 - 01:55AM MST
Sources: the US has granted an annual license to Samsung and SK Hynix to ship their chip manufacturing equipment to their facili
12/30/25 - 12:00AM MST
Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B+; Manus was raising at a $2B valuation when Meta approached it; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will r
12/29/25 - 10:15PM MST
Meta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and "will discontinue its s
12/29/25 - 08:25PM MST
Shenzhen-based OneRobotics opened flat in its Hong Kong debut after the Chinese home robotics maker raised $210M by selling 22M+
12/29/25 - 08:15PM MST
AI drug discovery startup Insilico rose 45% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising $293M in an IPO; Insilico reported $85M
12/29/25 - 07:55PM MST
Samsung, up 125%, and SK Hynix, up 268%, accounted for nearly half of the 76% gain in South Korea's Kospi, the world's best-perf
12/29/25 - 07:40PM MST
Driven by the AI boom, chipmakers posted $400B+ in sales in 2025; FactSet projects revenue for Nvidia, Intel, Broadcom, AMD, and
12/29/25 - 07:25PM MST
Meta says it will continue to operate and sell the Manus service, and Manus' talent will join Meta to deliver agents across Meta
12/29/25 - 04:50PM MST
Samsung and Google partner to bring Google Photos to TizenOS-powered TVs, launching in March 2026 and showing curated memories,
12/29/25 - 07:20AM MST
SoftBank agrees to acquire NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and digital infrastruct
12/29/25 - 06:50AM MST
Sources detail how JD Vance, David Sacks, and others brokered a fragile truce between President Trump and Elon Musk, who threate
12/29/25 - 06:35AM MST
ACCA, the world's largest accounting body, says it is ending remote exams to combat a rise in students cheating by using AI tool
12/29/25 - 06:05AM MST
SEC filing: Nvidia acquires Intel shares worth $5B, carrying out a transaction announced in September, buying 214.7M shares for
12/29/25 - 05:30AM MST
China's central bank unveils an overhaul of its digital yuan framework, including saying that commercial banks will soon begin p
12/29/25 - 05:10AM MST
Coupang says it is offering $1B+ in compensation to all 33.7M customers affected by South Korea's biggest-ever data breach, afte
12/29/25 - 04:25AM MST
Framework says it is raising DDR5 RAM prices to charge $10 per GB, after a price hike earlier in December due to "substantially
12/29/25 - 04:00AM MST
PitchBook: the biggest US private startups raised $150B in 2025, surpassing the previous high of $92B in 2021, boosted by large
12/29/25 - 03:25AM MST
A Kapwing study of the 15,000 top YouTube channels finds 278 of them have only posted AI-generated "slop" videos, amassing 63B+
12/29/25 - 02:35AM MST
Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to buy NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and
12/29/25 - 02:05AM MST
Since the GENIUS Act's passage in July, the total value of stablecoins circulating rose from ~$250B to $300B+, as they become th
12/29/25 - 01:50AM MST
Sources and a memo: the US DOJ is using a novel reading of a federal anti-fraud law to probe contractors, including Google and V
12/28/25 - 10:05PM MST
In 2025, Big Tech got almost everything it wanted from President Trump, as he backs policies that let the industry grow unfetter
12/28/25 - 08:50PM MST
How tech worker activism has grown more cautious as companies crack down and once-privileged workers realize they don't have muc
12/28/25 - 05:00PM MST
Tracxn: VC funding for Indian startups fell 17%+ YoY to $10.5B in 2025 across 1,518 deals, down ~39% YoY; AI startups raised $64
12/28/25 - 04:15AM MST
US data center developers, facing grid access wait times of up to seven years, are turning to aeroderivative turbines and diesel
12/28/25 - 12:15AM MST
Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery startup Zepto confidentially files for a ~$1.3B India IPO; Zepto raised $450M at a $7B va
12/28/25 - 12:00AM MST
Ubisoft says it intentionally shut down Rainbow Six Siege and its in-game Marketplace to resolve an "incident"; reports say hack
12/27/25 - 11:55PM MST
Sam Altman says OpenAI is seeking a new Head of Preparedness, noting "the potential impact of models on mental health was someth
12/27/25 - 11:00PM MST
Sources: ~90% of Groq employees will join Nvidia and be paid cash for all vested shares; most shareholders will get per-share pa
12/27/25 - 10:40PM MST
ChatGPT told a teen who died by suicide to call for help 74 times over months but also used words like "hanging" and "suicide" v
12/27/25 - 10:00PM MST
China's draft rules on the use of human-like AI would require companies to inform users they are dealing with AI when they log o
12/27/25 - 09:05PM MST
A profile of the Digital Security Helpline, run by Access Now, which gives 24/7 help to reporters and others who suspect they ar
12/27/25 - 03:15PM MST
Q&A with Edison Scientific CEO Sam Rodriques about Kosmos, Edison's AI tool for scientific research, why AI probably won't cure
12/27/25 - 01:45PM MST
A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan's subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, leading Meituan to a big Q3 loss and intern
12/27/25 - 12:30PM MST
A study finds that foreign direct investment accounts for 98% of Vietnam's electronics exports, "signaling limited technology sp
12/27/25 - 09:40AM MST
The European Commission claims €80B of €120B in post-EU Chips Act investments remain on track, despite the stalled GlobalFoundri
12/27/25 - 07:40AM MST
Sources: Peter Thiel and Larry Page may leave CA over a proposed ballot measure, opposed by Newsom, that levies a one-time 5% ta
12/27/25 - 04:40AM MST
As inference splits into prefill and decode, Nvidia's Groq deal could enable a "Rubin SRAM" variant optimized for ultra-low late
12/27/25 - 12:35AM MST
ServiceNow has spent $12B+ on acquisitions and investments in 2025 amid concerns about revenue growth, projected to fall below 2
12/27/25 - 12:15AM MST
Facing disruption from GenAI, the $250B Indian IT industry has adapted by focusing on preparatory work AI requires, such as data
12/26/25 - 11:55PM MST
Despite Palantir's high trailing P/E ratio of ~450, retail traders have poured billions of dollars into the stock, which is up ~
12/26/25 - 10:40PM MST
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like addictive feeds to show warning labels about ment
12/26/25 - 08:05PM MST
The Groq deal secures key talent for Nvidia, including CEO Jonathan Ross, creator of the TPU, and keeps them from companies that
12/26/25 - 07:00PM MST
Indian IT services provider Coforge agrees to acquire Encora, which offers AI tools for product, cloud, and data engineering, at
12/26/25 - 05:15PM MST
Five FaZe Clan influencers exit after failed contract talks with new management; Matt Kalish, who invested $10M, calls FaZe's cu
12/26/25 - 03:50PM MST
Governor Hochul signs law for mental health warnings on addictive social media features (Felix Day/WRGB)
12/26/25 - 02:15PM MST
Coinbase says a former customer service agent was arrested in India, following a May breach where hackers bribed contractors to
12/26/25 - 01:05PM MST
Federal records show ICE has increased its surveillance tech spending to $300M+ under Trump, as the White House lowered privacy
12/26/25 - 11:50AM MST
Refinitiv: AI infrastructure companies borrowed $100B+ in 2025; small companies face higher interest rates given investor warine
12/26/25 - 09:55AM MST
Oracle stock fell 30% this quarter, its steepest drop since Q3 2001, when it slid ~34%, amid skepticism about its ability to ope
12/26/25 - 08:25AM MST
Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin significantly trails Waymo, deploying an estimated 30 cars with safety drivers, vs. Waymo's 2
12/25/25 - 08:30AM MST
Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, includi
12/24/25 - 11:00PM MST
A teardown of Huawei's Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows 57% of components were made in China; similarly priced Huawei phones in
12/24/25 - 10:05PM MST
Q&A with Google DeepMind VP of Research Pushmeet Kohli on launching AlphaFold 2 five years ago, hallucinations, building an "AI
12/24/25 - 07:40PM MST
Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over $300M led by China Mobile's industry investment fund at a $3B valuation, bring
12/24/25 - 05:50PM MST
Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia; Groq says it will cont
12/24/25 - 03:15PM MST
Disruptive CEO Alex Davis says Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq for $20B in cash; leaked email: Jensen Huang says Nvidi
12/24/25 - 02:02PM MST
Analysis: Oracle has moved $66B of debt for building AI data centers off its balance sheet using SPVs; Meta has moved $30B, xAI
12/24/25 - 12:35PM MST
The Trump administration's travel ban on five Europeans includes researchers working to tackle online disinformation and abuse,
12/24/25 - 10:05AM MST
Beijing-based DP Technology, which develops AI tools used by researchers for tasks like computer-aided drug design and battery d
12/24/25 - 09:20AM MST
Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups wi
12/24/25 - 07:20AM MST
The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its "regulatory autono
12/24/25 - 06:30AM MST
Sources: Nvidia tested Intel's 18A to make chips but stopped moving forward; interviews with 20+ people describe how dealmaker L
12/24/25 - 04:50AM MST
AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting the BlueBird Block-2, the first in a series of deployments to challe
12/24/25 - 04:20AM MST
Italy's antitrust authority orders Meta to suspend contractual terms that bar rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp; Meta calls the de
12/24/25 - 03:45AM MST
Chainalysis and TRM Labs estimate that $2.7B was stolen in crypto in 2025 in total, up from $2.2B in 2024; the biggest hack was
12/24/25 - 03:15AM MST
Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month
12/24/25 - 02:30AM MST
A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a n
12/24/25 - 02:00AM MST
YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prim
12/24/25 - 12:30AM MST
Bitcoin miners that are retooling data centers for AI have boosted their stocks; the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF is up ~90% YT
12/23/25 - 11:50PM MST
Over the past month, the US paused talks on a tech pact with the UK, canceled a South Korea trade meeting, and threatened the EU
12/23/25 - 11:05PM MST
Sources: China's AI regulations, which require chatbots to pass a 2,000-question ideological test, have spawned specialized agen
12/23/25 - 10:10PM MST
HCLSoftware, a subsidiary of Indian IT company HCLTech, agrees to acquire business intelligence company Jaspersoft from Cloud So
12/23/25 - 09:55PM MST
Waymo says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages, after pausing its service during blackouts
12/23/25 - 09:35PM MST
South Korean prosecutors allege China's CXMT mass-produced 10nm-class DRAM using leaked Samsung tech, indicting 10 employees who
12/23/25 - 07:30PM MST
Q&A with Blizzard President Johanna Faries on company staff bonus transparency, working under Xbox leadership, restoring the Net
12/21/25 - 06:05AM MST
US CHIPS Act-funded SMART USA Institute, focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Department of Commerce will terminate
12/21/25 - 03:05AM MST
Q&A with Harvard economist Jason Furman, who consults for OpenAI, on the similarities between the AI boom and the dot-com era, A
12/21/25 - 12:05AM MST
DataLane, which is using AI to build an identity graph to map local businesses across the US, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Am
12/20/25 - 11:55PM MST
Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic ligh
12/20/25 - 11:20PM MST
A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which sources say has a $1.2B+ contract giving Tencent access to a large sh
12/20/25 - 10:55PM MST
METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Op
12/20/25 - 10:05PM MST
Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new generation of chips slated for mass production from 2026, just weeks after it
12/20/25 - 09:45PM MST
Surveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used
12/20/25 - 09:20PM MST
A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 35
12/20/25 - 06:20PM MST
S&P Global: data center deals hit $61B globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled YoY to $182B, with Meta raising $62B debt
12/20/25 - 03:20PM MST
Google advises some employees on visas, including H-1B visas, not to travel outside the US due to processing delays, following n
12/20/25 - 01:45PM MST
The RAISE Act requires AI companies with $500M+ in revenue to publish safety protocols and disclose safety incidents within 72 h
12/20/25 - 12:05PM MST
Morgan Stanley: ad tiers account for 30% of Netflix subscribers and 50% of Disney+ subscribers; ad tiers accounted for all US ne
12/20/25 - 10:30AM MST
Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the
12/20/25 - 09:00AM MST
Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M+ total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and s
12/20/25 - 06:35AM MST
Micron projects FY Q2 sales to grow over 2x YoY to $18.7B and adjusted operating income to rise over 5x to $11.3B, signaling hig
12/20/25 - 03:35AM MST
A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks
12/20/25 - 12:35AM MST
OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the
12/20/25 - 12:15AM MST
YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M+ hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 4
12/19/25 - 11:55PM MST
Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies co
12/19/25 - 11:30PM MST
Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US
12/19/25 - 11:20PM MST
China issues new rules letting online merchants set their own prices across platforms for goods and services they sell, effectiv
12/19/25 - 11:00PM MST
Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuatio
12/19/25 - 07:50PM MST
Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store
12/19/25 - 07:15PM MST
OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use
12/19/25 - 05:40PM MST
Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing i
12/19/25 - 05:00PM MST
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble
12/19/25 - 04:10PM MST
Source: Tencent has secured access to Nvidia's Blackwell chips through a cloud service operated by Tokyo-based Datasection (Jaco
12/19/25 - 03:35PM MST
Meta board member Dina Powell McCormick, an ex-top adviser to Trump, steps down after joining in April; source: she is consideri
12/19/25 - 03:25PM MST
Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Tho
12/19/25 - 07:21AM MST
Sources: China is retrofitting older models of ASML's DUV machines to produce advanced smartphone and AI chips, exposing cracks
12/19/25 - 06:50AM MST
DraftKings launches DraftKings Predictions, a new app that lets customers in 38 states trade contracts on sports and financial e
12/19/25 - 06:30AM MST
Denmark says Russia was behind "destructive and disruptive" cyberattacks on a water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the lead
12/19/25 - 05:55AM MST
Sources: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cuts ties with FWD.us, an immigration advocacy group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, elimina
12/19/25 - 05:05AM MST
Coinbase sues Connecticut, Illinois and Michigan over state attempts to regulate prediction markets, arguing that they fall unde
12/19/25 - 03:50AM MST
Sources: UK officials believe China was behind the October cyber attack on the UK's Foreign Office, which aimed to access tens o
12/19/25 - 03:45AM MST
Meta's head of Threads Connor Hayes says that fediverse compatibility isn't a priority for its current roadmap, but it is someth
12/19/25 - 02:25AM MST
Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world's first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around process, expected to power some
12/18/25 - 11:05PM MST
The administrator winding down Do Kwon's Terraform Labs sues Jump Trading for $4B, alleging it unlawfully profited from and cont
12/18/25 - 10:40PM MST
Trump signs the annual defense bill with provisions authorizing the president to screen and restrict US financing of Chinese tec
12/18/25 - 09:15PM MST
Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's "code red" call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization pl
12/18/25 - 08:20PM MST
The US Senate confirms FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill to lead the agency, which regulates stablecoin issuers and impacts how t
12/18/25 - 07:30PM MST
The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency mo
12/18/25 - 07:25PM MST
US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap betwee
12/18/25 - 06:50PM MST
Boat rental services Boatsetter and GetMyBoat plan to merge; Boatsetter CEO Michael Farb says the combined company is set to hav
12/18/25 - 07:15AM MST
North Korean hackers stole a record $2.02B in crypto in 2025, a 51% YoY rise that takes its cumulative stolen total to $6.75B; i
12/18/25 - 06:10AM MST
Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities for students and faculty, who used it 14M+ times
12/18/25 - 05:40AM MST
Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the "world's first utility-scal
12/18/25 - 05:10AM MST
Apple says it will roll out more App Store ads in 2026 "to increase opportunity in search results"; Apple's website says 800M+ u
12/18/25 - 04:50AM MST
Circana: Xbox Series console sales fell 70% YoY to an all-time low in November, compared to the PS5's 40% YoY drop and Switch 1
12/18/25 - 04:25AM MST