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Nvidia launches a native GeForce Now app on select Amazon Fire TV sticks, offering up to 1080p and 60 fps gaming; Fire TV users
02/12/26 - 07:10AM MST
Q&A with Stratechery's Ben Thompson on aggregation theory, AI, TikTok, ByteDance, AI agentic commerce, SaaS stocks, running Stra
02/12/26 - 06:45AM MST
Simile, which uses AI to help companies predict human behavior, including guessing items customers might buy, raised $100M led b
02/12/26 - 06:35AM MST
Crypto transaction volume linked to suspected human trafficking, largely based in Southeast Asia, hit hundreds of millions of do
02/12/26 - 06:20AM MST
A profile of Applied Intuition, which makes self-driving simulation software and reported $800M in 2025 revenue and 80% gross ma
02/12/26 - 05:45AM MST
Anthropic donates $20M to Public First, a super PAC pushing for AI guardrails and transparency in opposition to OpenAI-backed PA
02/12/26 - 05:30AM MST
Google's TIG says Gemini has been inundated by "commercially motivated" actors who are trying to clone it, including one campaig
02/12/26 - 05:15AM MST
Alibaba says Qwen generated 120M+ in orders from Chinese users over the past six days, ahead of the Lunar New Year; Alibaba is g
02/12/26 - 05:01AM MST
Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana expects the company to hit 1M+ paid weekly robotaxi rides in the US by the end of 2026, up from ~4
02/12/26 - 04:50AM MST
Internal messages: Amazon steers teams to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production, prompting criticism as ~1,50
02/12/26 - 04:35AM MST
xAI all-hands: Nikita Bier says X hit $1B in ARR from selling $3- to $40-per-month subscriptions, but offered no details on ad r
02/12/26 - 04:20AM MST
AI tools like Opus 4.6 actually do make engineers 10x more productive and are addictive, but the "AI Vampire" effect is causing
02/12/26 - 04:05AM MST
Dutch payments company Adyen reports H2 2025 net revenue up 17% YoY to €1.27B and forecasts 2026 net revenue growth at 20%-22%,
02/12/26 - 03:50AM MST
Samsung says it sent the first commercial HBM4 shipments to customers; Samsung seeks to supply Nvidia and compete with memory ri
02/12/26 - 03:40AM MST
Meta's auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep its $27B Hyperion data center pr
02/12/26 - 03:05AM MST
Meridian, which uses AI to make financial modeling and spreadsheets more "predictable and auditable", exits stealth and raised a
02/11/26 - 07:20AM MST
Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B valuation, up 3x from when it rai
02/11/26 - 07:15AM MST
GitGuardian, which integrates with GitHub to offer nonhuman identity and AI agent security, raised a $50M Series C, taking its t
02/11/26 - 07:05AM MST
xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk tells staff that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult
02/11/26 - 06:20AM MST
Filing: San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, set to run for California governor to succeed Newsom, gets donations from Sergey Brin, Roblox
02/11/26 - 06:05AM MST
T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature that supports 50+ languages, coming "this spring" in beta
02/11/26 - 05:50AM MST
Anthropic CCO Paul Smith says the company is focused on "growing revenue" rather than making "flashy headlines", calls the marke
02/11/26 - 05:45AM MST
Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 31% YoY to $3.7B, vs. $3.59B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue growth at a low-thirties percentage ra
02/11/26 - 05:25AM MST
Mistral says it will spend €1.2B to build AI infrastructure in Sweden with partner EcoDataCenter, set to open in 2027 as its fir
02/11/26 - 05:15AM MST
Investigation: as Ford pushes its BlueCruise driving system, some drivers found it confusing to use, misunderstood its limitatio
02/11/26 - 04:56AM MST
Researchers find Kalshi and Polymarket bettors can more accurately predict economic data, earnings, and political events than an
02/11/26 - 04:45AM MST
A profile of South Korea's SK Hynix, a once unloved memory chipmaker that now enjoys 58% operating margins and a $438B market ca
02/11/26 - 04:30AM MST
JPMorgan exec Naveen Mallela, global co-head of blockchain division Kinexys, steps down after 11 years at the bank; Kinexys hand
02/11/26 - 04:20AM MST
SMIC CEO Zhao Haijun says the industry is "a bit panicked" about the memory chip shortage, and more supply may arrive in nine mo
02/11/26 - 04:11AM MST
Chinese video game giant NetEase reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4B and net profit down 29% to ~$903M, below ~$1.2B est., as i
02/11/26 - 04:01AM MST
Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Tavily, which helps AI agents search for up-to-date information for tasks like cod
02/10/26 - 07:20AM MST
NYC-based AI video startup Runway raised a $315M Series E led by General Atlantic, a source says at a $5.3B valuation, and plans
02/10/26 - 07:08AM MST
Cadence rolls out ChipStack, an AI agent to help chipmakers like Nvidia speed up the complex chip design process by up to 10x by
02/10/26 - 07:05AM MST
How a16z became the dominant influence on Trump-era AI policy, including via Marc Andreessen building key relationships; an ex-o
02/10/26 - 06:55AM MST
YouTube rolls out an AI-powered playlist generator that lets Premium and Music Premium users on iOS and Android use text prompts
02/10/26 - 06:45AM MST
Polymarket partners with Singapore-based Kaito AI to launch "attention markets", letting users bet on "mindshare" and "sentiment
02/10/26 - 06:35AM MST
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to buy a Miami mansion, likely to cost up to $200M, joining other tech billionaires as California
02/10/26 - 06:25AM MST
Health care navigation startup Solace, which matches patients with 2K+ advocates, raised $130M led by IVP at a $1B valuation, ta
02/10/26 - 06:15AM MST
Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite, which uses GenAI to investigate suspicious transactions and verify internal risk policy complian
02/10/26 - 06:00AM MST
Meta, TikTok, and Snap agree to undergo independent assessments to rate how effectively they protect teen users based on 24 stan
02/10/26 - 05:50AM MST
Russian media: Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor plans to limit access to Telegram from Tuesday, as the government
02/10/26 - 05:35AM MST
xAI co-founder Tony Wu says he "resigned", following co-founder Igor Babuschkin's exit in August 2025; Wu was in charge of reaso
02/10/26 - 05:25AM MST
Tencent-owned Finnish video game maker Supercell reports 2025 revenue down 4% YoY to €2.65B, EBITDA up 6% YoY to €932M, and 290M
02/10/26 - 05:15AM MST
South Korean online travel platform Myrealtrip aims to hit a $1B+ valuation in a Seoul IPO as early as H2 2027, per CEO Donggun
02/10/26 - 05:05AM MST
Satellite executives, investors, and researchers say Elon Musk's aim to launch space data centers by around 2029 is highly ambit
02/10/26 - 04:55AM MST
Analysis: World Liberty Financial has earned the Trump family at least $1.2B in cash since its launch, while the Witkoff family
02/08/26 - 06:10AM MST
European countries are moving toward social media bans for children, even as doubts persist over implementation and the risk of
02/08/26 - 04:10AM MST
This year's projected capex ramp-up will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google, and Meta, potentially forcing stock
02/08/26 - 02:10AM MST
Analysts say a design refresh for the iPhone 17 lineup has reinforced Apple's status-symbol appeal in China, with the "cosmic or
02/08/26 - 12:00AM MST
A profile of Ali Ansari, the 25-year-old co-founder of micro1, which recruits human experts to train AI systems; micro1 was last
02/07/26 - 11:50PM MST
Anthropic rolls out a fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6 in research preview, saying it offers the same model quality 2.5 times faste
02/07/26 - 11:35PM MST
India's updated startup framework doubles deep-tech startup eligibility to 20 years and triples the revenue cap for tax, grant,
02/07/26 - 11:05PM MST
Chinese regulators reiterate the mainland crypto ban and expand enforcement to cover real-world asset tokenization and offshore
02/07/26 - 11:00PM MST
X unveils a new pay-per-use pricing model for its API, replacing the earlier pricing model that required developers to pay fixed
02/07/26 - 10:55PM MST
Sources: Mercor rival micro1 has told investors it is now generating $200M in recurring revenue; Mercor is offering micro1 emplo
02/07/26 - 09:50PM MST
A look at Corning's booming fiber-optic business, boosted by data center demand and a $6B Meta deal, as Nvidia explores Corning'
02/07/26 - 06:10PM MST
After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its "Yes, and..." culture where every idea is welcomed and judged based on
02/07/26 - 02:25PM MST
DOJ-released emails: Jeffrey Epstein helped Ian Osborne, founder of London-based fund Hedosophia, after Osborne's outreach to he
02/07/26 - 12:45PM MST
Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, USD1, hit $5B in total circulation in January with 85% held in Binance accoun
02/07/26 - 12:10PM MST
Tether froze $544M in alleged illicit income at Turkey's request, part of its push to aid governments in crackdowns against cryp
02/07/26 - 09:50AM MST
New US rules banning Chinese software in internet-connected vehicles from March 17 add urgency to industrywide efforts to reduce
02/07/26 - 04:30AM MST
Kalshi and Polymarket have facilitated over $800M in Super Bowl contracts, as pro gamblers shift to prediction markets and adopt
02/07/26 - 12:30AM MST
Chinese regulators fined Kuaishou $17.2M for failing to curb illegal content; pornographic content appeared on Kuaishou during i
02/06/26 - 11:45PM MST
US data center demand has driven stock surges of contractors and equipment makers like Corning, Sterling Infrastructure, Comfort
02/06/26 - 11:35PM MST
Source: Benchmark raised $225M in special funds to invest in Cerebras' ~$1B Series H, led by Tiger Global; Benchmark led Cerebra
02/06/26 - 10:55PM MST
RADICL, which offers threat detection and response services to SMBs supporting US defense industrial base and critical infrastru
02/06/26 - 10:45PM MST
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb says it accidentally sent $44B worth of bitcoin to customers as promotional rewards
02/06/26 - 08:35PM MST
A look at the state of AI agents, the evolution of thinking models, the staggering need for inference compute in the coming year
02/06/26 - 07:45PM MST
New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth sta
02/06/26 - 06:40PM MST
US tech stocks and bitcoin rally after three days of selling; Nasdaq Composite closed up 2.18%, Broadcom 7.22%, Strategy 26.11%,
02/06/26 - 05:50PM MST
Trump Mobile execs showcase the T1 Phone's new design and specs, and say the phones go through "final assembly" in Miami and ful
02/06/26 - 04:25PM MST
Palmer Luckey's Erebor becomes the first newly created bank to receive a national charter under the second Trump administration,
02/06/26 - 03:45PM MST
Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, i
02/06/26 - 02:45PM MST
Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is raising a $350M+ Series E led by Vista Equity Partners; Intel plans to invest $100M to $15
02/06/26 - 02:30PM MST
Nvidia stock closes up 7.92% after Jensen Huang said the tech industry's surging capex for AI infrastructure is justified, appro
02/06/26 - 02:25PM MST
The UK ICO launches a new investigation into X and xAI over "serious concerns" about Grok's data use and "its potential to produ
02/03/26 - 06:55AM MST
Disney names Josh D'Amaro, head of its theme parks and consumer products division, as CEO, replacing Bob Iger, effective March 1
02/03/26 - 06:40AM MST
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil Luffu, a self-funded startup developing an AI-powered "family care system
02/03/26 - 05:35AM MST
PayPal names HP CEO Enrique Lores as CEO, replacing Alex Chriss on March 1, and reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.7B, missing e
02/03/26 - 05:20AM MST
A profile of Brazilian neobank Nubank, which aims to enter the US market within 18 months, growing its 120M+ users; analysts exp
02/03/26 - 04:10AM MST
Uber rolls out its service in the Chinese gambling hub of Macau, its first new entry to an Asian market for years; Uber sold its
02/03/26 - 03:55AM MST
Sources: OpenAI is prioritizing ChatGPT over long-term research, prompting senior staff departures; Sora and DALL-E teams felt n
02/03/26 - 03:35AM MST
The Paris prosecutor's office says it raided X's French offices with Europol and summons Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarin
02/03/26 - 03:10AM MST
Q&A with Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on Docusign's workforce growing to 7,000 staffers, its Intelligent Agreement Management sys
02/03/26 - 01:50AM MST
Nintendo says the Switch 1 sold 155.37M units as of December 31 since its 2017 launch, topping the DS' 154.02M units, becoming i
02/03/26 - 12:25AM MST
Nintendo reports Q3 revenue of $5.2B, below $5.45B est., a net profit of $1.03B, vs. $950M est., and maintains its 19M Switch 2
02/03/26 - 12:16AM MST
Sources: China's top memory chipmakers, CXMT and YMTC, plan their biggest expansions yet as a global supply crunch lets them clo
02/02/26 - 11:20PM MST
Sources: Telefónica and Liberty Global, co-owners of Virgin Media O2, are set to lead a ~£2B acquisition of the UK's fourth-larg
02/02/26 - 10:50PM MST
A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta ca
02/02/26 - 08:30PM MST
If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack of capabilities, from launch to orbital bandwidth to frontier AI models,
02/02/26 - 06:55PM MST