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A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system ba
12/06/25 - 04:35AM MST
A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI
12/06/25 - 12:35AM MST
Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Tr
12/05/25 - 11:55PM MST
Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issu
12/05/25 - 11:30PM MST
Source: Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business
12/05/25 - 11:20PM MST
Leaked memos: Meta is delaying the release of its MR glasses codenamed "Phoenix" from H2 2026 to H1 2027 for "more breathing roo
12/05/25 - 08:30PM MST
An analysis of 100T+ tokens from the past year shows reasoning models now represent over half of all usage, open-weight model us
12/05/25 - 07:20PM MST
Seattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication training software, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital,
12/05/25 - 05:25PM MST
Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investiga
12/05/25 - 04:30PM MST
A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones
12/05/25 - 03:55PM MST
A look at the uphill battle to win regulatory approval for Netflix's acquisition of WBD, and the roles of the US DOJ, EU regulat
12/05/25 - 02:15PM MST
WBD confirms that Warner Bros. Games will be acquired by Netflix along with its wider streaming and television business (Chris K
12/05/25 - 01:20PM MST
Meta acquires Limitless, which makes a pendant-style AI wearable that records and transcribes real-world conversations; Limitles
12/05/25 - 01:05PM MST
Sources: SpaceX has told investors and financial institution representatives that it is aiming for an IPO in the second half of
12/05/25 - 12:45PM MST
Netflix's WBD bid marks a striking strategy shift for a company long known for pivots, especially after years of avoiding full c
12/05/25 - 12:35PM MST
The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated d
12/05/25 - 07:10AM MST
Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, HSBC, and BNP Paribas for its WBD deal, one of the largest e
12/05/25 - 07:05AM MST
Meta strikes multiyear commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN and Fox News, to provide real-time answers f
12/05/25 - 06:55AM MST
Netflix says it "expects to maintain Warner Bros.' current operations..., including theatrical releases for films" (Tony Maglio/
12/05/25 - 06:50AM MST
Sources and docs: India's government is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple,
12/05/25 - 05:45AM MST
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, set to close after WBD splits i
12/05/25 - 05:25AM MST
The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues like its deceptive blue che
12/05/25 - 04:45AM MST
The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchange
12/05/25 - 04:20AM MST
AWS unveils its 192-core Graviton5 processor, with an up to 25% performance boost over Graviton4, and says Graviton makes up 50%
12/05/25 - 04:05AM MST
Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled t
12/05/25 - 03:25AM MST
Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup
12/05/25 - 01:50AM MST
A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite co
12/05/25 - 12:35AM MST
A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned
12/05/25 - 12:20AM MST
A look back at five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have general
12/05/25 - 12:05AM MST
Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production
12/04/25 - 11:45PM MST
TikTok plans to invest $37.7B+ to build a data center in Brazil's port of Pecém, partnering with Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, its
12/03/25 - 07:25AM MST
Sources: multiple Microsoft divisions lowered how much salespeople are supposed to grow sales of certain AI products after missi
12/03/25 - 07:20AM MST
Q&A with Valve executive Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped build SteamOS and the Steam Deck, on quietly funding open-source tech
12/03/25 - 06:25AM MST
Spotify unveils 2025's top 50 most popular US podcasts, led by The Joe Rogan Experience for the fifth consecutive year; 24 of th
12/03/25 - 06:10AM MST
Spotify releases Wrapped 2025, adding features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, a Top Song Quiz, Liste
12/03/25 - 06:07AM MST
Uber partners with Avride to launch robotaxi rides in Dallas, marking Uber's fourth US city to offer autonomous ride options aft
12/03/25 - 05:50AM MST
Sources and docs: Palantir's Immigration OS helps ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them; a decade ago, Alex Karp sai
12/03/25 - 05:20AM MST
Some YouTube creators are using AI video tools to make content for kids and babies, causing concern that their brains are being
12/03/25 - 05:05AM MST
AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with an
12/03/25 - 04:45AM MST
Vinci, which uses AI simulations to accelerate chip and other hardware design, raised a $36M Series A led by Xora Innovation, ta
12/03/25 - 04:30AM MST
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's American Bitcoin closed down 38.8% on December 2, wiping out ~$1B in market value; TMTG is dow
12/03/25 - 04:01AM MST
HBO Max's 4K Mad Men re-release had multiple errors, including lacking post-production edits in some scenes; a source says Lions
12/03/25 - 03:40AM MST
A look at startups like AGI and Plato, which build replicas of websites to let AI agents learn to navigate and complete specific
12/03/25 - 02:35AM MST
Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th
12/03/25 - 12:40AM MST
Copper demand is being boosted by AI data centers, which require 27 to 33 tons per MW, over 2x that of conventional data centers
12/03/25 - 12:35AM MST
Vista Equity-backed infrastructure software company LogicMonitor acquires Catchpoint, which monitors user experiences across the
12/02/25 - 07:20AM MST
YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US, ahead of a global
12/02/25 - 07:10AM MST
Michael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $250 in individual investment accounts for 25M kids, totaling $6.25B, comparing the
12/02/25 - 06:55AM MST
South Korean police arrest four over hacking 120K home security cameras, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative ma
12/02/25 - 06:40AM MST
Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI
11/30/25 - 04:05AM MST
OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after ChatGPT's debut; Similarweb says Gemini users chat longer per visit t
11/30/25 - 12:05AM MST
Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on "needle-in-a-haystack
11/29/25 - 11:40PM MST
Taiwan raises its 2025 GDP growth forecast to 7.37%, up from 4.45% forecasted in August, the fastest in 15 years, as AI demand b
11/29/25 - 11:20PM MST
India's Department of Telecommunications directs WhatsApp and other messaging apps to implement SIM binding to ensure each accou
11/29/25 - 10:45PM MST
An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative "off-label" uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold
11/29/25 - 07:20PM MST
A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close de
11/29/25 - 03:20PM MST
Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US onl
11/29/25 - 01:25PM MST
Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiati
11/29/25 - 11:25AM MST
Sources: Micron plans to invest $9.6B in Japan to build a production facility for next-gen HBM memory chips beginning in 2026, w
11/29/25 - 10:45AM MST
Pangram Labs: ~21% of the 75,800 peer reviews submitted for ICLR 2026, a major ML conference, were fully AI-generated, and 50%+
11/29/25 - 10:00AM MST
A look at Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese firms have opened offices, fueling a
11/29/25 - 07:50AM MST
Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as W
11/29/25 - 05:35AM MST
A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after its release: AI mania revived Big Tech, making an already concentrated
11/29/25 - 12:35AM MST
Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot on Nov. 19, hired at least 10 former Tesla employees, including engineers who
11/28/25 - 11:45PM MST
Range, which uses AI to offer flat-fee financial planning services to mass affluent households, raised a $60M Series C led by Sc
11/28/25 - 10:45PM MST
An analysis of Google TPU v6e vs AMD MI300X vs Nvidia H100/B200: Nvidia achieves a ~5x tokens-per-dollar advantage over TPU v6e
11/28/25 - 07:25PM MST
A profile of Paulina Borsook, as her 2000 book Cyberselfish, warning about Silicon Valley's love for "techno-libertarianism", fi
11/28/25 - 05:20PM MST
DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chin
11/28/25 - 03:15PM MST
SEC filing: CoinShares withdraws registrations for its XRP, Solana staking, and Litecoin ETFs to focus on higher-margin opportun
11/28/25 - 01:25PM MST
Prime Intellect debuts INTELLECT-3, an RL-trained 106B parameter open source MOE model it claims outperforms larger models acros
11/28/25 - 12:25PM MST
Google withdraws its 2024 EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft over Azure licensing, after the EU launched a probe into Azur
11/28/25 - 10:50AM MST
Indian e-commerce platform Meesho is set to launch an India IPO, seeking to raise $606M, targeting a post-issue valuation of ~$5
11/28/25 - 09:40AM MST
Sources: Intel may start shipping a portion of Apple's lowest-end M chips as early as 2027; Apple is evaluating Intel's 18A proc
11/28/25 - 09:10AM MST
French President Emmanuel Macron criticizes the EU for being too slow to act on probes into Big Tech companies, attributing the
11/28/25 - 08:45AM MST
Sources: Temasek is in talks to buy a ~5% stake in Quest Global, in a deal that values the engineering services company at $4.6B
11/28/25 - 07:45AM MST
CME Group says futures trading on its markets, including for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, was halted on November 28 due to a cooling
11/28/25 - 03:50AM MST
Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed,
11/28/25 - 02:35AM MST
Getty CEO Craig Peters says Getty may rethink its UK presence if the CMA blocks its Shutterstock deal, arguing the CMA is overlo
11/28/25 - 12:10AM MST
Nexperia warns customers face impending production halts and urges its Chinese unit to reengage, says it hadn't got "any meaning
11/27/25 - 11:20PM MST
Australia passes a law requiring global streamers with 1M+ Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their local outlay or 7.5% of
11/27/25 - 11:00PM MST
OpenAI's data center partners are set to rack up nearly $100B in debt; sources say banks may lend another $38B to Oracle and Van
11/27/25 - 10:50PM MST
China's top economic planning agency warns about the risk of a bubble forming in the booming humanoid robotics industry; 150+ ma
11/27/25 - 10:00PM MST
Sources: South Korean authorities suspect North Korean hacking group Lazarus of the $30M+ Upbit hack, which used methods resembl
11/27/25 - 08:20PM MST
Sources: Vietnam's recent Huawei and ZTE 5G equipment deals bolster its ties with China following US tariffs, but could undermin
11/27/25 - 07:50PM MST
How Motorola, which spun out its struggling smartphone business in 2011, successfully refocused on critical communication equipm
11/27/25 - 06:20PM MST
Tim Sweeney says it "makes no sense" for stores like Steam to label games that are made using AI, since AI "will be involved in
11/27/25 - 04:35PM MST
A profile of "Rey", the admin of cybercriminal group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, a 15-year-old from Amman, Jordan who cooperated
11/27/25 - 07:15AM MST
Reliance, Brookfield, and Digital Realty's joint venture Digital Connexion plans to invest $11B by 2030 to build a 1 GW data cen
11/27/25 - 05:50AM MST
EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera accuses the US of using "blackmail" to strong-arm the EU into watering down its tech rulebook d
11/27/25 - 05:20AM MST
Jefferies: Tether, which said it held 116 tons of gold in September, is "the largest holder of gold outside central banks", buyi
11/27/25 - 04:35AM MST
Taiwanese prosecutors search Intel executive Wen-jen Lo's homes days after TSMC alleged he leaked sensitive info, suggesting Tai
11/27/25 - 04:10AM MST
OpenAI says a Mixpanel security incident on November 9 let a hacker access API account names and more, but not ChatGPT data, and
11/27/25 - 03:45AM MST
Alibaba starts selling Quark S1, its first smart glasses powered by its Qwen AI models, for ~$537 in China, and plans to release
11/27/25 - 03:15AM MST
Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a t
11/27/25 - 02:40AM MST
An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which mea
11/27/25 - 12:30AM MST
Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security flaws, raised $36M led
11/26/25 - 11:35PM MST
South Korean crypto exchange Upbit suspended deposits and withdrawals after saying ~$30M worth of Solana tokens were moved to an
11/26/25 - 11:25PM MST
Tidalwave, whose AI agents automate mortgage docs checks and give real-time multilingual feedback to borrowers, raised a $22M Se
11/26/25 - 11:15PM MST
London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58
11/26/25 - 11:05PM MST
San Francisco Compute, which provides a marketplace for AI computing capacity, raised a $40M Series A led by DCVC and Wing Ventu
11/26/25 - 10:45PM MST
Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to
11/26/25 - 10:35PM MST
NYC-based Opti, an enterprise identity security service that uses AI to analyze user, system, and access relationships, raised a
11/24/25 - 06:50AM MST
Revolut reaches a $75B valuation in its latest share sale led by Coatue, Greenoaks, and others, up from $45B in 2024, making it
11/24/25 - 06:35AM MST
Internal documents: Amazon's data center operations total 900+ facilities in 50+ countries, including AWS colocation facilities,
11/24/25 - 06:00AM MST
Hashrate Index: China's bitcoin mining market share rebounded to 14% by the end of October, making it the world's third-largest
11/24/25 - 05:50AM MST
Analysis: as crypto sheds $1T+, the Trump family's fortune has fallen to ~$6.7B from $7.7B in early September; President Trump's
11/24/25 - 05:35AM MST
Amazon-backed nuclear reactor developer X-energy raised $700M led by Jane Street, taking its total funding to $1.4B, to build 15
11/24/25 - 05:25AM MST
The EU unconditionally approves Omnicom's $13.25B all-stock deal to buy Interpublic, creating the world's largest ad agency to b
11/24/25 - 05:15AM MST
Model ML, which aims to use AI agents to automate grunt work done by investment bankers like making pitch decks, raised $75M, af
11/24/25 - 05:00AM MST
OpenAI confirms Andrea Vallone, the head of an OpenAI safety research team that works on ChatGPT's mental health responses, is s
11/24/25 - 04:50AM MST
Alibaba says its Qwen app drew 10M+ downloads in the week after its relaunch, one of the fastest app adoption rates behind ChatG
11/24/25 - 04:35AM MST
Researchers detail popEVE, an AI model to predict the disease-causing potential of unknown human genetic mutations, and says it
11/24/25 - 04:25AM MST
Lenovo CFO Winston Cheng says the PC maker is stockpiling memory and other critical components amid a supply crunch, holding inv
11/24/25 - 04:15AM MST
Banking tech vendor SitusAMC says it suffered a November 12 hack that could expose sensitive customer data; sources say JPMorgan
11/24/25 - 04:05AM MST
Ubisoft says Tencent's €1.16B investment in Vantage Studios, set to reduce its debt, is complete, giving Tencent a 26% stake in
11/24/25 - 03:50AM MST
A look at New Save Collective, a group of gamers and activists roleplaying ICE raids in Fortnite and GTA 5 to prepare for real-w
11/24/25 - 02:15AM MST