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Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form vid
05/17/26 - 05:00AM MST
A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics firm and holds a ~67% stake worth $
05/17/26 - 02:00AM MST
Experts: Stuxnet-linked Fast16 malware, designed to subvert nuclear weapons testing simulations, was likely part of a campaign t
05/16/26 - 11:00PM MST
King's Cross, where Google's new UK HQ is due to open later this year, has become London's new tech, VC, and AI hub, attracting
05/16/26 - 10:20PM MST
Milan-based Webidoo, which develops an operational layer designed to help SMBs access AI tools, raised $25M led by IXC3 for Nort
05/16/26 - 09:55PM MST
Filings: in Q1, Trump traded $220M-$750M in NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, ORCL, and other stocks; millions of dollars of NVDA were bou
05/16/26 - 09:50PM MST
OpenAI partners with Malta's AI for All initiative to give citizens a free year of ChatGPT Plus if they complete a University of
05/16/26 - 08:25PM MST
Nectar Social, which offers an agentic OS for marketers, raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, with GV and True Ventures
05/16/26 - 07:00PM MST
Vietnam's government, which once saw video games as a social risk, named gaming as one of its key cultural industries in 2025 an
05/16/26 - 02:20PM MST
Hill County, which faced eight new data centers, passed what may be Texas' first county-wide ban on them, for one year; the stat
05/16/26 - 01:30PM MST
SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people i
05/16/26 - 11:45AM MST
On Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 day 2, competitors earned $385,750 after exploiting 15 unique zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 11, Red
05/16/26 - 08:50AM MST
In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini c
05/16/26 - 07:30AM MST
Shenzhen-listed RoboTechnik, which claims to be the largest silicon photonics tool maker and whose stock is up 340% over the pas
05/16/26 - 03:30AM MST
US Bureau of Labor Statistics data: employment in 18 AI-exposed occupations fell 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the b
05/15/26 - 11:30PM MST
LA-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking and cross-border payments services across Asia, Africa, and the Middle
05/15/26 - 11:00PM MST
Sources: Kalshi has probed and flagged 400+ suspicious trades YTD, more than 2x the number it investigated in all of 2025; Polym
05/15/26 - 10:05PM MST
South Korea's Hana Bank agrees to acquire a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, for $
05/15/26 - 09:55PM MST
Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to r
05/15/26 - 06:55PM MST
Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: W
05/15/26 - 05:55PM MST
Sources detail friction between Samsung's memory and logic chip businesses over higher bonuses for memory chip workers, leading
05/15/26 - 05:45PM MST
Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Ser
05/15/26 - 05:35PM MST
YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, poli
05/15/26 - 04:05PM MST
Filings: YouTube, Snap, and TikTok reach agreements to settle a lawsuit, set for trial in June, over claims social media addicti
05/15/26 - 03:55PM MST
Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market (Josh Sisco
05/15/26 - 03:40PM MST
Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI h
05/15/26 - 03:15PM MST
How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping indu
05/15/26 - 02:15PM MST
In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a "VC vs GC" video, with the VC apparent
05/15/26 - 01:40PM MST
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon sign an "agreement in principle" to form a joint venture aiming to end wireless dead zones in the US
05/14/26 - 06:25AM MST
Motorola Razr Fold review: good performance and screen, great battery life, sharp camera, and native stylus support, but heavier
05/14/26 - 06:15AM MST
Gallup: 70% of Americans oppose local data center construction, citing water and electricity issues, with opposition higher amon
05/14/26 - 06:05AM MST
Klarna reports Q1 revenue up 44% YoY to $1.01B, above est., GMV up 33% to $33.7B, active customers up 20% to 119M, and a $1M pro
05/14/26 - 05:40AM MST
Spotify says it will adopt Apple's HTTP Live Streaming tech for video podcasts later in 2026, helping creators distribute podcas
05/14/26 - 05:20AM MST
The UK CMA launches an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's business software dominance, focusing on its bundling of Windows
05/14/26 - 04:35AM MST
Meta President Dina Powell McCormick is traveling with President Trump on his China trip and met King Charles III, indicating sh
05/14/26 - 04:25AM MST
SMIC reports Q1 revenue up 11.5% YoY to ~$2.5B and net profit up 5% YoY to ~$197.4M, below $223.6M est., weighed down by higher
05/14/26 - 04:15AM MST
As Meta prepares to lay off ~10% of its staff on May 20, sources say morale is low, and Meta forcibly moved 1,000+ engineers to
05/14/26 - 03:35AM MST
Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust raised $1.75B in its US IPO, selling 87.5M shares at $20 each, and plans to acquire data
05/14/26 - 03:20AM MST
Zhaopin: Chinese graduates returning home from abroad rose 12% YoY in 2025, fueling Beijing's plans to take on Silicon Valley; C
05/14/26 - 03:01AM MST
Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to ~$67B and net profit up 19% YoY to ~$1.6B, meeting est., as it boosts AI server product
05/14/26 - 02:40AM MST
Filing: Jensen Huang's foundation bought $108.3M worth of AI computing time from CoreWeave and is donating it to universities an
05/13/26 - 11:30PM MST
Canadian legaltech company Clio says its ARR has reached $500M, citing demand for its AI tools; Clio had a $5B valuation after a
05/13/26 - 11:20PM MST
Sources: the US cleared ~10 Chinese companies, including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com, to buy Nvidia H200 chips, but
05/13/26 - 11:15PM MST
Microsoft says it is investigating a Mistral AI PyPI package v2.4.6 compromise; the attack is likely part of the Mini Shai-Hulud
05/12/26 - 06:20AM MST
SAP invests in German workflow automation platform n8n at a $5.2B valuation, up from $2.5B after an October 2025 equity raise, a
05/12/26 - 06:01AM MST
Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Wrapped-like experience that features "never-before-shared data" going back to wh
05/12/26 - 05:40AM MST
Delivery Hero says founder Niklas Östberg plans to step down as CEO by March 2027, as the German food delivery group faces mount
05/12/26 - 05:35AM MST
AI voice startup Vapi raised a $50M Series B led by Peak XV, a source says at a $500M post-money valuation, after Amazon chose V
05/12/26 - 05:00AM MST
Sea reports Q1 revenue up 47% YoY to $7.1B and net income up 6% YoY to $428M, both above est., after warding off rivals in South
05/12/26 - 04:25AM MST
Amazon launches Amazon Now, its 30-minute delivery service, in dozens of US cities including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philade
05/12/26 - 04:15AM MST
YouTube is shifting its creator monetization strategy by acting as a matchmaker between creators and sponsors, as Netflix and Ti
05/12/26 - 04:05AM MST
JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $46.5B, above ~$45.8B est., and adjusted net profit down 42% YoY to $1B, amid a fierce
05/12/26 - 03:55AM MST
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will take action against "addictive design" on TikTok and Instagram, in
05/12/26 - 03:45AM MST
Sources: Anthropic officials refused a Chinese think tank's request to change its stance and allow Beijing to access Mythos at a
05/12/26 - 03:35AM MST
eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is "neither credible nor attractive", in a letter from e
05/12/26 - 03:25AM MST
Amp, which aims to buy excess computing capacity from data center operators to sell to startups, universities, and more, raised
05/12/26 - 03:20AM MST
Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel with President Trump on his China trip, a potential setback to Nvidia; Huang exp
05/12/26 - 03:10AM MST
Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debating whether to ban Chinese-made cellular modules, as the US FCC pushes measure
05/12/26 - 02:50AM MST
OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a $4B+ investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acqu
05/11/26 - 06:25AM MST
Google's TIG reports the first confirmed instance of "prominent cybercrime threat actors" using AI to find and weaponize a zero-
05/11/26 - 06:20AM MST
Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving Nitro subscribers access to offers from gaming services like Xbox Game Pass and hardware
05/11/26 - 06:15AM MST
Sources: Masayoshi Son has held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about unveiling a multibillion-dollar AI data center
05/11/26 - 06:05AM MST
In a two-week UK High Court trial, Shein accuses Temu of "industrial scale" copyright infringement of its photos; Temu says Shei
05/11/26 - 05:55AM MST
SEC filing: Cerebras upsizes its IPO to 30M shares at $150-$160 each, up from 28M shares at $115-$125, aiming to raise up to $4.
05/11/26 - 05:45AM MST
Sources: Kuaishou plans to spin off its Kling AI video unit for an IPO in 2027 and is seeking a $20B valuation in pre-IPO fundin
05/11/26 - 05:06AM MST
The European Commission says it is in ongoing discussions with OpenAI and Anthropic to access their latest AI models; OpenAI is
05/11/26 - 04:10AM MST
Microsoft's Playground Games accidentally uploads unencrypted pre-load files for Forza Horizon 6 to Steam, leaking the PC versio
05/11/26 - 03:50AM MST
Circle raised $222M via the presale of its native Arc token at a $3B valuation; a16z led with a $75M investment, with participat
05/11/26 - 03:40AM MST
Filing: Wise plans to debut on the Nasdaq as WSE, and relist in London for its secondary listing; Wise reports year-to-March net
05/11/26 - 03:35AM MST
Musk v. Altman: profiles of US judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, an Obama-nominated blunt and efficient operator, and Elon Musk's an
05/11/26 - 03:20AM MST
Turkish mobile gaming startup Grand Games raised a $70M Series B led by Balderton Capital, after raising $30M in 2025, taking it
05/11/26 - 03:00AM MST
Dua Lipa files a $15M lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that it used her likeness to sell TVs without paying her and without per
05/11/26 - 02:50AM MST
TikTok plans to roll out TikTok Ad-Free, a £3.99-per-month subscription for UK accounts aged 18 or older in the coming months, a
05/11/26 - 02:10AM MST
Most of the tech on display at this year's Border Security Expo was autonomous and AI-equipped, driven by the Trump administrati
05/10/26 - 05:00AM MST
Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading ca
05/10/26 - 02:00AM MST
Inside Consensus Conference, one of the biggest crypto conferences, which had a decidedly corporate sheen in 2026 amid Wall Stre
05/09/26 - 11:01PM MST
NetBlocks: Iran's 70+ day internet blackout is "the longest recorded national internet shutdown in a connected society", as busi
05/09/26 - 10:40PM MST
An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate rose from 3.6% in March to 3.8% in April, as the sector shed 13,00
05/09/26 - 10:15PM MST
Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed up discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by W
05/09/26 - 10:05PM MST
NYC-based Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a $12
05/09/26 - 09:55PM MST
MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for $100M in stock; DFlow had
05/09/26 - 09:45PM MST
Sydney-based AI data center operator IREN agrees to acquire Mirantis, which offers Kubernetes management and cloud infrastructur
05/09/26 - 09:40PM MST
Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and cr
05/09/26 - 08:46PM MST
Executives at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition
05/09/26 - 06:55PM MST
FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating s
05/09/26 - 03:55PM MST
How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is u
05/09/26 - 12:55PM MST
LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero
05/09/26 - 11:15AM MST
Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse mode
05/09/26 - 09:05AM MST
Sources: WH is preparing to order US agencies to partner with AI companies on cybersecurity; the EO wouldn't require pre-release
05/08/26 - 03:10PM MST
Impressions of China's AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs there, and the similarities and differences in working o
05/08/26 - 01:45PM MST
Sony reports a $765M impairment loss due to underperformance of Marathon developer Bungie during the financial year ending March
05/08/26 - 06:15AM MST
Sources: DeepSeek seeks to raise ~$7.3B in its first-ever funding round at a $50B+ valuation, with CEO Liang Wenfeng making a pe
05/08/26 - 05:35AM MST
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde expressed skepticism over the need for euro-pegged stablecoins, saying they co
05/08/26 - 05:05AM MST
Substack says paid subscriptions to creators in the UK, its second-largest market, hit 500K+; global paid subs hit 5M+, with 50+
05/08/26 - 05:01AM MST
Filing: Lime files for an IPO, reporting 2025 revenue of $886.7M, up from $686.6M YoY, and a net loss of $59.3M, up from $33.9M;
05/08/26 - 04:45AM MST
Nintendo reports Q4 revenue of ~$2.60B, below ~$2.75B est., net profit of ~$416M, above ~$403.68M est., and forecasts a decline
05/08/26 - 04:15AM MST
Datadog closed up 31%+ after reporting Q1 revenue up 32% YoY to $1B and raising its FY revenue forecast, an outlier in the softw
05/08/26 - 03:45AM MST
Sony and TSMC announce a new JV to build next-gen image sensors for robots and cars, as Sony moves from in-house manufacturing t
05/08/26 - 03:01AM MST
Sources: China targets 70%+ of silicon wafers used by its chipmakers to be made domestically by 2026; chipmakers see an unspoken
05/05/26 - 06:25AM MST
RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient vi
05/05/26 - 05:25AM MST
a16z crypto raised $2.2B for its fifth fund, down from its record $4.5B Fund 4 in May 2022, taking its total capital raised acro
05/05/26 - 05:15AM MST
The US Commerce Department's CAISI says Google, Microsoft, and xAI join OpenAI and Anthropic in granting early access to evaluat
05/05/26 - 05:05AM MST
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, sayin
05/05/26 - 04:55AM MST
Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, above est., GMV up 34% YoY to $100B, and forecasts weaker Q2 revenue growth; SHO
05/05/26 - 04:50AM MST
Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate business functions, raised $60M led by Accel at a $500M valuation, two m
05/05/26 - 04:40AM MST
Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US
05/05/26 - 04:35AM MST
Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded fo
05/05/26 - 04:30AM MST
Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but sa
05/05/26 - 04:20AM MST
PayPal reports Q1 net revenue up 7% YoY to $8.4B, total payment volume up 11% YoY to $464B, active accounts up 1% to 439M, and s
05/05/26 - 04:20AM MST
Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire UK-based financial services outsourcing business Equiniti from Siris Capital for $4.2B
05/05/26 - 04:10AM MST
Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-LG chair's estate prompts a criminal complaint over how the dynastic South Kore
05/05/26 - 04:00AM MST
Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current $852B valuati
05/05/26 - 03:40AM MST
Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in Portugal in an expansion of its Microsoft partnership, supplying 66K+ Nvidia R
05/05/26 - 03:20AM MST
Source: OpenAI has raised over $4B at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture to help busines
05/04/26 - 05:52AM MST
Enzo Health, whose AI tools help home health and hospice agencies automate tasks like patient intake and documentation review, r
05/04/26 - 05:35AM MST
How AI tools such as Naver's Talking Buddy and SuperBrain are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies,
05/04/26 - 04:35AM MST
Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, which lets companies use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver everything from
05/04/26 - 03:30AM MST
Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters added Instructure to its victims list and claims it has 3.65TB of d
05/04/26 - 03:20AM MST
Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has "now dropped to zero" and that the US' export policy "ha
05/04/26 - 02:45AM MST
Cerebras seeks a valuation of up to $26.62B in its US IPO, aiming to raise $3.5B by selling 28M shares at $115 to $125 apiece in
05/04/26 - 01:55AM MST
Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the
05/04/26 - 01:01AM MST
An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users get 67% of the profits, with the highest-frequency tr
05/03/26 - 11:01PM MST
A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped
05/03/26 - 10:35PM MST
Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas to be worth $3B+ in 2026, out of a $14B+ total microdrama market, boosted
05/03/26 - 10:20PM MST
Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Or
05/03/26 - 09:55PM MST
Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY 2027, as Japan tries to cu
05/03/26 - 09:10PM MST
China's Linkerbot, which holds 80%+ of global dexterous robotic hands market, raised a Series B+ at a $3B valuation and seeks a
05/03/26 - 08:45PM MST
Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a deal for a $1.5B JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and others to sell AI
05/03/26 - 08:15PM MST