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Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early intern
02/15/26 - 06:55AM MST
As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to
02/15/26 - 02:55AM MST
Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had "pretty much sold out" its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector a
02/15/26 - 12:20AM MST
Abhishek Singh, CEO of IndiaAI Mission, says India will seek international agreement on a "global AI commons" at this week's AI
02/15/26 - 12:00AM MST
Anthropic partners with CodePath to help redesign computer coding curricula at hundreds of US community and state colleges, inte
02/14/26 - 11:45PM MST
Scale AI is suing the US DoD; Scale AI has several contracts with the department, and a spokesperson says the lawsuit "relates t
02/14/26 - 11:35PM MST
Uber says it plans to launch Uber Eats in Austria and six other European countries in 2026, as it gains market share in the UK,
02/14/26 - 11:30PM MST
Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent now handles ~33% of its customer support issues in North America, and it is preparing to r
02/14/26 - 10:55PM MST
Amazon stock fell for the ninth straight day on Friday, its longest losing streak since 2006, opening at $244.98 on Feb. 3 and c
02/14/26 - 09:20PM MST
Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully au
02/14/26 - 08:50PM MST
India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an e
02/14/26 - 03:35PM MST
Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory
02/14/26 - 02:10PM MST
A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug
02/14/26 - 12:30PM MST
Current and former senior employees say AWS is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears it is losing ground to competitors in
02/14/26 - 10:20AM MST
ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an "agent era" upgrade of China's most widely used AI app capable of executing multi-step tasks,
02/14/26 - 08:50AM MST
Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in
02/14/26 - 06:30AM MST
BNP Paribas analysis: Anthropic saw visits to its site jump 6.5% after its Super Bowl ad and DAUs jump 11% post-game, outperform
02/14/26 - 12:30AM MST
Sources: TSMC plans to invest another $100B to build four more US fabs to ensure tariff-free chip sales; analysis: its Arizona s
02/13/26 - 11:45PM MST
India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective e
02/13/26 - 11:30PM MST
Sources: OpenAI is charging $60 per 1,000 impressions for ads in ChatGPT, a high price similar to Netflix's rate when it introdu
02/13/26 - 11:20PM MST
SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay files for a US IPO, and reports a $675.47M profit on ~$1.82B revenue for nine months
02/13/26 - 11:00PM MST
Sources: recently the DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to
02/13/26 - 09:20PM MST
A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after
02/13/26 - 07:40PM MST
Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming it infringed on Disney's works to train its Seedance 2.0 video gene
02/13/26 - 04:15PM MST
Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024
02/13/26 - 03:00PM MST
Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figur
02/13/26 - 02:25PM MST
Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years and 66% of all iPhones are running iOS 26; 68% of iPhones were running
02/13/26 - 01:20PM MST
Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up
02/13/26 - 12:40PM MST
Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to "a country of geniuses in a data center", how AI will diffuse through the economy, fro
02/13/26 - 11:15AM MST
PitchBook estimates that 25%+ of VC-backed unicorns have become "undercorns," startups once valued at $1B or more by VCs but now
02/13/26 - 10:50AM MST
Gather AI, which builds "curious" AI for drones and cameras to autonomously monitor warehouses, raised a $40M Series B, taking i
02/09/26 - 07:25AM MST
Sources: Apollo nears a $3.4B loan deal to a Valor-led investment vehicle to buy and lease Nvidia chips to xAI; through fall 202
02/09/26 - 07:15AM MST
Discord plans to roll out age verification globally starting in March to access some content; all accounts will have a "teen-app
02/09/26 - 07:11AM MST
Uber agrees to buy Getir's delivery operations from Mubadala, without giving the terms; a November 2025 report said it would val
02/09/26 - 07:05AM MST
How Oura won over DC by growing its lobbying spend to $1M+ per year, as RFK Jr. touts wearables for health and the US DOD makes
02/09/26 - 06:55AM MST
Sources: Alphabet aims to raise ~$15B from a US high-grade dollar bond sale, as it seeks to finance $185B in 2026 capex; Alphabe
02/09/26 - 06:41AM MST
Internal memo: Sam Altman tells staff that ChatGPT is "back to exceeding 10% monthly growth", and OpenAI plans to release "an up
02/09/26 - 06:20AM MST
Alibaba's Qwen temporarily stops issuing coupons due to customer overload, hampering Alibaba's Agentic AI ad campaign; Qwen bega
02/09/26 - 05:55AM MST
Sources: AI legal software startup Harvey seeks to raise $200M led by Sequoia and GIC at an $11B valuation, up from $8B after ra
02/09/26 - 05:40AM MST
How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DO
02/09/26 - 05:30AM MST
A profile of Amanda Askell, Anthropic's resident philosopher, who is learning Claude's reasoning patterns in a bid to endow the
02/09/26 - 05:15AM MST
ByteDance debuts Seedance 2.0, a new version of its AI video generation model that can produce multi-shot scenes, available to s
02/09/26 - 04:35AM MST
Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro agrees to supply AWS with various chips, including for high-bandwidth connectivity and power ma
02/09/26 - 04:21AM MST
Chinese chip designer Montage raised $902M in its Hong Kong IPO, jumping 64% in its market debut, the biggest rise since Kuaisho
02/09/26 - 04:05AM MST
YouTube launches a Premium paywall for song lyrics on YouTube Music, after testing it in recent months; users get five free lyri
02/09/26 - 03:55AM MST
How an appeal changed the way the USPTO assesses AI patents under the US Patent Act, signaling a shift towards more favorable tr
02/06/26 - 06:40AM MST
The EU says that TikTok's "addictive design" is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algor
02/06/26 - 04:45AM MST
Goldman Sachs says it has been working with Anthropic on AI agents to automate a growing number of roles at the bank, including
02/06/26 - 04:35AM MST
AT&T launches amiGO Jr., a mid-tier Samsung-made smartphone for kids with parental controls on contacts, app access, screen time
02/06/26 - 04:10AM MST
Women in rural India report experiencing trauma from data annotation work, which requires them to review violent content and por
02/06/26 - 03:50AM MST
Sources: Intel and AMD have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages for server CPUs, with Intel warning of delivery lead
02/06/26 - 12:25AM MST
Meituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce company, for $717M in cash; Dingdong had 7M+ monthly transact
02/05/26 - 11:10PM MST
Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health,
02/05/26 - 09:55PM MST
How the SpaceX-xAI $1.25T merger deal was fast-tracked after SpaceX had a technical breakthrough in orbital data centers last fa
02/05/26 - 09:25PM MST
Sapiom, which is developing a financial layer for enterprises to let AI agents automatically buy the services they need, raised
02/05/26 - 08:40PM MST
Tether acquires a 12% stake, worth $150M, in Gold.com, which enables access to physical and tokenized gold, and plans to integra
02/05/26 - 08:15PM MST
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast capital expenditures that reach a combined ~$650B in 2026, a 60% YoY increase dri
02/05/26 - 08:05PM MST
French authorities charge four people with spying for China by allegedly seeking to obtain satellite data from Starlink and othe
02/05/26 - 07:50PM MST
Only 35 nations signed a declaration affirming "human responsibility over AI-powered weapons", with the US and China opting out;
02/05/26 - 07:25PM MST
A federal jury in Phoenix ordered Uber to pay $8.5M to a passenger who said a driver sexually assaulted her in 2023, the first c
02/05/26 - 06:55PM MST
OpenAI launches Frontier, an AI agent management platform that provides shared context, onboarding, and permission boundaries, a
02/05/26 - 07:11AM MST
Sources: Nvidia delays the release of its incremental gaming GPU upgrade, codenamed Kicker, marking the first year in three deca
02/05/26 - 07:10AM MST
AI interpretability startup Goodfire raised a $150M Series B at a $1.25B valuation, taking its total funding to $209M, and is wo
02/05/26 - 06:45AM MST
Substack notifies users about a "limited" data breach in October 2025, found on February 3 and now patched; a threat actor leake
02/05/26 - 06:10AM MST
London-based Lawhive, whose lawyers and AI tools help individuals and SMBs automate legal tasks, raised a $60M Series B, after a
02/05/26 - 05:55AM MST
AI accounting startup Accrual, incubated by General Catalyst, emerges from stealth and raised $75M; Accrual is part of General C
02/05/26 - 05:15AM MST
Palo Alto Networks: an Asian cyber-espionage group broke into systems belonging to 70 critical infrastructure organizations and
02/05/26 - 05:01AM MST
Bitcoin fell below $70,000, its lowest level since President Trump's election in November 2024 and down 44% from its October 202
02/05/26 - 04:50AM MST
Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to let Premium users in the US and UK buy hardcover and paperback books via its app in spring
02/05/26 - 04:46AM MST
Arm CEO Rene Haas says investor fears about AI hurting software companies are a "micro-hysteria" that exceeds the reality of how
02/05/26 - 04:35AM MST
Analog chipmaker SiTime agrees to acquire Tokyo-based Renesas' timing unit for $1.5B in cash and 4.13M shares in a ~$2.9B deal,
02/05/26 - 04:25AM MST
The UK says Microsoft, the UK government, academics, and experts plan to build a system to spot deepfakes online as part of an d
02/05/26 - 04:16AM MST
Wall Street's idea that a software pure play will "vanish" into an LLM is "nonsense": we need more software, and AI-enabled soft
02/05/26 - 03:55AM MST
Germany's Federal Cartel Office rules Amazon must stop enforcing price controls for retailers on its German marketplace and seiz
02/05/26 - 03:35AM MST
A look at India's push to become a major provider of AI services, as US tech companies pledge tens of billions in Indian data ce
02/05/26 - 03:10AM MST
Sources: Amazon and OpenAI are discussing a deal that could require OpenAI to dedicate researchers and engineers to developing c
02/04/26 - 07:15AM MST
AI voice startup ElevenLabs raised a $500M Series D led by Sequoia at an $11B valuation, taking its total funding to nearly $800
02/04/26 - 07:10AM MST
Amazon rolls out Alexa+ to all Prime members in the US via any Alexa-enabled device, Alexa.com, and the Alexa app, and launches
02/04/26 - 07:05AM MST
Bedrock, which aims to automate heavy construction equipment like excavators, raised $270M led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreide
02/04/26 - 06:30AM MST
Anthropic says "Claude will remain ad-free", its users "won't see 'sponsored' links adjacent to" conversations, and responses wo
02/04/26 - 06:15AM MST
Resolve AI, which offers autonomous AI agents to monitor source code and infrastructure to resolve outages, raised $125M led by
02/04/26 - 06:10AM MST
Egypt plans to ban Roblox in a bid to curb kids' exposure to potentially harmful online material; the Middle East's most populou
02/04/26 - 06:00AM MST
TRM Labs, which helps law enforcement and companies track crypto and blockchains, raised a $70M Series C led by Blockchain Capit
02/04/26 - 05:45AM MST
US Senators introduce the bipartisan SCAM Act, a bill requiring social media platforms to verify advertiser identities via gover
02/04/26 - 05:40AM MST
An interview with Epic Games Store VP Steven Allison, who says "we have a lot of things" to fix and "the launcher sucks", on 202
02/04/26 - 05:35AM MST
Uber plans to expand its robotaxi services to Hong Kong, Madrid, Houston, and Zurich in 2026; Hong Kong will be Uber's first aut
02/04/26 - 05:30AM MST
Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl that parodies the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations, and will a
02/04/26 - 05:25AM MST
Texas Instruments plans to buy US chip company Silicon Labs in a $7.5B deal, paying $231/share in cash, closing in H1 2027; Sili
02/04/26 - 05:20AM MST
Uber reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $14.4B, Gross Bookings up 22% YoY to $54.1B, trips up 22% YoY to 3.8B, and a $296M profit,
02/04/26 - 05:11AM MST
Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, giving users access to the AI agent service; many OpenClaw
02/04/26 - 04:20AM MST
After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on the Grok app, website, and X, rare
02/02/26 - 07:20AM MST
Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or
02/02/26 - 05:15AM MST
How Kontigo, a crypto startup from YC S24 that raised $20M+, helped move money in and out of Venezuela and now faces cutoffs fro
02/02/26 - 05:05AM MST
xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate 720p 10-second videos with better audio, and says Imagine generated 1
02/02/26 - 04:55AM MST
Sources: SpaceX is in advanced talks to combine with xAI and they have informed some of their investors, as Elon Musk moves quic
02/02/26 - 04:42AM MST
How food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders
02/02/26 - 04:30AM MST
Snap blocked 415K+ Australian accounts as of January to comply with the under-16 social media ban and warns of "technical limita
02/02/26 - 04:20AM MST
The US' high-speed internet rollout means drillers, linemen, and splicers pull in soaring pay nationwide amid a labor shortage f
02/02/26 - 04:10AM MST
China's desire to lead in cutting-edge AI is bumping against its aim to control it; Zhipu warned IPO investors about the burden
02/02/26 - 03:55AM MST
Seoul plans to integrate AI chatbot Maeumi into its suicide prevention hotline, offering immediate emotional support before a hu
02/02/26 - 03:40AM MST
A look at Polymarket's rise since the US DOJ dropped its probe: securing publisher deals and US licenses, insider trading concer
02/02/26 - 03:25AM MST
Alibaba plans to spend ~$431M in a Lunar New Year campaign starting February 6 to attract users to its Qwen AI app, above Tencen
02/02/26 - 03:15AM MST
Taiwan hits a 21.06% weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, surpassing China's 20.93%, the first time since July 2007, boost
02/02/26 - 02:45AM MST
SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to an
02/02/26 - 02:30AM MST
Sources: a KKR-led consortium is nearing a deal to buy Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers for $10B+, as Asia sees
02/02/26 - 02:10AM MST