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The UK ICO criticizes Google as "irresponsible" after the company announced plans to let advertisers employ fingerprinting techn
12/20/24 - 05:45AM MST
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The UK CMA says its phase one probe finds that chip designer Synopsys' $35B acquisition of 3D software maker Ansys could reduce
12/20/24 - 05:20AM MST
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Bluesky updates its app to include a separate mentions tab in notifications, protections against username squatting, and new con
12/20/24 - 04:55AM MST
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The EU commission approves Nvidia's acquisition of Israeli AI workload management startup Run:ai, saying the takeover raises no
12/20/24 - 04:15AM MST
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Malaysia says it has identified WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Telegram, WeChat, and TikTok as platforms that need t
12/20/24 - 03:45AM MST
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Q&A with Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant on what led to the country's under-16 social media ban, enforcement,
12/20/24 - 02:05AM MST
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Crypto executives say EU's MiCA crypto regulation may end up draining liquidity from markets without achieving EU's goals like p
12/20/24 - 12:00AM MST
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SAP promoted a team lead accused by five female staff of targeting female subordinates, raising concerns about company culture a
12/19/24 - 10:55PM MST
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Sony's shares in Japan surged 50%+ from an August low to reach its new all-time high since 2000 last week, as investors are bull
12/19/24 - 09:30PM MST
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Singapore-based bolttech, a B2B2C startup that offers "embedded" insurance products, raised a $100M+ Series C led by Dragon Fund
12/19/24 - 08:15PM MST
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Sources: Anysphere, developer of GitHub Copilot rival Cursor, raised a $100M Series B at a $2.6B valuation, up from a $400M valu
12/19/24 - 07:20PM MST
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Apple researchers say the company's open-source ReDrafter method on Nvidia GPUs led to a 2.7x speed increase in generated tokens
12/19/24 - 06:55PM MST
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Researchers unveil Genesis, an open-source generative physics engine that trains robots in simulated reality 430K times faster t
12/19/24 - 06:20PM MST
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Charlotte, NC-based Aiwyn, which provides automation software for accounting firms, raised $113M led by KKR and Bessemer, bringi
12/19/24 - 04:20PM MST
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YouTube plans to start a crackdown on "egregious clickbait", or videos where the titles or thumbnails make claims the videos don
12/19/24 - 03:15PM MST
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Finnish smart ring maker Ōura raised a $200M Series D led by Fidelity at a $5.2B valuation and says sales doubled in 2024
12/19/24 - 07:11AM MST
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In 2024, hackers stole $2.2B in crypto across 303 hacks, up from $1.8B across 282 hacks in 2023; in H1 2024, $1.58B had been sto
12/19/24 - 06:20AM MST
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Congress approves $3B in funding for a project to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment from US networks nationwide; Trump's FCC start
12/19/24 - 05:30AM MST
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How Bengaluru, the "Silicon Valley of India", is under pressure as rapid growth tests local infrastructure; its population jumpe
12/19/24 - 05:10AM MST
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Swiss tech advisory SoftwareOne to buy Norwegian rival Crayon in a cash and stock deal valuing Crayon at ~$1.4B; the combined fi
12/19/24 - 04:25AM MST
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The US finalizes a $458M grant for SK Hynix under the CHIPS Act and $500M in loans to build a $3.87B chip packaging facility in
12/19/24 - 04:10AM MST
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A look at the quickly disappearing web, as digital decay and link rot erase all kinds of media; a Pew study says 38% of webpages
12/19/24 - 03:50AM MST
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Sony buys ~$320M of shares in Japanese media powerhouse Kadokawa, which owns FromSoftware, taking its stake to ~10% and becoming
12/19/24 - 03:35AM MST
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Arm v. Qualcomm: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon described Arm's Nuvia license cancellation and demand for Qualcomm to destroy IP af
12/19/24 - 03:15AM MST
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Tracxn: Indian startup funding rounds fell 32% YoY to 1,448 in 2024, but overall funding rose 6% YoY to $11.3B; 40+ startups com
12/19/24 - 02:50AM MST
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A look at BirdVoxDetect, an ML-powered open-source software that ornithologists can use and adapt to detect flight calls from so
12/19/24 - 02:20AM MST
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Sources: Apple is in early-stage talks with Tencent and ByteDance about integrating their AI models into iPhones sold in China;
12/19/24 - 02:05AM MST
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A look at Truth Terminal, an AI bot on X that was created to spark debate about AI alignment, as its crypto wallet swells to ~$4
12/19/24 - 01:55AM MST
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An analysis of nearly 4,000 public datasets finds that over 90% of AI training datasets came from Europe and North America, and
12/19/24 - 12:40AM MST
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Anthropic demonstrates "alignment faking" in Claude 3 Opus to show how developers could be misled into thinking an LLM is more a
12/19/24 - 12:30AM MST
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Snapchat plans to roll out a unified monetization program to pay influencers for ads placed in eligible Stories and Spotlight po
12/16/24 - 07:10AM MST
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Amnesty International: Serbian authorities used phone hacking startup Cellebrite's tools to unlock a journalist's phone before i
12/16/24 - 06:40AM MST
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A profile of US ride-hailing startup Empower, which does 100K rides per week in DC despite refusing to register with the city's
12/16/24 - 05:40AM MST
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A researcher details a "jailbreak" of Reviver's digital license plates, which are legal in some US states, and rewrite its firmw
12/16/24 - 05:15AM MST
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US Senate investigation: senior Amazon execs disregarded internal warnings over the high rates of worker injuries due to concern
12/16/24 - 05:00AM MST
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The EU signs a deal to build the €10.6B Iris² satellite internet network to rival Starlink, with 61% of the project fu
12/16/24 - 04:40AM MST
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Arm and Qualcomm's chip licensing dispute heads to trial in Delaware, in a high-stakes battle set to last about a week over Qual
12/16/24 - 04:25AM MST
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Fastmarkets: the price of gallium, a metal used to make chips, rose to $595 per kilogram on December 13, the highest since 2011,
12/16/24 - 04:15AM MST
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Sources: Revolut staff and early investors offloaded nearly $1B in stock in a secondary sale since August 2024, after the UK gra
12/16/24 - 03:55AM MST
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The UK's Ofcom says the Online Safety Act, passed in 2023 to govern illegal material on internet platforms, has taken effect, an
12/16/24 - 03:25AM MST
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Workers are adopting generative AI faster than companies can issue guidelines on how to do so; a survey says ~25% of the US work
12/16/24 - 02:40AM MST
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Chinese merchants are rapidly expanding their presence on Russian e-commerce platforms like Ozon Global and Wildberries to find
12/16/24 - 01:50AM MST
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How some companies are using AI agents: McKinsey for client onboarding, insurer Nsure to handle customer requests, and Accenture
12/16/24 - 12:05AM MST
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Electric Capital annual survey: total developers working in crypto fell 7% YoY globally, and Solana was the most popular blockch
12/15/24 - 10:05PM MST
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Ad giants Omnicom and Interpublic's merger shows how the industry is preparing for an AI-driven upheaval, which is squeezing out
12/15/24 - 08:55PM MST
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How Sony turned itself around by innovating its games business beyond consoles and making acquisitions to expand its IP and focu
12/15/24 - 06:30AM MST
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Sports stars promoting crypto coins and exchanges with little knowledge highlight the lack of mechanisms for consumers to distin
12/15/24 - 04:25AM MST
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The White Helmets, UNHCR, UNRWA, and other volunteer organizations describe how apps like WhatsApp have transformed communicatio
12/15/24 - 02:20AM MST
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While businesses frequently try to get on an incoming president's good side, the past week's frenzy of tech leaders to woo Trump
12/15/24 - 12:15AM MST
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The EC pledges €750M of the €1.5B planned investment to fund AI-optimized supercomputers across seven sites to help EU
12/15/24 - 12:10AM MST
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An interview with Fei-Fei Li on her NeurIPS keynote talk about visual intelligence, her startup World Labs, giving machines 3D s
12/15/24 - 12:00AM MST
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Donald Bitzer, plasma screen co-inventor and the father of PLATO computer system, considered a precursor to messaging apps and m
12/14/24 - 11:45PM MST
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A look at Broadcom's path to $1T in market cap: stock up 760%+ and three deals worth $10B+ after abandoning its $120B bid to acq
12/14/24 - 11:30PM MST
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Officials say hackers likely accessed personal data of hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island residents, with a "high probability
12/14/24 - 11:00PM MST
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Sources say it makes no sense for Elon Musk to target OpenAI with onerous regulation as co-chair of DOGE, given his remit is to
12/14/24 - 10:45PM MST
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Qualcomm stated Snapdragon X PC return rates are "within industry norm", after interim Intel co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus c
12/14/24 - 09:45PM MST
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Researchers find a yearlong ongoing supply-chain attack targeting malicious and benevolent security personnel and stealing over
12/14/24 - 09:10PM MST
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An investigation finds Cryptomus, registered in Vancouver, is a payment processor for dozens of Russian crypto exchanges and sit
12/14/24 - 07:35PM MST
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Mexico's Yucatán state says AI-powered app MeMind contributed to a 9% drop in suicides over the past two years by connect
12/14/24 - 05:55PM MST
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An analysis of App Store rankings shows how market saturation for AI-based creative apps is making it harder to find good apps t
12/14/24 - 03:55PM MST
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Duolingo has bucked the post-pandemic blues in edtech, with its stock price up over 300% from its 2021 IPO price of $102, giving
12/14/24 - 06:45AM MST
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Japanese chipmaker Kioxia's dramatic valuation drop from $18B in 2018 to $5.1B in its upcoming IPO is due to its high debt and l
12/14/24 - 04:40AM MST
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A look at opposing VC models of Benchmark, which maintains its traditional small-scale approach, and Andreessen Horowitz, which
12/14/24 - 02:35AM MST
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A look at Dell's evolution under Michael Dell, who has transitioned the company from a nostalgic mid-90s PC maker into a leading
12/14/24 - 12:30AM MST
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As Nvidia's stock price growth slows to just 3% over the past six months, experts say investor attention is likely to spread to
12/14/24 - 12:25AM MST
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Vietnam and Indonesia are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a t
12/14/24 - 12:20AM MST
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Malaysia, which has secured billions in AI and cloud infrastructure investments over the past year, launches a national AI offic
12/13/24 - 11:20PM MST
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Ex-ByteDance intern Keyu Tian, who was allegedly dismissed for "serious misconduct", is a co-author of one of two papers chosen
12/13/24 - 10:55PM MST
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Hikvision terminates five contracts with local governments in China's Xinjiang, a move that could shield the company from pressu
12/13/24 - 10:45PM MST
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Tinder warns of declining to flat direct revenue through 2026, below estimates, and says it plans to prioritize improving its us
12/13/24 - 10:10PM MST
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Cantor Fitzgerald settles US SEC charges for $6.75M over disclosures before its SPACs merged with smart glass maker View and geo
12/13/24 - 10:00PM MST
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xAI begins rolling out an upgraded version of Grok-2 that is "three times faster" to all X users, adds a "Grok button" to X post
12/13/24 - 08:45PM MST
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MicroStrategy, Palantir, and Axon will join the Nasdaq 100 index, effective before the market open on December 23; Super Micro w
12/13/24 - 07:50PM MST
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Sources: ServiceTitan's IPO brought big windfalls for early investors, including returns of $1B+ for Iconiq Growth and $800M+ fo
12/13/24 - 07:20PM MST
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During his NeurIPS talk, Ilya Sutskever says "Pre-training as we know it will end", as "we've achieved peak data and there'll be
12/13/24 - 06:40PM MST
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Filing: Samsung accuses India's competition watchdog of unlawfully detaining its employees and seizing data in a 2022 antitrust
12/12/24 - 07:00AM MST
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Zürich-based robotics startup Anybotics raised a $60M Series B extension, taking the round, announced in May 2023, to $110M
12/12/24 - 06:35AM MST
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Current and former Netflix staff say the company has walked back its parental-leave benefits, after shifting its focus from subs
12/12/24 - 06:15AM MST
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Sources: Xiaohongshu, the Instagram-like app popular with younger Chinese users, told investors it will double profit to $1B+ in
12/12/24 - 05:40AM MST
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Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck lists on the Nasdaq via a SPAC, closing at $13.35 for a ~$1.7B market cap; Coincheck had ~2.1
12/12/24 - 05:15AM MST
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Telefónica, one of the world's largest carriers, plans to preinstall the Epic Games Store on every new compatible Android
12/12/24 - 04:55AM MST
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The EU's scrutiny of TikTok over the Romanian presidential election will be a litmus test for enforcing the DSA and should final
12/12/24 - 04:35AM MST
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The NLRB issues a complaint against Netflix's Love Is Blind and classifies its contestants as employees, a case that could have
12/12/24 - 04:15AM MST
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Australia plans a levy on tech companies like Meta with $250M+ in local revenue to force them to pay publishers for journalism,
12/12/24 - 04:01AM MST
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GM pulling the plug on Cruise's robotaxi experiment in favor of "privately owned" driverless cars is the beginning of a risky ne
12/12/24 - 03:45AM MST
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The crypto industry's impact on the 2024 US elections shows that crypto is a perfect anti-establishment technology for the turbu
12/12/24 - 03:30AM MST
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Berlin-based Upvest, which offers an API for stock trading and other financial services to N26, Revolut, and others, raised a &e
12/12/24 - 03:15AM MST
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A deep dive into AI scaling laws, including an outline of the old pre-training scaling trend and the new scaling trends for post
12/12/24 - 03:00AM MST
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Former employees share how Cognizant favored Indian H-1B workers over US staff; internal data from 2013 to 2020 shows ~66% of US
12/12/24 - 02:45AM MST
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Gemini 2.0 Flash LLM early impressions: spatial reasoning performance is impressive, and its new streaming API is one of those "
12/12/24 - 01:01AM MST
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WaveForms, which aims to create AI assistants that pick up on emotional cues from verbal interactions, raised a $40M seed from a
12/09/24 - 07:15AM MST
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Reddit says it is testing Reddit Answers to let select US users ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant response
12/09/24 - 07:10AM MST
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A look at Grand Theft Auto VI, set for release in 2025 after Rockstar started development in 2018, as Rockstar tries to improve
12/09/24 - 06:30AM MST
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Ukrainian officials worry about Telegram, which has soared in popularity during the war with Russia, questioning if its upsides
12/09/24 - 06:05AM MST
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Russian docs and sources: how Putin's forces kept buying US chips, including $5.9M from Texas Instruments from January to August
12/09/24 - 05:50AM MST
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Raspberry Pi 500 review: the Pi 5's power in a convenient keyboard form factor with awesome thermal performance, but lacks NVMe
12/09/24 - 05:35AM MST
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Chinese state media: the State Administration for Market Regulation opened an anti-monopoly investigation into Nvidia tied to it
12/09/24 - 05:20AM MST
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A look at Intel's problems, starting with 2016's 10nm node: 7/11 board members have no chip experience, most CEO options are wor
12/09/24 - 05:05AM MST
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A look at Donald Trump's collision course with the EU over its Big Tech crackdown: targeting Elon Musk's X under the DSA, Apple'
12/09/24 - 04:50AM MST
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Filing: Japanese chipmaker Kioxia set its IPO price at ~$9.70, in the middle of its range, raising ~$800M and valuing it at ~$5.
12/09/24 - 04:35AM MST
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Researchers: Meta let 25 Facebook Pages run 4,100+ ads attacking Romania's pro-EU candidate and promoting far-right figures, wit
12/09/24 - 04:20AM MST
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How FRED, a data tool the St. Louis Federal Reserve created in 1991, recently gained a major following, from <400K website users
12/09/24 - 04:00AM MST
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A look at generative AI's impact, its structural issue of concentrated power among just a few companies, and utopian questions o
12/09/24 - 03:40AM MST
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Researchers say cashless policies, which are picking up pace in the US, disadvantage many groups, including low-income peoples,
12/09/24 - 02:20AM MST
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GroupM expects global ad industry revenue to grow 9.5% in 2024, passing $1T for the first time, with Google, Meta, ByteDance, Am
12/09/24 - 01:55AM MST
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When asked if Musk is a threat to democracy, Nick Clegg says Musk can be either an avid Trump supporter or can try to become "a
12/06/24 - 07:05AM MST