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Reddit says its AI-powered content moderation systems caught 25K "spammy posts and comments" per day in Q1, reducing users' expo
07/06/26 - 06:01AM MST
Broadcom agrees to expand its Apple partnership through 2031 to develop and supply custom chips; in 2023, the companies announce
07/06/26 - 05:40AM MST
How some high-income families use AI-powered private schools and tutors, such as Alpha School, to teach their children life skil
07/04/26 - 12:05PM MST
Official data shows Hong Kong accounted for 50%+ of China's $239B in chip imports in the first five months of 2026, a record sha
07/04/26 - 05:30AM MST
A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challen
07/03/26 - 11:30PM MST
Micron breaks ground on its ~$9.3B Hiroshima factory expansion, part of its global ramp-up to meet AI demand, and plans to start
07/03/26 - 10:35PM MST
Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics, which develops spatial tech to let autonomous robots operate in complex, GPS-denied environ
07/03/26 - 10:15PM MST
Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a S
07/03/26 - 10:10PM MST
Montreal-based Stathera, a maker of MEMS-based silicon timing components for chips, raised a $55M Series B led by Maverick Silic
07/03/26 - 09:40PM MST
Midjourney wants Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to reveal in court how they use AI across their companies; studios sued Mid
07/03/26 - 06:20PM MST
A look at the quant fund frenzy in China, as assets under management have more than doubled to ~$384B in less than a year amid r
07/03/26 - 03:20PM MST
Meta could use its compute for its own models, ad scaling, SpaceX-like neocloud deals, and hosting 3rd-party models; it may be c
07/03/26 - 12:30PM MST
Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetiz
07/03/26 - 11:30AM MST
Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like "rape video" and "child video" an
07/03/26 - 09:10AM MST
An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says "there will not be an FDA for AI" under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industr
07/03/26 - 08:30AM MST
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opens an investigation into StubHub following complaints of last-minute ticket cancellations f
07/03/26 - 07:15AM MST
Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~$3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~$30B range, up from a
07/02/26 - 03:10PM MST
Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to suppor
07/02/26 - 06:15AM MST
Sam Altman proposes a "US-led international forum" to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and ma
07/02/26 - 05:00AM MST
SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of cap
07/02/26 - 04:50AM MST
Z.ai launches ZCode, an "Agentic Development Environment" optimized for its new GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan costs from
07/02/26 - 04:20AM MST
Filings: President Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the
07/02/26 - 04:05AM MST
Amazon says Leo reached 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit following a recent launch, which is "enough to support continuous serv
07/02/26 - 03:55AM MST
German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoff
07/02/26 - 03:45AM MST
The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participati
07/02/26 - 03:25AM MST
Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI ag
07/02/26 - 03:00AM MST
Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised $1.2B led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus,
07/02/26 - 02:50AM MST
An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with A
07/02/26 - 01:55AM MST
The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Androi
07/02/26 - 01:40AM MST
A look at the CSOP SK Hynix Leveraged ETF, which trades in Hong Kong and has ballooned into a $13B fund, becoming the world's la
07/02/26 - 01:30AM MST
A survey of US adults finds 56% support banning social media for under-16s, while 21% oppose; majorities across demographic and
07/01/26 - 11:30PM MST
Internal documents: Meta is placing strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division can use Claude Code and Codex, fea
06/29/26 - 06:10AM MST
Japanese prediction market startups Miraima and Poyp are utilizing a "point-to-voucher" system to bypass strict anti-gambling la
06/29/26 - 05:20AM MST
The US DOJ seizes nearly 400 domains for illegally streaming 2026 FIFA World Cup matches; last week, ACE, UEFA, and more shut do
06/29/26 - 04:30AM MST
Chinese robotics startup AI² Robotics raised ~$736M at a ~$2.9B valuation; Alibaba-backed X Square Robot raised an undisclosed a
06/29/26 - 04:10AM MST
Google VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins warns the EU's DMA proposals to open Android and Search could lead to a signifi
06/29/26 - 03:55AM MST
Adobe: online spending across all retailers in the US hit $26.4B during Amazon's four-day Prime Day event, up 9.3% YoY; Walmart
06/29/26 - 03:40AM MST
How a Polymarket dispute over a single syllable ignited a bitter debate; Polymarket uses Risk Labs' Optimistic Oracle to decide
06/29/26 - 03:25AM MST
Verizon and the UK's BT agree to create a joint venture for their international businesses with ~$4B in combined yearly revenue;
06/29/26 - 03:10AM MST
How the UK is betting on IT and AI to combat slow economic and productivity growth, including moving beyond the Golden Triangle
06/29/26 - 03:00AM MST
Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with o
06/29/26 - 02:45AM MST
An interview with Axon CEO Rick Smith, who transformed the Taser maker into a policing software company, as its revenue from AI
06/29/26 - 02:35AM MST
Academic papers and conference materials offer a deep dive into China's all-CPU LineShine, which pairs custom 304-core Arm CPUs
06/29/26 - 02:05AM MST
Sources: disconnected US military databases may have led to the February 28 strike on an Iranian school; some see AI as a fix, o
06/29/26 - 01:40AM MST
A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K+ AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed
06/29/26 - 01:10AM MST
AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and
06/29/26 - 12:50AM MST
Brazil, which has struggled to standardize soccer talent scouting, is embracing AI-powered scouting apps that assess players by
06/28/26 - 03:00AM MST
A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up w
06/27/26 - 11:00PM MST
Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is just 7% of costs and the AI race will be won on E
06/27/26 - 10:40PM MST
A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including "transfer station" sites that buy API tokens abro
06/27/26 - 10:35PM MST
Apple's appeal to a London Court of Appeal ruling begins Monday at the UK Supreme Court; the ruling required it to pay $502M for
06/27/26 - 10:25PM MST
Researchers say Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches latest US models at finding security bugs, as critics question the US' lax approach in re
06/27/26 - 10:20PM MST
Sources: Google told Meta around March it couldn't offer all the Gemini capacity Meta wanted to buy, disrupting and delaying som
06/27/26 - 09:45PM MST
Sources: Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the en
06/27/26 - 08:50PM MST
Netflix has been gradually requiring each profile under a Netflix subscription to use a unique email address; the rule doesn't a
06/27/26 - 08:20PM MST
How AI is shaping the 2026 US midterms, as public anger grows against data center expansion and the AI industry emerges as one o
06/27/26 - 06:35PM MST
The rapid pace of AI progress has created a pervasive fear of missing out across Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders,
06/27/26 - 02:35PM MST
Streaming services must comply with a California law that bans playing ads louder than the content being watched from July 1, bu
06/27/26 - 03:35AM MST
A look at advanced chip packaging, now more reliant on TSMC and its partners in Taiwan than ever, and the efforts to address thi
06/26/26 - 11:35PM MST
Sources: Meituan, Baidu, Xiaomi, and other Chinese tech giants have been trimming their workforces, fueling Chinese workers' con
06/26/26 - 11:10PM MST
Japanese financial giant SBI agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~$289M, with
06/26/26 - 10:15PM MST
Source: Intel has promised to deliver SpaceX and Apple a toolkit this fall to test its 14A node before they make final commitmen
06/26/26 - 09:45PM MST
Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and p
06/26/26 - 09:05PM MST
Sources: the CFTC began an extensive investigation of Polymarket earlier this year; the agency's former acting head killed a sep
06/26/26 - 08:20PM MST
Sources: Apple is lobbying the Trump admin for clearance to buy memory chips from US-blacklisted Chinese company CXMT to ease pr
06/26/26 - 08:15PM MST
Sources: SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks on a consumer mobile phone offering, which would help SpaceX become
06/26/26 - 07:20PM MST
Anthropic says the US government is allowing Mythos 5 to be redeployed to critical infrastructure operators, and is working to r
06/26/26 - 05:55PM MST
Sources: Meta lobbyists are urging California lawmakers to exempt social media platforms from legislation that would increase pe
06/26/26 - 04:40PM MST
Letter: the US lifts its block on Mythos 5, allowing Anthropic to release it to more than 100 US institutions; sources: talks ab
06/26/26 - 03:40PM MST
Anthropic Moves Toward Deal With US to Lift Curbs on AI Models (Bloomberg)
06/26/26 - 03:20PM MST
How AI-native law firms use "management services organization" structures to access capital historically barred from US law firm
06/26/26 - 02:55PM MST
Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly
06/26/26 - 01:55PM MST
Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~$300K in Kalshi equity after becoming a strategic adviser in 2025, when Kalshi was valued at ~$2B
06/26/26 - 06:25AM MST
Q&A with Tim Sweeney on his vision for a cross-platform gaming social system, Unreal Engine 6, AI's PR challenges, the state of
06/26/26 - 05:40AM MST
Italy is investigating Microsoft 365's price hike, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were being
06/26/26 - 03:20AM MST
A study of 408 teens in Australia finds 80%+ were still using social media three months after a ban came into force, citing inad
06/26/26 - 03:00AM MST
Binance tells EU customers that it will stop providing services for them from July 1, after Greece rejected its application for
06/26/26 - 02:40AM MST
Despite the "DeepMind mafia" pulling billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis' former lieutenants is building a
06/25/26 - 11:30PM MST
Shares of Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia slid 12% on Friday after a report that OpenAI was considering delaying its IPO sparke
06/25/26 - 11:00PM MST
Sources: SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell told investors during an IPO roadshow SpaceX may launch a Starlink mobile product and build
06/25/26 - 09:55PM MST
Swiss watchmaker Swatch seeks $170M from Samsung in a London trial over 26 digital watch face apps that allegedly cloned luxury
06/25/26 - 09:50PM MST
OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees are now using Codex, up from ~40% in August 2025; non-developer usage of Codex has risen 137x
06/25/26 - 09:05PM MST
Warp, a startup using AI to automate payroll compliance and employee management, raised a $60M Series B led by Battery, bringing
06/25/26 - 08:20PM MST
Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an $81M Series B at a $1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation fr
06/25/26 - 08:05PM MST
SoftBank's stock fell 12.53% after a report that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's d
06/25/26 - 07:40PM MST
California launches a tool to serve as an "early warning system" for widespread AI-driven job loss, linking AI exposure with une
06/25/26 - 06:45PM MST
Upside, which provides social workers with AI-powered housing insights, raised a $20M Series A led by Aquiline with Flare Capita
06/25/26 - 06:30PM MST
Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to "midtraining" to better compete with Anthropic, aft
06/25/26 - 06:20AM MST
Sail, whose software optimizes how AI models run on existing chips, emerges from stealth with $80M in seed and Series A led by K
06/25/26 - 06:10AM MST
Apple raises Mac, iPad, and other product prices by 15%-25%, saying it has "never seen a component price increase this much, thi
06/25/26 - 05:46AM MST
Scaled Cognition, a reliability-focused lab that develops the Agentic Pretrained Transformer model, raised a $100M Series A led
06/25/26 - 05:20AM MST
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, and others launch Raise Us, a new non-profit led by ex-Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to
06/25/26 - 04:05AM MST
Meta Fury, Meta Adventurer, and Meta Glasses by Kylie all sport EssilorLuxottica branding; Meta executives say dropping Ray-Ban
06/23/26 - 06:13AM MST
Meta unveils Meta Adventurer and Fury glasses, each priced at $299, its first under its own brand, and a $399 Starfire model in
06/23/26 - 06:09AM MST
New York-based crypto analytics startup Allium raised a $40M Series B led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Kleiner P
06/23/26 - 05:20AM MST
The Netherlands joins the US-led Pax Silica initiative alongside South Korea and Japan to coordinate AI supply chains; Taiwan en
06/23/26 - 05:10AM MST
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5, saying the AI video model can generate up to 30-second clips from up to 50 reference materials,
06/23/26 - 04:40AM MST
Google plans a 12-week incubator, picking 10 to 20 AI startups from its "Xoogler" alumni and providing up to $350K in cloud cred
06/23/26 - 03:40AM MST
How Sam Altman's 80+ personal investments, many from his time running YC, benefit from ties to OpenAI; 10+ companies have discus
06/23/26 - 03:25AM MST
Top500: China's Arm-based LineShine passes the US' El Capitan by 20%+ as the world's fastest supercomputer, the first time China
06/23/26 - 03:05AM MST
The EU will apply a €3 duty on items under €150 from July 1, as the bloc seeks to slow the flood of low-priced merchandise from
06/23/26 - 02:55AM MST
South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech sto
06/23/26 - 02:40AM MST
Q&A with Nvidia VP of Healthcare Kimberly Powell on how AI can ease doctors' workloads, address trained medical staff shortages,
06/23/26 - 01:15AM MST
Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from minority investments in game studios in Japan, such as Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it
06/23/26 - 01:00AM MST
How the data center boom is exposing weaknesses in US power grids, and a look at what fixes the electricity infrastructure may n
06/22/26 - 11:05PM MST