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Brazil is piloting dWallet, a digital wallet program that allows users to monetize their data, the first nationwide initiative o
05/31/25 - 03:35AM MST
A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API key
05/30/25 - 11:30PM MST
London-based Dojo, a payments tech provider to over 140K businesses, raised $190M from Vitruvian Partners in its first equity ra
05/30/25 - 11:20PM MST
Vivodyne, which uses AI and robots to grow human tissues in the lab for drug discovery and development, raised a $40M Series A l
05/30/25 - 11:05PM MST
Defense tech firm Leidos acquires VA-based Kudu Dynamics, which provides AI-enabled cyber defense and offense tools to the US DO
05/30/25 - 10:25PM MST
Sources: TikTok Shop cuts several hundred jobs in Indonesia, leaving Tokopedia and TikTok Shop with ~2,500 employees in the coun
05/30/25 - 09:55PM MST
Nvidia reported record gaming revenue of $3.76B in Q1, up 42% YoY, driven by sales of its Blackwell chips that are used to enhan
05/30/25 - 09:30PM MST
Docs and sources: Builder.ai faked business with Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs the Dailyhunt news app, by "round-tripping" s
05/30/25 - 09:15PM MST
NYC-based Empathy, which runs an online platform providing on-demand tools and guidance for bereaving families, raised a $72M Se
05/30/25 - 08:55PM MST
Vista Equity Partners agrees to acquire ERP software provider Acumatica from PE firm EQT, sources say in a deal that values Acum
05/30/25 - 08:25PM MST
Boston-based cloud cost management startup CloudZero raised a $56M Series C led by BlueCrest Capital Management and Innovius Cap
05/30/25 - 05:50PM MST
Sources: Elon Musk is pushing lawmakers to help clear a path for driverless vehicles and has been weighing in on revisions of a
05/30/25 - 05:25PM MST
Sources: Anthropic has been lobbying Congress to oppose a bill banning states from regulating AI, and pushed against the recent
05/30/25 - 04:50PM MST
Sources: Anthropic's annualized revenue hit ~$3B at the end of May, driven by business demand, up from $2B around the end of Mar
05/30/25 - 04:05PM MST
US v. Google: during closing arguments, a judge queried both sides on ideas to limit Google's monopoly in search and said he exp
05/30/25 - 03:25PM MST
Instacart appoints Chief Business Officer Chris Rogers as its new CEO, effect August 15, replacing Fidji Simo, who left to becom
05/28/25 - 06:15AM MST
Pavel Durov says Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI
05/28/25 - 06:01AM MST
Global Payments says it will sell its Heartland Payroll Solutions unit, which has 50K+ clients, to Michigan-based fintech Acrisu
05/28/25 - 05:45AM MST
Microsoft Surface Laptop 13 review: exquisite hardware, great keyboard, trackpad, and battery, and a 3:2 display, but Snapdragon
05/28/25 - 05:20AM MST
DeepSeek completes a "minor trial upgrade" to R1 and says users can now start testing it, according to its post in an official W
05/28/25 - 05:05AM MST
Apple launches its Self Service Repair program for the iPad lineup, a first, and plans to bring the program to Canada in summer,
05/28/25 - 04:55AM MST
African e-commerce giant Jumia says it is ramping up the number of China-based merchants on its platform, as it faces competitio
05/28/25 - 04:45AM MST
Filing: GameStop acquires 4,710 bitcoin for its corporate treasury, but does not disclose the total purchase amount, after annou
05/28/25 - 04:30AM MST
ASML's stock is down ~25% in the past year from a record ~€1,000 in July 2024, cutting $130B+ from its market cap, amid China ex
05/28/25 - 04:15AM MST
Memo: Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff, set to become Tinder CEO in July, lays out a new vision for the app, including speeding u
05/28/25 - 04:05AM MST
Getty Images CEO Craig Peters says Getty is spending "millions and millions" on its Stability AI lawsuit in the UK and the US, a
05/28/25 - 03:01AM MST
Sources: Nvidia suppliers Foxconn, Inventec, Dell, and Wistron made breakthroughs to resolve issues from 2024 that delayed Black
05/28/25 - 02:40AM MST
Indian documents and emails: CCTV makers clashed with Indian regulators over rules requiring government labs to assess hardware,
05/28/25 - 01:50AM MST
A look at Sea-Lion, a $52M Singapore government-backed AI initiative developing LLMs attuned to the societal and cultural nuance
05/28/25 - 01:30AM MST
A look at issues facing self-driving trucks in the US as Aurora, whose new truck has logged 1,000+ driverless miles on I-45, aim
05/28/25 - 01:05AM MST
Palisade Research claims that OpenAI's o3 altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed t
05/26/25 - 05:15AM MST
Capgemini says it is partnering with SAP to deploy custom Mistral AI tools for industries with stringent data requirements, such
05/26/25 - 04:20AM MST
Sources: Tim Cook declined a WH invitation to join Jensen Huang and others on Trump's Middle East trip, during which Trump criti
05/26/25 - 03:27AM MST
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 18.1% to ~$12.1B, vs. $12B est., net profit up 87.3% YoY to ~$1.4B, as
05/26/25 - 02:50AM MST
At its Build conference, Microsoft sought to show its key role in the AI industry, with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Jensen Huang
05/26/25 - 02:25AM MST
Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son pitched a joint US-Japan sovereign fund to top DC and Tokyo officials to back large tech and i
05/26/25 - 01:10AM MST
OpenAI sets up a legal entity in South Korea and plans a Seoul office, its third in Asia, and says the country has the most payi
05/25/25 - 11:00PM MST
Australia's WiseTech agrees to buy US cloud logistics firm E2open for $2.1B including debt, offering $3.30 per share, a 24.5% pr
05/25/25 - 09:45PM MST
Highlights from the system prompts of Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, including model safety, avoiding sycophancy, and not re
05/25/25 - 05:05PM MST
Tools like Microsoft Copilot are helping execs, managers, and staff quickly catch up on work after a vacation by triaging emails
05/25/25 - 04:55PM MST
Study: users in China's Henan province were on average denied access to 5x more websites than a typical Chinese internet user be
05/25/25 - 04:15PM MST
Source: the main topic at WWDC will be a redesigned software interface, dubbed Solarium, for all of Apple's operating systems, i
05/25/25 - 03:30PM MST
Some Amazon engineers say managers have increasingly pushed them to use AI over the past year, raising output goals and becoming
05/25/25 - 02:30PM MST
Google expands Veo 3 availability to 71 additional countries, and Gemini Pro subscribers now get a trial pack of 10 Veo 3 genera
05/25/25 - 12:15PM MST
A profile of Zach Witkoff, World Liberty Financial co-founder and son of Trump's Middle East envoy, who is pursuing crypto deals
05/25/25 - 11:25AM MST
Some VCs, such as Khosla Ventures, are considering acquiring mature businesses, like call center operators, and optimizing them
05/25/25 - 03:05AM MST
A security researcher details how he discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SMB implementation by analyzing t
05/24/25 - 11:00PM MST
A look at updates that weren't in the Google I/O keynote, including a Nearby Passes notification in Wallet and the Play Store's
05/24/25 - 10:45PM MST
Paris-based Veesion, which offers AI-powered video surveillance software for spotting suspicious behavior in stores, raised a €3
05/24/25 - 10:30PM MST
CX2, a defense tech startup building software and hardware, including autonomous drones, for electronic warfare, raised a $31M S
05/24/25 - 10:25PM MST
General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, launches with $
05/24/25 - 09:50PM MST
OpenFX, which is building a near-instant payments and settlement network for cross-border transactions, emerges from stealth wit
05/24/25 - 09:35PM MST
Amap, Alibaba's mapping and local services business, introduces a ride-hailing feature on the app's English version, targeting f
05/24/25 - 08:50PM MST
Legora, whose AI tools help legal teams review, draft, research, and advise, raised an $80M Series B at a $675M valuation led by
05/24/25 - 08:40PM MST
Crypto investor John Woeltz from Kentucky was charged in NYC for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist for three
05/24/25 - 06:15PM MST
Accessibility consultants say the video game industry's accessibility advancements, which gained momentum in 2020, have slowed d
05/24/25 - 04:55PM MST
Texas is set to enact one of the strictest bans on social media for minors, with age verification requirements and letting paren
05/24/25 - 02:55PM MST
Sam Altman and Jony Ive's awkward io video feels like empty hype until a compelling device is released, especially given Ive's p
05/24/25 - 12:55PM MST
Despite Google's guardrails, Veo 3 users are generating realistic clips of news, disasters, and fictional events, some with dial
05/24/25 - 11:35AM MST
Elon Musk says he needs to be "super focused on X/xAI and Tesla", saying major operational improvements need to be made "as evid
05/24/25 - 10:10AM MST
The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail in partnership with Shein, has struggled to gain traction after
05/24/25 - 05:45AM MST
Japanese carrier Docomo is discontinuing its emoji set, which was last updated in 2013 and became one of the most influential in
05/24/25 - 02:40AM MST
A look at the rise of "sovereign AI", wherein countries invest directly in chip companies like Nvidia and AMD, making AI chips a
05/23/25 - 11:35PM MST
Metaverse startup Infinite Reality, which claims a $15B+ valuation, told shareholders it is rebranding as Napster, an "AI-powere
05/23/25 - 10:40PM MST
Utah-based Awardco, which makes HR software that helps AT&T, Adobe, and other clients manage employee rewards, raised a $165M Se
05/23/25 - 10:25PM MST
Sources: Builder.ai collapsed after it revised its 2024 revenue estimate from $220M to ~$55M and restated its previously reporte
05/23/25 - 10:00PM MST
Polygon cofounder Mihailo Bjelic steps down from the project's development studio, Polygon Labs, and from the foundation board,
05/23/25 - 09:20PM MST
Thoma Bravo-backed Nearmap agrees to acquire property and casualty insurance tech provider itel from PE firm GTCR, a source says
05/23/25 - 09:05PM MST
A US judge vacates Avraham Eisenberg's convictions for fraud and manipulation related to a $110M theft on Mango Markets in 2022
05/23/25 - 06:15PM MST
RevenueCat, which offers tools for devs to add subscriptions to their apps, raised a $50M Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures,
05/23/25 - 05:40PM MST
CB Insights: OpenAI's acquisition of Jony Ive's io for $6.5B sets a new record for venture-backed acquisition by a private buyer
05/23/25 - 05:00PM MST
Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on the trade-offs with Route Share, Uber's business structure, autonomous vehicles, working
05/23/25 - 03:00PM MST
Experts say some Trump officials' plans to amp up cyberattacks against China would risk retaliation the US is increasingly unpre
05/23/25 - 02:05PM MST
Sources: Salesforce is in talks to acquire cloud data management company Informatica, reviving discussions that stalled in 2024;
05/23/25 - 01:20PM MST
Sources: CommScope is exploring a sale of its broadband connectivity and cable arm CCS for up to $10B, seeking to unload assets
05/23/25 - 12:45PM MST
Sources: Foxconn is among potential bidders for Singapore-based semiconductor assembly and testing firm UTAC in a deal that coul
05/23/25 - 06:10AM MST
Trump hosted a gala dinner for the top buyers of his memecoin, including Justin Sun, and reaffirmed his commitment to making the
05/23/25 - 05:45AM MST
Discord SVP Peter Sellis says the app is exploring forums and LLM-powered summaries to make discussions easy to follow and share
05/23/25 - 05:15AM MST
Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold
05/23/25 - 05:07AM MST
Apple raises trade-in prices for iPhones in China to spur demand in key market (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
05/23/25 - 04:34AM MST
Sources: DOGE is using a customized Grok to analyze US government data, including at DHS where it has not been approved, raising
05/23/25 - 04:10AM MST
Vietnam orders ISPs to block Telegram over its failure to prevent illegal content and activities, including fraud, drug sales an
05/23/25 - 03:20AM MST
An interview with Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood about diversifying Roku's business beyond hardware, its services business, t
05/23/25 - 02:05AM MST
PitchBook: emerging managers in VC, defined as those with three or fewer funds, raised $17B in the US in 2024, down from $64B in
05/22/25 - 11:15PM MST
An interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke on the company selling its games business, pivoting to enterprise AI, returning to its
05/22/25 - 09:05PM MST
UK-based R3, a blockchain tech developer for financial institutions, partners with the Solana Foundation to let R3 customers use
05/22/25 - 07:35PM MST
Sources: companies co-owned by JPMorgan Chase, BOA, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and other large commercial banks are exploring wheth
05/22/25 - 06:35PM MST
Bluesky lets "notable and authentic" accounts apply for blue check verification and enables select organizations to become Trust
05/22/25 - 06:10PM MST
Valve releases SteamOS 3.7.8, adding support for the Lenovo Legion Go S, a recovery image to install SteamOS on other AMD handhe
05/22/25 - 05:15PM MST
Meta is testing turning images on some Instagram feeds into 3D photos on the Instagram app for Quest, as well as a new Horizon O
05/22/25 - 04:40PM MST
A security researcher finds an exposed Elastic database with 184M records, including login credentials for Apple, Meta, Google,
05/22/25 - 06:00AM MST
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun unveils the Xring O1, a Xiaomi-made 3nm chip that will power three devices, including the Tablet 7 Ultra, in
05/22/25 - 05:00AM MST
Two new books on OpenAI and the AI industry show how Sam Altman became one of tech's great survivors, outlasting Elon Musk and r
05/22/25 - 04:25AM MST
Analysis: since 2023, US states enacted 120+ deepfake-related laws, with 26 passed in 2025 alone; California passed eight deepfa
05/22/25 - 04:10AM MST
M&S CEO Stuart Machin says hackers accessed the UK retailer's systems using social engineering tactics via a third-party supplie
05/22/25 - 03:55AM MST
FTC v. Meta: Meta rested its case on May 21 after four days of arguments, including that it faces hefty competition and helped b
05/22/25 - 03:40AM MST
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reaso
05/22/25 - 03:25AM MST
Q&A with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto on Super Nintendo World, redesigning Donkey Kong, growing Pikmin, enhancing ga
05/22/25 - 03:10AM MST
Google is tapping its users' data to give its AI models an advantage over OpenAI and Anthropic, starting with its opt-in "Gemini
05/22/25 - 02:50AM MST
Running app Strava raised new funding at a $2.2B valuation including debt, up from $1.5B after raising $110M in November 2020, a
05/22/25 - 02:35AM MST
How SpaceX's Starlink moved quickly to solidify its lead in the satellite internet business, as its competitors face production
05/22/25 - 02:00AM MST
Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 23% to $16.98B, vs. $15.6B est., and net profit down 64% YoY to ~$90M, below $225.8M est., reflecti
05/22/25 - 01:35AM MST
China is catching up with the US in AI, robotics, and other sectors, driven by an R&D spending rise, hitting $500B in 2024, up 3
05/22/25 - 01:10AM MST
How animation startup Toonstar uses its AI tools to make animated content up to 90% cheaper than traditional methods; its YouTub
05/21/25 - 11:35PM MST
An overview of major streamers' revenues, subscriber churn, cancellation rates, shares of US TV viewing time, and shares of US s
05/21/25 - 11:20PM MST
Singapore-based business banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $150M at a $6.2B valuation, up from $5.6B in October 2022
05/21/25 - 05:30AM MST
After a protest disrupted a Build talk, Microsoft's head of security for AI Neta Haiby accidentally revealed confidential messag
05/21/25 - 05:10AM MST
China threatens legal action against anyone enforcing US restrictions on Huawei chips, escalating the US-China tech dispute as t
05/21/25 - 04:55AM MST
Google expands its sovereign cloud options in the EU, including a new "data shield" that provides additional cyber security prot
05/21/25 - 04:45AM MST
Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending
05/21/25 - 04:30AM MST
Maine AG filing: Coinbase says its recent data breach impacted 69,461 individuals; stolen data included government IDs, account
05/21/25 - 04:20AM MST
Volvo expands its Google partnership to integrate Gemini across its model lineup, the first automaker to do so, hoping to ease a
05/21/25 - 04:10AM MST
AI startup Crusoe secures $11.6B in debt and equity to expand a Texas data center it is building for OpenAI, set to open in 2026
05/21/25 - 04:00AM MST
Baidu reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4.5B, above ~$4.3B est., and a ~$1B net profit, as the Chinese search giant fends off in
05/21/25 - 03:50AM MST
Microsoft files an amicus brief supporting Epic Games' App Store fight and blames Apple for delaying the Xbox mobile gaming stor
05/21/25 - 03:35AM MST
Amazon issues refunds for purchases as far back as 2018; CFO Brian Olsavsky said on May 1 that Amazon took a ~$1B charge over "s
05/21/25 - 03:25AM MST
A look at the Coller Dolittle challenge, modeled on the Turing test with a $10M equity investment prize to decipher an animal's
05/21/25 - 03:15AM MST
Analysis: AI energy consumption is exploding, with data centers doubling electricity use between 2017 and 2023, accounting for 4
05/21/25 - 03:05AM MST
Google Meet's AI translator hands-on: emulates voice and tone, translating with a few seconds of lag, similar to watching an ove
05/21/25 - 02:55AM MST
Abu Dhabi's TII releases Falcon Arabic, an AI model that it claims can match the performance of models up to 10 times its size,
05/21/25 - 02:45AM MST
UK tech unicorn Builder.ai, backed by Microsoft, Qatar, and others, says it is entering insolvency proceedings due to financial
05/20/25 - 06:20AM MST
Gravitee, which offers self-hosted and SaaS API management tools, raised a $60M Series C led by Sixth Street, taking its total f
05/20/25 - 06:15AM MST
Sources and a document: the EU plans to levy a flat ~€2 fee on billions of small packages entering the bloc, mainly from China,
05/20/25 - 06:00AM MST
Inside the first Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas: thousands working to build eight near-identical structures, startup
05/20/25 - 05:40AM MST
The EU and the UK agree on a deal to let both regions' competition regulators work together more closely and flag important M&A
05/20/25 - 05:20AM MST
SignalFire: in 2024, Big Tech employment declined 1.6% in Austin, and startup employment fell 4.9%; Dallas, Houston, Denver, and
05/20/25 - 04:45AM MST
Malaysia downplays its deal to use 3,000 Huawei chips to build a first-of-its-kind AI system by 2026, underscoring its delicate
05/20/25 - 04:30AM MST
France says it banned Telegram founder Pavel Durov on May 12 from going to the US for "negotiations with investment funds", afte
05/20/25 - 04:20AM MST
Sources: Sam Altman had sought to delegate more responsibility for months before hiring Fidji Simo, an adept and detail-oriented
05/20/25 - 04:05AM MST
President Trump's recent Middle East trip helped Elon Musk's SpaceX and Neuralink cut lucrative deals, deepening Musk's ties to
05/20/25 - 03:50AM MST
Chinese government data: smartphone exports including iPhones fell 72% MoM to $688.5M in April, the lowest since 2011, outpacing
05/20/25 - 03:35AM MST
Q&A with Feng Ji, the founder of top Chinese quant fund Baiont, on using AI to develop trading strategies, its small team, China
05/20/25 - 03:20AM MST
Analysis: four of the world's top 50 tech companies are European, and none of the top 10 quantum companies are in Europe, as the
05/20/25 - 03:05AM MST
Study: autonomous vehicles trained to use "social sensitivity" in assessing the collective impact of multiple hazards cause fewe
05/20/25 - 02:50AM MST
Spotify says Apple approved an update to let users in the US buy individual audiobooks from its iOS app and see audiobook prices
05/20/25 - 02:35AM MST
Government officials and experts say there have been dozens of recorded crypto-related abductions globally over the past year; F
05/18/25 - 05:10AM MST
Venture Intelligence: Indian deep tech startups have raised $4.7B since 2014, accounting for just 3.2% of Indian startup funding
05/18/25 - 02:05AM MST
AI deals that the US struck with the UAE and Saudi Arabia reinforce its AI leadership, but raise security concerns that the US c
05/17/25 - 11:00PM MST
Nvidia's deals with Saudi Arabia's Humain and the UAE's G42 highlight its strategy to diversify beyond Big Tech customers by par
05/17/25 - 10:45PM MST
Cohere Health, which uses AI to provide prior authorization for health plans, raised a $90M Series C led by Temasek, taking its
05/17/25 - 10:30PM MST
NYC-based Optimal Dynamics, a provider of AI-powered fleet management software to trucking companies, raised a $40M Series C led
05/17/25 - 10:20PM MST
About 30% of South Korean schools have adopted AI-powered digital textbooks since the country's education ministry began a full-
05/17/25 - 10:05PM MST
Somite AI, which is developing AI foundation models for stem cell therapies, raised a $47M+ Series A led by Khosla Ventures, tak
05/17/25 - 09:55PM MST
Addepar, which provides wealth management software, raised a $230M Series G co-led by Vitruvian Partners and WestCap at a $3.25B
05/17/25 - 09:25PM MST
London-based Origin, which offers software to help HR teams administer employee benefits, emerges from stealth with a $21M Serie
05/17/25 - 08:40PM MST
A Fireblocks survey of 295 finance executives: 49% say their institutions use stablecoins in payments, 23% are testing them, and
05/17/25 - 08:05PM MST
An analysis of YouTube's new weekly ranking of top podcasts in the US by watch time shows many popular and well-established podc
05/17/25 - 07:10PM MST
Chinese startups are highlighting their roots instead of downplaying them as they grow overseas, fueled by the success of Chines
05/17/25 - 05:10PM MST
Q&A with Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser on Switch 2 pricing backlash, physical games' importance to its business desp
05/17/25 - 03:10PM MST
How rapid advances in AI are helping Harvard's Galileo Project and other UFO research efforts process huge amounts of data in re
05/17/25 - 01:10PM MST

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