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ASML will partner with Tata Electronics to help it bring an $11B 300mm chip factory online in Gujarat, expanding India's ability
05/16/26 - 11:00AM MST
A look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strategy to fight unauthorized AI use of his image, which involves trademarking vide
05/15/26 - 06:05AM MST
Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate content within 24
05/15/26 - 05:35AM MST
Nvidia's future in China remains unclear after the Trump-Xi Summit; Trump says China "chose not to" buy Nvidia chips as "they wa
05/15/26 - 05:30AM MST
Google confirms a new storage policy test, after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get 5GB, not 15GB, of free storage
05/15/26 - 04:40AM MST
Indian ride-hailing app Rapido raised $240M led by Prosus as part of a broader primary and secondary financing transaction, valu
05/15/26 - 04:30AM MST
The UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £175M deal with London-based Quantexa to use its AI tech to identify fraud inci
05/15/26 - 04:20AM MST
xAI launches Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows, in beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscri
05/15/26 - 04:10AM MST
Meta rolls out new features for its Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens the d
05/15/26 - 04:05AM MST
Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of
05/15/26 - 03:35AM MST
Sources: HSG, formerly Sequoia China, has set up a $3B continuation fund anchored by its ByteDance stake, offering entry into th
05/15/26 - 03:30AM MST
Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investo
05/15/26 - 02:45AM MST
Kioxia reports record Q4 earnings of ~$3.8B, forecasts Q1 operating profit of ~$8.2B, and says it is planning a US listing; Kiox
05/15/26 - 02:10AM MST
A profile of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who is killing projects, cutting staff, and pleasing Wall Street, while steering the company
05/14/26 - 11:35PM MST
London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised $70M at a $2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it
05/14/26 - 09:55PM MST
UK-based Iceotope, which develops data center liquid cooling tech, raised a $26M Series B co-led by Two Seas Capital and Barclay
05/14/26 - 08:00PM MST
Amazon is replacing its Rufus AI shopping assistant with Alexa for Shopping, powered by Alexa+, on Amazon.com and its app for al
05/13/26 - 06:10AM MST
Poland says it plans to proceed with a digital services tax of up to 3% on large digital platforms, despite threats of retaliati
05/13/26 - 05:55AM MST
Trump Mobile CEO Pat O'Brien says T1 Phone pre-orders will begin shipping to customers this week, and the device is assembled in
05/13/26 - 05:05AM MST
Ofcom fines an unnamed suicide forum £950K, the largest OSA fine so far, for hosting illegal content accessible in the UK; the f
05/13/26 - 04:55AM MST
Analysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cycle, spending $115M+ so far on pro-crypto, pro-AI
05/13/26 - 04:15AM MST
Analysts: China's AI hardware suppliers face capacity constraints and component shortages, including optical and electronic chip
05/13/26 - 04:05AM MST
Google says Chromebooks will get support through their "existing date commitment", and "many" models are "eligible to transition
05/13/26 - 03:45AM MST
How eBay CEO Jamie Iannone transformed the company, refocusing on power buyers in categories with especially high resale demand
05/13/26 - 03:35AM MST
Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$35.8B, below ~$36.3B est., and net income up ~100% to ~$3.7B, in part due to investmen
05/13/26 - 03:26AM MST
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Project Intercept, a partnership with Google, TikTok, and Meta, sent 70M+ warning messages to us
05/13/26 - 03:15AM MST
Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$28.9B, below ~$29.4B est., and net income of ~$8.5B, meeting est., amid a costly AI pi
05/13/26 - 02:56AM MST
SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~$11.6B, above ~$1.5B est., driven by a $25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its O
05/13/26 - 02:45AM MST
Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised $650M+ from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a $4B valuation to pur
05/13/26 - 02:15AM MST
Anduril raised a $5B Series H led by Thrive and a16z at a $61B valuation, up from $30.5B in June 2025, taking its total funding
05/13/26 - 12:50AM MST
Q&A with Amazon SVP of Devices and Alexa Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, its Leo satellite b
05/12/26 - 11:35PM MST
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services
05/09/26 - 05:30AM MST
Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for
05/09/26 - 02:30AM MST
A profile of Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao, who tends to take a conservative approach to revenue projections and has chosen to raise
05/08/26 - 11:30PM MST
Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration t
05/08/26 - 11:15PM MST
Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 bl
05/08/26 - 11:05PM MST
OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped wri
05/08/26 - 10:25PM MST
Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, ex
05/08/26 - 10:15PM MST
NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and subm
05/08/26 - 10:00PM MST
Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over $200M led by SF Group, after raising ~$146M in March at a ~$1.47B v
05/08/26 - 07:30PM MST
Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a $136.6M net loss on revenue of $5.2M for the three months ended March 31;
05/08/26 - 06:50PM MST
Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to $871,200 and a $405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 20
05/08/26 - 05:35PM MST
The FCC says foreign-made routers and drones can now receive software updates at least until 2029, extending its earlier 2027 cu
05/08/26 - 04:40PM MST
EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use "a loophole in the legislation th
05/08/26 - 02:35PM MST
Sony reports Q4 revenue of $19.4B, above ~$18.4B est., operating profit of ~$1.06B, below ~$1.7B est., and forecasts FY 2027 net
05/08/26 - 03:20AM MST
Musk v. Altman docs: Microsoft executives had reservations about funding OpenAI in 2018 but worried that not giving support coul
05/08/26 - 02:30AM MST
Sources: the US suspects OBON, a key company behind Thailand's national AI effort, of smuggling Super Micro servers with export-
05/08/26 - 02:20AM MST
Nintendo says it will increase the price of the Switch 2 globally on September 1, from $450 to $500 in the US, and the price of
05/08/26 - 02:00AM MST
Surveys: half of US adults under 50 get health info from influencers or podcasts; 86% of the health influencers are on Instagram
05/07/26 - 11:35PM MST
Analysis: the combined free cash flow of Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta is expected to fall to ~$4B in Q3 and hit its low
05/07/26 - 11:25PM MST
Filings: Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin is planning a dual IPO in Shanghai and Hong Kong, sources say valuing it at $14.69B+; Ba
05/07/26 - 11:05PM MST
Cologne-based AI translation startup DeepL plans to cut ~25% of its workforce, or ~250 staff, saying adapting to AI "means fewer
05/07/26 - 06:20AM MST
Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5, its first model, which can control robotic hands that it designed i
05/07/26 - 06:10AM MST
Kraken parent Payward agrees to buy Hong Kong-based Reap, which connects financial systems with digital assets, for $600M, and i
05/07/26 - 05:35AM MST
Kalshi raised $1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, its third round in seven months after raising $1B and $300M+, and hits $178
05/07/26 - 05:22AM MST
Researchers: 5,000+ web apps built using AI coding tools like Lovable, Base44, and Replit have little to no authentication, and
05/07/26 - 04:55AM MST
MediaTek launches the first phase of its Taiwan data center, aimed at R&D, powered by Nvidia's B200 platform, and built on Nvidi
05/07/26 - 04:40AM MST
Anthropic's SpaceX deal helps it address a severe compute deficit and comes amid Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit; Grok never grew to
05/07/26 - 04:25AM MST
How lidar and other tech developed for autonomous vehicles is now used in smart city systems, in-home elder care services, and m
05/07/26 - 04:10AM MST
Samsung says it is ceasing sales of TVs and appliances in China amid fierce competition from local brands; Samsung's TV and appl
05/07/26 - 04:00AM MST
UK-based Quantum Motion, which builds quantum computers on silicon chips, raised a $160M Series C; EU-backed growth fund Kembara
05/07/26 - 03:50AM MST
At Code with Claude, Dario Amodei said Anthropic had planned to grow ~10x in 2026 but could grow 80x, calling its growth rate "c
05/07/26 - 03:35AM MST
Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic "to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity"; Musk called Anth
05/07/26 - 03:25AM MST
As founders race to make their companies "legible" to AI, they must keep the things that make them hard to copy "illegible", or
05/07/26 - 03:15AM MST
Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche agrees to acquire US-based PathAI, which makes AI diagnostic tools, for up to $1.05B, with $750
05/07/26 - 03:05AM MST
Specialist chipmaker Silex raised ~$220M in a Stockholm IPO and jumps nearly 160% in trading, the strongest open for a sizable E
05/07/26 - 02:50AM MST
Google updates AI Mode and AI Overviews to add "a preview of perspectives" from firsthand sources like social media and Reddit,
05/06/26 - 06:20AM MST
Morgan Stanley rolls out a crypto trading pilot on E*Trade, charging clients lower prices than Coinbase and Robinhood, ahead of
05/06/26 - 06:10AM MST
Apple's R&D spending hit 10.3% of revenue in Q2, up from 7.6% in Q1 and 9% in Q2 2025, amid the AI boom; Q2 revenue rose 17% YoY
05/06/26 - 06:01AM MST
Nvidia is investing $500M in Corning as part of its partnership to expand US manufacturing of fiber optics for AI infrastructure
05/06/26 - 05:45AM MST
reMarkable Paper Pure review: the new $399 e-paper slate has a great display, responsiveness, and design, but no backlight or ty
05/06/26 - 05:30AM MST
Magnitt: startup funding in the Middle East and North Africa was flat YoY at $799M in Q1 amid the Iran war; Saudi VC firms are p
05/06/26 - 05:20AM MST
A profile of David Sacks, the White House's AI and crypto adviser since December 2024, who is ruthlessly devoted to self-interes
05/06/26 - 05:10AM MST
Sources: in a reshuffle, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will lead Microsoft's new Work Experiences Group, including Teams, after 35
05/06/26 - 04:56AM MST
Corning and Nvidia partner to open three advanced manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas dedicated to optical tech, bo
05/06/26 - 04:45AM MST
OpenAI partners with Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia, and Intel researchers to detail the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) p
05/06/26 - 04:40AM MST
Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B, above $1.01B est., GTV up 13% YoY to $10.3B, and orders up 10% YoY to 91.2M,
05/06/26 - 04:30AM MST
Crypto miner Hut 8 signs a lease worth $9.8B+ over 15 years to provide computing power to a "high-investment-grade company" at i
05/06/26 - 04:15AM MST
Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $13.2B, below $13.3B est., Gross Bookings up 25% YoY to $53.7B, trips up 20% YoY to 3.6B,
05/06/26 - 04:06AM MST
Doc: SpaceX proposes spending $55B to begin building a Terafab chip facility in Grimes County, Texas, and estimates total capita
05/06/26 - 03:15AM MST
Finnish AI lab QuTwo, led by ex-AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, raised a €25M angel round at a €325M valuation, and secures $23M i
05/06/26 - 03:00AM MST