Mittwoch, 20. November 2024

16:55
Snowflake reports Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $942.09M, vs. $898.46M est., unveils a deal with Anthropic to bring Claude to Cortex AI; SNOW jumps 18%+ after hours
Constellation Research
16:31
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates
Yahoo Finance
15:30
Sources: xAI has told investors it raised $5B in a funding round valuing it at $50B and that its revenue has reached $100M on an annualized basis
Wall Street Journal
15:20
Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $13.8B in 2024, up from $2.3B in 2023; OpenAI's marketshare in enterprise AI declined from 50% to 34%
CNBC
15:00
Chinese AI company DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, a “reasoning” AI model that it claims is competitive with OpenAI's o1, and plans to open source it
TechCrunch
14:15
Threads begins rolling out the ability to create custom feeds globally, giving users options beyond “For You” and “Following” feeds
TechCrunch
13:50
Sources: Trump's team is talking with the crypto industry over whether to create a White House post dedicated to cryptocurrency policy and is vetting candidates
Bloomberg
13:40
US prosecutors charge five alleged members of the Scattered Spider hacking group for their role in the hacks of 29+ individuals and theft of $11M+ in crypto
Bloomberg
13:30
DCG founder Barry Silbert announces a subsidiary called Yuma to help build decentralized AI services called “subnets” on the Bittensor blockchain network
Fortune
13:15
French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in May 2024, announces its first product, Runner H, an “agentic” AI model, available in private beta
TechCrunch
12:45
Meta unveils new Messenger features, including audio and video voicemail, AI backgrounds for video calls, and hands-free calling and messaging via Siri
9to5Mac
12:20
Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing Xbox game libraries, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers stream 50 supported games they already own
The Verge
11:45
The Biden admin finalizes $1.5B CHIPS Act incentives for GlobalFoundries, meaning it can start receiving federal funding for facilities in Vermont and New York
Bloomberg
11:05
Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade to the Echo Show 15 from 2022, with a 21" 1080p display and auto-framing camera, and updates the Echo Show 15
The Verge
10:43
A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to “time served”, meaning no jail time; Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud charges after FTX collapsed
The Block
10:30
GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile internet, or 57% of the world; mobile subscriber growth fell to 160M in 2023, from 200M per year from 2015 to 2021
Rest of World
09:45
Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring startup LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M
Bloomberg
08:20
Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia
CNBC
08:10
Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: looks like the Watch 7 and has similar health features, but has the guts of 2021's Watch 4, poor battery life, and one size only
The Verge
07:10
Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024
Globes Online
06:40
How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits
New York Times
06:15
As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing generative AI training returns, a market hype break may be useful, just as with previous innovations
Bloomberg
05:55
Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse”
The Verge
05:35
SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China's chip self-reliance push
Bloomberg
05:00
Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the lack of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for their IPOs
Financial Times
04:30
ProRata, which plans to debut an AI search engine in December, inks licensing deals with DMG and others; sources: DMG bought a stake valuing ProRata at ~$130M
Financial Times
04:15
An investigation reveals how phone coordinates collected by US data broker Datastream expose the movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany
Wired
04:00
How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, visual language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn to move and pick up skills
Financial Times
02:35
How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google
Fortune
02:20
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI model regulation to protect the public
Financial Times
02:10
TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply
Nikkei Asia
02:00
Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds surveillance drones that act as the communication and navigation hub for swarms of smaller drones, raised a €70M Series B
Bloomberg
01:50
Mark Parsons, who led the axed £800M UK supercomputer project, warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the top 50, risks falling behind
Financial Times
01:40
The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asia: Bhutan's bitcoin holdings reached $1.1B, 36% of its GDP, South Korea's increased trading activity, and more
Bloomberg
01:05
A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed
The Record
00:10
Trump Media now has a $6B+ market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb says site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October 2024
Washington Post

Dienstag, 19. November 2024

23:50
SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tuning, iterating, and evaluating AI training datasets, raised a $36M Series B led by Socium Ventures
TechCrunch
23:25
Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third parties from using any data in AI models or similar apps, including to show a user's Strava data to other users
DC Rainmaker
23:00
Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, can access “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1
404 Media
22:20
Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans to offer internet in Brazil in 2026, after launching its first 18 satellites in August and 18 more in September
Bloomberg
21:25
Roboflow, which provides open-source tools for developers to build computer vision models, raised a $40M Series B led by GV
Fortune
20:00
Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service for enterprises, raised a $75M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives
TechCrunch
19:45
Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule compared to the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving OEMs more time
Android Police
18:50
Source: Databricks tells investors it aims to raise $7B to $9B at a ~$61B valuation, to cash out employees that hold RSUs and cover the staff taxes it would owe
The Information
18:40
Sony launches PlayStation Portal cloud streaming in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in 30 countries stream select PS5 games in 720p or 1080p
The Verge
18:20
Coinbase plans to delist wBTC next month, as Justin Sun gains influence over the wBTC protocol; Coinbase launched its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, in September 2024
The Block
18:00
Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in the US, the UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible for free, to counter Spotify
TechCrunch
17:30
Qualcomm expects its automotive and IoT businesses to drive combined revenues of $22B by FY 2029, including $8B from automotive chips and $4B from PC chips
Bloomberg
17:15
A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems
Reuters
16:30
Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as Commerce Secretary
CoinDesk
16:25
After a report that Trump's “Department of Government Efficiency” is considering a free tax-filing app, Intuit shares closed down 5.1% and H&R Block down 8.2%
CNBC
16:05
Google ships first developer preview of Android 16 to speed up feature rollouts
TechCrunch
15:25
Source: Microsoft signs a deal with News Corp's HarperCollins to use nonfiction titles to train an unannounced AI model; HarperCollins says authors can opt out
Bloomberg
14:15
Google rolls out a “memory” feature for Gemini Advanced subscribers for the web app that remembers a user's interests and preferences
TechCrunch
13:55
Meta forms a new product group to build AI tools for the 200M businesses that use its apps, led by Clara Shih, who most recently was Salesforce AI's CEO
Axios
13:15
CrowdStrike finds another China-linked group breaching telecommunications networks, in SEA and Africa, since at least 2020, to spy on texts and call metadata
Axios
13:00
Robinhood agrees to acquire TradePMR, a custodial and portfolio management platform for registered investment advisors, in a ~$300M deal set to close in H1 2025
Bloomberg
12:10
Kong, which helps customers manage APIs, raised a $175M Series E co-led by Tiger Global and Balderton at a $2B valuation, taking its total raised to $345M
Bloomberg
12:06
Bluesky says it now has 20M+ users after hitting 15M on November 13, and the app has been #1 in the US App Store since November 13, per Appfigures
TechCrunch
11:50
Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a large geospatial model, or LGM, that can navigate the physical world and power robots
404 Media
11:20
Sources: Apple has started selling its own ad inventory for Apple News; publishers will get a 70% cut of the ad revenue generated by Apple within their articles
Axios
10:30
Microsoft says it has the largest enterprise AI agent ecosystem, with 100K+ orgs making or editing AI agents in Copilot Studio and “2x growth in just a quarter”
VentureBeat
10:07
Smart ring maker Oura raised a $75M Series D from medical device company Dexcom at a $5B+ valuation, up from $2.55B in April 2022
Bloomberg
09:50
Rox, which is developing AI-powered agents for salespeople, raised $50M across seed led by Sequoia and Series A led by General Catalyst
Bloomberg
09:40
Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M Series C led by Spark Capital and unveils a 3.2TB-per-second accelerated compute fabric of ACF SuperNIC chip
SiliconANGLE
09:05
Microsoft unveils the Azure Boost DPU, its first data processing unit, and the Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module, its new in-house security chip
TechCrunch
09:00
Microsoft debuts an AI interpreter in Teams in limited preview that can simulate speaker voices and offer near-real-time voice interpretation in nine languages
Washington Post
08:58
Microsoft and Atom Computing plan to ship quantum computers with 1,000+ physical qubits to enterprises in 2025 and detail a 24 entangled logical qubits record
TechCrunch
08:54
Microsoft announces Zero Day Quest, a Black Hat-like hacking event at its Redmond HQ in 2025 that it says will be the largest of its kind, and opens submissions
The Verge
08:52
Microsoft plans to bring the “full capabilities” of Windows 11 to Meta's Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December in public preview, promising only “seconds” to connect
TechCrunch
08:50
Microsoft unveils Azure AI Foundry to help customers build AI apps, including an SDK, tools for deploying AI agents, and a portal that replaces Azure AI Studio
Bloomberg
08:44
Microsoft debuts the Windows Resiliency Initiative to help avoid another CrowdStrike-like incident, and a Quick Machine Recovery feature for fixing PCs remotely
The Verge
08:43
Microsoft unveils the $349 Windows 365 Link, a mini PC for its Windows 365 cloud service running a “super hardened version of Windows”, shipping in April 2025
The Verge
07:35
The UK CMA clears Google's partnership with Anthropic, finding that Google has not gained “material influence” over the AI startup, following a formal probe
Bloomberg
07:10
Instagram says it is testing letting users reset the algorithmic suggestions that power Feed, Reels, and Explore, and the update “will soon roll out globally”
Engadget
06:35
Sources: US officials are racing to deliver billions in CHIPS Act funding to Intel and others before Biden leaves office; nearly $30B is tied up in negotiations
Wall Street Journal
06:15
Super Micro hires BDO USA as its new independent auditor and files a plan to come into compliance with the Nasdaq's listing requirements; SMCI jumps 20%+
Bloomberg
06:00
US federal data shows nearly 1.8M human warehouse workers, up 30% since early 2020, despite automation efforts, as robots struggle at crucial, simple tasks
New York Times
05:35
Sources: Huawei is designing its next two Ascend chips around a 7nm architecture, meaning its marquee chips will be stuck with aging tech until at least 2026
Bloomberg
05:25
Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and Meituan have been expanding their AI teams in Silicon Valley in recent months, despite US efforts to stymie Chinese companies
Financial Times
05:10
Google and Nvidia say Google's Quantum AI unit will use Nvidia's Eos supercomputer to speed up the design of quantum components by simulating quantum physics
Bloomberg
04:55
Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the Japanese media powerhouse behind the Elden Ring game, in the coming weeks; Kadokawa had a ~$2.7B market cap
Reuters
04:20
Social media users criticize Coca-Cola over an AI-generated Christmas video; many creatives say it is distasteful to use AI tech instead of the work of artists
NBC News
04:05
Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2024, down from $47B in 2023, with only $3B in IPO value and $10B in M&A through mid-November
TechCrunch
02:05
An interview with Meta's heads of design for wearables Joshua To and Michelle Pujals on Orion's design, aiming to make Orion the AirPods of AR, and more
Fast Company
00:40
Los Angeles-based Moonvalley, which is developing “transparent” generative AI video tools, raised a $70M seed co-led by General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures
TechCrunch

Montag, 18. November 2024

22:30
Bluesky is booming partly due to not being hindered by bad ad tech, AI slop, throttled links, or largely hostile user experiences, unlike some of its big rivals
Blood in the Machine
21:10
Memo: Amazon employees find there is too much of a delay between asking the new LLM-based Alexa a question and getting a response or seeing it complete a task
Fortune
20:40
Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia from about $10M to almost $100M, in a bid to persuade the government to lift its iPhone 16 sales ban
Bloomberg
19:00
The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications between congressional offices and library staff between January and September 2024
NBC News
18:35
Internal doc: Amazon held talks on handling tasks on the LLM-powered Alexa with Uber, Ticketmaster, Vagaro, OpenTable, Grubhub, Instacart, Fodors, and Thumbtack
Business Insider
18:15
Amazon and SpaceX argued that the NLRB, which found issues at both companies, is unconstitutional; 5th US Circuit judges questioned the speed of their charges
Reuters
17:50
Perplexity debuts a shopping feature that offers product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro subscribers in the US, plus a merchant program
TechCrunch
17:31
Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, license Search data, uncouple Android from Search and Google Play, and more
Bloomberg
17:30
Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns about Russian sabotage
CNN
17:15
Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in India, plans to replace its app store there with one from PhonePe in January, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions
TechCrunch
17:05
Sources: Trump Media is nearing an all-share purchase of Intercontinental Exchange's crypto trading platform Bakkt; DJT closed up 16.65% and BKKT up 162.46%
Financial Times
17:00
A look at emails between Elon Musk and Sam Altman from OpenAI's early days, discussing its Microsoft partnership, fundraising, staff compensation, AGI, and more
The Verge
16:55
Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for editing, and more to its Le Chat chatbot, and unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B-parameter multimodal model
VentureBeat
16:35
Telegram updates “mini-apps” to be able to run full screen and be pinned to homescreens; devs can now add subscription plans, a “gift” sending feature, and more
The Verge
16:25
The US sentences Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, who helped launder the 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds, to 18 months in prison; her husband got a five-year sentence
CoinDesk
15:20
Source: Google is working on a multi-year project to fully migrate Chrome OS to Android, to better compete with the iPad
Android Authority
15:10
Brendan Carr claims Big Tech “worked with marketing, ad, & ‘fact checkers’ to punish free speech outlets” and asks tech leaders about NewsGuard partnerships
PCMag
14:45
Trump's new FCC nominee promises to bring Project 2025-style governance to media
Nieman Lab
13:35
Musk asked X users to try “submitting x-ray, PET, MRI or other medical images to Grok for analysis” weeks ago; many have, and HIPAA protections may not apply
New York Times
12:30
Goldman Sachs says it is reaching out to potential partners about plans to spin out its digital-assets platform within 12 to 18 months
Bloomberg
11:50
India fines Meta ~$25M and imposes new data rules, over antitrust issues from 2021 when it removed a way to opt out of sharing WhatsApp data with Meta companies
TechCrunch
10:15
News influencers survey: 21% of US adults say they get news from social media influencers, 85% of influencers are on X and 27% identify as right-wing, and more
Pew Research Center
08:30
MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds $29B+ in bitcoin
Bloomberg
07:40
PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of shares back to investors, the lowest amount since 2011, and invested $60B more than they collected, a record
Wall Street Journal
07:10
Roblox debuts new parental controls and gatekeeping features, like letting parents link accounts to a child's and banning text chat for under 13s outside games
Wall Street Journal
06:50
Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt trials its digital wallet in Belgium to let 7M citizens receive social services and share data with businesses, as he worries about AI
Bloomberg
06:30
How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to buy it in April 2023
New York Times
06:10
Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$12.8B, above ~$12.4B est., and a ~$738.5M net income, above ~$653M est., and expects smartphone and EV growth in 2025
Bloomberg
05:55
Sources and ads: Foxconn tells recruiters that help hire iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age, gender, and marital criteria and its name from job ads
Reuters
05:35
Samsung unveils a ~$7.2B share buyback plan, its first since 2017, aimed at boosting its stock, which is down 30%+ in 2024 amid concerns over Chair Lee Jae-yong
Financial Times
04:40
Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on a likely FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Elon Musk's alliance with Donald Trump and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more
Status
04:10
How Wall Street is preparing to cash in on AI hysteria; analysis: delivering on AI's promise will require $1T+ for data centers, electricity, and comms networks
Bloomberg
02:15
Chinese smartphone makers are ramping up efforts in Europe to grab market share from Apple and Samsung with foldables, advanced cameras, and superfast chargers
Financial Times
00:40
Edison: 31% of US weekly podcast listeners aged 13 and up say they use YouTube the most to listen to podcasts, passing Spotify at 27% and Apple Podcasts at 15%
Wall Street Journal

Sonntag, 17. November 2024

21:55
Trump names FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr as FCC chair; Carr floated limiting Section 230 and says the FCC has “an important role to play reining in Big Tech”
Bloomberg
20:00
Trump taps Carr to chair FCC
Politico
19:40
Sources detail efforts by Alphabet and Meta to sink KOSA, which passed in the Senate almost unanimously, by dividing US House lawmakers using culture war issues
Wall Street Journal
18:30
Sources: Trump's transition team is looking for candidates to lead the US Department of Transportation and develop a framework to regulate autonomous vehicles
Bloomberg
17:55
Sources: CISA Director Jen Easterly and Deputy Director Nitin Natarajan plan to leave the agency on January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump is set to be inaugurated
Nextgov/FCW
17:20
An interview with Juan Carlos Reyes, who heads El Salvador's digital asset regulator CNAD, which employs 35, on the agency's crypto regulation approach and more
CoinDesk
14:00
Q&A with Future of Life Institute co-founder Max Tegmark on AGI, how Elon Musk could constructively engage with the Trump administration on AI safety, and more
Fast Company
11:15
Sources: in recent months, Nvidia has asked its suppliers to change the design of server racks for Blackwell GPUs several times to overcome overheating problems
The Information
10:35
Sources: Tata Electronics agrees to buy a 60% stake in Pegatron's iPhone plant in Tamil Nadu, India, forming a new joint venture, and run the daily operations
Reuters
10:15
How Tim Cook may navigate Trump's presidency, a closer look at Apple's upcoming smart home command center, sources detail a new AirTag coming in 2025, and more
Bloomberg
07:05
Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu
Rest of World
02:00
Q&A with Jakob Uszkoreit on his contribution to the Attention Is All You Need paper, Google's conservatism, ChatGPT's success, biological computers, and more
Ars Technica
00:25
The US FTC's DNC Registry data shows the agency got 1,099,223 complaints about robocalls in FY 2024, down from 1,157,748 in FY 2023 and 3,427,949 in FY 2021
Federal Trade Commission

Samstag, 16. November 2024

20:10
US DHS issues guidance on adopting AI in critical infrastructure, identifying AI-driven attacks, targeted attacks on AI systems, and design flaws as core risks
GovTech
17:10
For Netflix, FOMO events like the Paul-Tyson match and NFL games are customer acquisition plays, and it's already built to mitigate the churn of new customers
Bloomberg
17:00
FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the UK's Ministry of Justice about using its tech to calculate the “reoffending risks” of prisoners
The Guardian
15:10
Ukraine's drone suppliers are using US-based Auterion's tech to ramp up production of automated attack drones that are cheap and can evade electronic jamming
Wall Street Journal
13:35
Bluesky is working to become fully decentralized but it could take years amid financial concerns as it makes money only by selling domains for usernames
anderegg.ca
12:15
Some GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits; a Texas researcher claims someone is impersonating him to make the submissions and smear him
BleepingComputer
11:10
Sources: ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300B as part of a recent buyback offer, one of its highest valuations ever
Wall Street Journal
09:45
A profile of and an interview with Aura Salla, a former Meta lobbyist turned EU Parliament member, who says the EU's Big Tech regulation went too far, too fast
Wired
06:35
An interview with Apple's Tim Millet and Tom Boger on Apple's chip strategy, making big changes to the Neural Engine after the 2017 transformer paper, and more
The Indian Express
02:30
Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs
ProPublica
00:00
Many Netflix viewers faced issues while watching the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight and the undercard bouts, including the stream glitching and losing sound
Deadline

Freitag, 15. November 2024

23:40
A look at the challenges facing the Trump administration for regulating AI; policy analysts suspect Trump will dismantle or reshape the US AI Safety Institute
Bloomberg
21:05
An Ohio man is sentenced to three years for running crypto mixer Helix, which laundered $311M+ from 2014 to 2017; he must forfeit $311M+ and assets worth $400M+
The Record
19:34
Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised
Wall Street Journal
19:10
Report: Samsung plans to release its smart glasses in Q3 2025; the glasses will be powered by Qualcomm's AR1 chipset and use Google's Gemini to handle AI tasks
9to5Google