Techmeme River
Dienstag, 1. September 2026
23:25
SciFin, which helps revenue teams converge fragmented information to understand business needs, raised a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona
SiliconANGLE
23:10
NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more
New York Times
22:45
A look at Snap's bet on Specs AR glasses; sources: Evan Spiegel wore them for an interview against internal advice, planned outside funding for Specs never came
Wall Street Journal
21:55
Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor
The Information
20:55
Sources: Cognition is raising around $1B at a ~$47B valuation, up from $26B in May; Cognition received nearly $10B in investor interest
Bloomberg
19:52
Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work
9to5Mac
19:45
Anthropic prices Fable 5.1 at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, unchanged from Fable 5, and cuts cache read pricing by 75% to $0.25/1M tokens
The New Stack
19:30
India's JioHotstar launches internationally without live sports, replacing Hotstar in the UK, Canada, and Singapore; the company says it has 500M+ MAUs in India
TechCrunch
19:20
IPO filing: SB Energy says it has 8.8GW of data center capacity contracted or under construction across Texas and Ohio and a $430B data center segment backlog
Bloomberg
18:55
Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the Sun's nearest star system, by 2029, using a trajectory discovered by PSI's AI system
MIT Technology Review
18:25
MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $771.8M, vs. $735M est., Atlas revenue up ~29% YoY, below major hedge funds' expectations; MDB drops 12%+ after hours
Barron's Online
17:55
Google rolls out its September Android Drop, with remembered items in Find Hub, Guided vision in Gemini Live, Motion Assist to reduce motion sickness, and more
Ars Technica
17:50
Filing: Apple says John Ternus will get a compensation package worth ~$58M in FY 2027, while Tim Cook's role as executive chairman will pay ~$47M
Bloomberg
17:40
Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training
Wall Street Journal
17:35
The US urged G20 members to avoid writing entirely new AI regulations, and instead focus on writing rules for “novel” situations that involve the tech
Reuters
17:05
Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.41B, vs. $3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management
CNBC
16:55
Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are Anthropic's first models to watermark text outputs; a detection API is available to eligible groups as required under EU law
PCWorld
16:40
Apple updates Apple Maps to show Lake America for US users, Lake Ontario for Canadian users, and both for the rest of the world, following Trump's EO
Bloomberg
16:30
Memo: Alexandr Wang says Meta is switching from Google Chat to Slack for internal communications as Slack is the “strongest platform available today for agents”
Business Insider
16:20
Dell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $46.97B, vs. $44.92B est., and forecasts $192B in FY 2027 revenue, vs. $172.67B est.; DELL jumps 9%+ after hours
CNBC
16:15
OpenAI says Astra is its first model to reach its “Critical” cyber threshold and warns safeguards may mistakenly flag legitimate activity as cyber misuse
Axios
16:07
OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon” but will make its advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners
Wired
16:00
Sources: AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of $3.2B, up from $300M in April, and is profitable
Forbes
15:50
Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe, MSL's first real-time audio perception model, with streaming automatic speech recognition, trained with 70+ languages
Meta AI Research
15:30
Wafer, which makes AI agents that optimize open-source models for a business's workload, raised a $40M Series A, a source says at a $200M+ valuation
The Information
15:15
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates image/video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D
World Labs
15:00
Anthropic says Fable 5.1 sets new standards on coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks, and can fix the root causes of software issues
VentureBeat
14:40
Aslan, which offers AI agents for the FBI and wider intelligence community that can pose as analysts and undercover spies in online forums, raised $20.8M
Axios
14:31
Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards to let businesses control how their data is reviewed, stored, and managed, after pushback from customers
CNBC
14:27
Anthropic Says New Fable AI Model Is Cheaper, Better at Coding
Bloomberg
14:23
Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards
Anthropic
14:10
Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt
Crunchbase News
13:20
LLM Token Expenditure Index: average cost per million tokens has fallen to 97 cents, part of a sharp months-long decline since hitting a high of $2.07 on May 28
CNBC
13:10
Empirik, which uses AI to predict and prevent IT outages by analyzing system changes and their effects, raised a $21M seed and spins out from Sequoia Capital
TechCrunch
12:45
John Deere is testing JD, an AI assistant for farmers, to help with best practices and find trends based on farmers' “field, machine, and operational data”
The Verge
12:20
AI power infrastructure company SB Energy, which is backed by SoftBank, OpenAI, and Nvidia, files for an IPO, and says it is “substantially dependent” on OpenAI
CNBC
12:10
Google launches Google Pics, a creative design suite powered by Gemini and Nano Banana to compete with Canva and Adobe Express, available as a Workspace app
The Verge
11:55
Air Security, which builds a security service for extensions and other tools installed on AI agents, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Sequoia and Greenoaks
CTech
11:45
A consortium of 21 banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs, says it will establish a company and launch its stablecoin venture in H1 2027
Wall Street Journal
11:40
DataAgent, which is developing AI agents that autonomously fix failures inside companies' own cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $10M pre-seed
CTech
11:35
Private equity firm Epiris agrees to acquire European enterprise comms provider Gamma Communications for ~£1B, a 53% premium to Gamma's share price on April 7
Bloomberg
11:30
Starman Optical buys a majority stake in GoPro for $285M in cash, a 29.5% premium to its last close; GoPro hit a $4B market cap on its first trading day in 2014
Reuters
11:20
Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute, which splits a task between a frontier, cloud model and a local LLM to handle sensitive info, for all users of its Mac app
Engadget
10:55
Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents
Bloomberg
10:45
PSI, which aims to use AI “to industrialize the discovery of new physics” including cracking interstellar travel, emerges from stealth with a $58M seed
The Deep View
10:35
Waymo starts offering driverless rides to customers in San Diego, Tampa, and Denver; Amazon's Zoox says it will start testing in Houston and San Diego
CNBC
10:10
Indian edtech startup upGrad closes its acquisition of rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal valuing Unacademy at ~$206M, down from its peak $3.44B valuation
TechCrunch
09:45
Memo: Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward, who oversaw the Saudi Arabian government's $38B investment in the video game industry since 2021, is stepping down
Bloomberg
09:30
Mozilla launches built-in ad blocking for Firefox on iOS, using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker and the EasyList filter to block third-party ads and trackers
The Verge
09:20
Roku unveils its first self-branded OLED smart TVs starting at $999, in 55" and 65" 120Hz models, and $1,299 for a 144Hz model, sold exclusively via Amazon
Bloomberg
09:10
Nvidia says it will launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March
The Verge
08:35
Sources: Salesforce is leading a $160M+ raise for HR software company HiBob at a $3.2B+ valuation, up from $2.66B in 2023; HiBob has raised $700M+ since 2015
Bloomberg
07:25
A look at Tim Cook's 15-year tenure: Apple silicon, wearables, hitting a $1T market cap, privacy, Apple Vision Pro, Apple Car, AI, App Store battles, and Trump
The Verge
07:05
Dyson unveils the $499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images
Bloomberg
06:55
John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO and Tim Cook becomes executive chair; sources say Laura Legros, an Apple hardware VP who retired in 2022, has rejoined Apple
New York Times
06:35
Shein ends flat at ~$6.20 per share on its first day of trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange, giving it a ~$26B market cap after raising ~$1.7B in its IPO
The Information
06:20
Under Tim Cook, Apple's market cap grew from less than $350B in 2011 to $4.6T, revenue went from $157B in FY 2012 to ~$477B in FY 2026, and shares rose 2,258%
Bloomberg
06:10
How lawn care YouTuber Greg Chism scaled his family channel to 13B views thanks to YouTube's advice, before YouTube banned it in 2017 following online backlash
New York Times
06:00
Google raises the price of its Google TV Streamer by $50 to $150 in the US, as well as for “select” Nest cameras and doorbells, citing “rising component costs”
9to5Google
05:50
Microsoft confirms it has restored core Exchange Online functionality, including mail flow and search, after a day-long outage from around 11:30AM ET on Monday
TechCrunch
05:40
Hong Kong-listed Z.ai reports H1 2026 revenue up 5x YoY to ~$142M, with “open platform and API revenue” up 28x to ~$122M, and net loss down 12% YoY to ~$308M
The Information
05:00
Study: nearly 33% of UK adults say they illegally streamed content in the past three months, costing the sport, TV, and film industries £1.4B+ in annual revenue
Financial Times
04:15
Filing: OpenAI denies Apple's allegations of trade secret theft, saying “this dispute is a mess of Apple's own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else”
Reuters
01:50
As Governor Josh Shapiro, who once pushed data centers, calls them “predatory” and sets guardrails, some in struggling western Pennsylvania welcome the projects
New York Times
Montag, 31. August 2026
23:10
AI startup Mirage streamed a 24-hour “live” AI news show on X on August 11, which cost ~$50K in tokens, featuring realistic avatars that struggled to converse
Upstarts Media
20:10
Anthropic details security efforts after three Claude cyber evaluation incidents, including a weeks-long pause on higher-risk RL and work to curb reward hacking
Anthropic
19:40
Sources: Anthropic has signed a $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda; Nvidia will hold the lease on, and supply chips to, a Hut 8-built Texas data center
Wall Street Journal
17:55
Florida says it is revoking permits for Flock cameras and similar license-plate readers on state roads and no longer intends to issue permits for the cameras
Orlando Sentinel
17:45
Filing: Apple claims a former iPhone engineer used a confidential Apple circuit schematic in his work at OpenAI, says “evidence is being destroyed”, and more
9to5Mac
17:25
Sources: AI sales and marketing startup Clay is raising a round led by Wellington at a $7B pre-money valuation, up from $5B via an employee tender in January
Axios
17:00
The Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on its GenAI.mil portal, giving its 3M personnel access to AI tools “tailored to warfighter needs”
TechCrunch
16:30
Amazon says the FTC's complaint over Sponsored Ads cites no evidence of consumer price increases or advertiser harm, and misunderstands how advertisers operate
About Amazon
16:05
Sources: Polymarket is set to raise $1B led by 1789 Capital at a $21B post-money valuation; Donald Trump Jr. is a partner at 1789 and an adviser to Polymarket
Bloomberg
15:50
The US FTC and 22 state AGs sue Amazon, alleging it overcharged advertisers by $20B+ since 2019 via hidden surcharges, with costs largely passed on to consumers
CNBC
15:45
On his last day as CEO, Tim Cook sends a memo to Apple employees reflecting on his time and says he takes “enormous comfort in handing the helm” to John Ternus
9to5Mac
14:30
FTC to File Lawsuit Alleging Amazon Deceived Advertisers
Wall Street Journal
14:05
Sony launches Live TV on PS5 in the US, letting users stream 100+ free, ad-supported channels with content from Amazon MGM Studios, Crunchyroll, Fox, and more
Engadget
13:55
Trump says US communities that reject data centers will end up “backwards and poor” and that “China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement”
Politico
13:45
Reframe, which uses AI and industrial robot arms to make modular homes in a factory, raised a $40M Series A extension round led by Energy Impact Partners
The Information
13:20
Sources: Hyperliquid is in talks to enter the US market via Kraken parent company Payward, weeks after Trump said he was working to bring the platform onshore
Bloomberg
13:06
Gurman: Apple is moving the App Store to its services unit led by Eddy Cue, who oversaw it until 2015; Cue is taking on a more influential role under Ternus
9to5Mac
12:51
The Trump administration launches Project Watershed 250, a six-month AI and cybersecurity pilot to protect Texas water systems from cyberattacks
Fox News
12:42
Sources: Phil Schiller has stepped down from his role leading Apple's App Store and product events; he will remain at Apple to work on unspecified initiatives
Bloomberg
12:30
a16z says its fifth growth fund has closed additional capital, bringing its total to $8.5B, calling it “the obvious thing to do” for its founders and LPs
Andreessen Horowitz
12:15
The UK unveils a £100M Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme for domestic AI startups to improve public services, amid growing opposition to Palantir contracts
Financial Times
12:00
MapQuest becomes the top free iPhone app on the App Store in Canada and fourth on the US App Store, after refusing to change Lake Ontario to Lake America
MacRumors
11:36
Sources: South Korea's dismissal of a US congressional report saying it discriminated against US-based Coupang is causing strains between the two countries
CNBC
11:10
Together AI, which serves open-source AI models, announces a deal to use compute from Humain in Saudi Arabia, where it can bypass US backlash over data centers
New York Times
10:45
Former NY GOP Representative George Santos gets Kalshi's first lifetime ban after the CFTC alleged he made $17K+ from bets he will attend the State of the Union
Wall Street Journal
10:36
Interior Secretary says President Trump “reached out to Apple directly” about changing Lake Ontario to Lake America and the company may soon alter its maps
Reuters
10:05
Sources: CXMT has begun producing HBM3E memory chips in small quantities and plans to expand production in 2027, a major advance for China's chip industry
The Information
09:55
Instagram says it will reduce the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated personas if they don't use a new “AI-generated profile” label
Engadget
09:12
OpenAI says its ad business has hit $1B in annualized revenue run rate and is expanding globally, as it touts its “diversified business model” ahead of an IPO
CNBC
08:47
Nvidia plans to invest $3.5B into MediaTek through convertible bonds; MediaTek forecasts AI chip revenue of about $2B this year
Bloomberg
08:20
Filing: Tencent-backed AI chipmaker Enflame prices its Shanghai IPO at ~$21 per share, aiming to sell 43M shares and raise ~$911M
Bloomberg
08:05
A Chinese court froze up to $300M of assets held by Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, giving its Chinese parent company Wingtech leverage in its bid to regain control
Reuters
07:55
Huawei reports H1 2026 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$69.57B, with net income down 36% to $3.54B; it is now the top smartphone brand in China with a 20%+ market share
Bloomberg
07:45
Z.ai reports H1 2026 revenue up 400% to ~$142M, below its $200M projection; Z.ai's market value surged 800% since its January listing, peaking at $137B
Bloomberg
07:00
The Hugging Face and Mythos 5 incidents show AI agents can self-organize, raising questions about how much agency they should have and when to seek human input
One Useful Thing
06:40
The EU designates ChatGPT as a very large online search engine, and Reddit and Roblox as very large online platforms after each hit 45M monthly users in the EU
Bloomberg
06:30
Sources: Google approached Disney, Universal, and other studios to license characters and films for its AI tools, but legal and union concerns stalled deals
Los Angeles Times
05:45
Bank of England Governor warns that advanced AI could destabilize the highly interconnected global financial system via cyberattacks across jurisdictions
The Guardian
04:10
A look at Pangram, the AI detector at the center of disputed accusations against writers, including a pulled novel and a Commonwealth Prize-winning short story
Financial Times
02:20
Big Tech reported Q2 “other income” rose significantly to $160B+, driven by investments in AI companies, raising concerns of paper gains overstating the AI boom
Financial Times
01:35
Sources: OpenAI starts letting some major customers pay only when its AI completes tasks, as Salesforce and other AI providers test outcome-based pricing
The Information
01:25
OpenClaw releases OpenClaw 2.0, its largest update to date, with a simplified installation process, a rebuilt browser app, shared cloud sessions, and more
OpenClaw Blog
00:50
IPO documents: SoftBank's SB Energy plans to file for an IPO as soon as this week, aiming to raise $5B to $7B, and has awarded OpenAI warrants worth ~$5.5B
Wall Street Journal
00:20
Shein raised $1.7B in its Hong Kong IPO, giving it a $26B market cap, far below its ~$100B valuation in 2022, as growth slows amid tariffs and competition
Bloomberg
Sonntag, 30. August 2026
23:35
Taiwanese authorities raided the office of PCB maker Unimicron, an Nvidia and Intel supplier, alleging it illegally labeled China-made parts as made in Taiwan
Nikkei Asia
22:15
Google updates Maps to show Lake America for US users, Lake Ontario for Canadian users, and both for the rest of the world, citing the US GNIS' name change
Associated Press
21:50
The US-led AI boom is offsetting the global growth squeeze from the energy crunch; ING says the boom accounts for about a third of recent US economic growth
Wall Street Journal
20:15
Chip design startup Agentrys has raised a $19.1M seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4M pre-seed led by MediaTek
Axios
18:45
John Ternus inherits rising component costs, staff retention issues, efforts to catch up in AI, and other challenges as he replaces Tim Cook on September 1
Bloomberg
17:55
Anthropic signs out some Claude users, removes saved payment methods, and issues refunds after infostealer malware on user PCs hijacked sessions to drain usage
BleepingComputer
14:55
Analysis: popular chatbots debunked false narratives spread by Russia, China, and Iran most of the time; search engine AI summaries did too, but at a lower rate
NPR
12:20
Sources: OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Macs for RL, Anthropic rents them, Nvidia sees Apple as its main local AI rival as Macs gain traction with AI devs
The Information
10:50
A look at the management changes John Ternus could make as many key Apple execs prepare to leave in the next few years; Apple tested a Pencil for folding iPhone
Bloomberg
09:25
A look at the race to build quantum computers, as the tech becomes a geopolitical battleground with potential to transform cybersecurity, finance, and more
Bloomberg
06:25
The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident feels like we are halfway to losing control of AI entirely, and as AI advances rapidly we may not get another warning shot
Planned Obsolescence
02:00
A look at the Hugging Face hack, including AI agents sacrificing themselves for the good of the “collective”, and later gaining access to OpenAI's own systems
Dwarkesh Podcast
01:55
Faro, which develops data models and AI tools to speed up clinical trials, raised a $37.3M Series B co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and S32
Dealroom.co
01:15
Industry insiders say Chinese robot makers currently rely on Nvidia silicon and software; Nvidia's physical AI business generates ~$10B in annual revenue
Wall Street Journal
01:00
Grindr CEO George Arison plans premium services push, including a product costing up to $350 per month; Grindr averaged 1.4M paying users among 15M MAUs in Q2
Financial Times
Samstag, 29. August 2026
23:30
Glassdoor analysis finds 47% of Gen X workers write positively about their companies' AI use, compared with 40% of millennials and 33% of Gen Z workers
Bloomberg
21:30
Music producers are calling out tracks suspected of using AI tools like Suno, as the internet becomes increasingly filled with AI-generated music
The Verge
19:30
California's legislature passes a bill exempting open-source OSes like Linux from a 2025 age-verification law; Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android remain in scope
Tom's Hardware
17:30
Data center development is driving demand for acoustic consultants, as developers and neighboring communities hire acousticians to assess noise emissions
Bloomberg
16:05
Elon Musk says SpaceX is “doing in-house casting” for blades and vanes, which can accelerate natural gas turbines “coming online by up to 18 months”
The Information
14:05
Anthropic will “permanently” raise weekly Claude Code limits by 25% on Sept. 14 for most plans, which will work out a 17% reduction, given the current 50% boost
@claudedevs
13:35
Sources detail how Meta's $17.1B settlement with state AGs came together as Meta wanted to avoid going to trial following losses in cases in LA and New Mexico
New York Times
11:30
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs
Music Business Worldwide
10:15
Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be “neutral”; Musk says he “couldn't care less”
The Information
06:30
New AI-powered video tools have accelerated the surge in AI dramas in China; DataEye: 89 of the top 100 animated dramas on Douyin in May were AI productions
Financial Times
02:30
Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians opposing data center projects, warning that blocking the projects endangers building-related jobs
Wall Street Journal
02:20
An analysis of the 50 largest bitcoin treasury companies by BTC holdings finds their combined market cap has plunged from $150B in July 2025 to just $67B now
Financial Times
01:55
Minneapolis-based Yardstik, a provider of workforce monitoring tech, raised a $30M Series B led by Harbert Growth Partners, taking its total funding to $65M
SiliconANGLE
01:40
SK Hynix breaks ground for its $4B advanced memory chip packaging facility in Indiana, with mass production of next-generation HBM scheduled to begin in H2 2029
Bloomberg
01:35
Xiaomi and CXMT say the Xiaomi 18 Fold smartphone will debut CXMT's LPDDR6 DRAM chips, alongside Xiaomi's in-house 3nm Xring O3 SoC, launching in September
Reuters
01:20
Texas, which didn't join a multi-state case against Meta, negotiated a $1.05B side deal that could reach $1.335B if TikTok and YouTube adopt teen safety changes
Bloomberg Law
00:55
Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 14.4% YoY to $15.62B and adjusted net profit of $372M, ending a three-quarter losing streak as the food delivery price war cooled
South China Morning Post
00:45
Jio Platforms, which owns India's largest carrier and counts Meta and Google as investors, gets regulatory approval to float India's largest-ever IPO of ~$4B
The Hindu BusinessLine
Freitag, 28. August 2026
22:20
CXMT sues the Pentagon over its Chinese military company designation, saying it isn't affiliated with the Chinese military and its chips aren't for military use
Reuters
22:01
OpenAI says it plans to stop providing its models to Cursor from November 12, as “we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our ToS”
OpenAI
20:55
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock cameras; an investigation found an agency allocating $30M+ to build Texas' Flock network
The Texas Tribune
20:40
Metriport, whose tools help doctors retrieve patient data, raised $26M in Series A and seed funding led by Matrix GP TJ Parker, taking its total raise to $28.4M
Endpoints News
19:20
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with $10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model
The New Stack
19:15
Shares of French quantum computing company Pasqal closed up 95% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday following a merger with a SPAC
Bloomberg
18:50
An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws
New York Times
18:40
A deep dive into Grok Bot, including its architecture, use cases, and alternatives, as xAI adds shareable bot templates and online purchases through Stripe Link
Flavio Copes
16:55
Meta intensifies its pressure campaign on TikTok and YouTube, running full-page ads in US newspapers demanding they adopt comparable teen safety protections
Bloomberg
15:55
Modders get an experimental version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering library running in over a dozen games after it leaked in NBA 2K27's early access build
VideoCardz.com
15:05
Owner, which makes AI agents that manage restaurants' websites, marketing, and other functions, raised a $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation
Restaurant Business
14:30
Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~$1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft
Bloomberg
13:25
Unlike internet's one-dimensional, flat-fee growth, AI grows across two exponentials, user penetration and tokens per user, allowing AI labs' economics to work
@fi56622380
12:45
Filing: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M+ Series A from Thrive Capital and others
Business Insider
12:15
Sources: the US is drafting a rule to close an export controls loophole that lets Chinese companies access AI chips via data centers in countries like Thailand
The Information
11:46
a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI”
TechCrunch
11:00
Stock trading app Ajaib raised a $270M Series C from SBI Holdings, the largest round since 2022 in Indonesia, where startups raised just ~$340M last year
Bloomberg
10:10
How Meta founded FAIR in 2013, fell behind as it was distracted by the metaverse, and is spending an unprecedented amount of money trying to catch up
Fast Company
09:40
Apple TV raises prices in the US, with the monthly price up by $2 to $14.99, its fourth increase in four years; the individual Apple One tier rises $2 to $21.95
Variety
09:21
Sources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs
Wired
09:06
Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia
TechCrunch
08:36
A look at Beijing's AGI Bar, the unofficial clubhouse for China's AI industry where entrepreneurs trade gossip, recruit talent, and court investors over beers
Bloomberg
07:40
Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT reports H1 revenue of ~$22.4B, more than double its 2025 sales, and ~$11.5B in profit, compared to a loss a year earlier
Bloomberg
06:40
South Korea unveils a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, a move that treats AI like a public utility
Wall Street Journal
06:30
Bluesky launches a feature to let users hide their posts from non-followers in its Discover feed; other AT Proto apps can choose whether to respect the opt-out
TechCrunch
06:15
How Shein pivoted to a Hong Kong IPO and sought to build Chinese government ties, after its New York and London bids failed to secure Beijing's approval
Reuters
05:40
Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter open model with a 1M context window, and says it narrowly beat GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 in internal engineering tests
Bloomberg
05:35
The UK Treasury tells the Bank of England to boost innovation in payment systems and digital money, as it seeks to promote the UK as a hub for stablecoins
Financial Times
02:00
Sources: some tech companies are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House
Wall Street Journal