Sonntag, 13. Juli 2025

02:00
There's little evidence that UAE-based Aqua 1 Foundation, the largest investor in Trump's World Liberty Financial after buying tokens worth $100M, exists at all
The Nation
01:55
Honor Education, an e-learning service for individuals and enterprises founded by former Dean of Apple University Joel Podolny, raised a $38M Series A
Forbes
01:50
NYC-based Vellum, which develops enterprise development tools for building, testing, and deploying AI-powered apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Leaders Fund
SiliconANGLE
01:15
Parspec, whose AI-powered workflow tool automates procurement processes in the construction supply chain, raised a $20M Series A led by Threshold Ventures
Crunchbase News
00:40
Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish
Financial Times
00:25
Berlin-based CarOnSale, a B2B marketplace for used car trading across Europe offering vehicle inspections and more, raised a €70M Series C led by Northzone
EU-Startups

Samstag, 12. Juli 2025

23:45
Samsung agrees to acquire Seattle-based Xealth, which helps healthcare providers manage digital health tools and has raised over $50M, for an undisclosed sum
GeekWire
23:15
Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90%+ of submitted notes are never published, with many notes “stuck in limbo”
DDIA
21:15
With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers
Wall Street Journal
19:16
Sources: SpaceX has agreed to invest $2B in xAI, as part of xAI's $5B equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month
Wall Street Journal
18:35
A look at US-backed NVD, as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K+ vulnerabilities, ~10x the previous high in 2017
MIT Technology Review
16:35
OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal signals broader M&A challenges for OpenAI until it renegotiates its deal with Microsoft
Spyglass
15:35
Tesla rolls out Grok to some vehicles with an AMD infotainment chip; Grok comes pre-installed on new vehicles and cannot issue commands to the vehicle itself
Teslarati
14:25
Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks
VentureBeat
13:35
xAI apologizes for Grok's “horrific behavior” when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames “an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot”
TechCrunch
12:35
Pump.fun raised $500M via a sale of PUMP tokens, which sold out in 12 minutes; it offered 12.5% of its total token supply at a fully diluted valuation of $4B
The Block
11:25
Belkin's move to brick Wemo devices highlights how little accountability IoT companies face when abandoning connected products customers paid for
Ars Technica
09:30
Stanford study: LLMs struggle to respond appropriately to questions about delusions, suicide, and OCD, but AI could play valuable supportive roles to therapists
Ars Technica
07:40
Studios like Do Big are buying Roblox games for $1M+ in a thriving secondary market; Naavik: seven of the 15 highest-earning games in June have been acquired
Bloomberg
02:35
A look at Meta's revamped GenAI strategy, as Mark Zuckerberg poaches top AI talent for the Superintelligence team with a typical offer of $200M over four years
SemiAnalysis
02:15
A New Hampshire court rejected TikTok's request to dismiss the state AG's suit accusing the company of using manipulative design features aimed at kids
CNBC
01:50
Analysis: YC picked just four Indian startups in 2024 vs. 66 in 2021, amid a growing trend of startups shifting their parent entities to India for domestic IPOs
The Economic Times
01:10
Nvidia's rise after ChatGPT's release is reminiscent of dot-com era titans like Cisco and Juniper; Cisco's share price grew over 1000x between 1990 and 2000
New York Times
00:35
PitchBook: 27 VC-backed companies went public in the US in the first half of 2025, the smallest number in at least 10 years, raising a total of $44.4B
Bloomberg

Freitag, 11. Juli 2025

22:50
Sam Altman announces another delay for OpenAI's open-weight model, for further safety testing; the model was slated to be released next week
TechCrunch
22:50
Sources: Google is paying $2.4B for a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf tech and hire some of its employees, but won't be taking a stake in the company
Bloomberg
21:05
T-Mobile has received FCC and DOJ approval for its $4.4B acquisition of US Cellular, after agreeing to phase out DEI programs to comply with FCC policy
Bloomberg
20:00
Meta has completed a deal to acquire AI voice technology startup PlayAI, and the “entire PlayAI team” is set to join Meta next week, per an internal memo
Bloomberg
19:00
Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls apart
TechCrunch
18:40
Sources: OpenAI and Windsurf talks ended after Windsurf raised concerns over how its tech would fit into OpenAI's agreement to share tech with Microsoft
The Information
17:32
Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind
The Verge
16:50
The exclusivity period for OpenAI's $3B offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf, entered into in May, has expired
Fortune
16:25
Jio Platforms debuts JioPC, a cloud PC service offered via its set-top box; Counterpoint: 70% of Indian households have a TV, but only 15% of them own a PC
TechCrunch
15:53
The European Commission drops plans to impose a digital tax on tech giants in its upcoming 2028-2034 budget proposal, amid ongoing EU-US trade negotiations
Politico
15:47
Sources: xAI prepares a new fundraising round, its third in two months, targeting a valuation of $170B to $200B, up 10x from its May 2024 valuation of $18B
Financial Times
15:35
Justin Sun says he is buying another $100M worth of $TRUMP, doubling his total known stake of digital coins tied to President Trump
CNBC
14:45
Sources: JPMorgan Chase told fintech companies it will start charging fees for access to customers' account data, which could drastically reshape the industry
Bloomberg
14:35
Sources: Zerohash, which provides crypto and stablecoin infrastructure, is raising ~$100M at a ~$1B valuation, up from $340M when it raised a Series D in 2022
Fortune
14:20
At the end of June, Australia quietly introduced rules forcing search engine companies such as Google and Microsoft to check the ages of logged-in users
ABC
13:45
Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022
The Coach Life
13:20
Source: Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus, has shut down its entire China-based team to minimize geopolitical risks associated with its ties to China
The Information
12:45
HMD says it will “scale back” US operations, citing “a challenging geopolitical and economic environment”, and appears to have stopped US sales of Nokia devices
The Verge
12:30
Chinese startup Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2, an open-weight model that the company says has enhanced coding capabilities and excels at general agent tasks
Reuters
12:10
Virtru, which offers data security services to clients like the US DOD and Salesforce, raised a $50M Series D led by Iconiq Capital at a $500M valuation
Fortune
11:45
French prosecutors open a criminal investigation into X over allegations that the company manipulated its algorithms for the purposes of “foreign interference”
Politico
11:20
Moment, which offers fixed income portfolio management software to financial institutions, raised a $36M Series B led by Index, taking its total funding to $56M
PYMNTS.com
10:55
French media: French police detained Russian professional basketball player Daniil Kasatkin at the US' request due to his alleged links to a ransomware group
The Record
10:20
Recording: Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told staff that Intel is “not in the top 10 semiconductor companies” and it is “too late” to catch Nvidia in AI training
Oregonian
09:50
Sources: Meta won't propose more changes to its pay-or-consent model in the EU, and could face fresh antitrust charges in the coming weeks and hefty daily fines
Reuters
09:30
Goldman Sachs CTO Marco Argenti says the bank will “start augmenting our workforce with Devin”, Cognition's AI software engineer, as Wall Street firms adopt AI
CNBC
09:10
Sources on the key Microsoft-OpenAI clause: OpenAI decides when it has reached AGI, “sufficient AGI” means $100B+ in profits, and Microsoft may not build AGI
Wired
08:15
Delaware-based Airalo, which offers travelers eSIM roaming packages for a fixed price by connecting to local networks, raised $220M at a $1B+ valuation
Semafor
07:40
Sources: Binance wrote the smart contract for USD1, a stablecoin launched by Trump's World Liberty, and promoted it to its 275M users, before CZ sought a pardon
Bloomberg
07:10
Intel spins out RealSense, its AI robotics and biometric venture, and RealSense raised a $50M Series A from MediaTek Innovation Fund, Intel Capital, and others
CNBC
06:30
Sources: Alibaba-backed Chinese AI startup Zhipu plans to raise ~$300M in a Hong Kong IPO, shifting its plans after initially filing IPO docs in mainland China
Bloomberg
05:05
METR study: experienced open-source developers using Cursor, Claude, and other AI tools were 19% slower to complete tasks, despite thinking they were 20% faster
Second Thoughts
02:15
An Apple-backed study finds combining Apple Watch's heart rate sensor with a new Wearable Behavior Model achieves 92% accuracy for pregnancy detection, and more
9to5Mac
00:20
How AI is being used by patients and doctors alike for diagnoses and treatment recommendations, as experts warn of confident answers that are completely wrong
Wired

Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2025

22:50
Tel Aviv- and NYC-based Datafy, which offers an autonomous cloud storage optimization service, raised a $20M seed led by Bessemer Venture Partners
SiliconANGLE
22:25
Bilt Rewards, which offers rewards points for rent payments, raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation, up from $3.1B in January 2024
Bloomberg
21:35
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming the companies' AI chatbots show biased results against President Trump
The Verge
21:00
When asked “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.”, Grok 4 searches for Musk's views, but only if “you” is in the query
Simon Willison's Weblog
20:40
Tests reveal that Grok 4 seems to search for Elon Musk's views online when asked about sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's opinions
TechCrunch
20:15
Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end. ZA 54 of 64 citations are about Elon. [video]
@jeremyphoward
19:45
Sources: AWS plans to launch a marketplace where startups can offer AI agents to AWS customers, with Anthropic as a partner, at the AWS Summit in NYC on July 15
TechCrunch
18:50
Belkin says it is ending support for its Wemo smart home products and app on January 31, 2026; four devices will continue to function via HomeKit over Thread
9to5Google
17:25
Florida AG James Uthmeier launches an investigation into Robinhood for “falsely promoting” its trading platform as “the least expensive way to purchase crypto”
Bloomberg
16:35
Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or opting out of age verification will have limited accounts
The Verge
16:05
LGND, whose app and API lets companies use vector embeddings to answer questions involving geospatial data, raised a $9M seed led by Javelin Venture Partners
TechCrunch
15:20
iCapital, which makes tools to help wealth managers invest in alternative assets, raised $820M+ at a $7.5B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.5B+
Crunchbase News
15:16
Sources: Apple is planning M5 MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, a new Mac external monitor, new low-end iPads and M4 iPad Airs, and an A19 iPhone 17e for H1 2026
Bloomberg
15:05
The US Senate confirms Jonathan Gould to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Gould was previously the chief legal officer at Bitfury
The Block
14:30
Harmonic, a startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev to build an AI model that outperforms humans in math, raised a $100M Series B at an $875M valuation
Bloomberg
14:00
Memo: Indeed and Glassdoor, both owned by Recruit, will cut ~1,300 US jobs as part of an AI-focused consolidation; Glassdoor's operations will merge into Indeed
Bloomberg
13:50
YouTube will remove its Trending page and Trending Now list in favor of category-specific charts, says it better aligns with the way content is discovered now
TechCrunch
13:10
A judge rules Don Lemon's lawsuit against Elon Musk and X can proceed to trial, after Musk canceled a $1.5M/year exclusive X content deal with Lemon in 2024
The Wrap
12:15
Sources: some AI researchers rejected Meta's offers to stay at jobs that align with their values; far fewer defected from Anthropic and DeepMind than OpenAI
The Verge
11:45
Foundation EGI, an “engineering general intelligence” startup that builds custom LLMs for engineering tasks, raised a $23M Series A led by Translink Capital
SiliconANGLE
11:15
Google adds image-to-video generation to Veo 3 in the Gemini app for Pro and Ultra subscribers, and says users have created 40M+ videos since Veo 3's May launch
TechCrunch
10:55
A Rotterdam court sentences a Russian to three years in prison for breaching international sanctions by sharing sensitive ASML info with someone in Russia
Associated Press
10:11
Agora, which offers a white-labeling service that lets companies launch self-branded versions of its stablecoin, AUSD, raised a $50M Series A led by Paradigm
Fortune
08:40
Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie is launching a biweekly column on Lachlan Cartwright's Breaker, a publication hosted on Substack rival beehiiv
Feed Me
08:25
The Internet Watch Foundation identified 1,286 AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse in H1 2025 globally, up from just two in H1 2024
New York Times
08:10
Artificial Analysis benchmarks: Grok 4 is now the leading AI model, a first for xAI; Grok 4's per-token pricing is more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Pro's and o3's
@artificialanlys
07:40
Condé Nast and Hearst sign multiyear agreements with Amazon to license their content for use in Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus; the terms are undisclosed
Digiday
07:11
UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc
BBC
06:30
Disney and ITV agree to stream hit shows like The Bear and Love Island on each other's platforms for the first time, from July 16; both will be able to sell ads
Financial Times
06:20
The EU publishes a voluntary code of practice to help companies follow its AI Act, including requiring developers to provide up-to-date AI feature documentation
Bloomberg
06:10
Despite continued technological advances, US emergency alerts often fail to reach those in danger, as alert fatigue leads many people to shut off notifications
Wall Street Journal
06:01
Mark Zuckerberg's top AI talent hiring blitz seems to be causing a halo effect as other leading scientists join Meta in the race to build “superintelligent” AI
Bloomberg
05:45
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires all new US border surveillance towers to be “autonomous”, effectively granting Anduril a monopoly on tower contracts
The Intercept
05:35
SAG-AFTRA says Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with game studios, including AI protections like consent requirements
Reuters
05:25
Google launches AI ad tools in India; a repeal of the so-called “Google Tax” in India has made it more attractive to global tech companies selling online ads
TechCrunch
05:10
Amazon expands its Now service in India to New Delhi, offering deliveries in as little as 10 minutes, after launching the service in Bengaluru in December 2024
Bloomberg
05:00
A researcher says 245 extensions with nearly 909K downloads override security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites for a paid service
Ars Technica
04:49
The Allen Institute for AI launches FlexOlmo, an LLM architecture that lets data owners remove their data from an AI model even after it was used for training
Wired
04:40
Riyadh-based food delivery service Jahez agrees to acquire a 77% stake in Qatari e-commerce platform Snoonu for $245M in cash and stock, set to close in H2 2025
Bloomberg
02:45
PowerLines: US power providers have sought regulatory approval for $29B in consumer rate increases in H1 2025, up 142% YoY, following booming data center demand
Financial Times
02:40
Electricity bills are projected to rise 20%+ in parts of PJM Interconnection's 13-state territory as the largest US power grid is under strain from data centers
Reuters
02:25
TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 39% YoY to ~$32B, beating estimates; in June, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei reassured shareholders that AI chip demand still outstripped supply
Bloomberg
02:00
Sources: Linda Yaccarino told close contacts that some advertisers returning and xAI acquiring X, which effectively demoted her, made it a good time to depart
Wall Street Journal
01:45
xAI launches Grok 4 Heavy, a “multi-agent version” of Grok 4 that offers increased performance, and unveils SuperGrok Heavy, a $300/month AI subscription plan
TechCrunch
01:35
xAI introduces Grok 4, trained on its Colossus supercomputer, with multimodal features, faster reasoning, Grok 4 Voice, Grok 4 Code, a new interface, and more
Tom's Guide
00:40
Sources: Amazon is weighing another multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic, as it seeks to position itself ahead of Google, which has also invested $3B+
Financial Times

Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2025

23:40
AI agent Manus' team relocated its HQ to Singapore in June and started recruiting there, while parent company Butterfly Effect reportedly remains based in China
South China Morning Post
22:15
Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a Blackwell RTX Pro 6000 version for China, modified to meet President Trump's tightened export controls, as soon as September
Financial Times
21:10
Nominal, which develops AI agents for ERP systems to automate tasks for finance teams, raised a $20M Series A led by Next47, bringing its total funding to ~$30M
CTech
20:20
Singapore-based Augmentus, which is developing a no-code interface for factory engineers to deploy autonomous robotic surface finishing systems, raised $11M
SiliconANGLE
19:20
Sources: Groq has talked with investors about raising $300M to $500M at a $6B post-investment valuation, which would double its $2.8B valuation from August 2024
The Information
19:05
Sources: Meta offered Ruoming Pang a $200M+ pay package over a several-year period, in line with its other major AI hires; Apple didn't try to match the offer
Bloomberg
18:25
A German court rules Meta's tracking pixels embedded in third-party websites and apps violate the EU's GDPR, ordering it to pay €5,000 to a German Facebook user
The Record
17:15
Israeli VC firm Cyberstarts raised a $300M fund to let its portfolio companies' long-tenured employees with recurring opportunities cash out their vested shares
Bloomberg
16:55
a16z moves its state of incorporation to Nevada, saying that “Delaware courts can at times appear biased against technology startup founders and their boards”
Andreessen Horowitz
16:15
In an internal Meta essay, an outgoing AI researcher says Meta's “culture of fear”, with performance reviews and rolling layoffs, is like “a metastatic cancer”
The Information
15:15
Source: in a presentation, Microsoft CCO Judson Althoff said AI saved Microsoft $500M+ in 2024 in its call centers and boosted employee and client satisfaction
Bloomberg
14:50
Sources: LangChain, which helps developers use off-the-shelf AI models to create new apps, raised $100M led by IVP at a $1.1B valuation
Forbes
14:45
Sources: Revolut, Europe's most valuable startup, is in talks to raise ~$1B via newly issued shares and the sale of some existing stock at a $65B valuation
Financial Times
14:35
France's antitrust regulator says it notified Meta that it potentially violated competition rules, accusing it of abusing its dominant position in online ads
Bloomberg
14:26
Sources: OpenAI plans to release an AI web browser that keeps some user interactions in a ChatGPT-like native interface instead of clicking through to websites
Reuters
14:15
MaintainX, which makes maintenance and operations software, raised a $150M Series D at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $254M
Reuters
14:00
YouTube says it will update its monetization guidelines on July 15, defining “inauthentic” content as “mass-produced and repetitious”, amid a flood of AI slop
TechCrunch
13:35
OpenAI closes its nearly $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup, which it refers to as io Products after a trademark lawsuit from hearing device startup Iyo
The Verge
13:20
Sources: Apple is planning to introduce its first Vision Pro upgrade as early as 2025, with an M4 chip and a new strap, and a lighter, cheaper version for 2027
Bloomberg
12:55
Microsoft announces a $4B commitment in cash and tech to support AI education in schools and more, and starts Elevate Academy, an AI training program for adults
New York Times
12:50
Turkey blocks Grok over offensive responses about President Erdogan and Ataturk; Poland plans to report Grok to the EU for offensive posts about Donald Tusk
Politico
12:25
Elon Musk addresses Grok's antisemitic replies, saying that “Grok was too compliant to user prompts” and “too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially”
Axios
12:20
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch an open-weight model as soon as next week on Hugging Face and other platforms, its first open-weight release since GPT-2 in 2019
The Verge
12:10
Sources: Linda Yaccarino had discussed with X employees her plans to leave the company earlier this week, before Grok's antisemitic replies
New York Times
11:35
Hertz and other car rental agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and AI to flag even tiny blemishes, angering some customers
New York Times
11:15
Perplexity launches Comet, its first AI web browser, available first to its $200/month Max subscribers and via a waitlist, its latest effort to challenge Google
TechCrunch
10:44
X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in June 2023 after she ran NBCUniversal's ad business
Axios
10:30
Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 will be the first smartphones to ship with Android 16, and the Watch 8 Series will be the first to ship with Wear OS 6
Engadget
10:25
Google says it will roll out Gemini for Wear OS “over the coming weeks” to Wear OS 4+ on Pixel, Samsung, OnePlus, OPPO, Xiaomi, and more, replacing Assistant
9to5Google
10:21
Samsung unveils the $899+ Galaxy Z Flip7 FE, with a smaller cover screen than the Z Flip7's, a smaller battery, no telephoto, and Android 16, in two colors
9to5Google
10:16
Google adds AI Mode and gaming features to Android's Circle to Search, and Gemini Live support for foldables and third-party apps, starting with Samsung devices
The Verge
10:12
Samsung unveils the $1,100+ Galaxy Z Flip7, with its own 3nm Exynos 2500 SoC, larger 4.1" external and 6.9" internal displays, and a larger 4,300mAh battery
Engadget
10:12
Samsung unveils the $349 Galaxy Watch 8 in 40mm and 44mm sizes and the $499 Watch 8 Classic in 46mm, with Gemini and an Antioxidant Index for carotenoid levels
9to5Google
10:10
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 hands-on: vastly thinner and lighter than the Fold6, a wider display format, no S Pen support, and feels like a normal phone when closed
The Verge
10:05
Samsung unveils the $2,000+ Galaxy Z Fold7, with bigger 8" and 6.5" screens, a 200MP main camera, and a lighter and thinner design at 217g and 8.9mm when folded
9to5Google
10:01
Nvidia hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, the first company to do so, after passing $3T in June 2024, $2T in February 2024, and $1T in May 2023
CNBC
08:40
ServiceUp, a vehicle repair process automation startup, raised a $55M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to nearly $70M
Crunchbase News
08:15
Hugging Face begins taking orders for its $449 Reachy Mini Wireless and $299 Reachy Mini Lite open-source robots, which come in a kit for developers to build
TechCrunch
06:50
How crypto executives, lobbyists, campaign operatives, and Trump business partners turned President Trump from an outspoken bitcoin skeptic into a supporter
New York Times
06:30
Ikea plans to relaunch its smart home line with 20+ new Matter-over-Thread devices, starting in January 2026, and releases a beta update for its Dirigera hub
The Verge
06:05
The US Treasury's OFAC sanctions individuals and companies linked to North Korea's fake tech worker scheme, including “malicious cyber actor” Song Kum Hyok
Bloomberg
05:50
Google rolls out a new Gmail feature for managing subscriptions that shows a list of emails delivered via active subscriptions, sorted by most frequent sender
The Verge
05:40
Apple supplier Lens Technology, one of the world's top device part makers, raised ~$608M in its Hong Kong IPO, as the Chinese company looks to expand overseas
Nikkei Asia
04:40
Researchers: the Anatsa banking trojan snuck into Google Play once again via an app disguised as a PDF viewer, which had 50K+ downloads before Google removed it
BleepingComputer
04:01
Researchers detail All-Topographic Neural Networks, claiming they better mimic human spatial biases and consume less energy than other machine vision networks
IEEE Spectrum
02:30
ThinkBroadband: 78%+ of UK properties have access to full-fiber broadband, up from 12% in January 2020, which experts trace to Ofcom pushing competition in 2021
Financial Times
01:40
California State Senator Scott Wiener makes amendments to SB 53, which has transparency requirements for AI companies but omits SB 1047's provision on liability
Bloomberg
01:25
US federal prosecutors accuse two US men of operating and promoting OmegaPro, a crypto multi-level marketing scam that allegedly defrauded victims out of $650M+
CNBC
01:10
A $242M+ Polymarket bet on whether President Zelenskyy would wear a suit before July 2025 closed as “No” despite claims he did, raising governance concerns
Decrypt
00:55
Qantas confirms a recent cyberattack exposed personal details of 5.7M customers, including names, emails, addresses, and phone numbers
ABC
00:25
Sources: Apple is in talks to acquire the US streaming rights for Formula 1, following the success of F1 the Movie, which has generated ~$300M at the box office
Financial Times

Dienstag, 8. Juli 2025

23:15
Millions of China's gig workers are enduring record heat waves without receiving legally mandated “heat wave allowances”, cooling breaks, or adequate insurance
Bloomberg
21:35
Analysis: Chinese companies aim to install 115K+ US-sanctioned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips in 39 data centers across China's western deserts, mostly in Xinjiang
Bloomberg
19:50
Apple says COO Jeff Williams will step down in July, overseeing design and health until he retires later in 2025; SVP of Operations Sabih Khan will become COO
Bloomberg
19:30
Apple says its design team will report to Tim Cook after Jeff Williams retires; Williams was overseeing the team after Evans Hankey's departure in April 2023
9to5Mac
18:45
After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts and called itself “MechaHitler”; xAI took “action to ban hate speech”
NBC News
18:30
Replit announces a partnership with Microsoft to make its platform available in the Azure Marketplace and integrate its tech with some Microsoft cloud services
TechCrunch
18:20
Internal Slack message: OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta, including David Lau, a former Tesla VP of software engineering
Wired
17:50
A US appeals court blocks the FTC's “click-to-cancel” rule that would have taken effect on July 14, saying it didn't conduct a preliminary cost-benefit analysis
Reuters
17:40
GlobalFoundries agrees to acquire MIPS, a developer of RISC-V-based solutions and IP, without disclosing financial terms of the deal, set to close in H2 2025
Tom's Hardware
17:10
Waymo introduces teen accounts, starting with letting teenagers in Phoenix aged 14 to 17 use its Waymo One ride-hailing service alone with parental approval
The Verge
16:41
Apple says COO Jeff Williams handing over role to Sabih Khan this month
CNBC
16:10
Source: Activision took down Call of Duty: WWII after hackers exploited a flaw in a specific PC version, which led to some players having their computers hacked
TechCrunch
15:22
Sources: Mistral AI is in talks to raise as much as $1B in equity from investors, including Abu Dhabi fund MGX; Mistral has raised €1B+ since its 2023 founding
Bloomberg
15:08
Sources: Meta bought just under 3% of Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica, a stake worth ~€3B, and is considering more investment to build its stake to ~5% over time
Bloomberg
15:01
Private stock investment platform Linqto files for bankruptcy, citing US SEC and DOJ probes and an internal probe that found users didn't own shares they bought
Wall Street Journal
14:10
Arago, which is developing a photonic AI chip, codenamed JEF, that is designed to use 10 times less energy than GPUs at a comparable cost, raised a $26M seed
Tech.eu
13:05
Dubai-based Xpanceo, which is developing smart contact lenses with night vision, health monitoring, and more, raised a $250M Series A at a $1.35B valuation
Bloomberg
12:05
El Salvador-based Tether says it holds nearly 80 tons of gold, worth ~$8B, in a vault in Switzerland; precious metals made up nearly 5% of its reserves in March
Bloomberg
11:05
Sources: an impostor used AI to mimic Marco Rubio's voice and writing style and contacted foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress
Washington Post
10:55
ReserveOne, a cryptocurrency holding company with bitcoin, ethereum, and Solana, plans to list on the Nasdaq through a SPAC deal expected to raise $1B+
Reuters
10:40
AirGarage, whose platform analyzes parking facilities' data to improve efficiency, raised a $23M Series B led by Headline, bringing its total funding to $41M
Axios
10:01
X says India ordered it to block 2,355 accounts, including two from Reuters, on July 3, but then told X to unblock the Reuters accounts after a “public outcry”
Bloomberg
09:55
Moonvalley debuts Marey, its licensed AI video model, for $14.99, $34.99, or $149.99 per month; ~80% of its footage is from independent filmmakers and agencies
Time
09:45
Global VC funding reached $91B in Q2 2025, up from $82B in Q2 2024, driven largely by AI investments, but down from $114B in Q1 2025, the highest since Q3 2022
Crunchbase News
09:01
France-based chipmaker SiPearl raised a €130M Series A from Taiwan's Cathay Venture and others to develop its ARM-based Rhea1 AI chip, set to feature 80 cores
Bloomberg
08:50
IBM unveils Power11, its first major update to the chips since 2020, available from July 25, and says they can detect and respond to ransomware within a minute
Reuters
07:40
M&S Chair Archie Norman tells UK parliament that M&S used the FBI and UK agencies to combat the May cyberattack and says M&S believes DragonForce was behind it
Financial Times
06:30
As Amazon Prime Day begins, some merchants say they can't afford to offer discounts due to Trump's tariffs; Adobe expects $23.8B in sales across the four days
Bloomberg
06:15
The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest US teachers' union, says it will open an AI training hub with $23M from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic
New York Times
05:50
OnePlus launches five products: the midrange €449 Nord 5 smartphone, the €349 Nord CE 5, a smaller €299 Watch 3, the €119 Buds 4, and the €229 Pad Lite tablet
The Verge