Techmeme River
Montag, 24. August 2026
22:45
Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation; its revenue this year is estimated to reach $1.5B+
Bloomberg
22:21
Sources: Apple is about to launch a new Mac mini, potentially before its September iPhone event; Apple has tested versions with M5 and M6
Bloomberg
22:10
OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute
9to5Mac
21:20
Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cyberattacks across many Chinese state-linked groups, primarily using open-weight models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek
Bloomberg
20:25
Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in 2024
SiliconANGLE
18:53
Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October
The Information
18:35
Apple reverses its plan to move iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses to private.icloud.com after user backlash; the feature will continue using the icloud.com domain
MacRumors
17:30
Sources: smart ring maker Oura and some of its backers seek to raise up to $3B in a US IPO that could take place as soon as September and value it at over $16B
Bloomberg
17:15
Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June
Axios
17:00
Canada-based logistics software company Descartes acquires Tai, a California-based transportation management system provider, for $100M in cash
Axios
16:30
At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more
The Information
15:25
Mercury Research: AMD's share of x86 client CPU shipments tops 30% for the first time, hitting 30.3% in Q2, up from 21.1% two years earlier, vs. Intel's 69.7%
PCMag
14:20
The UK backs Ofcom to take “tough action” under the OSA against social media sites failing to remove dangerous driving videos, after a crash killed seven people
The Guardian
14:00
Alabama AG Steve Marshall launches an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures following the Hugging Face breach in July
Bloomberg Law
13:40
The UK becomes the first foreign nation to gain access to Ukrainian combat data used to train AI models to strike Russian targets, as part of an AI partnership
Financial Times
13:10
The Trump administration proposes a $103,265 fee on H-1B applicants hired within the US after a court blocked a more limited fee on workers from outside the US
Bloomberg
13:05
A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots
Wall Street Journal
12:30
Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX racks delivered 3,400 tokens per second in an Artificial Analysis benchmark running Gemma 4 31B with a 100,000-token input sequence
The Register
12:10
The UK's Office for National Statistics: UK digital infrastructure investment crossed £11B in 2025, hitting dot-com boom levels, amid an AI data center surge
Bloomberg
12:05
Temu and Pinduoduo owner PDD reports Q2 revenue up 8.1% YoY to ~$16.72B, missing est. of ~$17.17B, and net profit down 12% YoY to ~$4.04B, above ~$3.63B est.
Wall Street Journal
11:35
IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications
VentureBeat
11:20
Nvidia says its inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has entered full production and Nebius has signed on as the first customer, and SpaceX will deploy Vera CPUs
SiliconANGLE
10:40
China's Bilibili relaunches its international app and plans an English-language website, after already pushing MrBeast and others to post on its Chinese website
Semafor
10:10
Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export 74 high-end AI servers to China
Reuters
10:01
Sources detail how Trump intervened to get a settlement before the DOJ's antitrust trial against Live Nation, after CEO Michael Rapino met White House officials
Wall Street Journal
09:46
The US FTC settles its lawsuit against Zillow, resolving claims that Zillow violated antitrust law by paying Redfin $100M to stop competing in rental listings
Reuters
09:35
Minimus, a cybersecurity startup started by Twistlock founders, shuts down after failing to gain enough commercial momentum; Minimus raised a $51M seed in 2023
CTech
08:25
Sources: Netflix has discussed adding streamers like Peacock and Fox One as it seeks to compete with YouTube and Roku in becoming a one-stop shop for TV content
New York Times
07:45
Irish lawmakers reconsider the country's 1999 nuclear power ban, as data centers' growing power demands account for nearly 25% of the country's electricity use
Financial Times
07:00
Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking services across Asia and other emerging markets, raised $68M at a $1B valuation, after raising $51M in May
CoinDesk
06:50
Sources: ByteDance is merging coding platform Trae and agent-building tool Coze into Doubao, and plans to launch Doubao Work to compete with Tencent's WorkBuddy
Bloomberg
06:40
Ukraine says Russia used an Nvidia Jetson Orin computing module in its fully autonomous AI-guided drones; Nvidia says they're widely available on resale markets
New York Times
06:35
Ukrainian officials say an AI-guided, fully autonomous Russian drone picked its target in a Zaporizhzhia gas station strike in July, killing three Ukrainians
New York Times
06:10
Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG Capital at a $6.3B+ valuation; Gaorong Ventures, Tencent, and Alibaba also invested
Reuters
06:05
Xiaomi launches the Xring O3, a 3nm SoC for its mobile devices, as it seeks to reduce reliance on foreign chips from longtime suppliers Qualcomm and MediaTek
Bloomberg
06:01
Alibaba debuts Wan3.0, an AI video generation model that can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages, after an August beta
Reuters
05:46
US business schools are racing to prepare students to become chief AI officers, even as companies are still figuring out what the newest C-suite role entails
Bloomberg
04:50
Global central banks are pushing CBDCs to defend monetary sovereignty against USD stablecoins, but are struggling to find demand for their digital currencies
Bloomberg
04:01
A look at the collapse of Zondacrypto, Eastern and Central Europe's biggest crypto exchange, which went dark in April and is facing money laundering allegations
New York Times
02:01
Oxford Economics: US corporate spending on equipment and facilities is set to rise 40% from 2021 to 2027, over 3x faster than in Europe, driven by the AI race
Financial Times
01:01
New Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for under-16s, requiring “high risk” platforms to check user ages or face penalties of up to 10% of global revenue
Bloomberg
00:15
Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from Thinking Machines Lab in January, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs, reporting to Alexandr Wang
Axios
Sonntag, 23. August 2026
23:50
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity's round that would value it at $30B+; Nvidia considered a tech licensing deal and hiring some of its staff
The Information
23:40
Sources: Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury's CFIUS national security review of its $80M deal to acquire US clothing retailer Everlane, an unusual move
Bloomberg
23:10
At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot built by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records
Telegraph
22:20
SoftBank plans a ~$6.3B retail bond sale, the biggest by any issuer in Japan and its third in 2026, as the conglomerate raises funds for its OpenAI commitments
Bloomberg
22:05
A look at the playbook Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others use to shape US schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools
New York Times
20:45
President Trump says communities that oppose data centers are “making a mistake” as they create “tremendous amounts of jobs and money”, amid bipartisan backlash
Axios
19:30
Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on September 1, seeking up to ~$1.8B in an IPO at a $27B valuation, a fraction of its $100B valuation in 2022
Bloomberg
19:01
Sam Altman says a few powerful players could end up controlling AI because the magnitude of risks could push people to “trade off a lot of liberty for safety”
Business Insider
17:10
Greg Abbott says data center companies “dug their own grave” by moving into communities without first gaining support, signaling growing Republican backlash
Axios
15:20
Sources: Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to evaluate bidders' interest
Business Insider
13:45
Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in early June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5
Financial Times
11:50
Alibaba plans to raise ~$10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close
Reuters
10:45
Sources: foldable iPhone feels durable, fits well in a pocket, has useful iPad-like app layouts, excels as a camera viewfinder but lacks telephoto and Face ID
Bloomberg
08:05
The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development
Wall Street Journal
04:05
A profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and oversaw the Musk v. Altman trial
CNBC
01:30
The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course
Financial Times
01:20
Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025
TechCrunch
01:15
Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses
Financial Times
Samstag, 22. August 2026
23:30
Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi
Wall Street Journal
23:20
Sources: Iran-linked hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, coinciding with a wave of Iran-affiliated attacks on US water utilities
Telegraph
20:00
Sources and documents detail how Tether's plan to build two bitcoin mining sites in Uruguay fell apart amid a dispute with state utility UTE over power supply
Reuters
18:00
AI agents' growing capabilities are driving productivity FOMO among some startup founders, who feel compelled to work long hours managing and guiding the agents
Wall Street Journal
16:00
London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings
TechCrunch
15:00
Sources: some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027
Bloomberg
14:45
Apparel retailers like Zalando, Zara, and ASOS are betting on AI virtual fitting rooms to create a better online shopping experience and cut costly returns
Bloomberg
12:40
Carrier Pidge hit 75K users and Roost 650K downloads, as slow messaging apps delivering texts at pigeon speeds attract users tired of constant notifications
New York Times
12:40
A look at the narrowing US-China AI gap, as a spate of compelling, low-cost releases makes Chinese AI models increasingly attractive to businesses
Bloomberg
10:35
Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter
Wccftech
09:50
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have made Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, a data center hub, with ~100 data centers built or under construction
Wired
06:30
Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come
Financial Times
02:30
With each successive era of LLMs, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model
SemiAnalysis
02:00
Rundoo, a provider of AI-powered business operations software for independent supply stores, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures
SiliconANGLE
01:25
OpenAI President Greg Brockman's role has expanded significantly, giving him control over its product and scaling teams following a wave of executive departures
The Verge
01:00
Following abandoned IPO attempts in NYC and London, Shein is struggling to grow as it nears a Hong Kong listing at a fraction of its peak valuation of $100B
New York Times
Freitag, 21. August 2026
22:10
How politicians who once championed data centers, including Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro, are now slowing their development as the issue becomes a liability
Wall Street Journal
20:36
Sources: Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B+ in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors
New York Times
20:15
Amazon raises prices for its Echo smart speakers, Fire TV line, Kindle devices, and eero mesh networking systems to offset increases in memory and storage costs
Fortune
19:55
Helcim, a payments processor for SMBs, raised a CA$53M Series C led by Business Development Bank of Canada's Growth Venture Fund at a CA$250M valuation
BetaKit
19:10
OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks
Politico
18:45
Gurman: as part of Vision Pro cuts, Apple is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming and reducing the size of a unit producing immersive video content
9to5Mac
18:35
Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites
Reuters
18:15
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens
Reuters
17:35
Sources: Devoted Health, which uses AI to help coordinate medical care for those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, is raising new funding at a $25B valuation
Business Insider
16:50
Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels
NVIDIA Technical Blog
16:25
Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips
Bloomberg
16:10
DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others
Omarchy News
15:45
OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, has resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, and is returning to Salesforce, where she was Slack's CRO
The Information
15:40
The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024
Axios
15:06
Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI
Bloomberg
14:35
Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools
Claude
13:25
Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September
Bloomberg
12:55
Sources: the US Department of Energy is investigating whether Chinese lidar sensors might pose a security risk if they become widely used on vehicles in the US
TechCrunch
12:20
Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says its stores will get the tech, which supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, by the end of 2026
TechCrunch
11:55
Filings: Apple paid Ireland $17B in taxes in 2025, 40% of its $43B in global corporate income tax total, after an EU court ordered it to pay €13B in back taxes
Financial Times
11:20
A Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without informing them, in the second largest fine under GDPR
Financial Times
11:00
Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M
TechCrunch
09:50
Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a company tentatively named KakaoAI and relist it on the Korea Exchange on January 27, 2027
Reuters
09:10
Filings: The Shanghai Stock Exchange accepted China-based chipmaker YMTC's application to list its shares on the STAR Market; YMTC seeks to raise ~$4.9B
Reuters
09:00
DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests
Bloomberg
08:35
Patreon announces new and overhauled features, including recommendation algorithm changes aimed at making it easier for smaller creators to get discovered
The Verge
08:00
A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services
Financial Times
07:15
CBRE: NYC becomes the top tech talent market for the first time with 394,300 jobs, beating the Bay Area's 375,730, amid SF job cuts and NYC finance sector hires
CNBC
06:40
Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it “the largest ever by a Korean company”
CNBC
06:25
Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition
Bloomberg
06:01
China grants Geely a two-year permit for the country's first private satellite IoT trial, letting Geely offer connectivity to sectors like transport and energy
South China Morning Post
04:55
How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho: new millionaires, job growth, traffic, soaring housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution
CNBC
02:10
How crypto, AI, and online betting companies emerged as the biggest industries shaping the 2026 US midterm races, as corporate spending reaches a record $517M
Reuters
Donnerstag, 20. August 2026
23:35
Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments, split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250M for a Rio supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek
Reuters
22:25
Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M over eight months, putting its net annual run rate at $150M to $200M
TechCrunch
21:30
Nevada approves permits letting Tesla deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in the Las Vegas area over the next year, while Waymo and Uber are each allowed up to 1,000
TechCrunch
21:00
A New Jersey teenager drops her lawsuit against Meta, Google, and Snap over alleged social media addiction, without payment; TikTok already settled her claims
Reuters
20:05
A US judge tosses part of the conviction of ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, who was found guilty of stealing AI trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies
Reuters
18:51
OpenAI debuts an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT Work and Codex read, search, and analyze chats, draft and send messages, and more
9to5Mac
18:21
Super Micro says its independent probe found no evidence its CEO or senior management knew of an alleged scheme to smuggle $2.5B worth of Nvidia chips to China
Fortune
17:45
Email: Apple tells music industry partners that songs tagged as “materially generated using AI” by content providers will now be visibly labeled on Apple Music
Billboard
16:55
GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center
The GitHub Blog
16:40
Sources: Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise $60B+ in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies
Bloomberg
16:30
Google rolls out an embeddable Preferred Sources button, natural language Discover controls, and customizable audio briefings in the Google News app on Android
Search Engine Journal
16:10
Twin1 AI, which creates digital twins of professionals and integrates them with tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams, launches out of stealth with a $20M seed
Axios
15:36
Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive $6B Nvidia licensing deal; Nvidia invested $1B at a $12B pre-money valuation and offered jobs to 109 Poolside employees
Newcomer
15:05
Charter closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition, announced in May 2025, merging two of the big US cable and broadband providers, and completes its Liberty acquisition
The Hollywood Reporter
14:35
Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after quietly launching it in Brazil in July
TechCrunch
14:25
Sources: Anthropic expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record-setting IPO, as it prepares to file publicly for its IPO as soon as the end of August
Bloomberg
14:10
Source: Anthropic plans a change later in 2026 that still requires enterprises to retain data for 30 days but lets them do so on their own cloud infrastructure
Bloomberg
13:25
Google DeepMind says its Gemma family of open models has surpassed 1B downloads and developers have published 100K+ Gemma model variants over the past two years
Google
13:20
Sources: Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules
The Information
13:15
Astromech, which uses genomic data to build predictive AI models of biological change, raised $20M at a $3.8B valuation, bringing its total funding to $60M
GamesBeat
13:10
Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using internally over the past three years, in the US; Router is free to use for the rest of 2026
TechCrunch
13:00
Two US senators demand answers from TikTok about a “depraved” test that withheld a safety feature from 10% of US users, including a teenager who died by suicide
Bloomberg
12:10
The Chinese city of Hangzhou deploys traffic-control robots that operate autonomously, using cameras and radar to signal traffic and flag violations
Reuters
11:15
Filing: in 2025, TikTok generated $702.5M in net profit in Europe, Africa, and Latin America, its first annual profit, on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% YoY
Forbes
10:55
A bankruptcy court delays Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants objected, seeking assurance their info would be removed
Wall Street Journal
10:35
Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from third parties like Nvidia
Bloomberg
09:25
Circana: US video game hardware spending fell 29% YoY in July to $282M, the lowest since COVID, shipments fell 39%, and average console prices grew 16% to $542
Bloomberg
09:15
Anthropic-backed enterprise AI venture Ode acquires four-year-old AI consultancy Casper Studios for an unknown amount; Ode employs 100+ after buying Fractional
The Information
08:50
Study: 150+ Polymarket wallets may have traded on internal US military information, making $8M overall with a 97.2% average win rate and attracting copycat bets
Reuters
08:35
GTA 6 leaker shares footage suggesting link or access to playable build of the game, as Rockstar struggles to contain even more gameplay videos
Eurogamer.net
08:20
Slack launches Slack Code, adding dedicated, project-specific code channels that let teams collaborate with AI coding agents “like teammates” across all plans
The Verge
07:40
Source: Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year to use trillions of AI tokens weekly via Azure, quietly becoming one of Microsoft's largest AI customers
Bloomberg
07:30
Sources: Trump officials expect Elon Musk to spend $100M to $200M in the November midterm elections, with a focus on voter turnout in key races, including Texas
Wired
07:15
Australia passes the News Bargaining Incentive, which will tax tech giants 2.5% on their Australian ad revenue if they don't strike deals with local news media
Reuters
07:00
PitchBook: 4,000+ California-based startups have raised ~$366B in venture capital in 2026 so far, more than triple the total of all other 49 US states combined
Wall Street Journal
06:45
Muon Space, which is building a spacecraft platform for orbital data centers and AI computing, raised a $250M Series C; Google and Salesforce Ventures invested
Bloomberg
06:30
Stripe's OpenRouter acquisition, its largest yet, is a bet on a future where users turn to a mix of AI models and tokens are the central currency for businesses
Wall Street Journal
06:20
Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$39.64B, meeting est., and net income down 75% to ~$1.54B due to heavy AI spending and weak domestic retail consumption
Bloomberg
06:15
Binance launches Agent OS, a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf; users have to limit AI agents' access and trades
TechCrunch
06:10
South Korean media: SK Hynix and its union reach a tentative deal, featuring a 6.3% salary increase and profit-sharing bonuses paid as 60% shares and 40% cash
Bloomberg
05:55
Uber, Verne, and Pony.ai launch autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city where users can book such rides via Uber's app
Reuters
02:50
London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with models and chips, raised a $100M seed led by Atomico; the UK's Sovereign AI Fund also invested
Bloomberg
02:35
Virginia's Loudoun County hosts 250+ data centers that bring in huge tax revenues, but in 2025, its board voted to slow construction after residents pushed back
New York Times
02:20
A look at Backstory, Google DeepMind's experimental AI image authentication tool that Google has asked journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers to test
Nieman Lab
01:35
China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns
Financial Times
01:20
Sources: China is restricting or delaying exports to Taiwan of germanium- and quartz-based materials used in fiber optics, photonics, and chip manufacturing
Nikkei Asia
00:40
How Unitree's Go series, which helped the company dominate the quadruped robot market, drew on openly published US university research funded by the US military
Reuters
00:35
Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for “free porn” in June
Financial Times