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Oct 30

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire

Filing: Vancouver, WA-based Powerlattice, which makes a power delivery chiplet to reduce AI compute power needs by 50%+, raised $86M, after raising $31M in 2025

Oct 30

Major Emma Roth / The Verge

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers

Oct 30

Reuters

OpenAI tightens limits on the weapons-related information that ChatGPT provides teens, even when a question appears harmless, as part of new safeguards

Oct 30

Major CNBC

Intel stock closed down 28.58% on Friday, its worst day since the 1970s and wiping ~$12B off US government's stake, after issuing weaker-than-expected guidance

Oct 30

Caleigh Keating / CNBC

Reddit closed down 29.27% on Friday, the worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024, after it forecast weak Q4 revenue

Oct 30

Major Brody Ford / Bloomberg

Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle have a collective $3T+ in AI spending commitments over the coming years, including Alphabet's $1T and Meta's $800B

Oct 30

Claude / @claudeai

Anthropic renames its $100 per month Max 5x plan as Max and the $200 per month Max 20x plan as Ultra, and removes the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts

Oct 30

Major Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch

Google says its Suncatcher prototype data center satellite is online after an October 1 launch, with Gemma 4 generating a haiku about being in space

Oct 30

Margaux MacColl / Resilience Media

Salesforce acquires Rune, which makes AI military logistics software, sources say for $375M in cash and stock; Rune raised $30m from a16z and others

Oct 30

Chris Metinko / Axios

Salesforce buys Rune Technologies for new defense unit

Oct 30

Sam Tobin / Reuters

London's High Court dismisses Meta, TikTok, and X's challenge to Ofcom's Online Safety Act information requests, rejecting arguments they were disproportionate

Oct 30

Ian Krietzberg / Puck

FEC data: AI-oriented PACs spent nearly $80M on the 2026 US elections, mostly before the primaries; pro-regulatory PACs outspent Leading the Future's network

Oct 30

Reuters

CXMT reports Q3 revenue of ~$16.7B, up 613.2% YoY, and a net profit of ~$8.17B, swinging to profitability on the back of rising AI-driven memory chip prices

Oct 30

Bloomberg

NAND maker Kioxia reports FY Q2 operating profit up 22x YoY to ~$12.7B, in line with est., but forecasts Q3 operating profit of ~$12.7B, below ~$14.9B est.

Oct 30

Reuters

The UK CMA opens a probe into whether Meta imposed exploitative terms on publishers and advertisers to use their content to develop its AI and other services

Oct 30

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch

Dream, which is training AI world models on US building data to automate construction design and engineering, emerges from stealth with a $17M seed led by a16z

Oct 30

Major Financial Times

Inside Nscale's 2,250-acre, 8GW Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia, which has been hit by construction issues, local opposition, and financing risks

Oct 30

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu

Ravical, whose AI-powered platform helps accounting and tax firms manage their operations, raised a $17M seed led by MMC, bringing its total funding to $25M

Oct 30

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times

Spotify aims to launch its AI remix service in Q1 2027 and may charge $4-$5/month extra; it is still negotiating licensing deals with Sony and Warner

Oct 30

Paresh Dave / Wired

How a wave of startups are betting on AI to make formal software verification practical and essential, including &Truth, which launches with a $70M seed

Oct 30

Major Kevin Collier / NBC News

CrowdStrike: China-linked hackers used AI tool ARTEX with a DeepSeek LLM and another model to target 200+ organizations in 11 days, compromising at least nine

Oct 30

The Information

DeepSeek doubled its latest round's size due to surging black market Nvidia Blackwell chip prices, with Chinese state-owned investors representing 27%

Oct 30

Joseph C. Sternberg / Wall Street Journal

S-1: Anthropic says it heavily depends on TSMC chips made in Taiwan and warns of risks from "potential disruption" amid geopolitical tensions with China

Oct 30

Bloomberg

Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence seeks to raise as much as $3B to fund a previously announced purchase of Nvidia Vera Rubin systems

Oct 30

Major Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg

NYSE owner ICE plans US-regulated Hyperliquid-based perpetual markets with Trade.xyz, a market operator on the crypto platform, and takes a stake in Trade.xyz

Oct 30

Elias Schisgall / MarketWatch

Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.56B, vs. $1.52B est., net income up 333% to $161M, and expects slower Q4 revenue growth; TWLO drops 15%+ after hours

Oct 30

Major Julie Bort / TechCrunch

Andy Jassy says Prime Video has "a revenue run rate in the tens of billions of dollars and is now profitable in its own right"

Oct 30

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch

Meta quietly launches Style Sketch, an AI fashion app that helps users put together outfit ideas using clothes they own, in Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand

Oct 29

MarketWatch

Sandisk reports Q1 revenue up 378% YoY to $11B, vs. $10.7B est., forecasts Q2 revenue above est., announces an 8-for-1 stock split; SNDK drops 4%+ after hours

Oct 29

Liz Moyer / Barron's Online

Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.17B, vs. $1.21B est., global MAUs up 10% to 661M, and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; PINS drops 8%+ after hours

Oct 29

Major Reuters

Polymarket resumes trading after a security incident with a third-party provider, which a source says is DebugBear, and says it will reimburse affected traders

Oct 29

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg

Coinbase reports Q3 revenue down 35% YoY to $1.22B, in line with est., and net income up 66% to $719M, its first profit in a year, on unrealized crypto gains

Oct 29

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg

Roblox reports Q3 bookings down 12% YoY to $1.7B, vs. $1.63B est., and DAUs down 9% to 138M, vs. 145.8M est.; RBLX drops 16%+ after hours

Oct 29

Business Insider

Instagram is offering select creators $50K to $500K to cross-post their long-form YouTube content to its new "Features" product

Oct 29

Wall Street Journal

Google, Meta, and other tech companies are resisting broad ICE demands for user data as they face future Democratic-led congressional investigations

Oct 29

Sanskriti Shekhar / Reuters

Symbotic says Walmart has committed an additional $6B over several years to deploy Symbotic's supply-chain automation technology across its distribution network

Oct 29

Major Jonathan Vanian / CNBC

Reddit reports Q3 revenue up 53% YoY to $895M, vs. $878M est., DAUq up 12% to 130.3M, below est., forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; RDDT drops 17%+ after hours

Oct 29

Major Katie Tarasov / CNBC

Intel reports Q3 revenue up 21% YoY to $16.5B, vs. $16.5B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS below estimates; INTC drops 23%+ after hours

Oct 29

Bloomberg

Anthropic is "Customer B" cited by SpaceX in a filing as its single largest customer accounting for 34.5% of Q3 revenue, surpassing the US government

Oct 29

Major Vittoria Elliott / Wired

An Accenture staffer's Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months and appears to have sent info to a third-party site before it was identified

Oct 29

Andy Larsen / Salt Lake Tribune

Utah files 14 criminal charges against Kalshi and its co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara for allegedly breaking Utah's gambling laws

Oct 29

Major OpenAI

OpenAI updates Model Spec to reorganize it around five values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care

Oct 29

Rocket Drew / The Information

Dulo, a startup co-founded by Google veteran Sebastian Thrun to build "foundation models for hardware design", raised a $130M seed

Oct 29

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

SuperMe, which generates AI-powered chats with simulated profiles of prominent industry experts to let users ask questions, raised $20M

Oct 29

Bloomberg

Canada-based Cohere completes the first close of a round that it expects to total up to $5B, with Canada agreeing to invest up to $1.14B, at a $20.5B valuation

Oct 29

Liam Dillon / Politico

Airbnb spent $12.6M+ since 2025 to become a top LA political contributor, backing Mayor Karen Bass and pushing for friendlier rules ahead of the 2028 Olympics

Oct 29

Major Davey Alba / Bloomberg

Alphabet discloses $1T+ in purchase commitments, future leases, and other obligations; its Q3 filing shows $98.5B in contingent commitments, up ~$23B from Q2

Oct 29

Claire Rychlewski / Axios

Thrive Holdings agrees to acquire ADT in an all-cash take-private deal, valuing ADT at ~$7.6B in equity value, a ~46% premium over its October 27 closing price

Oct 29

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE

Ottawa-based Solink, which uses AI to pull data from already-installed security cameras, raised $100M+ led by Vertu Capital, bringing its total raised to $198M+

Oct 29

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios

Collective, which uses AI to automate bookkeeping for solo business owners, raised a $40M Series B and $60M in nondilutive capital from GC's Customer Value Fund

Oct 29

Financial Times

The UK FCA, which sued Justin Sun-linked crypto exchange HTX in 2025 for "unlawfully promoting crypto asset services", says HTX will exit the UK in a settlement

Oct 29

Bloomberg

Situational Awareness is pitching clients to invest in Fluidstack alongside it in a round that values the neocloud at $40B, up from $18B in September

Oct 29

Major Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET

Mistral releases the weights for Mistral Large 4, or Le Chonk, and says it rivals top open models such as GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index

Oct 29

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters

Serval, which offers AI agents for enterprise IT operations like access management, raised $150M led by Sequoia at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in December 2025

Oct 29

Bloomberg

Microsoft is seeking to raise $25B+ in its first US investment-grade bond sale since 2017, when it raised $17B, to fund AI-related capital expenditures

Oct 29

Micah Barkley / Bloomberg

Wabi, which is building an AI assistant that integrates into group chats and can take actions like booking appointments, raised $55M at a $1.25B valuation

Oct 29

Ben Thompson / Stratechery

Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on diffusing intelligence, safety, AI lessons, forward-deployed engineering, Anthropic vs. the US, AI religion, and more

Oct 29

John Collison / Cheeky Pint

Q&A with Sam Altman on finding PHP bugs, sandboxing superhuman models as an unsolved safety dilemma, robotics scaling data centers, math, agent swarms, and more

Oct 29

Ashutosh Joshi / Bloomberg

Jio Platforms adds $36B in market value in two trading sessions, hitting a $144B market cap, up from its ~$108B IPO valuation, after India's biggest-ever IPO

Oct 29

Reuters

The Pentagon is treating the late August freezer malfunctions across 6+ military bases as a suspected cyberattack and is working with French police

Oct 29

Major Reuters

DoorDash agrees to acquire Instacart in a ~$17B deal, paying $65 per share, a 26% premium to its October 22 close, as the platform delivery market consolidates

Oct 29

Lauren McCarthy / New York Times

Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and Wellington Management at a $40B valuation, up from a $22B valuation after raising $1B in May, its last raise before an IPO

Oct 29

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios

Circuit Mind, which uses AI to automate electronics and circuit design, raised $25M, including an $18.5M Series A led by Norwest, and plans a US relocation

Oct 29

Bloomberg

Sierra Club expects US power emissions to hit 2.1B metric tons by 2030, up 42% on 2025 and erasing 15 years of cuts, with off-grid data centers matching Mexico

Oct 29

Jamie Hore / This Week in Videogames

Epic Games says it is using AI tools to "develop code and features" for Unreal Engine, including core engine components like the D3D12 rendering layer

Oct 29

The Information

DeepSeek and Moonshot AI heavily relied on GPT-6 Astra distillation to train models like Kimi K3.1 Pro and V4.1-Flash 1017, after Anthropic's crackdown

Oct 29

Kali Hays / BBC

Vladimir Putin praises Elon Musk as a "real genius" and says Russia is in "close contact" with Musk and the US to coordinate Rassvet and Starlink satellites

Oct 29

Major Federico Viticci / MacStories

Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro is designed for the iPad generation, with an optimized macOS, and the company is right to move on from Steve Jobs' skepticism

Oct 29

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg

A profile of Nscale CEO Josh Payne, who is proceeding with plans for a US IPO that sources say is targeting a $30B valuation despite some investor pushback

Oct 29

Reuters

Bloomberg, Susquehanna, and Jump Trading signed up for Truth Social's fast API feed of President Trump's posts, paying $60K to $100K per month

Oct 29

Major New York Times

US officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huang is a Chinese asset who maintained a close relationship with Jensen Huang to pass intelligence to Beijing

Oct 29

Bloomberg

A profile of Tencent Cloud CEO Dowson Tong, who is shifting Tencent's AI focus toward businesses and betting on its Claude Cowork-style assistant WorkBuddy

Oct 29

Reuters

STMicro reports Q3 revenue up 17.9% YoY to $3.76B, operating income up 98% to $429M, above $400.5M est., and forecasts $4.15B in Q4 revenue, above $4.10B est.

Oct 29

Olivia Carville / Bloomberg

How Maynard v. Snapchat, a 2016 lawsuit linked to a car crash involving Snapchat's speed filter, sparked social media's legal reckoning over user safety

Oct 29

Elizabeth Rembert / Bloomberg

National Student Clearinghouse: US computer science enrollment fell 12%+ for undergrads and 10%+ for grad students this fall, as AI reduces coding jobs

Oct 29

Major Wired

Bluesky blocks links to a leaked archive containing personal data of 41,000+ DHS employees and contractors, saying it was "shared without their authorization"

Oct 29

Major Bloomberg

Samsung's shares fall up to 6.6%, as a lack of a new shareholder return plan, higher capex, and its chip unit's Q3 profit miss weigh on investor sentiment

Oct 29

Chris Metinko / Axios

Fragment, which uses AI to resolve purchasing and payment issues across manufacturing datasets, emerges from stealth with $56M from 8VC and others

Oct 29

Ville Heiskanen / Bloomberg

DoorDash moves its Q3 earnings release from November 4 to before the market opens on October 29, amid reports of an imminent ~$17B deal to acquire Instacart

Oct 29

Major Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal

How surging demand from AI hyperscalers has quintupled flash memory prices and shifted market and negotiating power from Apple to suppliers like Kioxia

Oct 29

Top Story Carl Franzen / VentureBeat

Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Carbon to selected cybersecurity defenders through Fairwind at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later

Oct 29

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters

Zillow agrees to pay $212.5M to settle an investor class action over its failed Zillow Offers home-flipping venture, after SCOTUS refused to hear its appeal

Oct 29

Major Tom Warren / The Verge

Microsoft reports Q1 Xbox hardware revenue down 14% YoY, Xbox content and services revenue down 2%, and Windows OEM and Devices revenue down 22%

Oct 28

Major Reuters

The US DOJ has inquired about the impact of Nvidia's Hugging Face deal on AI competition, as antitrust enforcers continue to probe Nvidia's conduct

Oct 28

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg

Seoul-based AI chip startup FuriosaAI raised a $620M Series D at a $2.9B valuation, up from $735M in 2025; South Korea's National Growth Fund contributed $280M

Oct 29

Katie Roof / Business Insider

AI coding startup Cognition weighs a new funding round before year's end after receiving offers valuing it at $70B-$80B, up from $48B in September

Oct 28

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal

EBay reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $3.21B, above $3.12B est., and GMV up 15% to $23.17B, above $22.32B est.; EBAY jumps 4%+ after hours

Oct 28

Bloomberg

Marvell is in advanced talks to buy data center optics maker Lumentum, whose market value is ~$83B; the deal could be announced as soon as next week

Oct 28

Brody Ford / Bloomberg

ServiceNow reports Q3 subscription revenue up 21% YoY to $3.99B, forecasts Q4 current remaining performance obligations below est.; NOW drops 15%+ after hours

Oct 28

Deborah Sophia / Reuters

Oracle pledges to limit new financing to $20B through FY 2030, expects free cash flow to turn positive in H2 FY 2028 and top $30B in FY 2029; ORCL jumps 11%+

Oct 28

Raga Justin / Bloomberg Government

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs bills banning AI chatbots from using "unsafe features" for minors and requiring security features in internet-connected baby monitors

Oct 28

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors

Apple adds a 512GB RAM configuration for the Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip, starting at $22,299; the M5 Max model maxes out at 128GB of RAM

Oct 28

Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis unveils the Intelligence Index v5 with new coding and science benchmarks; 60% of the Index is based on private test sets or held-out answers

Oct 28

Major Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Google and Xreal launch the Xreal Aura wired XR glasses, with Android XR and a puck with Snapdragon Reality Elite, for $1,099+ through December, then $1,279+

Oct 28

Major Hartley Charlton / MacRumors

Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro is the first Mac with the Dynamic Island, offering similar functionality to the iPhone; the Dynamic Island launched in 2022

Oct 28

Major Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack

GitHub says it's seeing 7.4B commits per month, up from 2.9B in August, and has added 4M CPU cores and 160PB of storage in 2026 so far to support this growth

Oct 28

Major Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE

Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, and Granary v2, its open-source speech dataset

Oct 28

Calder McHugh / Politico

OpenAI says it's launching an election "war room" ahead of the US midterms to identify potential spread of misinfo or other efforts to disrupt the elections

Oct 28

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch

Reddit rolls out a dual-feed homepage, with For You and Following feeds, joining TikTok, Instagram, and others in offering a For You feed

Oct 28

Rocket Drew / The Information

Foundry, a manufacturing-as-a-service startup that builds factories with robots powered by physical AI models, raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike

Oct 28

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters

Dropbox plans to cut ~6% of its staff, or ~200 jobs, costing $27M to $33M in severance and related costs, and says CTO Ali Dasdan will step down on November 18

Oct 28

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg

Chinese PCB maker Dongshan rises on its Hong Kong debut, after raising ~$1.3B in an IPO, below its $3B goal, at a $30B valuation, amid a tricky IPO market

Oct 28

Andrew Liszewski / The Verge

X adds an intrusive promotional animation of an arm reaching across the screen to direct users to a "promote" post button, targeting verified and Premium users

Oct 28

Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk

Google unveils Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC), a digital-asset custody and security service in private preview, set for commercial availability in early 2027

Oct 28

Major @artificialanlys

Artificial Analysis launches the Intelligence Index v5, with new coding and science benchmarks, built on private datasets; Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 58

Oct 28

Nena Farrell / Wired

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft review: premium feel, lightweight, nice colors, and snappy performance, but expensive after price increases

Oct 28

Major Chris Welch / Bloomberg

Amazon unveils the $500 Echo Show 16, the $200 Echo Time alarm, and the $200+ Alexa Photo Frame, raises smart speaker prices, and previews Alexa Home Map

Oct 28

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal

Etsy reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $692.5M, above $668M est., net income of $853.5M after selling Depop, and gross merchandise sales up 9% YoY to $2.65B

Oct 28

Chris Welch / Bloomberg

Samsung unveils the $229 Galaxy Buds On, its first open-fit, C-shaped cuff earbuds to compete with Sony and Bose, designed with AI's help, shipping November 6

Oct 28

Mariella Moon / Engadget

Meta quietly launched Waddle World, a Tamagotchi-like, AI pet-rearing game, in the Philippines in September, calling it a "daily journal disguised as a pet"

Oct 28

Major Financial Times

Anthropic's seven cofounders remain extremely influential and personally tight; Daniela Amodei, who runs operations, is seen as a good balance to Dario

Oct 28

Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg

Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads reports Q3 revenue up 1,774% YoY to ~$240M and a ~$7.4M net profit; Moore is building a domestic 100K-GPU cluster with JD.com

Oct 28

Sarah Brager / San Francisco Chronicle

A US federal grand jury indicts OpenAI engineer and Saudi national Abdulrahman "Abdul" Alfozan on a felony charge of interception of oral communications

Oct 28

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg

AI and cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security raised $400M led by Bessemer at a $3.8B valuation, up from $1.5B in January, for $830M in total funding

Oct 28

Financial Times

How the UK's Slough, a town on the borders of west London, became the largest data center hub in Europe, hosting 40+ facilities, as locals seek more benefits

Oct 28

Dawn Kopecki / Reuters

Email: a hacker attack forced the FEC to temporarily take its filing system offline around 10pm ET on Monday, blocking groups from submitting reports

Oct 28

Rozanna Latiff / Reuters

Malaysia says it seized ~$12.11M worth of AI chips this month, as authorities close in on a syndicate suspected of smuggling through the country's main airport

Oct 28

Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal

Letter: Senator Elizabeth Warren asks Dario Amodei for "exhaustive responses" to four pages of questions by November 3 regarding existential risks in its S-1

Oct 28

Major Anthropic

Research: professional analysts followed AI agents' randomly assigned "leans" on subjective analytical decisions 86% of the time; 77% used the agents' arguments

Oct 28

Major Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times

Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February

Oct 28

Financial Times

TPG is in talks to acquire UK-based Ark Data Centres, which operates 27 data centers in the UK and Belgium, from Elliott Management at a ~$5B valuation

Oct 28

Major Simon Sharwood / The Register

SK Hynix expects memory shortages to persist through at least 2030; the company has long-term deals with 14 major buyers for 50%+ of its output in 2027 and 2028

Oct 28

Major Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk

The CFTC files a legal challenge to block Utah's attempt to restrict prediction market betting, asserting it is the sole US regulator of prediction markets

Oct 28

New York Times

How Silicon Valley billionaires raised $333M+ to try to defeat a 5% California wealth tax; Patrick Collison's $33M is his most serious campaign engagement yet

Oct 28

Priyanka Salve / CNBC

Jio Platforms, India's largest telecom and digital services company, jumps 21.4% in its trading debut, after raising ~$3.2B in the country's largest-ever IPO

Oct 28

Reuters

CXMT plans to start HBM3E production despite yields of just 20% to 30%; its HBM3E performance is closer to that of SK Hynix's previous-gen HBM3 chips

Oct 28

Nikkei Asia

Industry insiders say PCBs and chip substrates are key supply constraints for consumer electronics makers, as AI demand increasingly eats up production capacity

Oct 28

Nikkei Asia

HP, Asus, and Acer are shifting some PC production from Thailand and Vietnam back to China amid rising component costs; Dell is mulling a similar move

Oct 28

Nikkei Asia

Fujifilm plans to increase magnetic tape production capacity fivefold to meet AI-driven storage demand, its biggest production expansion in ~20 years

Oct 28

David Shepardson / Reuters

The US FCC approves Amazon Leo's $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar, giving Amazon access to Globalstar's 24 satellites and mobile satellite spectrum

Oct 28

Dell Cameron / Wired

Letter: two Democratic senators allege the Trump administration withheld a secret FISC ruling on search filters that let analysts access Americans' messages

Oct 28

Valida Pau / The Information

Chipmaker Onsemi is in talks to acquire 16-year-old chip startup Ferric for ~$1B; PitchBook: Ferric last raised a $32.1M Series C in December 2024

Oct 28

Top Story Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC

AMD says it will invest $1B in Meta's equity offering, its first Helios rackscale systems are installed at Meta, and its EPYC CPUs power Meta's Muse AI agent

Oct 28

Reuters

Toronto-based fintech Wealthsimple raised up to CA$425M led by GIC at a post-money valuation of CA$13.8B, up from CA$10B in 2025

Oct 28

Major Felix Rieseberg

An Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them and tells junior engineers that "hunger beats tenure"

Oct 28

Ryan Barwick / The Information

OpenAI, a major Nvidia customer, plans to buy Google's TPUs; a job listing shows it seeks an engineer to "lead the optimization" of its models on TPUs

Oct 27

Anthropic

Anthropic expands its US GSA partnership to give federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments a 40% discount on Claude, estimated to save $1B

Oct 27

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg

NXP reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to $3.79B, vs. $3.76B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; NXPI drops 7%+ after hours

Oct 27

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes

Infisical, which helps companies use AI agents without handing over their private credentials, raised a $40M Series B led by Elad Gil at a $600M valuation

Oct 27

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple has discussed charging $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an OLED XDR touch screen and M5 Pro chip, $400 more than the current M5 Pro model

Oct 27

Major Anthropic

Anthropic details early drug development work with six partners and says it has acquired Mithril, a one-person company working on muscular dystrophy

Oct 27

Major Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch

Discord says it will let public-channel messages from servers listed in Server Discovery appear in web search from mid-December; admins and members can opt out

Oct 27

Reuters

Robinhood reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.42B, in line with est., crypto revenue down 55% to $120M, and profit down 14% to $476M; HOOD drops 7%+ after hours

Oct 27

Bloomberg

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise $1B+ led by Avenir and Lux Capital at a ~$20B valuation, up from $11.5B earlier in 2026

Oct 27

Major Annie Palmer / CNBC

Memo: Amazon says measuring AI adoption solely by token usage or code generation is "deeply flawed," as it discourages staff from tokenmaxxing

Oct 27

Financial Times

GM plans to switch from the NYSE to Nasdaq on November 17 as part of its push under Tesla veteran Sterling Anderson to use AI to speed up its development cycle

Oct 27

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire

Avante, which builds an AI platform to help companies manage employee healthcare and other benefits, raised a $30M Series A, following a $10M seed in 2024

Oct 27

Major Seema Mody / CNBC

Oracle adds ChatGPT and Codex to its app stack and expands Oracle Cloud Infrastructure lineup with Google TPUs, OpenAI's Jalapeño chip, and Cerebras hardware

Oct 27

Rya Jetha / Business Insider

London-based Machenta, which is building an AI model that can teach robots new physical tasks after seeing them performed just once, raised a $40M seed

Oct 27

Major Jay Peters / The Verge

Google launches Genie 4, a world model powered by Gemini 3.8 Flash designed to generate interactive AI simulations, initially as a preview to trusted testers

Oct 27

Major Emma Roth / The Verge

Apple adds a beta AI assistant built on Apple's and OpenAI's models to Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Logic Pro, plus MCP support to Keynote, Pages, and Numbers

Oct 27

Major Bloomberg

Anduril and Qualcomm unveil BlueChip, a line of laptops designed and assembled in the US for defense and government; Anduril will begin taking orders in 2027

Oct 27

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch

Neocloud General Compute, which specializes in bare-metal infrastructure, raised a $100M Series A led by Blackbird and Abstract at an $800M post-money valuation

Oct 27

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg

Dallas-based Disruptive raised $10B to invest in AI, defense, and software, doubling its AUM, and pivots from single-deal SPVs to a discretionary fund structure

Oct 27

Major Apple

Apple updates the 24-inch iMac with an M6, which has up to a 12-core CPU and up to a 12-core GPU, and a dual 16-core Neural Engine, for $1,499+ from November 6

Oct 27

Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World

Study: non-English languages can consume far more AI tokens, with the most expensive language using 1.5x to 5x more than the cheapest, causing a "tokenizer tax"

Oct 27

Bloomberg

The FCC warns TP-Link that three of its routers violate power limits, which could bring more bans, and it may have submitted "false or incorrect information"

Oct 27

Major Raphael Satter / Reuters

Trend Micro's TrendAI found Israeli adtech company Discover-Tech heavily targeted Starlink users in 100+ countries, likely to geolocate or surveil them

Oct 27

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal

PayPal reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to $8.58B, below $8.71B est., TPV up 6% to $487.14B, and raises full-year adjusted EPS guidance to ~$5.60, above $5.39 est.

Oct 27

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg

Hyphenate, which develops reinforcement-learning-driven AI agents to automate corporate finance tasks, raised a $45M Series A, taking its total funding to $54M

Oct 27

Major Zara Stone / The San Francisco Standard

Anthropic's S-1 excludes Labs co-lead Ben Mann from its "Continuing Founders" and Founder LLC; Anthropic says "it's still fair to refer to him as a co-founder"

Oct 27

Luke Fountain / CNBC

Analysis: AI political groups have spent $78.5M on US federal candidates during the 2026 cycle; AI accelerationists spent $34M and safeguard-focused groups $39M

Oct 27

Financial Times

UK stealth AI startup 22one, which is building law enforcement tools, hit a nearly $400M valuation after raising funds from Sequoia, Lux, and others

Oct 27

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg

A US federal judge orders the Trump administration to halt a ban prohibiting the Pentagon from doing business with companies lobbying for Alibaba

Oct 27

Major Wall Street Journal

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan held 11th-hour talks and agreed to higher rates and loan guarantees to secure bank participation in the $63B Anthropic debt deal

Oct 27

Major Reuters

China's Star 50 index of AI and chip leaders is down by 40% in under four months, losing ~$480B in market value; chipmaker CXMT is down ~25% in the past month

Oct 27

Lisa Cavazuti / NBC News

Experts: since June, $100M+ in US data center freight has been stolen; in two successful heists, robbers struck escorts protecting trucks hauling $10M+ in goods

Oct 27

Abinaya / Cyber Security News

Microsoft patches a severe flaw in its Android Authenticator app that could let untrusted apps impersonate Microsoft apps and obtain delegated account tokens

Oct 27

Major Katelyn Chedraoui / CNET

Ahead of US midterms, ChatGPT draws images "depicting election interference or that may discourage voting" in a cartoon style, ignoring photorealism requests

Oct 26

Major OpenAI

OpenAI announces three breakthroughs in computer science, math, and physics, including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding conjecture, is false

Oct 26

Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker

Fitbit Edge review: notable upgrade over the Charge 6 for GPS and heart rate and Google Health app is an improvement, but lacks software polish and NFC payments

Oct 26

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg

Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments startup RedotPay plans a US IPO filing by year-end and is in talks for a pre-IPO round at a $4B to $5B valuation

Oct 26

Ian King / Bloomberg

Intel agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based quantum computing startup Classiq; Classiq has raised more than $200M in funding and has about 130 employees

Oct 26

Juli Clover / MacRumors

Apple debuts iOS 27.2, with Siri AI enhancements for recalling past conversations, understanding more personal context, supporting five more languages, and more

Oct 26

Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal

DoorDash is in advanced talks to acquire Instacart, and the deal could be finalized as soon as this week and could value Instacart at ~$17B

Oct 26

Major OpenAI

OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, touting "fast and capable computer use at scale" and clearer, more natural writing, priced at $1/1M input and $5/1M output tokens

Oct 26

Major Chance Miller / 9to5Mac

Apple says it is "aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small number" of iPhone Duos and affected users can contact AppleCare for a replacement

Oct 26

Cohere

Cohere says during an evaluation Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing

Oct 26

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer

Microsoft and others push out emergency patches for a critical flaw in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, that could allow remote code execution

Oct 26

Major Bloomberg

Microsoft offers buyouts to ~60K workers, including at a VP level and below across the US, Canada, India, and the UK; its headcount at the end of June was 223K

Oct 26

Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune

NYC-based Nevis, which uses AI to automate paperwork for financial advisors, raised a $70M Series B led by EQT Ventures, a source says at a $500M valuation

Oct 26

Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg

Bedrock Robotics, which makes driverless excavators and other autonomous construction machines, raised a $600M Series C at a $4.1B valuation

Oct 26

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter

Instagram is testing Features, a new long-form horizontal video format of up to 90 minutes aimed at podcasters, comedians, and other creators, in the US

Oct 26

Major Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg

SpaceX agrees to a ~$40B equipment finance lease with Apollo to fund purchases of Nvidia GPUs for its AI initiatives, set to close before the end of 2026

Oct 26

Major Apple

Apple unveils a redesigned iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED display, an A20 Pro, a nano-texture display option, and IP67 water resistance, for $699+ from Nov. 6

Oct 26

Major Washington Post

Cathedral, a months-old cybersecurity startup founded by ex-DOGE staffers, says it breached Anthropic's internal systems in under 12 hours using AI agents

Oct 26

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News

California startups have raised a record $385B across seed to growth rounds so far in 2026, or 75%+ of all US startup funding; early and seed stage raised ~$62B

Oct 26

Jessica Meszaros / NPR

Google DeepMind's AI hurricane forecasting model outperformed conventional models by accurately predicting that Hurricane Isaias would make landfall in Florida

Oct 26

Major Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times

Meta plans to raise $95B to finance its AI infrastructure, including $35B in public equity offerings, backed by cornerstone investors Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom

Oct 26

Major Ben Thompson / Stratechery

The public internet model is dying from too much content, algorithmic aggregators, and vulnerabilities found with AI, and that may bring new possibilities

Oct 26

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg

Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses review: no camera is a bonus for some, good audio quality, and Meta AI works well, but lingering privacy concerns and fairly pricey

Oct 26

New York Times

A look at TSMC's first plant in Phoenix that has achieved chip output rates comparable to its Taiwan facilities, as its Taiwanese engineers teach US workers

Oct 26

Major Max Woolf's Blog

A look at OpenAI's and Anthropic's aggressive price cuts from June through September, driven by low switching costs and pricing pressure from open-weight models

Oct 26

Bloomberg

Volkswagen's China unit and Xpeng secure approvals to trial autonomous driving systems on public roads in China; VW is testing Level 3 and Xpeng Level 4

Oct 26

Alexandra Alter / New York Times

A profile of former Google VP and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, whose startup Dazzle is building an AI assistant to help non-tech enthusiasts with mundane tasks

Oct 26

Major Johnny Rodgers / Building Slack

Inside Slack's Salesforce culture clash: Benioff didn't use Slack and had ~1 hour with CEO Butterfield pre-deal; Butterfield quit after a Davos will.i.am panel

Oct 26

Major Bloomberg

Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft are expected to report double-digit gains in revenue this week, as investors grow impatient with AI capex and seek returns

Oct 26

Major Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times

Elvis Presley's rightsholders sue Anthropic over 274 songs allegedly used to train its models, seeking $41M+; Anthropic says it disagrees and will defend itself

Oct 26

Bloomberg

Filing: Chinese PCB maker Dongshan raised ~$1.3B in Hong Kong's biggest IPO in nearly two months, pricing shares at ~$11, or 35% below its Friday Shenzhen close

Oct 26

Major Ananta Agarwal / Nikkei Asia

India's chip design startups near production with government support, but low volumes, high fab costs, and supply chain bottlenecks hinder commercialization

Oct 26

Major Financial Times

A look at Toyota's robotics expansion, including its Walden spinoff and a $6.4B annual plan to deploy 400K factory robots, as it competes with Tesla and China

Oct 26

Major M.G. Siegler / Spyglass

Amazon Bee Frontier review: a simple $75 AI wearable that excels at always-on listening, summarizing conversations, and suggesting follow-up actions

Oct 26

Major Michael Roddan / The Information

Sources detail how Ramp investors Joe Lonsdale and Keith Rabois pushed US lawmakers to probe rival Airwallex's China ties after Airwallex scrapped a Ramp deal

Oct 26

Bloomberg

High-frequency trading firms such as Jane Street are investing in AI and chip startups and neoclouds, and building data centers to gain an edge in the AI era

Oct 26

Bloomberg

DongA Ilbo: SK Hynix gained ~$15B on its Kioxia stake earlier in 2026, and plans to return ~$12B to shareholders via a special dividend

Oct 25

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge

Moderators of r/opensource ban submissions of projects using, made by, or intended for AI, exclude non-English speakers over AI translation concerns, and more

Oct 25

Major Tom Matsuda / Financial Times

The iTunes Store is re-emerging as a venue for big pop stars, including Taylor Swift, to hawk collectibles to superfans and bolster their chart positions

Oct 25

Major Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information

Data center tenants now demand $5M+ per day in late-delivery fees, up from $1M in spring 2026, spawning new "delay-in-delivery" coverage from brokers like Marsh

Oct 25

Major Maria Curi / Axios

Lawmakers and Hill staffers in both parties say AI leaders are becoming a political liability as they swing between claims of prosperity and existential dangers

Oct 25

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple tweaked macOS for its OLED touch MacBook Pro, due Wednesday, with a dynamic interface that adapts to whether touch or the trackpad was last used

Oct 25

Major Bloomberg

How a Blackstone-led $2.3B private credit loan to CoreWeave in 2023 became a blueprint for chip-backed debt, which is on track to become a $1T market

Oct 25

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare

Baba, which develops AI tools to help Medicare and Medicaid patients connect to care teams and handle advocacy tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by FirstMark

Oct 25

Ryan Lawler / Axios

CapitalOS, which helps vertical software platforms offer spend management, cards, and bill payment tools to SMB customers, raised a $21.9M Series A led by LGVP

Oct 25

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors

Instagram launches an Apple TV app for watching Reels, longer videos, and live shows; the app previously launched on Fire TV, Google TV, and Samsung smart TVs

Oct 25

Major Carl Franzen / VentureBeat

Kimi K3.1 Pro's debut draws scrutiny over allegations that influencers were asked to promote the model without disclosing a commercial relationship to Moonshot

Oct 25

Major Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal

LSEG agrees to acquire Octus, an NY-based provider of credit intelligence, data, and workflow software, from Permira and Octus' management for $3.54B in cash

Oct 25

Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg

A look at Meta's role in Brazil's runoff, where Lula da Silva alleges Meta restricts his content and a court ordered it not to interfere; Meta cites glitches

Oct 24

Major Torsten Slok / Apollo Global Management

Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens

Oct 24

Major The Information

Replit recently moved most AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI, which gave 30%+ off in a deal worth $100M+/year, after Anthropic discontinued its discount

Oct 24

Dana Goldstein / New York Times

A look at Alpha School, a network of private schools that claims to teach kids 2x as fast using AI; data shows ~50% of K-8 students missed this goal in math

Oct 24

Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal

An interview with Ciena CEO Gary Smith, a veteran of the 2001 telecoms crash, on AI demand outpacing supply for Ciena's optical networking chips, and more

Oct 24

Major Jay Peters / The Verge

Block unveils Dessa, a "true speech-to-speech" AI model trained on "nothing but human conversation" that it says runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or newer

Oct 24

Major Wall Street Journal

Ukraine says Starshield was working normally again on Saturday morning; US officials said Trump asked Elon Musk to restore the service

Oct 24

Rachel Monroe / New Yorker

Inside Meta's law enforcement outreach team, which uses AI and human reviewers to analyze social media posts, aiming to prevent threats like school shootings

Oct 24

Major Thomas Brewster / Forbes

A look at OpenAI's Project Daybreak, which lets vetted partners use its top hacking models to find and fix vulnerabilities and helped uncover PHP2Shell RCE bugs

Oct 24

Catherine Perloff / The Information

Andy Jassy says AWS capacity for 2027 is "largely sold out" and a "good chunk" of 2028 capacity is also sold, though AWS reserves some capacity for on-demand

Oct 24

Major Shimul Sood / Android Authority

Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it could use data shared via Personal Intelligence from connected apps, including Gmail and Photos, to target ads

Oct 24

Major Toby Sterling / Reuters

The PHP Foundation, which coordinated fixes for two critical PHP flaws, operates on a shoestring budget with one full-time staff member and 14 contractors

Oct 24

Liv McMahon / BBC

The UK plans to invest £100M to create the AI Biosecurity Lab to boost defenses against biological threats, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind

Oct 23

Rocket Drew / The Information

Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation

Oct 24

Major OpenAI

OpenAI says it built an "offline world" from cached web content to train isolated frontier models to browse, search for information, and use web apps

Oct 23

Major Tom Warren / The Verge

Memo: Helen Chiang, Xbox's first COO, is leaving Microsoft on October 23, just months after the role was created; she spent 21 years at the company

Oct 23

Meir Orbach / CTech

Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to automate security investigations, raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot, bringing its total funding to $34M

Oct 23

Major The Information

Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell itself and held preliminary conversations with DoorDash and Uber; CART jumps 9%+

Oct 23

Minsoo Kang / Counterpoint Research

Global PC shipments fell 21% YoY in Q3 to 57M units, as memory and other costs pushed prices up; Lenovo retained its market leadership despite a 23% decline

Oct 23

Major Reuters

Iranian security officials say the country has detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the US and Israel attack Iran again

Oct 23

Major Anthropic

Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs, saying newer models rarely do so

Oct 23

Greg Ritchie / Bloomberg

Kalshi is targeting a December rollout for exchange-traded futures contracts tracking US inflation, rivaling exchanges like CME and ICE

Oct 23

Reuters

Shein has agreed to pay $100M, equivalent to 44% of its Q2 profit, to settle a US FTC investigation over delivery delays and other customer complaints

Oct 23

Major Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch

OpenAI makes Decisions API, its Jev competitor, generally available with new voice and visual modalities, at $0.10/1M input tokens and no output-token charges

Oct 23

Katherine Davis / Axios

Pathos AI, which uses AI to develop oncology drugs, raised a $237M Series E at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.6B after its $365M Series D in May 2025

Oct 23

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast

An interview with Intel's leadership, including CTO Pushkar Ranade, on AI chip demand, lessons from 10nm, whether Intel can catch up to TSMC, Terafab, and more

Oct 23

Major Financial Times

Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agree to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses

Oct 23

Major Anthropic

Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove useful security properties at the assembly code level across 123 open-source libraries

Oct 23

Angeliki Koutantou / Reuters

Greece's parliament passes a bill to ban social media platforms for children under 15 from January 1, 2027, and gives companies 2.5 months to verify users' ages

Oct 23

Bloomberg

SK Telecom unit SK Hyper is in talks with tech firms and investors to finance 15GW of data center capacity in South Korea by 2035; the first 5GW will cost $350B

Oct 23

Major Bloomberg

Chinese state media: DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration and won approval to open-source and deploy AI models overseas under proposed export controls

Oct 23

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch

Oura sues Indian smart ring rival Ultrahuman again to block US sales of Ring Pro, months after a redesign helped Ultrahuman return following an import ban

Oct 23

Major P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal

SK Hynix says its SSD subsidiary Solidigm has halted a review of a potential US IPO to fund a new US chip fab, citing "market conditions and share price trends"

Oct 23

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Spotify confirms it is rolling out a new Family Plan verification method requiring members to scan QR codes on plan managers' phones within seven days of notice

Oct 23

Major Associated Press

The US Treasury proposes a rule to crack down on US high-tech investments in areas like AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other "countries of concern"

Oct 23

Major Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic

An interview with Ondřej Surý, a volunteer who maintains and helps automate PHP patches, about his role in fixing two critical PHP security vulnerabilities

Oct 23

Eva Brendel / Bloomberg

German energy company PreussenElektra says it is working with Nvidia to assess whether the country's idle nuclear plants could be turned into data centers

Oct 22

Major Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune

A16z rebrands "a16z Crypto" as "a16z Frontier" and expands the $2.2B fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies

Oct 22

Major Financial Times

OpenAI has cut its valuation target to $1.25T, down from the $1.4T valuation it pitched earlier in October, after facing resistance from some investors

Oct 22

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg

SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch

Oct 22

Major Anthropic

Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025

Oct 22

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots

Oct 22

Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune

Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, a venture of OKX and ICE, to trade blockchain-based versions of their shares

Oct 22

The Information

Datadog offered to acquire Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for nearly $4B; Upwind is finalizing a $300M round at a ~$3.8B valuation

Oct 22

Robert Hart / The Verge

Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors

Oct 22

Alfred Ng / Politico

Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting "President Trump's Federal Trade Commission," the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president

Oct 22

Maria Diaz / ZDNET

Amazon rebrands its Kindle Unlimited subscription as Kindle+ and expands access to audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI

Oct 22

The Information

SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going public as soon as December or waiting until 2027, as it closely watches Anthropic's IPO, expected in November

Oct 22

Major Wall Street Journal

US officials say Trump asked Elon Musk to lift Starshield restrictions; Ukraine officials said it was not fully fixed Thursday but was working at higher speeds

Oct 22

Jay Peters / The Verge

The Browser Company says it will shut down its Arc browser on December 22, launched in 2023, shifting attention to its AI-focused Dia browser, launched in 2025

Oct 22

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios

Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing

Oct 22

Major Todd Bishop / GeekWire

Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which for 17 years gave employees worldwide space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon

Oct 22

Lauren Feiner / The Verge

Filings: Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, spending $2.2M, $2.1M, and $1.5M, respectively

Oct 22

Rocket Drew / The Information

Atlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and sensors to predict machine failures and recommend maintenance plans, raised a $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuation

Oct 22

Major Anzar Mehraj / Reuters

METR says a pilot test of OpenAI's monitoring system found vulnerabilities, including an exploit that could have let AI agents hide hundreds of recent actions

Oct 22

Major Rohan Goswami / Semafor

Elon Musk has invested ~$1B in Ellisons' Skydance; in 2022, David Ellison's father, Larry Ellison, invested $1B in Musk's deal to take Twitter private

Oct 22

Major Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg

Warp Sciences, founded by former OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil to speed up drug development using AI, emerges from stealth with $215M at an $865M post-money valuation

Oct 22

Major Madison Mills / Axios

US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of users' instructions

Oct 22

Major Abhirami G / Reuters

EMudhra says it will exit the SSL/TLS certificate business, 1% of its revenue, after its TLS certificates with private keys of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised

Oct 22

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News

Minneapolis-based Slingshot, which uses AI to help businesses offer embedded insurance, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed co-led by Rally and Skyward Group

Oct 22

Will Maddox / Axios

Nirva, which plans to launch a wearable AI personal companion that offers relationship advice and more, raised $25M, bringing its total funding to $33M

Oct 22

John Koetsier / Forbes

Maxinsights, which creates training data for robots using first-person footage from cameras worn by 5,000+ contractors, raised a $30M seed led by Peak XV

Oct 22

Major Emma Roth / The Verge

Apple is rolling out a new "Made for iPhone Duo" badge in the App Store, and touts Netflix, Prime Video, Zoom, Word, and Outlook as Duo-optimized apps at launch

Oct 22

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal

1Password passes $500M in ARR, up from $400M in November 2025, driven by enterprise AI coding assistants and agents, and launches 1Password for Agents

Oct 22

Politico

The Pentagon quietly established the Technology Support Office (TSO), a sabotage agency for executing cyberattacks, supply chain disruptions, and more

Oct 22

John Reynolds / Tech.eu

Enact, which develops full-stack tech for general-purpose robots, emerges from stealth with a $30M pre-seed from Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun, and more

Oct 22

Monica Hunter-Hart / Forbes

Xona, which plans to deploy a 258-satellite low-Earth orbit constellation as a commercial alternative to GPS, raised a $250M Series D at a $2.45B valuation

Oct 22

Qianer Liu / The Information

Israeli security company Lava finds 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 chips connected to systems linked to state-owned operator China Telecom, despite US controls

Oct 22

Lucinda Shen / Axios

Visa is in late-stage talks to buy stablecoin custody and infrastructure provider Fireblocks for ~$2.5B, its first acquisition in the stablecoin sector

Oct 22

Leo Schwartz / The Information

A16z plans to drop "crypto" from its flagship blockchain fund, rebranding it to "a16z frontier" and broadening its investment strategy beyond crypto

Oct 22

Major Sarah Frier / Bloomberg

Filing: Meta reports ~$825B in lease and contract commitments, up from nearly $700B in July; off-balance-sheet leases total $355.7B through 2036; META drops 5%+

Oct 22

Emmy Martin / New York Times

How the AI boom is boosting paint maker PPG's sales: its specialized gray coatings serve critical functional needs and total $3M to $8M per data center, per JLL

Oct 22

Bloomberg

At GTC Berlin, Jensen Huang says he urged UK-based neocloud Nscale to "work around the clock" to resolve data center delays amid investor doubts about its IPO

Oct 22

Major Emily Mullin / Wired

Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open-source, 14B-parameter multimodal AI model to let users query DNA sequences via natural language, trained on 300B tokens

Oct 22

William Shaw / Bloomberg

Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs, or ~5% of its workforce, by the end of 2026 as part of AI-driven cost cutting, with ~60% coming from support and developers

Oct 22

SemiAnalysis

A look at Huawei and DeepSeek's mutual reliance, where Huawei provides compute hardware while DeepSeek contributes model workloads and kernel optimization

Oct 22

Milana Vinn / Reuters

Elon Musk's public endorsement of a SpaceX-Tesla merger rattled some insiders, who worry his comments could invite shareholder scrutiny and delays

Oct 22

Bloomberg

Pressure to back promising AI startups is upending the VC investment process, with investors willing to buy into the same round at rapidly escalating valuations

Oct 22

Foreign Affairs

How AI is an inherently imperial technology, and how the US and China are building rival "AI empires" with different approaches to extend their power

Oct 22

Major AJ Vicens / Reuters

Microsoft says China-linked hackers used AI penetration testing tool ARTEX to compromise ConnectWise as part of a campaign targeting hundreds of organizations

Oct 22

Financial Times

Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner proposed joining a bid for TikTok's European business over lunch with Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France

Oct 22

Nikkei Asia

A Micron labor union staged Taiwan's first-ever strike in the semiconductor industry on Thursday, demanding a regular profit-sharing scheme for its employees

Oct 22

Major Rhea Rose Abraham / Reuters

Epic says "Fortnite is coming back to the App Store in Australia tomorrow" after an Australian federal judge ordered Apple to open up iOS in an antitrust case

Oct 22

Major New York Times

SEC filings show how Meta restructured its stock to shield Mark Zuckerberg from California's proposed wealth tax, after he said he'd sell his Palo Alto home

Oct 22

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Walmart unveils Agent Gateway, an MCP server for AI agents to shop its site, and Agent Profiles to authorize agents and track their purchases separately

Oct 22

Major Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg

DeepSeek raised ~$15B in its latest fundraising round, one of China's largest ever, with CATL and Tencent among the biggest contributors

Oct 22

Aarian Marshall / Wired

GM says it plans to debut OnStar AI, an in-car assistant that can execute vehicle functions and run diagnostics via voice commands, in the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq

Oct 22

Jacob Cooper / Railway Blog

Cloud provider Railway says an unauthorized party may have accessed customer encrypted environment variables and, for some, obtained the decrypted contents

Oct 21

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE

AuxoAI, which helps large businesses build and deploy AI systems, raised a $20.7M Series A led by NTTVC to accelerate growth and scale

Oct 21

Major Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News

GitLab patches a critical flaw that lets unauthenticated attackers run code on self-managed servers, affecting every release since 7.0 in 2014

Oct 21

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal

IBM reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $17.1B, above $16.82B est., net income up 26% to $2.19B, software revenue up 8% to $7.8B, and infrastructure revenue up 4%

Oct 21

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg

SAP: Q3 cloud revenue up 25% YoY to €6.67B, vs. €6.57B est., total revenue up 12% to €10.27B, current cloud backlog up 26% to €24.1B, all in constant currencies

Oct 21

Ian King / Bloomberg

Texas Instruments reports Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $6.06B, above $5.93B est., net income up 78% YoY to $2.43B, and forecasts $5.8B-$6.3B in Q4, vs. $5.73B est.

Oct 21

Major Claude

Anthropic unveils Claude Duet, a proactive agent app on iOS, Android, and the web that works in the background, in research preview for US Pro and Max users

Oct 21

OpenAI

OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps say thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents analyzed data on millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, a job that takes humans months

Oct 21

Major Tom Warren / The Verge

Microsoft reveals pricing for Xbox Cloud Gaming without Game Pass, for Xbox Insiders now and others next month: 10 hours for $3.99, 25 for $7.99, 50 for $11.99

Oct 21

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg

Flapping Airplanes, which is working on methods to train AI models using less data and compute and make the chips more efficient, raised $1B at a $6B valuation

Oct 21

Major Jonathan Vanian / CNBC

A New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $25B in penalties after a jury found Meta misled residents about its data practices in the Cambridge Analytica scandal

Oct 21

Major Jason Schreier / Bloomberg

Source and leaked memo: EA plans to cut ~400 jobs, or ~3% of its total staff, and shut down BioWare; EA went private in August following a $55B leveraged buyout

Oct 21

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media

Watchtower, which uses AI and simulation software to help the US Armed Forces make logistical decisions, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed

Oct 21

Will Knight / Wired

Recursive releases Flint, an open-weight, 40B-parameter coding model developed with its Eureka Machine AI system, which automated most of the development

Oct 21

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg

Whop, which helps people start, run, and scale businesses and uses AI to suggest business decisions, raised $205M led by Sequoia Capital at a $5.1B valuation

Oct 21

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch

Mach9, which pivoted from robotics hardware to AI-powered CAD software for civil engineering, raised a $34M Series A co-led by First Round and Bessemer

Oct 21

Chris Rohlf / Anthropic

Claude flagged 493 security issues across 25 open-source projects, covering 5M+ lines of C, C++, Java, PHP, and Python code; one went unnoticed for 21 years

Oct 21

Rosie Harris-Davison / City A.M.

Stockholm-based legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series E at an $8.8B post-money valuation led by Atreides, up from $5.55B after a $550M Series D in March

Oct 21

Major Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET

ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, a personal, long-running enterprise AI agent for productivity tasks across email and Teams, for RTX Spark and Nvidia OpenShell

Oct 21

Major Julian Chokkattu / Wired

Apple says it plans to add Reachability to the iPhone Duo later in 2026, helping users with small hands more easily access the left or right edges of the screen

Oct 21

Alix Coutures / The Information

OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to 26 additional countries, taking the total to 83 countries, and says the platform's advertiser base is 100K+, up from 20K in August

Oct 21

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge

Spotify unveils its first native in-car app, built on Android Automotive OS and available now on select Audi models, with a custom UI controlled by Spotify

Oct 21

Major Jordan Novet / CNBC

OpenAI says it will make its AI models available on Google Cloud's model garden and Antigravity coding tool in the coming weeks, after launching on AWS in April

Oct 21

Major Reuters

Memo: eBay is cutting ~9% of its workforce to simplify operations and reallocate resources toward high-growth areas; eBay cut 6%, or ~800 staff, in February

Oct 21

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal

Demis Hassabis says he expects AGI within two to three years, down from his three-to-five-year prediction earlier in 2026, and discusses AI's science potential

Oct 21

Emily Mullin / Wired

Coherence Neuro, which is developing AI models and brain implants to help combat brain tumors, raised a $45M seed from the OpenAI Startup Fund and Founders Fund

Oct 21

Beatrice Nolan / Fortune

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith raised a $66M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $1B valuation, up from $550M after raising a $45M Series B in August

Oct 21

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters

The EU Commission launches a DSA probe into Booking Holdings' Booking.com to determine whether it is doing enough to combat fraudulent listings and phishing

Oct 21

Dario Amodei / @darioamodei

Dario Amodei says Anthropic's "race to the top" makes AI safer, cites nine safety decisions with "substantial costs", and admits mishandling a draft AI bill

Oct 21

Ephrat Livni / New York Times

China criticizes the US DHS's DeepSeek ban, vowing "resolute countermeasures" while rejecting allegations from the FBI and AI labs of illicit distillation

Oct 21

Reuters

Micron and the union of workers at its Taichung facility sign a multi-issue agreement, without giving details, resolving tensions at its largest Taiwan site

Oct 21

Major Anthropic

Anthropic and Citrini Research use an internal Claude model to autonomously generate protein minibinders against five scorpion neurotoxins, testing 211 designs

Oct 21

Gabrielle Ng / Bloomberg

Google, Temasek, and Bain: online spending in SE Asia to rise ~17% YoY to $368B in 2026 despite economic headwinds, as businesses harness AI to spur spending

Oct 21

Reuters

Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading their China fabs to produce NAND flash chips with 200+ layers, aiming to fend off fast-growing Chinese rival YMTC

Oct 21

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times

OpenEvidence says nearly two-thirds of ~1M US physicians use its AI search engine; a source says it is on track to generate $400M-$500M in 2026 ad revenue

Oct 21

Arnaud Bertrand

A look at Chinese philosophical views on AI; one says aligning AI to human values may be a "suicidal mistake" and another fears the "machinization of humans"

Oct 21

Kieran Smith / Financial Times

Memo: Nscale CEO Josh Payne says it has "more than $100B in contracted revenue"; sources say it still plans to list by the end of 2026 at a $30B-$35B valuation

Oct 21

Major Financial Times

Netflix execs and industry insiders say co-CEO Ted Sarandos devised its mass-market and international growth strategy, which the now-fired Bela Bajaria executed

Oct 21

Major OpenAI

OpenAI says two agents, one GPT-6.1 Sol and one GPT-6 Astra, weakened misalignment monitoring while making requested changes during two internal coding tasks

Oct 21

Nic Fildes / Financial Times

NextDC's stock fell as much as 44% to AU$5.15 after the Australian data center company cut its earnings forecast by 33%+; its shares were above AU$16 in June

Oct 21

Major Dan Goodin / Ars Technica

An unconfirmed report claims PHP2Shell enables RCE on PHP sites; watchTowr says the exploit allegedly affects all versions since PHP 5, released in 2004

Oct 21

Bloomberg

DayOne is weighing options for its US IPO, including a delay or smaller listing that could raise $2.5B to $3B, after initially seeking up to $5B in Q4

Oct 21

Phoebe Liu / The Information

Nvidia is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Firmus, which pulled its IPO earlier in October, citing market volatility

Oct 21

David Gibson / The Verge

Thiel's leaked Rome lectures cast EA and AI "safetyism" as Antichrist forerunners, Bill Gates as "Mr. Hyde", and Eliezer Yudkowsky as "more Luddite than Greta"

Oct 21

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review

An interview with Goodfire researcher Nick Cammarata, whose viral blog post claimed LLMs are easier to understand than thought, as other researchers push back

Oct 20

Emma Hinchliffe / Fortune

An interview with OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair about plans to offer financial services to its 2.5M active creators, a "pathway towards an IPO", and more

Oct 21

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch

Reliable Robotics, which develops an autonomous flight system, raised a $115M extension for its $160M Series D, pushing its valuation to $1B+

Oct 20

Abner Li / 9to5Google

Google says it is rolling out Personal Intelligence for Gemini on Android Auto now and to cars with Google built-in in the coming months as an opt-in feature

Oct 20

Dina Bass / Bloomberg

Pigment, a French startup that makes AI-powered software to help businesses forecast finances, spin up slide decks, and more, raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation

Oct 20

Major Dan Goodin / Ars Technica

Eight intermediate TLS certificates from eMudhra with private key sizes of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised; browser makers and major apps have blocked them

Oct 20

Dina Bass / Bloomberg

Super Micro reports preliminary Q1 revenues of $18.5B to $19.5B, vs. $15B est., and gross margins of 12% to 12.5%; SMCI jumps 11%+ after hours

Oct 20

Major David Morris / Bloomberg

Report: Anthropic's draft S-1 shows it spent ~$9B on compute and infrastructure in H1, up from $2.3B a year earlier, and could spend $750B in the coming years

Oct 20

Major Wall Street Journal

Elon Musk ordered Starshield slowdown in Ukraine and discussed it with Trump after the issue became public; some US officials say he acted unilaterally

Oct 20

Major Sebastian Herrera / Fortune

A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma; sources: Xbox plans a major Game Pass overhaul, a next-gen handheld device by late 2027, and a next-gen console by late 2028

Oct 20

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg

Amazon plans to hire 300K+ US seasonal, part-time, and full-time workers for the upcoming holiday shopping season, up 20% YoY, paying $20-$24/hour on average

Oct 20

Luc Cohen / Reuters

A US judge dismisses a civil sexual abuse lawsuit brought against Sam Altman by his sister, after she refused to appear for an independent medical examination

Oct 20

Joann Muller / Axios

Oro Mobility, a Hertz-owned fleet management business that has a deal to manage Uber's planned Lucid robotaxi fleet starting in San Francisco, raised $80M

Oct 20

Major Julie Bort / TechCrunch

Google launches TorchTPU, an open-source version of PyTorch to let AI apps run on TPUs and Google Cloud via simple configuration changes without rewriting code

Oct 20

Dennis Crowley / Teendrama Snippets

Foursquare co-founder says the company was acquired a month ago in a deal resulting in a $0 payout for equity holders, and faults leadership installed in 2021

Oct 20

Major Madison Mills / Axios

OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio, which builds AI agents for managing drug development, and plans to integrate its tech into OpenAI life sciences suite Rosalind

Oct 20

Major Mike Allen / Axios

Joel Kaplan, Meta's chief global affairs officer, plans to leave in 2027 after 15+ years as Mark Zuckerberg's top DC adviser; Kaplan has close Trump ties

Oct 20

Bloomberg

Polymarket investors pressured CEO Shayne Coplan to add stricter financial and operational controls; Elon Musk's lawyer, Alex Spiro, joined its board

Oct 20

Major Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Sensor Tower: Muse had 10.9M downloads since its September debut, 10.2M of those in the US, becoming the 12th app to hit 10M US downloads in its first 40 days

Oct 20

The Information

Sam Altman told OpenAI staff of three AI endgames: an IAEA-style regulator, a CERN-like lab merger, or one lab using RSI to "melt everyone else's GPUs"

Oct 20

Chris Metinko / Axios

Firefly, whose AI software connects with existing cameras, radios, and sensors to detect incidents and coordinate real-time responses, raised a $20M Series A

Oct 20

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune

Daytona, which is building cloud infrastructure for AI agents, raised a $60M Series B led by FirstMark at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $91M

Oct 20

Bloomberg

ASI, which makes AI tools for the military and air traffic controllers, raised a $325M Series C at a $3B valuation, after winning an $875M FAA contract in June

Oct 20

Katie McQue / NPR

TikTok staff depositions: TikTok executives ignored internal warnings about child sexual exploitation on Live, where staff said minors appeared in livestreams

Oct 20

Politico

OpenAI has retreated from advocating for strict export controls on US chipmakers selling to China, a boon for Nvidia and aligning with President Trump

Oct 20

Major Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch

Eka Robotics, which is developing a "vision-force-action" architecture for its physical AI models, raised a $150M Series A at a $1.45B post-money valuation

Oct 20

Major Kate Rooney / CNBC

Arda, which builds AI software and agents to accelerate assembly lines and manufacturing, raised $230M at a $1.5B valuation led by Altimeter, Accel, and Khosla

Oct 20

Dana Wollman / Bloomberg

Salesforce agrees to acquire AI-powered marketing platform Braze for nearly $5.7B in enterprise value, paying $47.50 per share, set to close from February 2027

Oct 20

Major Saritha Rai / Bloomberg

DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its high-performance inference framework that powers its production services, starting with support for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

Oct 20

Major MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC

Apple says it will commit up to $100M over three years to Pennsylvania-based Perryman, a titanium supplier for the iPhone Duo, and expand its Qnity partnership

Oct 20

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Spotify launches paid podcast memberships in 34 markets, including the US; creators can offer perks like bonus content or fewer ads and keep 90% of revenue

Oct 20

Reuters

Chinese state media: China inaugurates the National Data Group, a new state-owned enterprise that will focus on developing and utilizing data resources

Oct 20

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch

Note-taking tool Otter.ai raised $320M in non-dilutive capital from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund; PitchBook says it raised $50M prior to this round

Oct 20

Bloomberg

Four Z.ai founders participated in a 2018 to 2021 research project co-funded by CGTRI, which the UK's MI5 said had "very strong ties" to China's main spy agency

Oct 20

Financial Times

Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei are pouring billions into data centers in Shaoguan, a hinterland region with cheap power and a cool climate, angering some locals

Oct 20

Major Bloomberg

Google says Cloud services in its London region are recovering after a "power event" caused a multi-hour outage that affected Revolut and several European banks

Oct 20

Paul Sandle / Reuters

The UK CMA proposes measures requiring Apple to provide easier access to its contactless tech and reduce access fees, with a consultation until November 17

Oct 20

Shakeel Hashim / Transformer

Anthropic's leaked federal AI bill draws widespread criticism from AI safety advocates for being significantly weaker than the bipartisan FRONTIER Act

Oct 20

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch

Estonia-based web traffic security company Blackwall raised a $100M Series C led by AVP at a $2.2B valuation, after raising a $49.2M Series B in March 2025

Oct 20

Luke Kehoe / Ookla

Analysis: London fell from 7th to last place out of 18 European capitals for median mobile download speed from 2021 to 2026; 5G adoption has outrun 5G capacity

Oct 20

Major Mark Bergen / Bloomberg

Amazon pledges to spend €16B+ in Germany in 2027 on AWS and AI data centers, its Leo satellite program, Prime Video media production, and a Berlin robotics lab

Oct 20

Katerina Eva Matsa / Pew Research Center

Survey: 20% of US adults regularly consume news on TikTok, up from just 3% in 2020; 39% of those aged 18 to 29 and 25% of those aged 30 to 49 do so regularly

Oct 20

Major OpenAI

OpenAI says its new models show major performance leaps in low-resource legacy languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic, used by banks and governments

Oct 20

Major Sam Biddle / The Intercept

Leaked documents detail ECHOTRIBBLE, a nascent US Army Cyber Command program for agentic AI to autonomously spread across networks to find and eliminate targets

Oct 20

Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal

Ant-backed Mynt, which runs mobile wallet app GCash, rose as much as 2.4% in Manila after raising $841M in the Philippines' largest-ever IPO, valuing it at ~$7B

Oct 20

Major Bloomberg

The US sanctions MiraclePlus, a Chinese VC firm founded by ex-Microsoft executive Lu Qi, over alleged ties to Zhisuan, accused of stealing Google's AI secrets

Oct 20

Angus Whitley / Bloomberg

An Australian minister says the eSafety Commissioner plans to sue Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube over alleged breaches of the under-16 social media ban

Oct 20

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg

Chinese robovan maker Neolix raised a $400M Series E led by Boyu, taking total funding to $1.4B+; it operates 30K+ vehicles in 300+ cities across 20 countries

Oct 20

Major Jason Hiner / The Deep View

Inception debuts Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM that it says tops GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM-5.3 Flash on agentic benchmarks while being 4x to 8x faster

Oct 20

Eric Newcomer / Newcomer

Mercury CEO Immad Akhund says the fintech hit $1B in annualized revenue, up ~50% YoY, now has 450K+ customers, and is launching a payroll service

Oct 19

Major Reuters

OpenAI is racing to secure investor commitments before Anthropic's planned IPO in mid-November, aiming to raise ~$30B; the round may value it at $1.4T+

Oct 19

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg

The US FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp acquisition, subject to a consent decree requiring equal access to LiveRamp's data connectivity tools for all clients

Oct 19

Major Cloudflare

Cloudflare debuts Clairic, a System One-class extraction model it says processes unstructured data faster, more cheaply, and more accurately than normal LLMs

Oct 19

Major Bloomberg

Eric Schmidt, who owns ~1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions in its Series A, is poised to have one of the largest windfalls from its IPO

Oct 19

Ellen DiMauro / Semafor

Waymo aims to expand its fleet to 8,000 by the end of 2026, up from 4,000 now, and to 20,000 by the end of 2027, after raising $5B in debt this month

Oct 19

Wall Street Journal

Ted Sarandos complained for months of a lack of new Netflix hit shows and US watch time being down; Netflix just fired its film chief and content chief

Oct 19

Paige Smith / Bloomberg

Ramp says it applied to the US OCC for a trust bank charter that, if approved, would allow it to offer fiduciary investment management and digital asset custody

Oct 19

John Koetsier / Forbes

Dream Labs, which offers an API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures

Oct 19

Major Bloomberg

Nscale is in talks for a second deal with Anthropic worth ~$45B to deliver 460MW of computing power at its West Virginia campus using Vera Rubin chips

Oct 19

Engineering at Meta

Meta details Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale supercluster in Ohio, which will have ~1M GPUs at full scale and was used to train its Muse foundational models

Oct 19

Major Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch

Town, which develops enterprise AI assistants, raised a $108M Series B at a $1B valuation, after announcing a $55M Series A in June

Oct 19

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Developers and vibe coders are using AI tools like Claude Code to get rid of sponsored ads on their smart TVs, disable tracking features, and more

Oct 19

Ryan Lawler / Axios

Prism Data, which provides credit-scoring data and analytics that help lenders assess borrowers, raised a $20M Series A led by Story Ventures

Oct 19

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media

Tolan, an AI assistant focused on users that are not tech-savvy, raised $30M from USV, Khosla Ventures, and Homebrew, and says 70% of its users are women

Oct 19

The Information

DeepSeek and Huawei are collaborating on future AI chip designs; DeepSeek plans to start using Ascend 950DT for pre-training as soon as 2026's end

Oct 19

Blake Brittain / Reuters

SCOTUS rejects an appeal by BMG, Sony Music, UMG, and Warner Music, upholding a decision that copyright termination rights apply globally, not just in the US

Oct 19

Todd Bishop / GeekWire

Amazon launches TorchNeuron, an open-source framework that lets developers run PyTorch code on Amazon's Trainium chips with no rewriting needed, in public beta

Oct 19

Major Chance Miller / 9to5Mac

Apple announces a "Pro and tell" event on October 28 at 10am PT in LA, where its first touchscreen MacBook, a 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, and more are expected

Oct 19

Major MiniMax

MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, saying it delivers "a generational leap" in agentic tasks, coding, computer use, and cybersecurity, with weights due October 23

Oct 19

Stephen Nellis / Reuters

AI infrastructure startup Modal says it plans to start using Nvidia's Vera CPUs for the first time for hosting agents, alongside its current Intel and AMD chips

Oct 19

ProPublica

DHS officials asked CISA to hack a voting machine to report vulnerabilities to the White House without telling the vendor; the request wasn't acted on

Oct 19

Major Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal

The US DHS orders all federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek's tech from their IT systems and prohibits future procurement of its products and services

Oct 19

Major Dan Mangan / CNBC

Filing: US prosecutors say OpenAI suspect Abdulrahman Alfozan maintained frequent WhatsApp contact in 2025 and 2026 with an unnamed Saudi Royal Family member

Oct 19

Major Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security

US investigators pursuing ShinyHunters, which stole FBI data, identified executives at two ransomware negotiation firms who had unusually close ties

Oct 19

Lauren Feiner / The Verge

How Democrats, who polls predict will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, are preparing to aggressively scrutinize the AI industry

Oct 19

Major Todd Bishop / GeekWire

Microsoft debuts new security tools in Microsoft 365 E7 and its Project Perception system that treat AI agents as potential insider threats via risk assessments

Oct 19

Major Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information

Anthropic is preparing a model with better intuition and reasoning that can discern underlying intentions and is better at thinking outside of the box

Oct 19

Major Raphael Satter / Reuters

Researcher: a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to target 1,200+ websites and breach 100+ entities, like Deere and SharkNinja, spending ~$5,000 in tokens

Oct 19

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg

Vinted sees an influx of listings suspected of containing stolen goods following widespread French riots, which hit Sephora, Louis Vuitton, Burberry, and others

Oct 19

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal

Tel Aviv-based doubleAI releases a code execution model for improving GPU and CPU performance; doubleAI raised $220M, using ~50% to buy 1,000 Nvidia B300 chips

Oct 19

Major Bloomberg

AI chip startup Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X at a $6.2B valuation, up from $2.6B after raising $700M in 2024

Oct 19

Major Financial Times

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone agree to explore a joint bid to offer "direct-to-device" satellite service in Europe, challenging Starlink

Oct 19

Maddy Varner / Wired

Character.AI's Chapter 11 court filings indicate a two-part deal with Disney to transfer talent and tech, shielding Disney from Character.AI's legal liabilities

Oct 19

Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis

Analysis: companies are set for a massive acceleration of 50GW+ in data center capacity additions in 2027; 24GW+ across 40 campuses are in the advanced stages

Oct 19

Major Matthias Bastian / The Decoder

Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon's planned 2027 price

Oct 19

Major Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal

A look at Anthropic's opaque, five-member Long-Term Benefit Trust, where members own no Anthropic equity but hold enormous sway by appointing most of its board

Oct 19

Reed Stevenson / Bloomberg

Foxconn agrees to acquire a 50% stake in Mitsubishi's automotive components unit for ~$727M; Mitsubishi will provide autonomous tech for Foxconn's EV platforms

Oct 19

Pew Research Center

Survey: the chatbot gender adoption gap among US adults has closed since 2024, though men are more likely to use them daily; ChatGPT has identical use rates

Oct 19

Major New York Times

Analysis: 11K+ accounts on X, Bluesky, Discord, Telegram, and others made nearly 25K posts to unmask a Cornell sexual assault accuser, after she named seven men

Oct 19

Caroline Haskins / Wired

How the data center industry courts kids amid a backlash: 11+ firms and groups hosting field trips since 2025, flag kits and cards for first graders, and more

Oct 19

Financial Times

AI's ability to forecast extreme weather faces a major test in the coming months amid a historic El Niño, as some scientists question the tech's accuracy

Oct 19

Bloomberg

A profile of Alona Katz, chief of Brooklyn DA's Virtual Currency Unit, who recently led an operation that seized and disrupted over 240 crypto fraud websites

Oct 19

Major Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek

CyberSN: US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% YoY to a four-year low of ~236K roles from January to September; AI security engineer demand soared by 200%+

Oct 19

Major Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media

Stripe Link data shows agentic transactions increased by 38x and volume of payments by 20x in September, with retail leading in both, and a ~$100 average spend

Oct 19

Financial Times

Survey of 94 economists: 54% expect AI's gains to spread across the G20 over the next decade, not just the US and China; 32 see African countries falling behind

Oct 19

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk

Allium: stablecoin payments rose 45% YoY to $482B YTD through September 30, with transactions up 71% to 1.04B, while circulating supply grew just 0.4%

Oct 19

Major Allie Garfinkle / Fortune

Abby Care, which runs a clinically led, AI-powered platform to train and certify family caregivers, raised an $82M Series C led by Transformation Capital

Oct 19

Major Efosa Udinmwen / TechRadar

Intel unveils its GPU D-series for data centers, featuring up to 480GB of LPDDR5X memory, an unusually large capacity to support demanding inference workloads

Oct 19

Wall Street Journal

Analysis: 795 accounts funded by ADI Predictstreet's own fee-collecting wallet drove 99% of the FIFA-partnered prediction market's activity since late August

Oct 19

Major Zack Abrams / The Block

Sam Altman's World launches a World ID verification suite for banks, bundling tools to verify human and agent identities, its first industry-specific offering

Oct 19

Osmond Chia / BBC

China's GDP is set to grow 4.5% YoY in Q3, up from Q2's three-year-low growth rate of 4.3%, as AI-driven exports helped offset weak domestic spending

Oct 19

Aaron Kirchfeld / Financial Times

Europe's three biggest industrial companies are cashing in on the AI boom, as Schneider and Siemens expand further into software, while ABB focuses on equipment

Oct 19

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune

Home insurer Stand, which uses digital twins of homes to price wildfire risk and insures $10B+ of property, raised a $70M Series C at a $1B valuation

Oct 18

Major Kyu-Seok Shim / Reuters

Nvidia asked Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron to make base dies for its custom NVHBM memory on TSMC's 3nm process; Samsung agreed, its first use of TSMC

Oct 18

Major Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

HomeView units sat in warehouses for months; Apple plans a Nov. 6 store reset, likely for new Macs; iPhone Duo preorder mess could boost 18 Pro sales

Oct 18

Major Giovanni Colantonio / Polygon

An interview with Apple's new VP of the App Store, Carson Oliver, on Apple's gaming vision, Apple Arcade, providing tools for indie game developers, and more

Oct 18

Major Financial Times

RegLayer: 47+ large US data center projects were delayed, withdrawn, or blocked in 2026; Bernstein says ~35% of the planned US data center pipeline is credible

Oct 18

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune

Holyvolt, which develops AI tools for making and testing new battery materials, raised $45M from Zone II, CC.VC, and others, a source says at a $245M valuation

Oct 18

Bloomberg

GTCR and Elliott agree to acquire and take private CCC, a Nasdaq-listed car insurance software provider, for $4.6B; the deal values CCC at $6.1B including debt

Oct 18

Major Cristina Criddle / Financial Times

Anthropic is consulting law firms on deal negotiation tactics as it develops AI agents to negotiate on humans' behalf and interact with AI counterparts

Oct 18

Major Bloomberg

Filing: Disney agreed to hire 60+ staff from Character.AI and pay them ~$180M over three years, plus $30M for retention awards; a bankruptcy judge must approve

Oct 18

Major Joanna Stern / The New Things

An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, plans to make Windows a safer OS to run AI agents, and more

Oct 17

Top Story Google

Google says "magic state cultivation" works in practice on its Willow quantum processor, calling it a breakthrough that reduces errors by about 40x

Oct 17

Major Walter Schulze / Startup Fortune

Anomaly Innovations, behind coding agent OpenCode, says a breach hit ~1.4% of OpenCode Console users and their API keys, in a "large scale distillation attack"

Oct 17

Major Zack Abrams / The Block

Turkish police detained Hex and PulseChain founder Richard Heart on Oct. 14, seizing $7M+ in cash and six cold wallets; HEX fell nearly 50% on initial reports

Oct 17

Major Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter

Bleecker Street says TikTok suspended the Musk documentary account for "political policy" violations and called the suspension "permanent"; Bleecker's appealing

Oct 17

Major Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable

MapQuest adds a Surveillance Layer to its mobile app showing license plate readers and cameras from 10+ companies including Flock, using OpenStreetMap data

Oct 17

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge

Meta removes ToS language that suggested it could scrape websites "associated with" business accounts, saying it applied only to "ads and business products"

Oct 17

Major Saritha Rai / Bloomberg

DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017, an update it says offers "stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs" than its predecessor

Oct 17

Major Preeti Singh / Bloomberg

A profile of Blackstone President Jon Gray, who is making AI his biggest bet, has built a $200B data center empire, and is building a cloud venture with Google

Oct 17

Major Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal

As AI giants rack up potential legal liabilities of tens of billions amid safety incidents, insurers worry claims may outpace limits on existing coverage

Oct 17

Major Bloomberg

Zelenskyy says Starshield restrictions remain and are affecting only Ukraine, leading him to believe they are a "planned operation" rather than technical issues

Oct 17

Nilay Patel / The Verge

An interview with YouTuber Benn Jordan, who recently testified in Congress against license plate readers, on Flock, privacy, the surveillance backlash, and more

Oct 17

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times

A profile of Alexandr Wang, who sources say is "an operator", had "all" of Zuckerberg's support during Meta's AI revamp, and is being touted as his successor

Oct 17

Major FinTech Global

Reach Security, which develops AI-powered exposure management tools for securing enterprise systems, raised a $50M+ Series B led by Top Tier Capital Partners

Oct 17

Mike Butcher / Pathfounders

Duvo, which develops tech to automate business processes across enterprise systems, including ERPs and legacy apps, raised a $32M Series A led by Balderton

Oct 17

Major FinSMEs

Montevideo, Uruguay-based Scanntech, which develops market intelligence tools using POS data, raised $180M in a Series F led by L Catterton and Partners Group

Oct 17

Major Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu

London-based Scarlet, which certifies AI and software for medical devices, raised a $50M Series B led by Headline to support its US and Asia-Pacific expansion

Oct 17

Kyohei Suga / Nikkei Asia

NAND flash maker Kioxia has lost two-thirds of its market cap since its June peak, when it became Japan's most valuable listed company, as Chinese rivals emerge

Oct 17

Major Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE

Mistlabs, which develops Ambi, an ambient AI app for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac that learns about users from conversations, raised a $26M pre-Series A

Oct 17

Major Anthropic

Anthropic report on how AI is changing employment at the startup: decline of entry-level technical hiring, productivity boom across departments, and more

Oct 17

Major Malia Spencer / Portland Business Journal

Workday agrees to acquire C1.ai, formerly known as ConductorOne, which develops enterprise software to manage human and AI agent identities and has raised $111M

Oct 17

Major Financial Times

Anthropic is offering Blackstone a 10%+ yield to help finance Anthropic's $60B debt package to buy Google TPUs; Blackstone would invest $9B in the debt

Oct 17

Kohei Yamada / Nikkei Asia

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the Trump administration does not have "any policy" to use a minority stake in Intel to interfere in its business strategy

Oct 16

Major Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac

Apple updates App Review Guidelines to crack down on AI nudify apps and apps that reveal undocumented capabilities, like nudification, after app review

Oct 16

Major Owen Dahlkamp / Politico

Anthropic pitched its own AI safety bill to US lawmakers; the bill would limit the circumstances in which the government could block a model's release

Oct 16

Major TechCrunch

CEO Amjad Masad says Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, citing cost and saying "ChatGPT is better now"; source: the partnership is still in place

Oct 16

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg

Apple has hired Scott Tucker, Meta VP and deputy general counsel, as its new litigation chief, as part of a shakeup in its legal team

Oct 16

Theodore Schleifer / New York Times

Filings: Meta reduced its $65M midterms budget by $25M through refunds, primarily from a super PAC it launched in 2025 with $45M to fight state AI bills

Oct 16

Major Michael Acton / Financial Times

Apple says demand for iPhone Duo has been "nothing short of extraordinary"; deliveries slipped to late January within hours of preorders opening

Oct 16

Major Anthropic

Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm

Oct 16

Lindsay Clark / The Register

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group delays the general availability of PostgreSQL 19 after LLM-assisted code reviews uncovered architectural defects

Oct 16

Bloomberg

SoftBank weighs buying US security services giant Allied Universal at an ~$18B equity valuation, as Masayoshi Son explores deploying AI-powered robots

Oct 16

Major Dylan Sloan / Bloomberg

Three CoreWeave co-founders have sold $3.3B in stock since its March 2025 IPO, including $2.4B in 2026 alone; CoreWeave stock fell 60%+ from its June 2025 peak

Oct 16

Major John Harney / Bloomberg

In its first meeting, Trump's Super Intelligence Force says it plans to commission a report on AI risks and develop protocols for labs to provide early warnings

Oct 16

Major Matt Marshall / VentureBeat

Reflection AI releases Apache 2.0-licensed weights for Beam, a 501B-parameter model, trained with RL that penalized unnecessary tokens

Oct 16

Jess Jones / The Times

Intuit acquired UK-based B2B revenue management and billing startup Sequence in a sale worth ~$200M; Sequence raised $19M led by a16z in 2022

Oct 16

Major Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware

Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra review: powerful, useful Magnetic Connect port, bright screen, but heavy, loud, and Windows doesn't take advantage of RTX Spark

Oct 16

Major Aaron Tilley / The Information

PayPal, Epic, and others voiced concerns to DOJ as it signaled a preference to settle its Apple antitrust suit with a deal focusing on interoperability

Oct 16

Major Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters

Waymo plans to launch its robotaxis in Toronto in 2028 in partnership with Element Fleet Management, the company's first deployment in Canada

Oct 16

Bloomberg

Organizers abruptly cancel 2026's Grace Hopper Celebration, one of the biggest events for women in tech, after sponsorships and registrations fall short

Oct 16

Major Bloomberg

Taiwan plans to curb AI server and chip exports to China as part of a US trade deal and make shipping restricted AI hardware to China a criminal offense

Oct 16

Major Munsif Vengattil / Reuters

India's cyber agency says AI agents broke into Indian organizations' systems and read confidential files undetected; AI model providers flagged the incidents