TMtechmemeThe US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay payments of around $1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action (Wall Street Journal)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAt Dreamforce, Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized CRM reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron architecture, designed to power AI agents in Agentforce (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House proposal, that would require AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAltera, which makes chips for AI, automation, and more, files confidentially for an IPO; Intel acquired it for ~$16.7B in 2015, and Silver Lake took 51% in 2025 (David Morris/Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says "we can harness AI for good" (Claire Moses/New York Times)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeApple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade at no extra charge in 100+ countries, plus Music Select, a set of ad-free radio stations, in some markets (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: ByteDance's H1 2026 net profit dropped by a single-digit percentage YoY to $20B and revenue rose ~30% to $120B; its 2025 revenue rose 29% to ~$200B (The Information)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNew York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+ (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAgility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by utilizing AI collision-avoidance software and new sensors (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHTC Vive Eagle smart glasses review: useful controls, lightweight, and focused on privacy, but inessential, expensive at $499+, and imaging needs to improve (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGrab agrees to acquire a 60% stake in Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome from Advance Intelligence Group and others for $1.49B; Atome had $470M in 2025 revenue (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNew York State Assemblyman Alex Bores launches Who Decides, a nonprofit that raised $10M and aims to raise another $20M in 2027 to shape Democratic AI policy (New York Times)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAmazon says its India quick delivery service, Amazon Now, crossed $1B in annualized gross revenue, with orders doubling QoQ since its launch in summer 2025 (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMediaTek unveils the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its first phone SoC on TSMC's 2nm node, and the 3nm 9600M, with boosted AI performance, as it competes with Qualcomm (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMicrosoft rolls out emergency fix for critical issues caused by its September Patch Tuesday update, which addressed ~1,000 vulnerabilities but introduced bugs (Tom Warren/The Verge)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeChina tightens overseas travel controls for citizens via exit bans and fines in a sweeping new law, as Beijing moves to secure state secrets and advanced tech (Financial Times)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle DeepMind AI Safety and Alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly resigns, saying "I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all" (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeApple rolls out child safety tools with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, such as blocking gore and violent content in FaceTime calls and Safari's Ask to Browse (Apple)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeJensen Huang took a surprise call from President Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in LA, where the two dismissed fears of an AI takeover (New York Times)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle gives all of its engineers Claude Opus 5 access via Antigravity, and says "Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development" (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→