TMtechmemeBinance acquires a $100M stake in Circle, and both companies sign a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform (CoinDesk)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeDoorDash agrees to a $131.5M settlement with NYC's DCWP to resolve a year-plus investigation into its compliance with the city's 2023 delivery driver pay law (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: DeepSeek and Moonshot are among the companies briefing the UN Security Council on AI risks and international security during the UN General Assembly (Laurie Chen/Reuters)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: the Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot over alleged data leaks to Anthropic via Claude and has questioned staff (The Information)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe Austrian Academy of Science, Mistral, and Sail Reply plan to launch Apollo, an Ancient Greek LLM trained on ~600M historical Greek words, available for free (Joel Khalili/Wired)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeUS startup Firebird is building a 300MW data center in Armenia, set to host 70K+ Nvidia chips by 2027; sources: Trump pledged Nvidia export approvals to Armenia (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: multiple staff at the UK's AISI have been signed off work with stress, as tight model release schedules and AI fears lead to low morale and burnout (Financial Times)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeFinnish neocloud startup Verda raised $189M led by Emergence at a $1B+ valuation and aims to raise up to $1.5B in equity and debt in 2026 and up to $10B in 2027 (Paula Doenecke/Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeFrench pharma SaaS startup Biolevate raised a €30M Series A co-led by RAISE France and Orange Ventures, taking its total funding to €36M (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeChinese optical transceiver maker Ligent jumps 19% in its Hong Kong debut, giving it a ~$4.6B market cap, after raising ~$727M, the latest Hong Kong AI IPO (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeApple unveils Apple Music Hall, a live music venue in London's Battersea Power Station with a capacity of up to 600 people and two recording and mixing studios (David Phelan/Forbes)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Polymarket is lobbying regulators in London, Brussels, and across the EU to be governed by financial services laws rather than local gambling rules (Financial Times)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSome universities have barred using AI detectors due to student-instructor distrust over false positives; some educators have just cancelled writing assignments (Will Oremus/The Atlantic)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeDutch nanoimprint lithography startup Morphotonics raised €40M from 3M Ventures, EIC Fund, and others, and plans to expand into data center optical components (TechCrunch)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeBelgium-based AI recruitment platform Spott raised a $21M Series A led by Balderton, with Base10, YC, and Fortino participating, bringing total funding to $24M (Chris Metinko/Axios)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAmazon, Walmart and other companies are using drones for fast deliveries in Richardson, Texas, but residents complain about noise and clumsy package drops (Juliet Macur/New York Times)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeApple v. OpenAI: Apple asks the court to let its own experts review forensic images used in the case, and seeks documents tied to parts of OpenAI's hardware R&D (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeTencent launches Hy Image 3.5 Preview, saying during internal testing the image model achieved results on par with ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro (Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAlibaba CEO Eddie Wu says the company plans to train a 5T- to 10T-parameter AI model, as it lays out a sweeping push across AI models, chips, and data centers (Reuters)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAlibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, which it says triples its predecessor's performance and can scale to clusters of up to 500,000 units (Bloomberg)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→