TMtechmemeMeta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)industry7 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeIndia's UPI, which has been free for merchants, will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments above ₹2,000, or $21, from October 15 in a major shift (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)industry7 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGM plans to add Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers by removing them from its EVs (David Welch/Bloomberg)industry7 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg Law)industry7 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeArtificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which offers audits and safety certifications for AI agents, raised a $40M Series A, bringing total raised to $55M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)industry7 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta says it plans to deploy MTIA 450, its third-generation custom AI chip, in data centers in H1 2027, followed by a broad rollout of MTIA 500 by end of 2027 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)industry7 days ago▲ 24Read story→
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)industry7 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)industry7 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)industry7 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)industry7 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)industry7 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)industry8 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)industry8 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)industry8 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)industry8 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)industry8 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)industry8 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)industry8 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)industry8 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)industry8 days ago▲ 24Read story→