TMtechmemeFactory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Palmer Luckey-backed Erebor Bank ended its free stablecoin-to-cash redemption offer after trading firms like Wintermute exploited it for arbitrage (The Information)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeDoorDash agrees to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business, formerly Tapingo, for $300M, and will add $125M to Wonder's $650M Series D announced in July (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: the US Commerce Department last month ordered Kalshi to take down an AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns; Kalshi complied (Semafor)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline more than six months after being damaged by Iranian drones, complicating the region's AI ambitions (Wall Street Journal)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeElon Musk says top US AI labs and "three or four of the leading Chinese companies" should let rivals run a "test harness" on their models to evaluate safety (Annie Palmer/CNBC)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
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)industry14 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)industry14 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)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→
YhackernewsA Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO'hackernews14 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)industry14 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)industry14 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)industry14 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)industry14 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)industry14 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)industry14 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)industry14 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)industry14 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)industry14 days ago▲ 24Read story→