TMtechmemeBig Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spend, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases (Financial Times)industry20 minutes ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAmazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and merchant consent (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)industry44 minutes ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSouth Korea reopens a program letting AI talent fulfill their military obligations by doing research in corporate labs instead of conventional military service (Jo He-rim/The Korea Herald)industryabout 1 hour ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHow the Clarity Act, heavily lobbied by Coinbase's Brian Armstrong and the crypto industry, and opposed by banks over stablecoin yields, collapsed in the Senate (Wall Street Journal)industryabout 1 hour ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeChina collected $32.3B of stamp duty on stock sales between January and August, up 80%+ YoY, as average daily trading value rose 72%, amid an AI trading frenzy (Zhang Shidong/South China Morning Post)industryabout 3 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of the 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog (prinz)industryabout 3 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA detailed recap of the White House's 19-day standoff with Anthropic, where a jailbreak dispute led officials to bluntly order Dario Amodei to take Fable down (Politico)industryabout 4 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNine drone startups, including Eric Schmidt-founded Perennial, will split US DoD orders for 60,000 drones in a competition that requires no China-made parts (Steve LeVine/The Information)industryabout 4 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHong Kong-based Qupital, which offers cross-border ecommerce financing to SMEs, raised a $300M Series C led by M Capital as it weighs a possible IPO (FinTech Global)industryabout 5 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAltis Labs, whose AI model analyzes CT scans taken during oncology trials and produces predictions tied to patient survival, has raised a $25M Series A (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)industryabout 5 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: SoftBank is looking to issue $10B and €1B in debt for its OpenAI investment, in what would be one of the biggest junk bond sales ever (Bloomberg)industryabout 5 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAdaptive, which sells accounting software to construction contractors, raised a $30M Series B led by Tidemark, bringing its total raised to $57M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)industryabout 6 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ one-person startups in 2025 to escape a bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition (Wall Street Journal)industryabout 6 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeScott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident notification mechanism to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)industryabout 7 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMithrl, which integrates its proprietary biomedical world model with the R&D systems of pharmaceutical companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Obvious Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)industryabout 7 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeUK-based Unit1, which develops "hyper-realistic" digital avatars of musicians to recreate classic concerts, raised nearly £15M from Balderton Capital and others (Alex Lawson/The Guardian)industryabout 8 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeChina has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down (Michael Schuman/The Atlantic)industryabout 10 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAlibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says outperforms most closed-source models, with native transparency and up to ten reference images (Qwen)industryabout 11 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeJensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation don't want new legislation, but to be "relieved of the laws we do have" because of "ulterior reasons" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider)industryabout 13 hours ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures (Owen Walker/Financial Times)industryabout 15 hours ago▲ 24Read story→