| 9:45 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI's head of safety, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving as OpenAI integrates its research and safety teams; Mia Glaese will become VP of research and safety |
| 8:25 PM • | Thinking Machines Lab: Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that “extends human will and judgment” |
| 7:45 PM • | Reuters: SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says the memory industry is heading for its worst-ever supply shortage in 2027 and demand will outstrip supply beyond 2030 |
| 7:20 PM • | Corbin Bolies / Variety: Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism |
| 7:10 PM • | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: In response to Apple's trade secret theft lawsuit, OpenAI says “we have no interest in other companies' trade secrets” |
| 7:00 PM • | Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: CISA says weak security controls around the use of public GitHub repos allowed a contractor to accidentally leak private cloud access keys and other credentials |
| 6:10 PM • | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber |
| 5:50 PM • | Noam Scheiber / New York Times: A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation |
| 5:21 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple says OpenAI leadership “normalized” misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is “rotten to its core by its illegal reliance” on stolen trade secrets |
| 5:00 PM • | Aaron Tilley / The Information: In its lawsuit, Apple chronicles in vivid detail how its former employees that went to work for OpenAI allegedly violated their confidentiality agreements |
| 4:50 PM • | Megan Morrone / Axios: Apple alleges that a former Apple engineer kept a work-issued Apple laptop and exploited a bug to access Apple's cloud file storage while employed by OpenAI |
| 4:45 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple claims OpenAI recruited 400+ ex-Apple employees, including an iPhone engineer who allegedly downloaded confidential hardware files before joining OpenAI |
| 4:40 PM • | CNBC: Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets |
| 4:36 PM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole “Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI”, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns |
| 4:00 PM • | CNBC: Source: Greg Brockman will continue to oversee OpenAI's products as the company doesn't plan to hire anyone to replace Fidji Simo after she stepped down |
| 3:40 PM • | Karen Freifeld / Reuters: The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license |
| 3:10 PM • | Bloomberg: China drops a numerical target for urban job creation in its five-year plan, the first such omission since the 1990s, amid volatility fueled by AI displacement |
| 2:40 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022 |
| 1:50 PM • | Ina Fried / Axios: Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which let users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts |
| 12:35 PM • | Bloomberg: Analysis: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, the top spenders on new US data centers, collectively added ~$350B in debt over the past five years |
| 11:50 AM • | Kif Leswing / CNBC: SK Hynix closed up 12.76% at $168.01 in its first day of trading on Nasdaq, after raising $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company |
| 10:55 AM • | Bloomberg: Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions |
| 10:20 AM • | Cristian Dina / The Next Web: Munich-based QuantumDiamonds, which uses quantum sensors to detect chip defects, raised €91M, including €76M under the European Chips Act |
| 10:01 AM • | M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Like the Claude app it imitates, the new ChatGPT “Super App”, which merges Codex with ChatGPT, is a tangle of toggles and strange UI decisions |
| 9:40 AM • | Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: An RIAA-led coalition representing labels and artists proposes two tags for AI content: one for entirely AI-generated songs and another for “AI-assisted” tracks |
| 9:25 AM • | Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: Xreal launches $299 A01 Plus AR glasses, weighing just 62 grams and featuring 1080p micro OLED panels with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 50-degree field of view |
| 9:10 AM • | Muvija M / Reuters: The UK designates Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle as critical third-party financial sector suppliers, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight |
| 8:25 AM • | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim plans to debut an agentic AI avatar of himself within days, which is meant to help the public navigate government services |
| 8:15 AM • | Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: Circle says it received US regulator approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank, allowing it to offer institutional custody services |
| 7:15 AM • | Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: A US court sentences a former ransomware negotiator to 70 months in prison for colluding with BlackCat to extort $75.3M from five of his employer's clients |
| 6:50 AM • | Adam Satariano / New York Times: In preliminary findings, the EU Commission said Facebook's and Instagram's “addictive design” violates the DSA, telling Meta to make changes or risk hefty fines |
| 6:20 AM • | Bloomberg: Polymarket is seeking CFTC and NFA approval to offer margin trading in the US, which would let users bet on events with less capital upfront and attract traders |
| 6:10 AM • | Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: Taiwan's leading DRAM maker Nanya Technology expects its capex to exceed ~$6.2B in 2027, up ~4x YoY, and reports unaudited Q2 revenue of ~$2.6B, up 684% YoY |
| 6:01 AM • | Juro Osawa / The Information: Memo: MiniMax CEO Junjie Yan tells employees he will forgo his salary until MiniMax achieves AGI and promises to allocate personal shares to employee incentives |
| 5:50 AM • | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: OpenAI and Google sold AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, reigniting calls for tighter US regulation of AI models |
| 5:01 AM • | Gao Yuan / Bloomberg: Interviews with employees and insiders reveal how CXMT is amassing tech, funding, and state support to challenge top memory chipmakers and build local suppliers |
| 2:20 AM • | SemiAnalysis: A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI |
| 12:45 AM • | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Manus' investors and management are discussing unwinding Meta's $2B buyout at the same valuation, with Tencent in talks to become the largest investor |
| 11:50 PM • | Financial Times: Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a more than 5x return for Carlyle |
| 11:20 PM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Oxylabs, which develops web data scraping infrastructure, received a $130M investment at a $3.6B valuation from Warburg Pincus, its first outside investment |
| 10:45 PM • | Bloomberg: MiniMax is looking to raise as much as $2B by selling 35.6M shares at ~$34 each and offering ~$830M in zero-coupon convertible bonds due in 2027 |
| 9:40 PM • | Boone Ashworth / Wired: 1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give them 25 degrees of freedom of movement; human hands usually have 27 |
| 9:01 PM • | Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic: How television, the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a decline in people reading longer works like books |
| 7:45 PM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: SAP will make it easier for customers to switch to rival service providers or end contracts, averting a possible EU antitrust fine after a September 2025 probe |
| 7:35 PM • | Bloomberg: SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for $149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed |
| 7:03 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment, says she will step down and become a part-time adviser after her medical condition worsened; Simo joined in August |
| 5:55 PM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A |
| 5:45 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock |
| 5:20 PM • | Hannah Lang / Reuters: Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is stepping down after six years; VP of legal Molly Abraham will take his role with the title of general counsel |
| 4:45 PM • | Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post: Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI |
| 4:30 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads made with its generative AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads |
| 4:10 PM • | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds |
| 3:40 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fable 5 from July 12, aims to return the model to Claude's subscription plans “when sufficient capacity allows” |
| 3:30 PM • | Sam Clark / Politico: The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp |
| 3:25 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI discontinues ChatGPT Atlas, its desktop browser, in favor of its new ChatGPT desktop app, and says that August 9 is “the targeted date for deprecation” |
| 3:20 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing raising new funds at a ~$20B valuation, after raising a $350M Series C at a $10B valuation in October |
| 2:25 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI merges its Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for macOS and Windows under an upgraded ChatGPT desktop app, letting users switch between Chat, Codex, and Work |
| 1:35 PM • | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.50 and $15, and GPT-5.6 Luna costs $1 and $6 |
| 1:06 PM • | Axios: OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on macOS and Windows |
| 12:40 PM • | Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI “regulation without transparent or complete rules”, and adds that “without rules, businesses can't plan” |
| 12:00 PM • | John Reynolds / Tech.eu: Kraken Technology, which designs and builds autonomous maritime platforms, such as uncrewed subsurface vessels, raised a $175M Series B at a $1B valuation |
| 11:25 AM • | Jarred Sumner / bun.com: Bun's creator says he rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust using a Claude Fable 5 prerelease version in 11 days, noting it would've taken three engineers “about a year” |
| 10:50 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows |
| 10:30 AM • | Ina Fried / Axios: Meta prices Muse Spark 1.1 at $1.25/1M input tokens and $4.25/1M output tokens; Alexandr Wang says improving coding and agentic performance was a key focus |
| 10:25 AM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta launches a Meta Model API, which Mark Zuckerberg says will have “aggressive and attractive” pricing at ~25% of the cost of OpenAI's and Anthropic's models |
| 10:12 AM • | Dominic Preston / The Verge: Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview |
| 10:00 AM • | Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised $10.4B, above Germany's $3.2B, and France's $2.4B |
| 9:50 AM • | Anthropic: Anthropic debuts a “reflection” dashboard in beta for Free, Pro, and Max users with memory turned on, to track their Claude activity over 1, 3, 6, or 12 months |
| 9:45 AM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Databento, which sells financial data feeds, raised a $97M Series B led by NEA, taking its total funding to $127M, and says it is “profitable every month” |
| 9:40 AM • | Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Micron raises its US capex commitment to $250B through 2035, adding $50B for New York, Idaho, Virginia, and other projects, and invests $500M in GlobalWafers |
| 9:30 AM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures, following a $15M Series A led by Benchmark |
| 9:20 AM • | Aaron Tilley / The Information: PrismML says it ran a 27B-parameter Qwen 3.6 model on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior on-device model; sources: Apple talked with PrismML about its tech |
| 9:00 AM • | Reuters: Memo: Meta plans to start manufacturing its in-house AI chip, codenamed Iris, from September, as part of its plan to boost its computing power to 14GW in 2027 |
| 8:35 AM • | Nikunj Ohri / Reuters: India scraps import duties on some parts used to make devices like phones until March 31, 2029, removing 7.5% and 5% levies, which might help Apple and Xiaomi |
| 8:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Apple supplier Luxshare fell in its Hong Kong trading debut, closing down 1.6%, after raising ~$3.1B in the city's biggest listing in 2026 so far |
| 8:05 AM • | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Enterprise AI agent startup Lyzr is raising a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation, up from $250M in March, and says its agents ran outreach for the round |
| 6:45 AM • | Leo Schwartz / The Information: Internal DOJ memo: attorneys on crypto cases should expect less cooperation from Binance, which is adding asset freeze requirements; Binance denies any changes |
| 6:30 AM • | Paul Sandle / Reuters: US cybersecurity and data resilience company Rubrik plans to invest $500M+ in the UK over the next five years and establish its European headquarters in London |
| 6:05 AM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize $293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries |
| 5:55 AM • | Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: Leaked renders via Android Headlines show the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, Watch 9, and Watch Ultra 2; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is likely the new wide foldable |
| 5:40 AM • | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Sources: Sonos' layoffs include some top design and product executives, like VP of Design Dana Krieger; CEO Tom Conrad says the changes reduce management layers |
| 2:30 AM • | Financial Times: The AI data center boom has led to surging demand for power transformers, with average lead times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years |
| 1:30 AM • | Emma Whitford / Inside Higher Ed: A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% |
| 1:05 AM • | Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Companies are mobilizing internal groups of “AI champions” to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025 |
| 12:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Shanghai-based GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX raised ~$902M in a Hong Kong share sale; the company's stock has soared 257% since its January IPO, which raised ~$473M |
| 11:40 PM • | The Information: Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds of millions of dollars at a $9B valuation; a source says founder Marc Lore indicated he will contribute $200M |
| 10:15 PM • | Cognition: Cognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7 and available in Devin at 1,000 tokens/second, claiming it nears frontier-level intelligence at a lower cost |
| 8:00 PM • | Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: Block agrees to pay $45M and offer live customer support for Cash App to settle claims by 46 US states that the company failed to protect users from fraud |
| 7:15 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~$750M in two phases, at valuations of $3.5B in the first tranche and ~$5B in the second |
| 6:25 PM • | Boone Ashworth / Wired: The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years |
| 5:10 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark |
| 4:00 PM • | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta announces its first data center in Canada, and 33rd overall; the 1GW facility in Alberta will cost Meta ~$9B and take two to three years to construct |
| 2:05 PM • | Axios: Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens |
| 1:56 PM • | Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to “handle difficult, long-running tasks” across finance, legal, and coding |
| 1:14 PM • | Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users |
| 1:08 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI launches GPT-Live, new voice models powering ChatGPT Voice and built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time |
| 12:30 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation |
| 11:55 AM • | Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense: Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 Ventures |
| 11:40 AM • | Rajasik Mukherjee / Reuters: China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to raise around $890.37M in its Hong Kong share sale by offering 216.2M shares at ~$4.12/share, the top of its range |
| 11:25 AM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture |
| 11:20 AM • | Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal: GM-backed Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta saw a muted trading debut in its Hong Kong IPO, up 2.8% to value the company at ~$9B, after raising $751M |
| 11:00 AM • | Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: China plans to let some of its biggest AI companies buy a small number of Nvidia's H200 chips to offset a domestic computing shortage in recent months |
| 10:50 AM • | Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that uses a single camera and basic language prompts |
| 10:20 AM • | Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its fourth fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, like AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM at the end of 2025 |
| 10:10 AM • | Bloomberg: Nvidia lost ~$1T in market value in less than two months, dropping 16% from its May all-time-high, trading at 18x forward earnings, its lowest level since 2019 |
| 10:00 AM • | Madison Mills / Axios: The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro |
| 9:21 AM • | Corbin Bolies / Variety: Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds using its AI-based FlowGPT and Emochi tools, raised $60M from B Capital and others, and says Emochi has 2M DAUs |
| 9:10 AM • | Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia |
| 8:55 AM • | Tim Culpan / Culpium: SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to raise ~$28B on the Nasdaq: highly leveraged to HBM, deep and broad China ties, and health and safety concerns |
| 8:45 AM • | Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026 |
| 8:36 AM • | Anna Washenko / Engadget: DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block most video ads by default, including those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists |
| 8:21 AM • | New York Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos |
| 8:10 AM • | Bloomberg: Filing: Chinese AI model maker Z.ai is seeking to raise ~$4B from the sale of 19.8M shares at ~$202 to ~$216 each, after its Hong Kong stock soared 1,400%+ YTD |
| 7:51 AM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Israeli startup Velocity, which helps place targeted ads on consumer and B2B AI platforms, raised a $27M seed led by NFX and Red Dot, and serves 20 clients |
| 6:36 AM • | Zaker Li / Omdia: Omdia expects a 22%+ YoY drop in global shipments for <$400 smartphones in 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND prices; Q1 memory costs were nearly 60% of materials |
| 6:20 AM • | Juro Osawa / The Information: Sources: MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model internally called M3 Pro, which it could release as early as Q3 as open source; M3 has 428B parameters |
| 6:10 AM • | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: Apple reaches a deal with Broadcom worth $30B+ to make 15B+ chips in the US over the next five years, Apple's largest as part of its $600B US investment pledge |
| 6:06 AM • | Financial Times: South Korea's Kospi index is down 20%+ from its record high in June, falling 5%+ on Wednesday; Samsung and SK Hynix fell 5%+ amid long-term chip deal concerns |
| 5:50 AM • | Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: France's competition watchdog orders Meta to negotiate in good faith with news organizations over copyright payments, after two groups filed complaints in 2025 |
| 5:40 AM • | Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: China's CNVD says it found “security backdoor vulnerabilities” in Claude Code that can be used to send info like “user location and identity to remote servers” |
| 4:30 AM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EU General Court dismisses Apple's legal challenges against its designation as a DMA “gatekeeper” for its App Store and iOS; Apple filed the case in 2024 |
| 4:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Chip startup SambaNova raised a $1B Series F led by General Atlantic at an $11B valuation and signs JPMorgan as a customer to deploy its chips for in-house AI |
| 3:55 AM • | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: US lawmakers are weighing strategies to curb US companies' growing adoption of Chinese AI models, as an ongoing House Committee investigation probes the risks |
| 2:35 AM • | Andrew Fedorov / New York Magazine: A look at effective altruism's fall after SBF's arrest and how the soon-to-be rich from upcoming AI IPOs give the movement a chance to return larger than ever |
| 2:20 AM • | Financial Times: Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent |
| 2:10 AM • | Nikkei Asia: CPUs are now at the center of the AI race as Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, Arm, Google, Amazon, Chinese players, and others take on Intel and AMD in data centers |
| 1:50 AM • | Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider: Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a $300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures |
| 1:20 AM • | CNBC: A look at Chinese lidar maker Hesai, blacklisted by the US DOD in 2024, as it expands in the US; Hesai says it has ~33% of the global automotive lidar market |
| 1:05 AM • | David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion |
| 12:55 AM • | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard |
| 12:30 AM • | Phoebe Liu / The Information: Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their hardware in a new system to power AI models, the latest example of Nvidia partnering with a chip rival |