TMtechmemeSources: Netflix discussed adding streamers like Peacock and Fox One as it seeks to compete with YouTube and Roku in becoming a one-stop shop for TV content (John Koblin/New York Times)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeIrish lawmakers reconsider the country's 1999 ban on nuclear power as data centers' growing power demands account for ~25% of the country's electricity use (Jude Webber/Financial Times)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeFasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking services across Asia and other emerging markets, raised $68M at a $1B valuation, after raising $51M in May (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: ByteDance is merging coding platform Trae and agent-building tool Coze into Doubao, and plans to launch Doubao Work to compete with Tencent's WorkBuddy (Bloomberg)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeUkraine says Russia used an Nvidia Jetson Orin computing module in its autonomous AI-guided drones; Nvidia says they are widely available on resale markets (Andrew E. Kramer/New York Times)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeUkrainian officials say an AI-guided, fully autonomous Russian drone killed three Ukrainians in a strike on a gas station in the city of Zaporizhzhia (New York Times)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeChinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures at a $6.3B valuation, with Tencent and Alibaba participating (Reuters)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeXiaomi launches the Xring O3, a 3nm SoC for its mobile devices, as the company seeks to reduce reliance on longtime suppliers Qualcomm and MediaTek (Gao Yuan/Bloomberg)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAlibaba launches Wan3.0, a video generation model that can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages (Reuters)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeUS business schools are racing to prepare students to become chief AI officers, even as companies are still figuring out what the newest C-suite role entails (Rthvika Suvarna/Bloomberg)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGlobal central banks are pushing CBDCs to defend monetary sovereignty against USD stablecoins, but are struggling to find demand for the digital currencies (Jonathan Levin/Bloomberg)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA look at the collapse of Zondacrypto, Eastern and Central Europe's biggest crypto exchange, which went dark in April and is facing money laundering allegations (Andrew Higgins/New York Times)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOxford Economics: US corporate spending on equipment and facilities is set to rise 40% between 2021 and 2027, over 3x faster than Europe, driven by the AI race (Financial Times)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNew Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for under-16s, requiring "high risk" platforms to check user ages or face penalties of up to 10% of global revenue (Tracy Withers/Bloomberg)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSource: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang (Ina Fried/Axios)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity valuing it at $30B+, after weighing a tech licensing deal and staff hires, as Perplexity hits $750M+ in ARR (The Information)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury's CFIUS national security review of its $80M deal to buy US clothing retailer Everlane, an unusual move (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAt Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records (Telegraph)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSoftBank plans a $6.3B retail bond sale, a record for any Japanese issuer and its third this year, as the conglomerate raises funds for its OpenAI commitments (Bloomberg)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools (Natasha Singer/New York Times)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→