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→
TMtechmemeTrump says communities that oppose data centers are "making a mistake" as they create "tremendous amounts of jobs and money", amid bipartisan backlash (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeFiling: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on Sept. 1, seeking up to $1.8B in its IPO with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan as joint sponsors (Julia Fioretti/Bloomberg)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade "a lot of liberty for safety" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGreg Abbott says data center companies "dug their own grave" by moving into communities without first gaining support, signaling growing Republican backlash (Axios)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to gauge bidders' interest (Katie Roof/Business Insider)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
YhackernewsShow HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machineshackernews24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeRamp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 (George Hammond/Financial Times)industry24 days ago▲ 24Read story→
YhackernewsCoconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Testshackernews25 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAlibaba plans to raise ~$10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close (Reuters)industry25 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: foldable iPhone feels durable, fits well in a pocket, has useful iPad-like app layouts, excels as a camera viewfinder but lacks telephoto and Face ID (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)industry25 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)industry25 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and oversaw the Musk v. Altman trial (Jeffrey Kopp/CNBC)industry25 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course (Financial Times)industry25 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)industry25 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSemiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses (Financial Times)industry25 days ago▲ 24Read story→