Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule compared to the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving OEMs more time
Surprise! Google is releasing the first developer preview of Android 16 today so that app developers can test the new APIs …
Sony launches PlayStation Portal cloud streaming in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in 30 countries stream select PS5 games in 720p or 1080p
Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi.
Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, can access “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1
The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world …
A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to “time served”, meaning no jail time; Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud charges after FTX collapsed
- Gary Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud-related charges following the collapse of FTX a month earlier.
An investigation reveals how phone coordinates collected by US data broker Datastream expose the movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers …
How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits
Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade to the Echo Show 15 from 2022, with a 21" 1080p display and auto-framing camera, and updates the Echo Show 15
Amazon's first wall-mounted smart display just got a big upgrade. Today, the company announced the launch of the Echo Show 21 …
Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third parties from using any data in AI models or similar apps, including to show a user's Strava data to other users
Yesterday Strava sent out an e-mail to users, outlining a change that's occurring almost immediately, regarding 3rd party apps …
Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse”
Google is tightening its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles and pages that often have little …
Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in the US, the UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible for free, to counter Spotify
Amazon said on Tuesday that it will let Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers access one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free.
How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google
Zuckerberg has pushed Meta to build Llama into all its products and services, including its Orion augmented reality glasses now in prototype stage.
GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile internet, or 57% of the world; mobile subscriber growth fell to 160M in 2023, from 200M per year from 2015 to 2021
What happened to the “next billion” internet users? They're already online. — 57% of the population is already connected to mobile internet.
A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed
Efforts by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to address cybersecurity issues faced significant criticism this week …
Trump Media now has a $6B+ market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb says site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October 2024
Trump Media & Technology Group's revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up.
As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing generative AI training returns, a market hype break may be useful, just as with previous innovations
Businesses will benefit from some much-needed breathing space to figure out how to deliver that all-important return on investment.
Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia
Odoo, a startup taking on SAP in the realm of enterprise software, boosted its valuation to 5 billion euros ($5.3 billion) …
Source: Microsoft signs a deal with News Corp's HarperCollins to use nonfiction titles to train an unannounced AI model; HarperCollins says authors can opt out
- Nonfiction books will be used for training AI models — AI companies and publishers have butted heads in lawsuits
The Biden admin finalizes $1.5B CHIPS Act incentives for GlobalFoundries, meaning it can start receiving federal funding for facilities in Vermont and New York
- Pact doesn't include $1.6 billion loan from proposed agreement — Biden administration has been firming up Chips Act awards
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI model regulation to protect the public
Advances in reasoning will lead to substantially improved capabilities in mathematics and science
How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, visual language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn to move and pick up skills
Advances in physical AI mean machines are learning skills previously thought impossible — “This is not science fiction,” … X: @alisonkilling , @samjoiner , and @leokelion X: @alisonkilling : NEW: Bu...
TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply
Nikkei Asia : X: @nikkeiasia and @nikkeiasia X: @nikkeiasia : China's public and private sectors are accelerating efforts to boost domestic production of semiconductors, including cutting-edge device...
SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China's chip self-reliance push
- SMIC has more than doubled in two months as market eyes Trump — Competition looms and valuation not attractive: Morgan Stanley
Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as Commerce Secretary
a sign of crypto's new political clout Dan Alexander / Forbes : ‘The Most Hated Guy On Wall Street’: The Unspoken Story Around Howard Lutnick, Trump's Pick For Commerce Secretary Wall Street Journal :...
Coinbase plans to delist wBTC next month, as Justin Sun gains influence over the wBTC protocol; Coinbase launched its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, in September 2024
cbbtc, Coinbase, Justin Sun, WBTC—by Protos Staff X: @coinbaseassets : We regularly monitor the assets on our exchange to ensure they meet our listing standards. Based on our most recent review, Coinb...
Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: looks like the Watch 7 and has similar health features, but has the guts of 2021's Watch 4, poor battery life, and one size only
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Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring startup LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M
- PSG Equity, Golub, others inject $800 million in equity, debt — Vista acquired LogicMonitor for $415 million in mid-2018
Mark Parsons, who led the axed £800M UK supercomputer project, warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the top 50, risks falling behind
Anna Gross / Financial Times :
A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems
Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the lack of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for their IPOs
Until there is a single market in areas from services to capital markets, more companies will choose American exchanges
Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024
Meytal Vaizberg / Globes Online :
Qualcomm expects its automotive and IoT businesses to drive combined revenues of $22B by FY 2029, including $8B from automotive chips and $4B from PC chips
Ian King / Bloomberg :
Meta forms a new product group to build AI tools for the 200M businesses that use its apps, led by Clara Shih, who most recently was Salesforce AI's CEO
Sara Fischer / Axios :
The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asia: Bhutan's bitcoin holdings reached $1.1B, 36% of its GDP, South Korea's increased trading activity, and more
Bloomberg :
ProRata, which plans to debut an AI search engine in December, inks licensing deals with DMG and others; sources: DMG bought a stake valuing ProRata at ~$130M
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times :
Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans to offer internet in Brazil in 2026, after launching its first 18 satellites in August and 18 more in September
Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg :
Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds surveillance drones that act as the communication and navigation hub for swarms of smaller drones, raised a €70M Series B
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Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service for enterprises, raised a $75M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives
K8s just turned 10 this year and the ecosystem is stronger than ever. …
Source: Databricks tells investors it aims to raise $7B to $9B at a ~$61B valuation, to cash out employees that hold RSUs and cover the staff taxes it would owe
Cory Weinberg / The Information : X: @bryce , @alex , @josephjacks_ , and @eastdakota X: Bryce Roberts / @bryce : Zero reason for companies with high demand for their stock to go public anymore. None...
Roboflow, which provides open-source tools for developers to build computer vision models, raised a $40M Series B led by GV
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune :
SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tuning, iterating, and evaluating AI training datasets, raised a $36M Series B led by Socium Ventures
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
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