Microsoft says it “has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting” the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities
Several hacking groups with ties to the Chinese government have been linked to a recent wave of widespread attacks targeting …
OpenAI and Oracle unveil plans to develop 4.5GW of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership, hitting 5GW in total and running 2M AI chips
OpenAI and Oracle Corp. announced they will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership …
Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerability
Researchers say Chinese and other criminal hackers have exploited a security flaw in SharePoint software widely used by governments and businesses — and may come back.
Leaked memo: Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching “dictators”, and says a “no bad person” rule is impractical
“Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle …
OpenAI and the UK government announce a partnership to explore AI use in justice, defense, security, and edtech, and possibly expand OpenAI's London office
Britain and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership to deepen collaboration on AI security research …
Sources: Stargate has struggled to get off the ground and sharply scaled back its near-term plans, as SoftBank and OpenAI disagree on crucial terms of the deal
The Stargate venture, introduced at White House event, is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end
Miaan Group: a number of Iranians received spyware threat alerts from Apple in H1 2025 in the months prior to the Iran-Israel war, the first such cases in Iran
More than a dozen Iranians' mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior to the country's war with Israel, according to new research.
Telegram expands access to its TON crypto wallet, integrated into the Telegram app, for its 87M users in the US
Telegram is expanding access to its crypto wallet for its 87 million users in the U.S. — The TON wallet, named because it is built on the TON blockchain, is integrated directly into the Telegram app...
A London judge rules that HPE lost ~£730M after acquiring Mike Lynch's Autonomy, after a 2022 fraud finding against Lynch, who died in 2024; HPE was seeking $4B
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. lost around £730 million ($985 million) after it bought Mike Lynch's firm Autonomy Corp. …
AMD and Stability AI launch the industry's first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium AI model optimized for AMD's XDNA 2 NPUs, designed to run locally on Ryzen laptops
An offline image generator for XDNA 2 NPUs. — AMD, in collaboration with Stability AI, has unveiled the industry's …
Crypto custody company BitGo confidentially files for a US IPO; Palo Alto-based BitGo raised $100M at a $1.75B valuation in August 2023
The crypto custodian submitted a confidential U.S. listing as interest in public crypto stocks heats up. — What to know:
Sources: Apple's AI model team wanted to release several models as open source but Craig Federighi disagreed, largely concerned about public perception issues
Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the company's artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software.
Sources: the EU is set to approve Apple's App Store rule and fee changes, unveiled last month, in the coming weeks, staving off a potentially hefty daily fine
Apple's (AAPL.O) changes to its App Store rules and fees will likely secure the green light from EU antitrust regulators …
Seoul-based chip designer FuriosaAI signs a deal with LG to use its AI chip RNGD, its first major contract, after rejecting Meta's $800M buyout offer in March
FuriosaAI Inc., the Seoul-based startup seeking to design chips to compete with Nvidia Corp., has sealed its first major contract months …
Sources: Google is seeking to recruit news organizations for a new licensing project related to AI, and plans to launch a pilot initially with ~20 US outlets
The company has ramped up its overtures to news organizations in recent months — Google is seeking to recruit news organizations …
While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data
He and his team turned to AI — in particular, a software suite first created by the physicist Mario Krenn to design tabletop experiments in quantum optics. Bluesky: @hern , @hern , and @quantamagazine...
Sources: after raising $10B, xAI is now working with a trusted financier to secure up to $12B to buy Nvidia chips, led by Elon Musk-linked Valor Equity Partners
xAI is tapping into the booming private-credit market to find the cash it needs to build massive data centers
X says France's criminal probe over algorithmic “manipulation” and “fraudulent” data extraction is “distorting French law in order to serve a political agenda”
and especially applying — the sanctions regimes that were envisioned under the DSA and DMA.” - French lawmaker Éric Bothorel X: @globalaffairs : French authorities have launched a politically-motivat...
Google, Amazon, Cohere, and Mistral are intensifying efforts to reduce AI hallucinations via technical fixes, data quality improvements, and fact-checking
Tech groups step up efforts to reduce fabricated responses but eliminating them appears impossible
AI compliance startup Delve raised a $32M Series A at a $300M valuation led by Insight Partners with participation from CISOs at Fortune 500 companies
Karun Kaushik and Selin Kocalar weren't planning to raise a Series A so soon. Their AI compliance startup, Delve …
Researchers: at least 750 US hospitals faced disruptions on the day of last year's big CrowdStrike outage, and 200+ had outages related to patient care services
When, one year ago today … Jeff Tully : New research from the UC San Diego Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity: in a paper published in JAMA Network Open, we describe disruptions … Forums: Msmash / Sl...
Samsung Galaxy Watch8 review: thinner and sturdier, but its design with a square casing and a round screen is polarizing, and Gemini is useful but hit-or-miss
here's the winner Govind Choudhary / Livemint : Galaxy Watch 8 and Watch 8 Classic go on sale in India: Check price, variants and offers Kellen / Droid Life : Galaxy Watch 8 For $99 Seems Crazy John A...
Google reveals the design of the Pixel 10 a few weeks ahead of the launch event; the smartphone strongly resembles the Pixel 9 but has a third back camera
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Philadelphia-based Asylon, which modifies Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot into DroneDog, raised a $26M Series B led by Insight, taking its total funding to $45M
Philadelphia-based robotics company Asylon announced Tuesday that it raised a $26 million Series B led by Insight Partners …
In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications Fidji Simo lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world
Ever since researchers began noticing a slowdown … Viktor Eriksson / PCWorld : ChatGPT interactions have more than doubled in just 6 months The Economic Times : Fidji Simo to head OpenAI's apps divisi...
Reka AI, which aims to make more efficient LLMs, raised $110M from Nvidia, Snowflake, and others at a $1B+ valuation, up from ~$300M in 2023, per PitchBook
Snowflake had previously been in talks to buy the three-year-old AI startup. — Artificial intelligence company Reka AI raised …
Source: Netflix is using Runway AI's video generation tools for production; Disney is testing out the tools and talked with Runway about possible uses for them
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UK startup Inforcer, which helps SMBs automate and manage Microsoft 365, security, and more, raised a $35M Series B, a source says at a $200M+ valuation
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media :
SEC filing: Ambiq Micro, which makes ultra-low power chips, is seeking to raise as much as $85M from its IPO, offering 3.4M shares at $22 to $25 each
Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg :
NXP reports Q2 revenue down 6.4% YoY to $2.93B, vs $2.90B est., and revenue from its communication and infrastructure segment fell 27% YoY to $320M in Q2
Kritika Lamba / Reuters :
Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can “steer” laser light and is an alternative to lidar, extends its Series B from $45M to $59M, including from Amazon's IIF
Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch :
Sources: Oracle is in talks with Skydance for a $100M per year deal for Paramount to use Oracle's cloud software if the Skydance-Paramount merger goes through
Bloomberg :
Multinational firms like McDonald's and UK insurer Bupa, struggling to hire AI talent at home, are turning to back offices in India to meet their core AI needs
Financial Times :
US investment firm Carlyle agrees to acquire a majority stake in IT consultancy and services provider Adastra, sources say valuing it at $400M including debt
Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg :
A roundup of the 2025 VLSI conference: using digital twins for design exploration, DRAM beyond 1x nm nodes, Intel's 18A process compared to TSMC, and more
Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis : X: @semianalysis_ X: @semianalysis_ : Intel 18A Details & Cost Future of DRAM 4F2 vs 3D Backside Power Adoption (or Not) China's FlipFET Digital Twins from Atoms to Fabs ...
Seattle-based tax compliance software maker Avalara, acquired by Vista Equity Partners in a 2022 deal valuing it at $8.4B, confidentially files for a US IPO
Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters :
Ashby, which offers an AI-powered talent platform combining applications, CRM, search, and more, raised a $50M Series D, following a $30M Series C in 2024
Judy Rider / Crunchbase News :
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