Taiwanese prosecutors say two ex-TSMC employees and a third suspect were arrested for allegedly stealing proprietary tech; investigators searched Tokyo Electron
Taiwanese prosecutors probe ‘potential trade secret leaks’ in first case since key technologies added to national security legislation
Sources: TSMC fires several employees for violating rules on obtaining sensitive information about its 2nm tech; TSMC says it detected “unauthorized activities”
TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has fired several employees for violating rules …
White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says the US is exploring software or physical ways to track the location of AI chips, as part of its AI Action Plan
The US is exploring ways to equip chips with better location-tracking capabilities, a senior official said …
A draft White House EO shows President Trump plans to step up pressure against big banks over alleged discrimination against crypto companies and conservatives
The president is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that targets so-called debanking of businesses including crypto companies
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a bill into law on August 1 banning the use of AI for mental health services, but allowing its use in administrative roles
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker approved a new law banning the use of artificial intelligence systems in providing psychotherapy services.
Google DeepMind releases its Genie 3 model, which can generate 3D worlds from a prompt and has enough visual memory for a few minutes of continuous interaction
AI world models have many limitations, but Genie 3 offers improvements like real-time interaction and better memory.
The CFTC is asking for public comment by August 18 about trading spot crypto asset contracts listed on CFTC-registered futures exchanges
Takeaways by Bloomberg AI — Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission …
The UK's Online Safety Act shows the UK prioritized government control over improving safety, becoming a cautionary tale for democracies regulating the internet
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK's Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking …
Users say AI notetaking tools for meetings can misinterpret context when generating summaries or share content meant for a select audience with all participants
New note-taking software catches every word from your meetings—including the parts you didn't want the whole room to hear Bluesky: @michae.lv and @hypervisible Bluesky: Michael Veale / @michae.lv : Go...
Roku launches Howdy, an ad-free streaming service for $2.99 per month, initially only on Roku devices, with content from Lionsgate, WBD, FilmRise, and more
Roku is ready to say Howdy. — The company − which sells set-top streaming devices, smart TVs and has its own free …
Sources: Intel's 18A process yield has remained low, with only ~5% of its Panther Lake chips meeting its specifications in late 2024 and ~10% by summer 2025
The production process that Intel (INTC.O) hoped would pave the way to winning manufacturing deals and restore its edge in churning out high-end …
Google signs a deal with two power utilities to lower its power use by pausing non-essential AI workloads during demand surges or weather-based grid disruptions
Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday.
ElevenLabs launches Eleven Music, letting individuals and businesses use its AI model to generate music cleared for commercial use via English-language prompts
New model allows customers to create music with AI that is cleared for commercial use. But AI-generated music still faces legal battles and stiff opposition from artists.
Search-engine optimization feels dated as marketers look to generative-engine optimization, or GEO, which focuses on tricking AI chatbots rather than Google
Search-engine optimization now feels dated. Generative-engine optimization is all about trying to trick AI chatbots.
Netherlands-based dronemaker Destinus agrees to acquire Zurich-based Daedalean, which develops ML autopilot software for aviation, for ~$223M in cash and stock
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Filings: SoftBank increased its Nvidia stake to ~$3B in Q1 and bought ~$330M worth of TSMC stock; source: Vision Fund monetized almost $2B of assets in H1 2025
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Figma's stock dropped 27.38% to $88.60 on August 4 after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer
Figma shares dropped 27% on Monday, cutting into the gains the design software company posted after hitting the market last week.
Source: Figma considered a higher IPO price, but CEO Dylan Field wanted to bring on board certain long-term institutional shareholders and approved $33/share
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Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to its ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing “we don't believe in work-life balance”
Cognition, a two-year-old artificial intelligence coding startup last valued at $4 billion, has offered buyouts …
The US General Services Administration approves OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for AI contracts with civilian federal agencies via its Multiple Award Schedule
The US government's central purchasing arm is adding OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Anthropic to a list of approved artificial …
Sources: Core Scientific's hedge fund shareholders may reject CoreWeave's all-stock takeover, seeking better terms, as CRWV has fallen 30%+ post-announcement
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Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021
When Parthi Duraisamy was a consultant at McKinsey's Dubai office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied …
Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A
At a time when the world feels increasingly divided between East and West, Uzbekistan has emerged as a rare middle ground …
Israeli quantum computing startup QuamCore raised a $26M Series A led by Sentinel, taking its total funding to $35M, and plans to move into chip fabrication
The company has developed a fully designed and simulated architecture capable of scaling to 1 million qubits in a single cryostat.
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Cisco Talos finds a flaw in the Broadcom BCM5820X chip used in Dell's ControlVault security firmware, affecting 100+ laptop models; Dell issued patches in 2025
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Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the platform paid out $10B+ to creators since its 2013 founding, creators now get $2B+ annually, and there are 25M+ paid memberships
@Patreon has crossed the $10B creator payout milestone since its 2013 launch — that's up from $1B in 2019 — Now more than 25M PAID memberships on its platform https://www.axios.com/...
President Trump says that he plans to announce new tariffs “on semiconductors and chips” as soon as next week “because we want them made in the United States”
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC :
NYC-based sales automation startup Clay raised $100M led by CapitalG at a $3.1B valuation, up from $1.25B in January 2025, and expects $100M in revenue in 2025
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times :
Source: Alibaba's supermarket chain Hema plans to gradually wind down the last of its Costco-like members-only stores in China in a bid to improve profitability
Bloomberg :
India's IT giants face revenue declines due to challenges like corporations establishing their own global capability centers in the country and the rise of AI
Manish Singh / India Dispatch :
Shareholder letter: Reddit cites Profound's analysis showing it is the most cited domain across AI models, as often as Wikipedia and ahead of YouTube and others
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette :
As Delta experiments with AI-driven ticket pricing, regulators and travelers alike worry about dynamic fare schemes that “go beyond the human cognitive limits”
Max Chafkin / Bloomberg :
DRAM prices remain high after doubling from May 2025 to June 2025, amid speculation that China's CXMT may have halted DDR4 production to focus on DDR5 and HBM
Nikkei Asia :
Source: Reflection AI, founded by ex-Google researchers and which makes the AI agent Asimov, has raised most of the $1B+ it is seeking to build open-source LLMs
The Information : X: @steph_palazzolo X: Stephanie Palazzolo / @steph_palazzolo : Late night scoop w/ @KevKubernetes @nmasc_: Reflection AI, the 1-yr-old startup founded by DeepMind researchers, is i...
A Parkland shooting victim's parents created an AI version of their late son to speak about gun safety, starting with an interview with journalist Jim Acosta
Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone :
A term sheet shows Ant will sell its remaining 5.84% Paytm stake via block deals that could total ~$433.72M; Ant sold a 4% stake in May and 10.3% in August 2023
Ananta Agarwal / Reuters :
Broadcom unveils Jericho4, a new version of its networking chip that can connect 1M+ processors across multiple data centers and handle distances of over 100km
Dina Bass / Bloomberg :
Google says Big Sleep, DeepMind and Project Zero's vulnerability research tool “powered by Gemini”, found 20 flaws in various popular open-source software
update as soon as you can Ayush Mukherjee / Moneycontrol : Google's AI bug hunter just found its first batch of security flaws Craig Hale / TechRadar : Google's new AI-powered bug hunting tool finds m...
Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $1B, vs. $940M est., and boosts full-year outlook guidance to $4.142B-$4.150B, up from $3.89B-$3.90B; PLTR jumps 5%+
where the economy ‘weakens in a self-reinforcing fashion’ Larry Dignan / Constellation Research : Palantir's software revolution: Forget sales people, let value do the talking Loredana Harsana / Watch...
Google unveils benchmarking platform Kaggle Game Arena, where LLMs compete head-to-head in strategic games, starting with a chess tournament from August 5 to 7
Watch models compete in complex games providing a verifiable and dynamic measure of their capabilities. Kaggle : Chess Text Input Leaderboard Nick Bild / Hackster : Shall We Play a Game? Maximilian Sc...