Apple rolls out a software update that enables a redesigned blood oxygen monitoring feature for its Watch Series 9, 10, and Ultra 2, circumventing the ITC ban
Apple will be rolling out a redesigned version of the feature to the Series 9, 10 and Ultra 2 today.
An internal policy doc shows Meta permitted its chatbots to engage in provocative behavior; Meta removed some examples, including romantic roleplay with kids
An internal Meta policy document, seen by Reuters, reveals the social-media giant's rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior …
Russia is “partially” restricting WhatsApp and Telegram calls, saying the apps are used “to deceive and extort money” and “in sabotage and terrorist activities”
Russian authorities announced Wednesday they were “partially” restricting calls …
Q&A with researcher Petter Törnberg on his preprint study showing how social network structures cause problematic outcomes like filter bubbles and echo chambers
“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.”
Sources: DeepSeek R2's launch delay is due to training issues on Huawei Ascend chips, prompting a switch to Nvidia chips for training and Huawei's for inference
Difficulties of training the start-up's latest system with Huawei's semiconductors highlight dependence on Nvidia
Microsoft Windows head Pavan Davuluri says the next Windows version will be more ambient, more pervasive, and more multi-modal, as voice becomes more important
In a new video, Microsoft CVP and Windows boss Pavan Davuluri has teased that the future of Windows will consist of a truly ambient …
xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, who led xAI's engineering, says he is leaving the company to launch a venture firm that backs AI safety research and startups
Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in a post …
Fitness band maker Whoop says it will not disable its blood pressure tracking tool despite the US FDA's request from July and requests a meeting with the agency
Whoop Inc., the maker of screen-less fitness bands, said it will not disable its blood-pressure tracking tool despite a request from the US Food and Drug Administration.
Toronto-based Cohere raised $500M led by Radical and Inovia at a $6.8B valuation, up from $5.5B in July 2024, and has doubled its ARR to $100M so far in 2025
Canadian group recruits ex-Uber and Meta executives and boosts valuation to $6.8bn — Artificial intelligence start-up Cohere …
How Wall Street is embracing crypto, spurred in part by political opportunism, as some executives fear the rush may risk the safety of personal bank accounts
The reversal risks declawing a century of consumer financial protections and replacing the backbone of bank accounts.
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and 80+ fintech and crypto CEOs urge Trump to block US banks from charging fees to access customer data
Top fintech and crypto executives urged the Trump administration to block US banks from charging fees for access to customer data …
Cohere hires Joelle Pineau, who previously led Meta's FAIR lab, as Chief AI Officer, to oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product, and policy teams
Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models …
Google rolls out Sensitive Content Warnings in Messages for Android to blur nude images for signed-in users on-device, powered by Android System SafetyCore
Google Messages for Android has now rolled out Sensitive Content Warnings that blur nude images. — In the Messages app …
GPT-5 review: GPT-5-Thinking is a substantial upgrade over o3-pro, Auto is only useful for free tier users, picking the right model still matters, and more
What do I ultimately make of all the new versions of GPT-5? — The practical offerings and how they interact continues to change by the day.
Sources: Perplexity spoke to The Browser Co. and Brave about acquiring them, offering ~$1B for Brave; OpenAI also spoke to The Browser Co. about an acquisition
Perplexity made headlines this week when the artificial intelligence startup said it had offered to buy Google's Chrome …
Sources: the US Navy and Air Force may cancel two nearly complete HR software projects worth $800M+ to let Salesforce, Palantir, and others win similar work
Donald Trump's Navy and Air Force are poised to cancel two nearly complete software projects that took 12 years and well over $800 million combined …
A recent UK AI Security Institute study found that LLMs from OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Alibaba can shift users' political views in under 10 minutes of conversation
Research shows large language models have developed the ability to powerfully influence users
Sources: Perplexity is seeking funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its fundraising round in July 2025 and $520M in January 2024
But Not Only — An AI-Centric Bunch Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai : Gemini 90%, GPT-5 79% — DeepSeek retreats to Nvidia; Google turns on memory Chaitanya Kohli / MEDIANAMA : From Defender to Buyer: Wh...
A deep dive into Big Tech's AI energy boom as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google become major players, leading to fears of it driving up individuals' and SMBs' bills
A transmission line running near data centers in Ashburn, Va. As the electricity demands of the structures rapidly escalate …
Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to ~$59.73B, matching est., and operating profit up 27% YoY to ~$1.9B, above $1.6B est., driven by its AI server business
Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, reported Thursday that its second-quarter operating profit rose 27% year …
Google launches Flight Deals, an AI tool within Google Flights to let users find fares using natural language queries, in beta in the US, Canada, and India
Google on Thursday announced a new AI-powered search tool to help travelers find flight deals — even as regulators continue …
New York AG Letitia James sues Zelle, claiming that security lapses led to $1B+ in consumer fraud losses; the US CFPB dropped a similar case in March 2025
What To Know About Alleged $1 Billion Scams Over The App Lisa Hornung / UPI : N.Y. AG Letitia James sues parent company of Zelle for allowing fraud Truman Lewis / ConsumerAffairs.com : Zelle sued by N...
Bullish shares closed up 84% at $68 in the crypto company's NYSE debut, above its IPO price of $37, giving it a $9.9B market value based on outstanding shares
Bloomberg :
Sources: Apple's AI plans include robots, like a tabletop one in 2027, a conversational Siri, a smart speaker with a display in 2026, and home security cameras
and there's a lot more devices John Quintet / iPhone in Canada : Apple Plans Home Security Devices to Take on Nest and Ring: Report Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac : Siri could get Finder-inspired new visu...
Arkham Intelligence: SpaceX holds 8,285 bitcoin, worth ~$1.02B, down from 28K bitcoin worth $1.8B in April 2021, after cutting its holdings by ~70% in mid-2022
Start trading crypto Get a crypto rewards card — SpaceX's bitcoin holdings surpassed $1 billion as the cryptocurrency surged to hit a new all-time high on Wednesday.
Sola, which wants AI agents to automate businesses' repetitive tasks, raised $21M, including a $3.5M seed led by Conviction and a $17.5M Series A led by a16z
Jessica Wu and Neil Deshmukh are the cofounders of Sola, which automates businesses' most repetitive, manual tasks.
Cisco reports Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $14.67B, vs. $14.62B est., net income up 31% YoY to $2.8B, and forecasts Q1 revenue from $14.65B to $14.85B, above est.
Juby Babu / Reuters :
The US NSF and Nvidia partner to fund the Open Multimodal Infrastructure to Accelerate Science project, led by Ai2; the NSF is contributing $75M and Nvidia $77M
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE :
Morgan Stanley: hyperscalers will fund $1.4T of the $2.9T in future AI infrastructure through 2028, with debt, PE, VC, and other sources making up the $1.5T
Private capital joins Big Tech in seeking to capture rewards from historic expansion of data centres
An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing up poor in China, the challenges she faced during Binance's year of crisis when CZ was in prison, and more
a blow that would sink most companies Two years later, Binance is still on top. Cofounder Yi He is a big reason In a rare interview, Yi He tells her story: https://fortune.com/... LinkedIn: Fortune : ...
Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal launches Parallel Web Systems to build infrastructure for AI agents to search the web, raising $30M from Khosla Ventures and others
Parag Agrawal says AI agents are the target customers for his new startup, Parallel. — No one would have blamed Parag Agrawal if …
Google plans to spend $9B in Oklahoma over two years on cloud and AI infrastructure, including on building a data center campus and expanding its Pryor facility
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters :
Milan-based Bending Spoons raised €500M+ in debt led by JPMorgan to acquire more software businesses, after raising $155M at a ~$2.6B valuation in February 2024
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg :
JD.com reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$49.7B, vs. ~$46.8B est., and net income down 51% YoY to ~$846M, benefiting from government-directed consumer subsidies
Update Tracy Qu / Morningstar, Inc. : JD.com's Profit Halves Amid Food-Delivery War Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : Tencent's AI restraint highlights risks in Alibaba, JD.com war
Indian IT services company Infosys agrees to take a 75% stake in Versent Group, a cloud services provider wholly owned by Australia's Telstra Group, for ~$153M
14) Versent : A message from Paul Nicholls, CEO Moneycontrol : Infosys acquires 75% in Telstra's Versent Group for over Rs 1,300 cr to set up AI-led cloud JV Ray Le Maistre / TelecomTV : Telstra offlo...
TTP analysis: Google used an internal reorganization to reduce the amount it reported on US lobbying spending, likely by millions; Google disputes the claims
It was the end of 2018, and Google's leaders were tired of being Number One. — For the second year in a row … Forums: r/technology Forums: r/technology : Google Finds Workaround for Lobbying Rules T...
Adyen reports H1 2025 net revenue up 20% YoY to €1.09B, vs. €1.11B est., processed volume up 5% YoY to €649B, and EBITDA up 28% YoY to €543.7M; ADYEN falls 5%+
Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg :
Lenovo reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $18.8B, vs. $17.4B est., and net profit up 108% YoY to $505M, vs. $307.7M est., despite the US tariffs on Chinese goods
Update Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post : PC maker Lenovo reports record quarterly revenue despite the ‘challenges’ of US tariffs MarketWatch : Lenovo First-Quarter Net Profit Soars Despite Tari...
India-based ride-hailing app Rapido starts testing its food delivery service Ownly in Bengaluru, marking its first serious move to challenge Swiggy and Zomato
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Google, Cisco, and other companies have brought back in-person interviews for some roles to counter AI-driven cheating, as some turn to deepfake detection tech
And Get Hired — In A Slowing Job Market Bluesky: Jay Cuthrell / @cuthrell.com : Imagine the future of proctoring and interviewing “in-person” that will eventually require disclosure of human-machine a...
Carlyle agrees to sell Amsterdam-based Microsoft cloud and solutions integrator HSO, which serves 1,400 clients worldwide, to Bain Capital, sources say for ~$1B
Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg :
Klarna, which is planning a potential NYSE IPO as soon as September, is focusing on its banking push to boost revenue while shedding its image as a BNPL phenom
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.