WLFI, the token of Trump's World Liberty Financial, begins trading at ~$0.30 with a market cap of ~$7.5B; ~24.67% of its 100B supply is in circulation at open
- The native token of World Liberty Financial, a DeFi project backed by Donald Trump and his family, began spot trading on exchanges.
Analysis: porn sites that don't comply with the UK's age verification laws have seen their traffic from UK users grow, while sites complying had declines
The age-verification laws rapidly expanding across the United States and United Kingdom are bringing with them some surprising downsides …
Sources: OpenAI is scouting local partners to set up a 1GW+ data center in India, although the exact timeline is unclear; Sam Altman is set to visit this month
OpenAI is seeking to build a massive new data center in India that could mark a major step forward in Asia for its Stargate …
An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the company's M&A strategy as it acquires Madrid-based data observability startup Onum for about $290M
George Kurtz, cofounder and CEO of CrowdStrike — COURTESY OF CROWDSTRIKE — Cybersecurity is more than just software …
A survey of 1,047 US college students on GenAI: 55% use the tech for brainstorming ideas, 18% now question the value of college more than they used to, and more
Key findings from Inside Higher Ed's student survey on generative AI show that using the evolving technology hasn't diminished …
Source: Indian fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League plans to lay off ~60% of its local workforce, after the government banned online real-money games
Indian online gaming app Mobile Premier League (MPL) will sack about 60% of its local workforce as part of a major downsizing …
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more
Sixteen years ago Matthew Prince and classmate Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School decided there was a better …
Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for staffers at $1,381.06 per share, valuing Revolut at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale
Revolut Ltd. has kicked off a process for some employees to sell their shares in the company at a $75 billion valuation.
El Salvador splits its 6,000+ bitcoin across 14 wallets, describing the move as a precaution against quantum attacks, a merely theoretical threat for now
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A critique of two contrasting research papers on AI's impact on US employment trends, along with caveats from a Stanford study on jobs in AI-exposed fields
Some top economists claim AI is now destroying jobs for a subset of Americans. Are they right? — The debate over whether AI …
Source: G42 is talking to Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI to become tenants at its UAE-US AI Campus, and aims to diversify chip suppliers beyond Nvidia
THE SCOOP — Abu Dhabi-backed G42 is still negotiating with major American technology firms — with no agreements yet …
Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on three consecutive profitable quarters, co-founders leaving the board, the Freenow acquisition, robotaxi economics, and more
Lyft wants to shed its “second-place, domestic-only, only a business-to-consumer company” reputation. — 13M
AI shopping agents are prompting sellers and brands to rethink how they sell online, as advertisers adopt techniques to appear more prominently in AI results
OpenAI, Perplexity and Google create AI-powered features, leading brands to rethink how they sell products online Bluesky: @staffordphilip . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to Bluesky: Philip Stafford / @...
A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression
NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl … Phil Hoad / The Guardian : An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic “algorithm films” intended for broad appe...
A new policy document from seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030
A new policy document outlines China's plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years …
A profile of Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon, whose share price has doubled since the start of August, supported by Beijing's aims for tech self-sufficiency
The young chipmaker has software advantages over much larger rival Huawei as it aids Beijing's race for tech self-sufficiency
Pharma commercialization company Eversana merges with Waltz Health, which provides drug price-comparison software to insurers, creating an entity valued at $6B
John Tozzi / Bloomberg :
OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific silicon photonic chips, raised a $34M Series A as it targets the data center interconnect market
Dan Swinhoe / DatacenterDynamics :
Crypto and tech entrepreneurs are attending Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan in Forest City, Malaysia, to test his concepts about the Network State
Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg : LinkedIn: Anders Melin and Ryan Weeks Forums: r/Buttcoin and Slashdot LinkedIn: Anders Melin : Much has been written about Forest City, the troubled moonshot $100 billion dev...
Cambridge, UK-based Paragraf, which makes graphene-based electronics using standard semiconductor processes, raised a $55M Series C to scale its manufacturing
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu :
An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the “most emotionally intelligent matchmaker”, planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more
Her userbase is going to eat her alive — Bumble is supposed to be “woke” and they've decided that AI is very much “not-woke”, so I'm sure this is going to play out great — That aside. If AI is so...
Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be oriented toward applications for AI, charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chin... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently chastised Silicon Valley for burning billions chasing AGI instead of focusing on useful AI. — China ag...
AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with a $30M seed led by Next47
today we're coming out of stealth with $30M in seed funding and unveiling the first truly AI-native CRM platform. …
PUBG developer Krafton is eyeing major expansion in India, seeking acquisitions as growth slows in China and the US, and plans to invest at least $50M annually
Song Jung-a / Financial Times :
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.