White House says TikTok's new US entity would lease a copy of ByteDance's algorithm, which Oracle would retrain; US users wouldn't need to re-download the app
TikTok's new U.S. entity would lease its algorithm from Chinese owner ByteDance under the terms of a proposed deal between the U.S. and China …
Oracle promotes Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-CEOs, replacing Safra Catz; Magouyrk previously led Cloud Infrastructure, and Sicilia led Oracle Industries
Oracle Corp. on Monday promoted Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to become co-chief executive officers, signaling the company's focus …
The European Commission considers simplifying the 2009 rule that plastered the internet with cookie consent banners, as it seeks to reduce regulatory burdens
In a bid to slash red tape, the European Commission wants to eliminate one of its peskiest laws: a 2009 tech rule that plastered …
The $100K+ H-1B fee could accelerate offshoring as tech companies route work to India and other countries rather than bringing engineers to the US
The U.S. will charge companies $100,000 for each new foreign tech worker under an initiative officials call Project Firewall …
A White House official says the US will not hold a golden share or equity in TikTok US and the new board will not have a member selected by the US government
The US will not hold a golden share or equity position in a new entity that will control TikTok's American operations …
MediaTek unveils its 3nm Dimensity 9500 mobile SoC, featuring an 8-core CPU, 12-core GPU with hardware ray tracing, and its ninth-gen MediaTek NPU 990
Phones with the Dimensity 9500 could be video capture powerhouses. — • — • — • — TL;DR
The RIAA amends its lawsuit against Suno, now accusing it of unlawfully “stream ripping” songs on YouTube and violating the DMCA
The updated complaint alleges that Suno knowingly circumvented YouTube's protections against unauthorized copying.
The GSA adds Meta's Llama to its list of approved AI tools for US federal agencies, after previously approving Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI's tools
U.S. government agencies will be able to use Meta Platforms' (META.O) artificial intelligence system Llama …
iPhone Air teardown: clever use of space by placing the logic board above the 12.26 Wh battery, the same cell used in Apple's MagSafe Battery pack, and more
I AM SHOCKED iFixit on YouTube : Apple's Thinnest iPhone Ever... Is Actually Repairable? iPhone Air Teardown Jibin Joseph / PCMag : iFixit Teardown: iPhone Air Design Choices Are a Big Win for Repaira...
Sources: smart ring maker Oura is raising an $875M+ Series E at a $10.9B valuation, up from $5B in November 2024, and has sold ~3M rings over the past year
Oura Health Oy, the maker of the popular Oura health and fitness ring, is closing in on a roughly $11 billion valuation after selling about 3 million rings over the past year.
The US v. Google ad tech trial, in which a judge ruled that the company illegally monopolized the digital ad market, begins its remedies phase
The ad tech trial many thought would go nowhere has done the unthinkable: it delivered. Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google illegally monopolized …
Ethereum's “low-risk DeFi” applications like payments and savings could drive the chain's revenue in a similar way that search and ads sustain Google's business
Vitalik Buterin Says Focus On Low-Risk DeFi Than Memecoins Zack Abrams / The Block : Low-risk DeFi, not memecoins, can best sustain Ethereum's economy, co-founder Vitalik Buterin says Evans Karanja / ...
Nvidia and OpenAI announce a partnership to deploy at least 10 GW of Nvidia systems for OpenAI's infrastructure, with Nvidia planning to invest $100B in OpenAI
- Strategic partnership enables OpenAI to build and deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters with NVIDIA systems representing millions … X: @openainewsroom X: @openainewsroom : OpenAI & NVIDIA A...
Google DeepMind updates its Frontier Safety Framework to account for new risks, including the potential for models to resist shutdown or modification by humans
Google DeepMind said Monday it has updated a key AI safety document to account for new threats — including the risk …
How Seattle, transformed into a tech hub by Amazon and Microsoft's explosive growth, is grappling with the companies' layoffs affecting local economy
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In an interview, Brian Armstrong says Coinbase plans to become a financial super app that integrates its crypto offering with traditional banking services
www.coindesk.com/markets/2025... Forums: r/CoinBase : brian armstrong just confirmed coinbase wants to replace your bank with a crypto super app
A look at the data center cluster in the Chinese city of Wuhu, where 15 companies, including Huawei, have built data centers with a total investment of $37B
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Cardless, which lets Coinbase and others launch co-branded credit cards, raised $60M and projects annualized revenue will grow from $15M now to $150M by Q2 2026
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UK-based Tide, a neobank used by 1.6M micro and small enterprises, half of them in India, raised $120M led by TPG at a $1.5B valuation
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Low prices, available land, and cooler weather are driving the data center boom in the Nordics, which have 1.5 GW of capacity live and 7.5 GW in the pipeline
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A look at life in online scam compounds run by Chinese gangs on the Myanmar-Thai border, with purported Thai immigration officials luring trafficking victims
Thailand has become a key transit hub for trafficking victims … Bluesky: Adolfo Arranz / @adolfux : Over 185,000 brush strokes went into creating this visual story in “sequential art” format about gan...
UK-based startup Mantic ranked #8 in the Metaculus forecasting cup that asks entrants to predict 60 geopolitical events, the first time an AI made the top 10
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AppZen, which builds AI-powered tools to automate finance functions, raised a $180M Series D led by Riverwood Capital, bringing its total funding to $290M
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A look at UAE-based Khazna, a real estate company that builds and rents out data centers and controls 70% of the country's operational data center capacity
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Scale AI launches SEAL Showdown, a public AI benchmarking system that relies on votes from contributors in 100+ countries to gauge everyday usability of models
Data-labeling startup Scale AI is launching a new public benchmarking system to rank the best-performing artificial intelligence models …
A profile of Derek Li, founder of China's top adaptive learning edtech Squirrel AI, whose business is fueled by the country's relentless academic pressure
could it actually work? … Bluesky: @nouveaux-horizons : They're gonna hate him when they grow up. John Berry / @aniccia : He is in China, where by national law a human has to be ready to takeover and ...
The UK FCA has improved its crypto registration process, reducing approval times and increasing acceptance rate after criticism it was too slow and restrictive
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OECD lists 1,300+ AI regulations, guidelines, and other policies worldwide as of September 2025, up ~30% since 2022, but international cooperation has stalled
Naoki Watanabe / Nikkei Asia :
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