The Trump administration's $14B valuation of TikTok's US business falls well below previous estimates of around $40B, considered a bargain by investors
The $14 billion valuation that the Trump administration has estimated for TikTok's US business falls well below projections …
Trump signs an EO declaring that a proposed deal allowing TikTok to continue operating in the US will be a qualified sale that meets national security concerns
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that he says will allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States …
Trump says Xi Jinping approved the TikTok deal, and JD Vance says the transaction values TikTok US at $14B; ByteDance hasn't acknowledged the deal
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order approving a proposed deal that would keep TikTok alive in the U.S.
Sources: ByteDance may get ~50% of TikTok US' overall profit, including a licensing fee of 20% of revenue, despite selling majority ownership to US investors
TikTok's Chinese parent company will likely get about half of the profit from the platform's US operation even after it sells majority ownership …
China and its media are quiet about the TikTok deal, a notable silence as China can still decide the app's fate; Chinese social media chatter has been limited
Following U.S. President Donald Trump's approval of a deal that could keep TikTok alive in the U.S. on Thursday …
Sources: Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be the main TikTok USA investors, with a ~45% stake; ByteDance will own 19.9% and ByteDance investors 35%
We may never know if the administration-brokered TikTok sale complies with the law … New York Times : Trump Clears Way for American-Owned TikTok Valued at $14 Billion Financial Times : TikTok US to be...
Microsoft and Asus open preorders for the first Xbox handhelds, the ROG Xbox Ally for $599 and the ROG Xbox Ally X for $999 in the US, shipping October 16
Xbox Ally X and Xbox Ally go on sale with PC-like prices, with preorders starting today. … Today, Microsoft and Asus …
Sources: the Trump admin plans to require chipmakers to match local output with imports and impose tariffs on companies that fail to maintain a 1:1 ratio
Administration wants domestic manufacturing to match imports and would impose tariffs on those companies that don't step up production
Meta plans to launch paid, ad-free versions of Instagram and Facebook in the UK, each costing £2.99 per month on the web, and £3.99 on iOS and Android
Meta Platforms Inc. will soon offer paid versions of Facebook and Instagram in the UK that will remove advertising from both platforms.
The UK unveils plans for a digital ID, which will be required to work in the country, to combat illegal immigration; the ID will be stored on people's phones
Digital ID will be mandatory in order to work in the UK, as part of plans to tackle illegal migration.
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser will retire on December 31 after more than a decade with the company; Nintendo exec Devon Pritchard will succeed him
Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser will retire Dec. 31 after more than a decade at the company.
Meta rolls out Vibes, a platform where users can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos, in the Meta AI app and on the meta.ai website
Meta Platforms (META.O) launched a new feed of AI videos, called Vibes, as the social media giant looks to fast-track work on artificial intelligence technology.
Microsoft launches Microsoft Marketplace, combining Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource in a single destination for cloud tools and AI apps and agents
Microsoft has long offered a variety of marketplaces for businesses in its ecosystem. For cloud solutions, there is the Azure Marketplace …
CISA issues an emergency directive ordering US federal agencies to secure their Cisco firewall devices against two flaws exploited in zero-day attacks
CISA has issued a new emergency directive ordering U.S. federal agencies to secure their Cisco firewall devices against two flaws that have been exploited in zero-day attacks.
Checkout.com announces an employee share buyback at a $12B valuation, up 30% from $9.35B two years ago yet below $40B in 2022, and says an IPO isn't a priority
Checkout.com is allowing employees to sell some of their shares back to the firm at a $12 billion valuation …
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a mobile feature for Pro users that delivers daily personalized updates based on their chats, feedback, and connected apps
ChatGPT's new Pulse feature does personalized research on your behalf overnight and serves you up a digest each morning.
Call-recording app Neon, which became the #2 social app on the US App Store, goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts
A viral app called Neon, which offers to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell that data to AI companies …
Uber expects non-restaurant deliveries to hit an annual run rate of $12.5B in gross bookings by the end of 2025, up 25% from the $10B+ rate it shared in May
Uber Technologies Inc. sees its grocery and retail deliveries growing faster than expected, underscoring the company's effort …
Inspiren, which provides AI-powered fall detection and other tech for senior living facilities, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $155M
Inspiren has raised $100 million in Series B funding, the healthcare technology company announced today.
Anthropic plans to triple its global workforce and expand its applied AI team 5x in 2025, after growing its business clients from ~1K to 300K+ in two years
Anthropic is stepping up its global enterprise ambitions. — The $183 billion artificial intelligence startup has grown …
How inaccurate AI translations of Wikipedia pages, which AI models use for training, may cause a doom spiral that further marginalizes vulnerable languages
When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything. LinkedIn: Soeren Eberhardt and Rachel Courtland Bluesky:...
A US federal judge preliminarily approves Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with authors
A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic …
Perplexity launches Search API, giving developers direct access to the same web index that powers the startup's answer engine
Perplexity AI launched a comprehensive search application programming interface on Thursday, giving developers direct access to the same massive web index that powers …
German investigators conduct raids in relation to Northern Data, which is majority-owned by Tether and has been pivoting from crypto mining to AI computing
German investigators have carried out raids in relation to Northern Data AG, the Frankfurt-listed technology firm backed … X: @oliviasolon X: Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : BREAKING: German police have...
As the lyricist behind AI artist Xania Monet signs a $3M record deal, experts say current copyright law may only protect the human-made expressive elements
Two weeks ago, record company Hallwood Media signed a deal with Telisha “Nikki” Jones after negotiations that purportedly included an offer of $3 million, Billboard reported.
A look at the use of tools like ChatGPT by retail investors to pick stocks, fueling a robo-advisory market boom, as experts warn of solely relying on AI
- Robo-advisory market projected to grow 600% by 2029 — Half of retail investors open to using AI tools, survey finds Bluesky: @deanalan5 , @gts00 , @carlquintanilla , and @carlquintanilla Forums: r/...
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OLX Group, an online marketplace owned by Prosus, agrees to acquire La Centrale, a French auto classifieds platform, for $1.3B in cash, expected to close in Q4
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A look at Intel's $28B Ohio chip factory, the largest economic development project in Ohio's history, initially set for a 2025 opening but now delayed till 2030
Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal : Bluesky: @computing and @scottlincicome Bluesky: Dennis Lam / @computing : i am long INTC on the grounds that as a natural security matter, it will be forced to suc...
Inside Pangyo Techno Valley, South Korea's “Silicon Valley” that is home to 1,800+ startups, R&D centers, and global tech firms, as it strives for global impact
Kate Park / TechCrunch : X: @kateparknews X: Kate Park / @kateparknews : 🇰🇷✍️ wrote about a sketch of South Korea's Silicon Valley, Pangyo Techno Valley. Talked to industry sources working there 🚇 Ju...
Canada's anti-money laundering agency fines crypto exchange KuCoin ~$14M for failing to report large and suspicious transactions; KuCoin appeals the decision
Nivedita Balu / Reuters :
A China Labor Watch six-month investigation at Foxconn's Zhengzhou iPhone factory finds tough working conditions for seasonal staff building the latest iPhones
covered exclusively by the Financial Times — exposes serious labor rights violations at 富士康's Zhengzhou facility during iPhone 17 production. …
Why AI isn't replacing radiologists: models underperform in hospital settings, AI use faces legal hurdles, and the job is much more than image recognition
For years, radiology has been the go-to example in conversations about AI and professional obsolescence. … Bluesky: Eric Knutson / @alwayscorrect : I think they are using predictive AI for that, not L...
Flox, which lets engineers install a development environment on their machines with a single terminal command, raised a $25M Series B led by Addition
We just announced a $25 million Series B funding round led by Addition … LinkedIn: Flox : Big news today! 🎉 — We're thrilled to announce that Flox raised a $25M Series B led by Addition with New En...
Sources: Meta considers using Google's Gemini and Gemma AI models to improve its ad targeting; Meta says it regularly evaluates 3rd-party tools for benchmarking
Erin Woo / The Information :
Google updates Gemini 2.5 Flash with better response formatting and image understanding, and releases new 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite previews for developers
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
HSBC says it has tested an IBM quantum computing tool on European bond market data and saw a 34% improvement over traditional methods in predicting order fills
HSBC has just announced a world-first: real, production-scale algorithmic bond trading powered by quantum computing, in partnership with IBM. … Octavian Florescu : I would like to see independent conf...
Juicebox, whose PeopleGPT helps employers analyze professional profiles to identify qualified candidates, raised $36M, including a $30M Series A led by Sequoia
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Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has spoken to TSMC CEO C.C. Wei about a partnership or a joint venture; he also met with Tim Cook this year; INTC closes up 8.9%
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Cloudflare announces plans to launch NET Dollar, a US dollar-backed stablecoin designed to support payments for the “agentic web”
(i) In general.—A public company that is not predominantly engaged in 1 or more financial activities, and its Antonio García Martínez / @antoniogm : Crypto is the financial system for AI. Serpin Taxt ...
Factory, which makes AI agents called “droids” to assist in coding, raised $50M at a $300M valuation; AI coding startups raised $7.5B+ in the past three months
George Hammond / Financial Times :
Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-ER 1.5 models, enabling multi-step tasks for robots like sorting laundry, including by using web search
and They're Getting Even Smarter Kahekashan / The Hans India : Google DeepMind Empowers Robots with Smarter AI and Web Access for Real-World Problem-Solving Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost : Google's Visi...
Source: cryptocurrency exchange Kraken quietly closed a $500M funding round at a $15B valuation, including from co-CEO Arjun Sethi's Tribe Capital
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune :