AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after a US-EAST-1 outage, first reported on October 20 at 3:11am ET, that affected major services
Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.
Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform to let crypto companies quickly raise capital, for ~$375M, marking Coinbase's eighth acquisition in 2025
Acquisition marks Coinbase's eighth deal this year — Coinbase Global has struck a roughly $375 million deal to acquire Echo …
HBO Max raises prices across all plans: Basic With Ads increases by $1/month to $10.99, Standard by $1.50/month to $18.49, and Premium by $2/month to $22.99
It's going to cost you more to watch HBO Max, after the streaming platform raised its prices just a year after its last hikes.
Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K+ jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations
Earlier this month, I went to Louisiana to tour Amazon's most advanced warehouse. It was unlike any I had visited in my seven years covering the company →
iPad Pro (M5, 2025) review: amazing performance, hardware remains unbeaten, and iPadOS is getting more Mac-like, but still too pricey for a secondary computer
What do you get the tablet that has everything? Last year, Apple debuted a massive overhaul to the iPad Pro, with a thin new design …
Anthropic announces Claude Code on the web and in the Claude iOS app, available in beta as a research preview for Pro and Max users
Today, Anthropic's Claude Code agentic coding tool is moving beyond the terminal and coming to the web and the company's mobile app.
The US government issues new guidelines on its $100K H-1B visa fee, saying it will apply only to new visa applicants outside the country, not all new applicants
Under new guidance, only applicants living abroad will be subject to the fee — WASHINGTON—President Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee …
Apple challenges the DMA in the EU's General Court, saying it “imposes hugely onerous and intrusive burdens” at odds with Apple's rights in the EU marketplace
Apple Inc. lashed out at the European Union's attempts to tame the power of Silicon Valley in the most far-reaching legal challenge …
Dario Amodei addresses “inaccurate claims” about Anthropic's policy stances after David Sacks said the “real issue” is “Anthropic's agenda to backdoor Woke AI”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei addressed “inaccurate claims” about the artificial intelligence …
Reid Hoffman calls Anthropic “one of the good guys” after David Sacks accused the company of running a “regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering”
you're always welcome to the debate club @reidhoffman! David Sacks / @davidsacks : The leading funder of lawfare and dirty tricks against President Trump wants you to know that “Anthropic is one of th...
A look at Amazon's Sparrow, Cardinal, Proteus, and other warehouse robots, taking over roles like selecting and picking items, carrying shipping carts, and more
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Oakley Meta Vanguard review: the smart glasses combine headphones, sunglasses, and a camera, plus Garmin integration, but the camera specs aren't too impressive
Meta's second collaboration with Oakley look good, sound great, and might just replace your action cam. — Rating:
Sources: Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT plans a Shanghai IPO as soon as Q1 2026, targeting an up to ~$42B valuation and aiming to raise between ~$2.8B and ~$5.6B
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To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal spree pits Silicon Valley giants against each other as they race to cash in, making OpenAI too big to fail
The CEO's dealmaking blitz has convinced Silicon Valley's giants to tether their fates to his company, essentially making it too big to fail
Documents: OpenAI has more than 100 ex-investment bankers paid $150 per hour to train its AI to build financial models as part of its secretive Project Mercury
OpenAI has more than 100 ex-investment bankers helping train its artificial intelligence on how to build financial models …
Threat intel company Dataminr plans to acquire cybersecurity threat intel provider ThreatConnect for $290M; Dataminr raised $85M in convertible funding in March
Learn more. — Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time threat intelligence, announced plans Tuesday …
Study: brain-computer interface company Science Corp.'s PRIMA device, comprised of a retinal implant and special glasses, restored vision in some blind patients
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DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-OCR, a vision language model designed for efficient vision-text compression, enabling longer contexts with less compute
the new frontier of OCR from @deepseek_ai , exploring optical context compression for LLMs, is running blazingly fast on vLLM ⚡ (~2500 tokens/s on A100-40G) — powered by vllm==0.8.5 for day-0 model su...
A US judge orders Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, and Adam Mosseri to testify in the “first bellwether trial” over child social media safety, set for January
Meta Platforms' CEO Mark Zuckerberg will need to testify at the first trial over the adverse effects of social media on younger users …
Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models
Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan's convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs. Bluesky: @benschleuss , @goldstein , @atherton , @marypcbu...
OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair says the platform has paid out $25B to creators since its founding in 2016; OnlyFans takes a 20% fee on subscriptions and content sales
OnlyFans Chief Executive Officer Keily Blair said that the company has paid out $25 billion to creators since it was founded in 2016. Bluesky: @davelee.me Bluesky: Dave Lee / @davelee.me : It's pretty...
Brian Chesky says Airbnb didn't integrate its app with ChatGPT because ChatGPT integrations aren't “quite ready” yet, and he advised Sam Altman on ChatGPT apps
Airbnb Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky said he didn't integrate his company's online travel app …
OpenAI says it will work with SAG-AFTRA, CAA, UTA, and others to crack down on Sora 2 deepfakes, following concerns from actor Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA
here's everything you need to know The Indian Express : OpenAI strengthens guardrails in Sora 2 after actor Bryan Cranston expresses concerns over deepfakes Sian Cain / The Guardian : Bryan Cranston t...
A South Korean court dismisses a K-pop-related stock manipulation case against Kakao founder Brian Kim; prosecutors had sought a 15-year prison sentence
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In a letter to two US lawmakers, Ticketmaster says it will ban users from operating multiple accounts and shut down its TradeDesk platform after an FTC lawsuit
Crackdown Targets Scalpers Alyssa Ray / The Wrap : Ticketmaster Will Ban Users With Multiple Accounts in Bid to Stop Scalpers Amid FTC Lawsuit Ted Johnson / Deadline : Ticketmaster To Prohibit Multipl...
Insight Partners-owned Veeam agrees to acquire Securiti AI, which makes data security tools, for ~$1.73B in cash and stock, set to close first week of December
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Lagos-founded payments startup Moniepoint raised $90M at a $1B+ valuation, after raising $110M in October 2024, and says it processes $250B+ yearly transactions
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Tether, the world's largest issuer of stablecoins, says it has hit 500M users; the supply of USDT nears ~$182B while Circle's USDC has ~$75B in circulation
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Serval, which uses agentic AI models to automate IT service management for clients like Perplexity and Mercor, raised a $47M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures
Some startups pride themselves on having prestigious financial backers — but just as important is having prestigious customers.
Galaxy Digital reports Q3 net income up 1,546% QoQ to $505M and total assets up 27% QoQ to $11.5B, including $1.9B in cash and stablecoins and $3.2B in equity
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ChipAgents, which is developing an agentic AI platform to automate chip design and verification, raised a $21M Series A led by Bessemer
Santa Barbara-based ChipAgents.ai today announced it raised $21M in early funding to fuel growth for its agentic artificial intelligence platform for chip design and verification.
CoreWeave says it won't increase its $9B offer for data center provider Core Scientific, despite opposition to the deal from major Core Scientific shareholders
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Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, joins VC firm Benchmark as general partner, following a slew of personnel departures at Benchmark
Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information : X: @km , @danprimack , @everettrandle , @scottbelsky , @everettrandle , @zebulgar , and @benchmark X: Kanyi Maqubela / @km : @EverettRandle @benchmark much con...
Nexos.ai, which helps companies adopt AI tools by acting as a middleman between employees and AI systems, raised a €30M Series A co-led by Index and Evantic
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Carbon accounting authority Greenhouse Gas Protocol proposes its first update in a decade to tighten its rules, threatening US giants like Amazon and Meta
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Analysis: agencies have hired hundreds of thousands of “chatters” to impersonate 4M+ OnlyFans creators, as many Filipino chatters struggle with mental health
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Anrok, which helps software companies automate sales tax compliance, raised a $55M Series C at a $525M valuation, up from $250M after raising $30M in April 2024
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A look at the social debates in Chile over AI investments, emblematic of clashes happening globally over balancing economic growth with environmental concerns
Paul Mozur / New York Times : LinkedIn: Daniel Sepulveda LinkedIn: Daniel Sepulveda : This is an interesting article about the relative costs and benefits of nations in the global South allowing data...
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