Draft docs: the European Commission plans to simplify some of its privacy rules, including GDPR, to boost AI growth and slash red tape for businesses in Europe
BRUSSELS — European Union officials are ready to sacrifice some of their most prized privacy rules for the sake of AI …
Coinbase plans to launch a platform to let individual investors buy digital tokens before they are listed on its exchange, reviving 2017 and 2018's ICO craze
Blockchain startup Monad will be first project to sell its token on new platform — Coinbase Global is launching a new platform …
Apple removes two of China's most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in the country, citing a Cyberspace Administration of China order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China's marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
Rumble says it will acquire German AI infrastructure company Northern Data in an up to $970M deal, set to close in Q2 2026; both companies are backed by Tether
The deal brings together two companies backed by stablecoin issuer Tether — Rumble said it would acquire German artificial …
A group of lawyers has documented 533 cases of AI misuse in legal filings, including fabricated case law citations; judges and bar associations permit AI use
More lawyers are using artificial intelligence to write legal briefs. Some colleagues are publicizing the A.I.-generated errors.
Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, are likely responsible for the economy-wide layoffs
For decades now, we have been told that artificial intelligence systems will soon replace human workers.
Gamma, which uses AI to help create presentations, social media posts, websites, and more, raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation and reports 600K+ paying subscribers
The five-year-old start-up, which has just 52 employees and is profitable, is now valued at $2.1 billion by investors including Andreessen Horowitz.
TSMC reports October sales rose 16.9% YoY, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 38%+ YTD
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported slowing growth in monthly revenue as investors debate the sustainability …
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says he plans to give “normal people” exposure to AI startups via Robinhood Ventures' fund set to invest in 5+ “best in class” startups
CEO Vlad Tenev plans to offer shares in a fund that holds a handful of private artificial intelligence companies
Amazon's House of David Season 2 had 350 to 400 AI-generated shots, up from 70+ in Season 1, using 10 to 15 tools from companies like Runway, drawing criticism
The show, which follows David's ascent to King of Israel, used four times as much AI this season, including for many of its battle scenes.
Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “the woke left and the woke right”, patriotism, Russia's Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more
Palantir's CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him? X: @stevenlevy , @shannonrwatts , and @spencerhakimian . Bluesky: @katie-drummond ...
EchoTik estimates TikTok Shop sold $19B worth of products globally in Q3, nearing eBay's $20.1B, with US sales accounting for between $4B and $4.5B, up 125% QoQ
TikTok's ecommerce arm has kept growing steadily, despite tariffs and never-ending debates over whether the platform should be banned.
Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises 1,000x more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave
Three former Meta and Google silicon executives on Monday announced they've raised a total of $100 million to build technology …
An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after nearly 10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Mastodon: Danny Palmer / @dannyjpalmer@infosec.exchange : 1. This interview with a prolific Ukrainian cyber criminal active since the early 2000s serving time in a US jai...
Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to promote its Copilot chatbot; Sensor Tower says Copilot has had 99M downloads since launch, far below ChatGPT's 1.4B
Microsoft Corp., eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America … X: @wallstengine , @rustybrick , and @zephyr_z9 X: @wallstengine : Mic...
A bitcoin and ether selloff is tanking shares of crypto treasury companies like Strategy and BitMine; Strategy's valuation is down from ~$128B in July to ~$70B
What It Means for the Broader Crypto Market Jamie Wilde / The Daily Upside : Rough Week Erases Most of Crypto's 2025 Gains Vivian Nguyen / Crypto Briefing : BitMine acquires $70M worth of Ether for tr...
Grab plans to invest $60M in remote driving service Vay and potentially increase it to $410M within a year if Vay hits certain milestones, set to close in Q4
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg :
Instacart reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $939M, above est., orders up 14% YoY to 83.4M, above 82.9M est., GTV up 10% to $9.1B, and plans a $1.5B share buyback
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg :
YouGov survey: 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, up from 8.7% in 2023, or ~200K people more
Adam Leventhal / The Athletic : Forums: r/PremierLeague and r/soccer Forums: r/PremierLeague : Illegal streaming: Research reveals rise in piracy and desire for scrapping of 3pm blackout r/soccer : [...
A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is building a “new category of work”; Mercor hit a $500M ARR in September and pays contractors ~$1.5M/day
Plus, perimenopause apps, Musk's mammoth pay package … X: Kevin V. Nguyen / @kevinnguyen_89 : There are a lot of young people in their early 20s running around in San Francisco rn making fortunes and ...
Canada-based CoLab, which makes collaboration software for manufacturers, raised a $72M Series C led by Intrepid Growth Partners
Lucinda Shen / Axios :
Scribe, which helps enterprises identify where AI and automation workflow investments will yield returns, raised a $75M Series C at a $1.3B post-money valuation
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Amazon expands its low-cost Haul service to 25 regions globally, rebrands it as Amazon Bazaar in some markets, and holds a sales event on November 10 and 11
Todd Bishop / GeekWire :
Letter: the SIA urges the USPTO to drop its plan to impose annual patent fees of 1% to 5% based on the government's assessed value, replacing the flat-fee model
Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware :
ABI: UK insurers paid out £197M+ in cyber claims in 2024, up from £60M in 2023; malware and ransomware-related claims were 51% of the total, up from 32% in 2023
Lee Harris / Financial Times :
A look at Rigetti Computing and D-Wave Quantum, whose shares have surged 1,900%+ over the past year, as quantum computing's potential has captivated investors
Felice Maranz / Bloomberg :
Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its customers find and build proposals for government contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Catalyst Investors
Chris Metinko / Axios :
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