Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds
Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push — Melissa Heikkilä in London …
SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake, or ~32M shares, in October for $5.8B and part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.2B, boosting Q2 profit to $16.2B, above est.
Net profit doubles to $16bn on gains from OpenAI and PayPay holdings — Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group has sold its entire stake …
Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake launch the $150+ iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted fabric accessory, in Apple's first fashion deal since Hermès' in 2015
It's no secret that Steve Jobs's favorite fashion designer was Issey Miyake. The former Apple CEO adopted …
Sources: Apple may add a second camera to the next iPhone Air, possibly set for spring 2027 alongside the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e, to address user complaints
Apple is delaying the release of the second-generation iPhone Air to work on a redesign of the device and make it more appealing to consumers …
Sources: Apple delays the next iPhone Air, originally set for fall 2026, after the first model sold below expectations and a portion of inventory remains unsold
So It Can Get Better Juli Clover / MacRumors : iPhone Air Sales Are So Bad That Apple's Delaying the Next-Generation Version Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : Apple's iPhone Air might already be out of bre...
A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100+ actresses and 25TB+ of pirated content via a torrent tracker
A Danish court has handed down a historic verdict, convicting a Reddit moderator in the country's first-ever criminal case for violating copyright's “right of respect”.
A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal
A German court on Tuesday sided with the country's music rights society GEMA in a closely watched copyright case against U.S.-based artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.
Sony reports Q2 revenue up 4.6% YoY to ~$20.3B, net profit up 6.7% YoY to ~$2.02B, 3.9M PS5s sold, and raises its FY operating profit forecast by 7.5% to ~$9.3B
Sony 6758 5.51%increase; green up pointing triangle Group raised its earnings forecasts after a stronger-than-expected second quarter …
Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages
Vision AI Companion will let you ask questions about what's on screen in real time.
Search and browser startup Brave's CBO says it passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024
Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google's Chrome.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build “frontier-grade research capability” and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency
- Microsoft recently formed a new superintelligence team under Mustafa Suleyman. — A renegotiated OpenAI deal …
How China ramped up its AI development from spring 2024 to catch the US, including via relaxed regulations, huge government funding, and a domestic chip focus
America holds a sizable lead, but China is working to tip the scales with a sweeping countrywide push, betting ‘swarms beat the titan’
Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more
Today, I'm talking with a very special guest: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Tim is a legend in the history of the internet. LinkedIn: Juan Francisco Diez . Bluesky: @glynmo...
Sources: the EU plans to designate WhatsApp's Channels as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, meaning it must meet moderation and transparency standards
Meta Platforms Inc.'s messaging service WhatsApp will face stricter rules under the European Union's content moderation rulebook …
Docs: Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses, or ~75% of revenue, that year before turning a profit in 2030
Financial documents from both companies show the different approaches they are taking to the AI boom
Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation
Vladimir Novakovski, founder and CEO of Lighter. — COURTESY OF LIGHTER — “Pivot from crypto to AI” became a refrain in Silicon Valley after ChatGPT launched in 2022.
A UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin
A Chinese woman described as a “super villain” who orchestrated a multibillion dollar investment fraud to buy Bitcoin was sentenced …
Amsterdam-based Wonderful, which helps companies manage client-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email in any language, raised $100M at a $700M valuation
- AI agent platform was launched earlier this year — Expects to hit around $10 million in annual recurring revenue
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Amazon says ads on Prime Video reach 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels
Dade Hayes / Deadline :
Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds invested ~$3B in a New Mexico-based Stargate data center, set to consume 4.5GW, as Blue Owl ramps up its AI bet
Miles Kruppa / The Information : Bluesky: @riotgrrlscout Bluesky: @riotgrrlscout : It will be powered by connecting to the existing fairy dust grid with supplemental unicorn dream turbines [embedded ...
Sea reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $6B, above $5.65B est., a $375M net income, below $433M est., and Shopee revenue up 35% YoY to $4.3B and GMV up 28% YoY
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg :
Nebius signs a ~$3B, five-year deal to provide Meta with AI infrastructure and reports a $100.4M net loss in Q3, up from $39.7M in Q3 2024; NBIS is up 250%+ YTD
Update Trader Edge / Blockonomi : Nebius (NBIS) Stock: Company Signs $3 Billion Meta Deal, Reports 355% Revenue Growth
Oura CEO Tom Hale says the Finnish smart ring startup expects “maybe close” to $2B in sales in 2026, is on track for $1B in 2025, and has “no news on an IPO”
Tasmin Lockwood / CNBC :
Microsoft says it will spend $10B to build a data center park in Sines, Portugal, in partnership with Portuguese developer Start Campus and UK startup Nscale
Henrique Almeida / Bloomberg :
An investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea, set to cost up to $35B and open in 2028
Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal :
How US-based ACE, led by the MPA, took down illegal sports streamer Streameast, which had 136M global users per month, £4.9M in ad revenue, and ~£150K in crypto
@theathleticfc.bsky.social — www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...
Asahi says shipments are at just 10% of normal levels after a late September cyberattack, and it is processing orders manually, ahead of typically busy December
Bloomberg :
Google, Temasek, and Bain: private funding for SE Asia's digital economy grew 15% YoY to $7.7B in the year to June, below 25% global growth and 2021's $27B peak
Jun Yuan Yong / Reuters :
Bengaluru-based digital lending startup Finnable raised about $28.19M in August 2025 co-led by Z47 and TVS Capital, bringing its total raised to about $60.9M
Alenjith K Johny / The Economic Times :
Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to $50.6M, above $46.2M est., and net loss up 77% YoY to $159.5M, below est.; GEMI drops 5%+
To Our Shareholders At Gemini, we are building the trusted bridge to the future of money. Diya Poddar / Bitcoin Insider : Gemini posts wider-than-expected loss in first post-IPO report Trader Edge / B...
Meta releases Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, a suite of AI models handling automatic speech recognition for 1,600+ languages, vs. OpenAI Whisper's 99
models that understand 1,600+ languages, including 500 that have never been supported before! 🤯 - <10% character error rate for 78% of languages -In-context learning: adapt to new languages with only ...
Intel CTO and AI officer Sachin Katti says he is leaving the company after four years to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts
follows another AI data center exec out the door, Lip Bu-Tan to take up the slack Proactive : Intel AI chief Sachin Katti departs to join OpenAI Tom / NextBigWhat : Intel's AI chief Sachin Katti joins...
The US Treasury and IRS issue guidance allowing Wall Street crypto products to offer staking rewards under a new safe harbor, easing institutional participation
Sander Lutz / Decrypt :
Meta says it will discontinue Facebook's Like and Share buttons for websites on February 10, 2026, since usage “declined as the digital landscape has evolved”
It doesn't even matter . They created the fractured landscape and the enablers they wanted [embedded post] Ian Bogost / @ibogost.com : Specifically, there are no external websites anymore. [embedded...