How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts
Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends silly legal threat to ...
Indian government order: India's telecom ministry privately gives smartphone makers 90 days to preload state cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new devices
India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app …
Netflix quietly removes support for casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including Chromecasts, regardless of subscription tier
Netflix will no longer support casting from your mobile to most TVs and streaming devices, regardless of the plan you're on. — •
The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes
Top of the Morning — I come here neither to praise nor pillory David Sacks, the venture capitalist who spends half …
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, which it calls “reasoning-first models built for agents”, after releasing V3.2-Exp in September
China's DeepSeek unveiled two new versions of an experimental artificial-intelligence model it released weeks ago …
Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities
A group of Swiss and German law enforcement agencies said on Monday they shut down cryptomixer.io, one of the largest platforms …
OpenAI takes a stake in Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings and says it will embed agents in its companies, which already include an accounting and an IT business
The move by the parent company of ChatGPT is meant to help imbue Thrive Holdings' accounting and I.T. services companies with artificial intelligence tools.
Runway debuts Gen 4.5, a text-to-video AI model that can make HD videos and is good at understanding physics and human motion, topping Video Arena's leaderboard
Artificial intelligence startup Runway on Monday announced Gen 4.5, a new video model that outperforms similar models from Google and OpenAI in an independent benchmark.
Nvidia buys $2B of Synopsys' common stock and unveils a strategic partnership to accelerate computing and AI engineering products, including with CUDA libraries
Nvidia on Monday announced it has purchased $2 billion of Synopsys' common stock as part of a strategic partnership …
Germany-based Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image generation models, raised a $300M Series B at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in 2024
Low-profile group has quickly emerged as a top developer of image generation technology — German start-up Black Forest Labs …
New York becomes the first US state to require that retailers disclose using algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10+ states are considering similar bills
The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices.
China's central bank reaffirmed its stance on crypto, calling virtual currency activity illegal and saying stablecoins fail KYC and anti-money-laundering rules
Sources: consultancies like McKinsey froze graduate pay offers for 2026, the third consecutive year, as AI reshapes the industry and threatens its pyramid model
Productivity gains from technology are spurring debate about reliance on large numbers of junior advisers
HSBC signs a Mistral deal to access Mistral's AI models and co-develop models for tasks like financial analysis, translation, onboarding clients, and AML checks
Bank will use technology for tasks, including translation and document analysis — HSBC has signed a deal …
South Korea is investigating a data leak at Coupang, allegedly by a former Chinese employee, that exposed ~33.7M accounts, or 65% of the country's 51.7M people
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Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the “decay” at Intel, the Chip Act's terrible execution, the irony of Lip-Bu Tan broadly following his strategy, and more
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Nevis, which develops AI agents to automate wealth advisers' grunt work, raised a $35M Series A from Sequoia and others at a $200M valuation, after a $5M seed
Many companies are trying to replace wealth advisers with artificial intelligence, but Mark Swan's bet is that humans are here to stay.
US startups are increasingly adopting open-weight Chinese AI models, which are cheaper, more customizable, and sufficiently capable compared to frontier US ones
ByteDance launches an AI voice assistant powered by its Doubao LLM, available first on ZTE's Nubia M153 smartphone prototype; Doubao has an estimated 159M MAUs
Sources: Databricks is raising $5B at a $134B valuation and projects sales to grow 55% in 2025 to $4.1B, at roughly breakeven, with ~$10M in free cash flow
Cory Weinberg / The Information :
The AI boom has led to high demand and more pay for the construction workers who build data centers; a trade group estimates there's a shortage of ~439K workers
Te-Ping Chen / Wall Street Journal : X: @reidhoffman . LinkedIn: Jake Rasweiler X: Reid Hoffman / @reidhoffman : In the coming months and years, there will be more conversations about what the Americ...
Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered warehouse robots, raised a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE :
Omnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a North Carolina state senator and CNN Brazil found DM9 used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads
Emmanuel Felton / Washington Post :
An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, and how the latest Google TPU generation positions Google as the most threatening challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance
Fascinating article. They argue that the reason for NVIDIA's circular investment deals is to intertwine their own fate with that of the big labs, to keep themselves on top — OpenAI saved 30% on the...
An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data: 80+ tech startups passed $1B valuations in 2025 so far, many of them AI-related, save for exceptions like Kalshi
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status. — Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook …
How a Chinese entrepreneur amassed 10M+ IPv4 addresses, mostly from Africa, to lease them outside Africa, leaving African ISPs struggling to expand capacity
Alexandra Wexler / Wall Street Journal : Bluesky: @bottleofstars and @lifewinning.com Bluesky: @bottleofstars : “entrepreneur” Ingrid Burrington / @lifewinning.com : www.wsj.com/business/tel... this ...
How Animaj, a startup in the Disney Accelerator Program, uses its generative AI tool to expedite the animation process, while claiming artists stay in control
Corinne Reichert / CNET :
Anthropic says 60%+ of its business customers use more than one Claude product, a trend it began noticing in summer 2025 after Claude Code's rise in popularity
Richard Nieva / Forbes :
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