How Manus distanced itself from its Chinese roots to court US investors; a source says Meta's $2.5B deal includes a $500M retention pool for Manus' employees
The $2.5 billion deal could herald a new era for China-linked AI companies and U.S. investors — Workers at Butterfly Effect …
Meta just bought into the enterprise market with its Manus deal, which may eventually help it expand into cloud offerings like those of its Big Tech peers
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Trump Media, owner of Truth Social, plans to distribute a new token to shareholders with partner Crypto.com, expected to operate on the Cronos blockchain
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. plans to issue a new cryptocurrency, which will be distributed among its shareholders.
Finland seizes a ship suspected of damaging an undersea cable linking Helsinki and Estonia in the Gulf of Finland; Estonia says a second cable was also damaged
Finnish police on Wednesday seized a ship suspected of damaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki …
Sources: Nvidia has approached TSMC to ramp up H200 chip production; Chinese companies have placed orders for 2M+ H200 chips for 2026, while Nvidia holds 700K
Nvidia (NVDA.O) is scrambling to meet strong demand for its H200 artificial intelligence chips from Chinese technology companies …
Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries
Move marks latest setback for project that originally promised to sell a US-made device — Trump Mobile, the phone company launched …
OpenAI financial data: its stock-based pay averaged ~$1.5M per employee in 2025, ~7x Google pre-IPO and ~34x the average pay of other pre-IPO peers, per Equilar
The company's stock-based compensation in 2025 reached an average of $1.5 million per employee
Sources: ByteDance plans to spend about $14B on Nvidia's AI chips in 2026, an increase of about 18% from 2025
Company betting on Beijing's approval following Trump admin's ease on AI export controls Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : China's AI Appetite Pushes Nvidia Into A Supply Crunch Yurii Shtokaliuk / AIN : Chi...
SoftBank says it has completed a $22.5B investment in OpenAI, finalizing its up to $40B investment commitment announced in March and taking its stake to ~11%
SoftBank Group Corp. ("SBG" or the “Company") today announced that it has completed an additional investment of $22.5 billion …
Elon Musk says xAI bought a third building called “MACROHARDRR”, reportedly adjacent to Colossus 2, that will take the company's training compute to almost 2GW
Elon Musk's xAI is planning an expansion of its massive data center complex in Memphis, and has purchased a third building …
Chinese AI firms are leading a wave of IPOs in Hong Kong, where at least 25 companies debuted in December 2025, the busiest month for deals since November 2019
Chinese artificial intelligence firms are leading a wave of listings in Hong Kong, aiming to capitalize on a recent market momentum.
Sources: Uber is in talks to acquire the parking space reservation app SpotHero; the parking app was last valued at $290M
Uber has been in talks to acquire parking app SpotHero, a popular service that allows drivers to reserve parking spaces, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.
Two ex-staffers of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint plead guilty to targeting US companies in 2023's BlackCat ransomware attacks
group demanded up to $10 million from each victim Jonathan Greig / The Record : Ransomware responders plead guilty to using ALPHV in attacks on US organizations Deeba Ahmed / Hackread : 2 US Cybersecu...
Review of Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold: sturdy but poor camera performance and has some unique design flaws that make it even less polished than regular foldables
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Filing: Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice aims to raise up to ~$600M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 28.9M shares at up to ~$21 each
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Sources: bids for GroqCloud, Groq's AI inference platform, are expected to exceed $1B after Nvidia's $20B non-exclusive licensing agreement with Groq
The chipmaker's AI-inference agreement with startup Groq indicates growing competition for top talent and technology
Filing: Chinese chip designer OmniVision Integrated Circuits seeks to raise up to ~$617M in a Hong Kong IPO; HKEX: Hong Kong IPOs have raised ~$36B in 2025
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The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa, reversing a designation imposed by the Biden administration in 2024
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Filing: China's top DRAM maker CXMT plans to raise $4.2B in a Shanghai IPO; CXMT held a 4% global share in Q2 2025 and targets HBM production by the end of 2026
China's leading maker of DRAM chips, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) Corp, said on Tuesday it plans to raise 29.5 billion yuan …
Japanese NAND flash memory maker Kioxia is up 500%+ in 2025 so far, outperforming all other MSCI World Index members, after its Tokyo IPO debut in December 2024
Artificial intelligence's insatiable appetite for data storage has delivered Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp …
IDC expects shipments of PCs could shrink by up to 9% YoY in 2026 due to global memory shortages, as demand from AI data centers continues to outstrip supply
If you need a new PC, it's best to buy one now as things will get worse in 2026 Forums: r/technology : IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate...
Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information
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Filing: Chinese AI startup MiniMax seeks to raise up to ~$538.5M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 25.4M shares at a price range of ~$19.40 to ~$21.20 per share
Shivangi Lahiri / Reuters :
Data storage stocks led the S&P 500 in 2025, with SanDisk up 560%+ to become the top performer, followed by Western Digital in second and Seagate in fourth
The artificial intelligence trade is moving, and investors seeking cutting-edge ways to play it are snapping up technology …
How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar's power and energy unit; generator sales are up 28% YoY through Sept. 2025, after growing 22% to $7.8B in 2024
Sales of generators are powering the manufacturing giant's fastest-growing segment and a race to help data centers skip the grid
A reflection on AI advances in the past decade and how scaling and time-horizon trends might point to far greater capabilities in the decade ahead
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Dealroom: 76 European deep tech and life sciences companies spun out from universities reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025, or both
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