The Compute Bill Is Becoming a Balance Sheet
Jane Street’s $1B CoreWeave investment joins a web of deals that could leave OpenAI holding about $2.6B in CoreWeave and Cerebras stock. Compute procurement and infrastructure finance are collapsing into the same transaction.
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France
Claude Guillemot, who co-founded French video-game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA with his brothers in 1986, has died, according to the company.
Sources: John Ternus gets ready to put his firm imprint on Apple's industrial design team, which has lost a true seat at Apple's exec table over the past decade
Also: The 2027 iPhone and AirPods plans. — The No. 1 priority for new Apple CEO John Ternus should be revamping …
A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race
A speculative thought-experiment warns the continent could pay a heavy price for lagging behind the US
Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner
Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore
Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states
An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning …
Investigation: Polymarket is paying creators to make deceptive videos about winning bets, targeting users in the US, where its primary crypto platform is banned
The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation
A look at “humanizer” and “autotyper” apps that help students evade AI-detection software by slowly auto-typing essays and making AI text sound less robotic
Big tech companies and small start-ups are using social media to hype new tools that allow students to trick teachers and A.I. detectors.
Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis says the phonemaker won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone series due to surging memory prices
Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online child safety efforts risk mass surveillance, leaving the markets that demand weakening of encryption, more
Meredith Whittaker has spent years arguing that privacy is a prerequisite for a free society.
How the success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan is driving stock gains, bigger bonuses, and a retail investing frenzy in Asian markets
Global success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan stokes market fever — Na Se-bin has lost all sense of the value of money.
An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more
When Allbirds pivoted to AI in April, it felt like a joke from “Silicon Valley” breaking free of the TV: The direct …
Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, raised $5M led by Lightspeed
You've probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it's been downloaded more than 6 billion times.
SoftBank says it is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments and has completed only two new deals over the past two years
SoftBank Group Corp. is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments, underscoring how sharply the tech boom …
Sources: the UK government is expected to consult as early as this month on rules to make public service news more prominent on social media and video platforms
A look at Jane Street's push to supercharge trading with AI and become a major AI investor; it invested $1B in CoreWeave in April and has a stake in Anthropic
The firm has surged from a handful of staffers to 3,500 with plans to recruit more than 500 employees this year.LinkedIn:Chris ZhangLinkedIn:Chris Zhang:Jane Street has experienced significant growth ...
Inside Palantir's fight to save its £330M, seven-year contract with NHS England, as public and political pressure grows to end the deal via a 2027 break clause
Critics question how the tech giant won a showpiece contract. It complains about the politicisation of procurement.
The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI
As Europe falls behind the US and China in consumer AI, its engineering companies and AI startups are turning to industrial AI applications to boost efficiency
Pressure to become more efficient has Europe racing to bring artificial intelligence to the shop floor.
Sources: PC makers, including HP, are in talks with their supply-chain partners about using CXMT's memory chips in products bound for Asia as DRAM prices soar
Prices soar because capacity isn't growing quickly, while China option is limited by national-security concerns
A look at Russia's push to develop homegrown AI talent, as the country is hampered by scarce access to AI hardware and a brain drain of top technical talent
Nikita Ostrovsky … In early April, on a stage in the southwestern outskirts of Moscow, a moderator at Russia's annual Data …LinkedIn:Nikita Ostrovsky.
DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of $8M+ in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for over eight hours in 2025
SF-based Humble Robotics, which is developing an electric, self-driving cabless freight truck with 200 miles range and 55 mph max speed, raised $24M
- 7 min Click here to listen to this article — San Francisco startup Humble Robotics has raised $24 million to build an electric …
Sources: Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree have deployed tech to disable phones stolen from their stores, after phone makers resisted broader antitheft measures
Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree's move comes after Apple and Samsung resisted calls to adopt broader measures
Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amodei was “nice” and “smart” at G7
Sources: Anduril has begun exploring the possibility of establishing operations in Israel and is in talks to recruit a local manager
Palmer Luckey's $61 billion startup considers local operations, partnerships, and investments in Israeli startups. — Anduril, the world's largest …