DeepSeek Puts a Clock on Token Prices
DeepSeek’s V4-Flash output price moved from $0.28 per million tokens to $1.32 at peak, while off-peak service costs $0.66. The gap turns token pricing into a capacity-management mechanism.
Google TPU: The Chip Behind Gemini’s Default
Ironwood scales to 9,216 chips, and Google’s eighth-generation line now separates training from inference as Gemini spreads across Android, video and owned-book workflows. The hardware is fading from the product story as serving costs move to the center.
An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws
The outcome contradicted an earlier appeals court decision. Federal regulators said the split rulings called for resolution by the Supreme Court.
Modders get an experimental version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering library running in over a dozen games after it leaked in NBA 2K27's early access build
DLSS 5 mod spreads to Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2, TLOU2, Wukong and more — It took modders only hours to get the leaked NVIDIA DLSS …
OpenAI says it plans to stop providing its models to Cursor from November 12, as “we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our ToS”
Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026.
Apple TV raises prices in the US, with the monthly price up by $2 to $14.99, its fourth increase in four years; the individual Apple One tier rises $2 to $21.95
Tech giant also ups price of Apple One multi-service bundle's individual plan — It's going to cost Americans a few more bucks to watch …
A deep dive into Grok Bot, including its architecture, use cases, and alternatives, as xAI adds shareable bot templates and online purchases through Stripe Link
A detailed Grok Bot guide covering setup, persistent computers, skills, routines, templates, approvals, real use cases, limits, pricing, and alternatives.
Sources detail how Meta's $17.1B settlement with state AGs came together as Meta wanted to avoid going to trial following losses in cases in LA and New Mexico
State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant's new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock cameras; an investigation found an agency allocating $30M+ to build Texas' Flock network
The order came as The Texas Tribune was preparing to publish an investigation detailing how a state agency has devoted …
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with $10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model
Z.ai put the GLM-5.3 weights on Hugging Face, but dropped the MIT license. Providers above $10 billion in revenue now need a security review.
a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI”
Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new “Machine Age” fund with $1.1 billion raised. The firm's aim with the new fund is to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI.”
Meta intensifies its pressure campaign on TikTok and YouTube, running full-page ads in US newspapers demanding they adopt comparable teen safety protections
Meta Platforms Inc. is intensifying its public pressure campaign on TikTok and YouTube, running full-page advertisements …
SK Hynix breaks ground for its $4B advanced memory chip packaging facility in Indiana, with mass production of next-generation HBM scheduled to begin in H2 2029
SK Hynix Inc. held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday for its advanced memory packaging facility in Indiana …
Owner, which makes AI agents that manage restaurants' websites, marketing, and other functions, raised a $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation
The funding, led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, will help Owner develop AI agents for independent restaurants. — Rob Lehman (Owner president and COO) …
Shares of French quantum computing company Pasqal closed up 95% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday following a merger with a SPAC
Pasqal Holding SA soared in its first day of trading after the quantum computing company went public in New York via a merger with a blank-check firm …
Metriport, whose tools help doctors retrieve patient data, raised $26M in Series A and seed funding led by Matrix GP TJ Parker, taking its total raise to $28.4M
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have joined forces to sue Anthropic, home of Claude, over what the publishers call …
Jio Platforms, which owns India's largest carrier and counts Meta and Google as investors, gets regulatory approval to float India's largest-ever IPO of ~$4B
Debt repayment, strong cash flows underpin investor optimism around Jio IPO — Reliance Industries' digital arm Jio Platforms …
Data center development is driving demand for acoustic consultants, as developers and neighboring communities hire acousticians to assess noise emissions
The sprawling facilities get a lot of attention for their water and energy usage, but it's the threat of constant noise emission that has nearby residents up in arms.
Anthropic will “permanently” raise weekly Claude Code limits by 25% on Sept. 14 for most plans, which will work out a 17% reduction, given the current 50% boost
Starting September 14, we're permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until then, the current 50% increase will be in place...
Xiaomi and CXMT say the Xiaomi 18 Fold smartphone will debut CXMT's LPDDR6 DRAM chips, alongside Xiaomi's in-house 3nm Xring O3 SoC, launching in September
China's top memory chipmaker, CXMT (688825.SS), will supply its latest LPDDR6 DRAM chips for Xiaomi's upcoming flagship folding phone, the companies said on Saturday.
A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was “illegal and baseless”
Sources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs
The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians …
Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians opposing data center projects, warning that blocking the projects endangers building-related jobs
Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians, joining the building backlash — Much of the public outcry …
Job listings and other indicators: SpaceX is working on a Bastrop, TX foundry to build blades for large gas turbines, which could ease its AI power crunch
Clues are emerging that Elon Musk intends to bypass the power supply chain for AI data centers in a way others assumed was impossible …
Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 14.4% YoY to $15.62B and adjusted net profit of $372M, ending a three-quarter losing streak as the food delivery price war cooled
Revenue for the quarter rose 14.4 per cent year on year to 105 billion yuan, beating the consensus estimate of 101 billion yuan.
Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~$1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft
Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., has raised about $1 billion of private short-dated debt …
Unlike internet's one-dimensional, flat-fee growth, AI grows across two exponentials, user penetration and tokens per user, allowing AI labs' economics to work
The next ARR growth engine after coding, the AI infra bubble, the Economics of open vs. closed source model Why is the AI semi buildout longer than the internet buildout?
New AI-powered video tools have accelerated the surge in AI dramas in China; DataEye: 89 of the top 100 animated dramas on Douyin in May were AI productions
Online performers left jobless as new video-generation programmes sweep industry — Chinese actors and online influencers have a new rival …
CXMT sues the Pentagon over its Chinese military company designation, saying it isn't affiliated with the Chinese military and its chips aren't for military use
China's top memory chipmaker, ChangXin Memory Technologies (688825.SS), sued the Pentagon on Friday over being placed on a list …
Filing: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M+ Series A from Thrive Capital and others
There's a social media app I like using more than Instagram or TikTok — and it's attracted serious investor interest.
Sources: the US is drafting a rule to close an export controls loophole that lets Chinese companies access AI chips via data centers in countries like Thailand
Soon after President Donald Trump began his second term in office in 2025, the White House announced it would undo export controls …
Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT reports H1 revenue of ~$22.4B, more than double its 2025 sales, and ~$11.5B in profit, compared to a loss a year earlier
An analysis of the 50 largest bitcoin treasury companies by BTC holdings finds their combined market cap has plunged from $150B in July 2025 to just $67B now
Crypto hoarders have been selling tokens and reverting to former activities — More than $80bn has been wiped off the value …
Minneapolis-based Yardstik, a provider of workforce monitoring tech, raised a $30M Series B led by Harbert Growth Partners, taking its total funding to $65M
Yardstik Inc., a workforce screening startup that monitors companies' employees for potential fraudulent actions …
South Korea unveils a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, a move that treats AI like a public utility
OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action”
Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia
Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more
How Meta founded FAIR in 2013, fell behind as it was distracted by the metaverse, and is spending an unprecedented amount of money trying to catch up
Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter open model with a 1M context window, and says it narrowly beat GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 in internal engineering tests
Bluesky launches a feature to let users hide their posts from non-followers in its Discover feed; other AT Proto apps can choose whether to respect the opt-out
Stock trading app Ajaib raised a $270M Series C from SBI Holdings, the largest round since 2022 in Indonesia, where startups raised just ~$340M last year
Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms
Google adds Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook, letting users import eligible titles they own in Google Play Books to ask questions, generate podcasts, more
Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be “neutral”; Musk says he “couldn't care less”
OpenAI said Friday night that it will terminate its contract to provide its AI models …
The UK Treasury tells the Bank of England to boost innovation in payment systems and digital money, as it seeks to promote the UK as a hub for stablecoins
A look at Beijing's AGI Bar, the unofficial clubhouse for China's AI industry where entrepreneurs trade gossip, recruit talent, and court investors over beers
Sources: some tech companies are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House
How Shein pivoted to a Hong Kong IPO and sought to build Chinese government ties, after its New York and London bids failed to secure Beijing's approval
Texas, which didn't join a multi-state case against Meta, negotiated a $1.05B side deal that could reach $1.335B if TikTok and YouTube adopt teen safety changes
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