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1/ Today, more than 140 companies, most of which compete fiercely with one another, agreed to back the same stablecoin. The vehicle is @openstandard, a new and deliberately independent company launchi

Financial Times: A study of 22K US companies shows those spending most heavily on AI are adding workers faster than peers, but most gains are among tech companies and startups — Study of 22,000 US com

Peter Campbell / Financial Times: AI may help transform air traffic control by processing vast amounts of data, spotting collision risks early, and easing staff shortages as air travel grows — The tec

Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security NV today announced that it has acquired Root.io Inc., a company that offers patching for vulnerable open-source software at the exact versions organizatio

Kirstin Ridley / Reuters: Almost 1,700 UK investors sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao for at least £150M, alleging Binance sold them risky derivative products without regulatory approval — Almost 1,700 B

Amazon blamed the malware strain 'Preflayer'—which can record screen content, steal login credentials, and commit ad fraud—as justification for blocking sideloaded apps . The company is preventing pir

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg USAID ran a secret fake Twitter to spark revolution in Cuba. Funded Venezuelan opposition politicians directly. Got expelled from Bolivia after WikiLeaks cables

The Supreme Court agreed to hear Apple's appeal regarding a contempt ruling in its antitrust battle with Epic Games, reviewing lower court decisions that found Apple willfully defied a 2021 ruling inv

Emmy Martin / New York Times: As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new AI elite and may have to leave — As OpenA

'At this very moment China is giving its AI technology away. It's releasing open-weight AI models that are cheap, capable, and they're fast becoming the world's default.' We can overcome this. @neil_c

BREAKING: Philippines becomes the first country in Southeast Asia to commercially launch Starlink Direct-to-Cell through a mobile network. Globe has secured regulatory approval to offer Starlink Direc

Build Inc., an artificial intelligence-driven startup that automates complex industrial real estate development management projects, today announced it has raised an 8.5 million seed round led by Inde

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Meir Orbach / CTech: Cyber unicorn Aikido acquires Israeli startup Root for 70-100 million — The Belgian company expands its AI security push and will open a new development center in Israel following

Tesla's Cybercab, an autonomous vehicle concept without a steering wheel or pedals, was demonstrated operating in Austin, Texas, showcasing fully self-driving capabilities. The vehicle represents Tesl

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $37.6M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components — Belgian cybersecurity

Protective DNS and content filtering company DNSFilter Inc. today launched an expanded partner program for managed service providers, restructuring its channel into three tiers as new company research

Matthew Martin / Semafor: Dubai- and London-based 1001, which uses AI to improve aviation, port, and energy infrastructure efficiency in the Gulf, raised 30M led by Lux Capital — THE SCOOP — Dubai- an

Dylan grew up working in motels Got a screen of death on his XBOX as a kid Fixing it got him into semis Somehow this led him to starting SemiAnalysis, the premier semis research co @dylan522p is fasci

Earlier this year, @SpaceX acquired @xAI (now SpaceXAI), which operates the Colossus datacenters in Memphis. As SpaceX continues to invest in the area, SpaceX is offering our neighbors in the Memphis

Emad Mostaque on PostAGI: 'Right now, not a single institution is on your side. The companies won't look out for you, and the governments won't either. Most of the AI debate just runs between those tw

Excited to be working with MIXI in Japan as we continue to grow our partnership. Today, we're announcing a strategic partnership with MIXI, one of Japan's largest gaming, sports and entertainment comp

Reuters: Filing: President Trump reports 1.4B+ in income from his family's crypto ventures in 2025, including 500M+ from WLF and 635M from the sale of his TRUMP coin — U.S. President Donald Trump repo

Wall Street Journal: Filings: Microsoft's Ireland hub generated $47B in pretax profits for FY 2025, or 38.1% of its global total; new EU rules require country-by-country reporting — Country-by-country

HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals , with additional restrictions on carbon-trading programs, green procurement, and carbon-based taxes or fees . Governor Ron D

The Atlantic: FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised against its use in April 2025, raising federal recordkeeping concerns — New records reveal that

Ford CEO Jim Farley in new interview on Chinese EV competition: 'There's no real competition from Tesla, GM or Ford with what we've seen from China. They are completely dominating the EV landscape glo

Four-story elevator … wow Real “man of the people” he is 🚨 BREAKING: A @FreeBeacon investigation reveals Rep. Ro Khanna—who rails against the ultra-rich who 'hoard wealth'—lives in a 6M D.C. mansion w

This article discusses Databricks' evolution of database architecture, tracing the progression from monolithic database systems to Lakebase and then to LTAP (Lakehouse Transaction Processing), emphasi

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: Getty Images announces plans to end its Shutterstock merger after the UK CMA conditioned approval of the deal on Shutterstock selling its editorial business — A

GLM-5.2 has become the most-liked model of all time on Hugging Face's model repository, surpassing previous records. This achievement reflects significant community recognition and adoption of the mod

Google shut down the Tenor API on June 30, 2026, breaking GIF pickers in Discord, X, Bluesky, and WhatsApp. Platforms that built GIF search into their products using Tenor are now scrambling for repla

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pickers on platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere — GIFs are a huge part of th

Google introduced Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and most cost-efficient image model built for high throughput, speed and scale. The model generates text-to-image outputs in about four seconds and co

Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-sec

Half price Starlink for people in the Memphis region SpaceXAI has announced that they will be applying a 50% discount on the standard @Starlink monthly price for both new and existing customers in the

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future competition from AI travel agents — Chatb

Bloomberg: How Spain's LaLiga uses nationwide IP blocking to combat illegal sports streams, impacting an estimated 550K+ domains, putting it in conflict with Cloudflare — From small businesses to gove

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. 'AI is the new frontier for us,' sa

Bloomberg: Lime raised 174M in its US IPO, selling 6.68M shares at 25 each, at the midpoint of the marketed range, giving Lime a market value of 1.6B — Neutron Holdings Inc., better known as Lime, and

Ryan Lawler / Axios: MDOTM, which makes AI software for asset and wealth managers, raised 27M led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to 36.5M — MDOTM, which makes AI software for

Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman - the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures - was a bit like watching a to

My grandfather, communism, and the tremor that never left. A story I rarely share. He was the principal of a private school; respected, steady, a man who believed in books and order. Then, one ordinar

NASA is considering repurposing an engineering development version of a nuclear-powered Mars rover for the moon's south polar region in a mission called PROMISE ('Polar Rover for Observation, Mapping

A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka's The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its Squid Game reality show in the trend of creating real competitions based on fict

Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, has progressed from its initial conception to advanced development stages, with the company working toward implantable devices that could enabl