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Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: Internal documents: Chinese company Geedge is working to build AI tools to predict those who could pose a political risk, but US chip controls hampered its work — Ne

Samantha Subin / CNBC: SentinelOne's stock closes down 8% after the company announced plans to lay off 8% of its workforce and forecasted Q2 and FY revenue guidance below estimates — SentinelOne share

Becoming an AI-native company is no longer the competitive advantage it was five minutes ago. Now, it’s an empirical obligation, and Dell Technologies Inc. made that case to customers at its annual fl

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Atlanta-based e-commerce logistics company Stord raised a 250M Series F led by Strike at a 3B valuation, up from 1.5B after a 200M Series E in May 2025 — E-commerce logistics

Of all the companies I track, Zoom Communications Inc. might be the most interesting, as it’s evolving in ways that run counter to its traditional peers. When speaking with industry colleagues, includ

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg who is leading the gargantuan effort to transform Meta into an AI-first company

Melissa Shin / Bloomberg: Plenary Americas LP, La Caisse's infrastructure arm, agrees to acquire and take private Canadian database company ISC for $872M, expected to close in Q3 — The infrastructure

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking Tether's stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M — Tether has bought ou

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: As the US House probes Airbnb's use of Chinese AI models, CEO Brian Chesky says the company is not sharing data with Chinese firms and uses open-source models — Airbnb Inc. C

Katie Paul / Reuters: Internal memo: Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year — Meta (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees in an internal memo o

Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier.bsky.social: In a town hall, PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investors have underestimated Microsoft — Bill Ackman

Agentic AI might be outrunning the one thing it needs most — an AI trust layer. That challenge is reshaping the ambitions of companies long anchored in data protection. Veeam Software Group GmbH, whic

Atsuko Fukase / Bloomberg: Alphabet sold 3.6B of bonds in its debut yen-denominated bond sale, the largest by a non-Japanese company, as AI-driven capital spending accelerates — Alphabet Inc. sold ¥57

Amber Tong / Bloomberg: Metis TechBio, a biotech company using AI to deliver and formulate drugs, surged as much as 185% in its Hong Kong market debut after raising ~$270M in its IPO — Shares of Metis

Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: Sam Altman recently discussed launching an AI compute company that is majority-owned by OpenAI, similar to Stargate's original data center initiative — Sources say Sam A

Reuters: OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a 4B+ investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acquires AI consulting firm Tomoro — OpenAI said on Monday it is set

Bloomberg: How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period — Championed by a guru known

Bloomberg: Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ led by Thrive Capital — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug di

Christopher Kuo / Wall Street Journal: FanDuel CEO Amy Howe departs after five years, succeeded by President Christian Genetski, as parent company Flutter reports MAUs fell 3% YoY to 14.4M in Q1 2026

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 — Freshworks (FRSH.O) sai

Rachyl Jones / Semafor: A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids — In recent months

Javi West Larrañaga / Reuters: Amadeus IT Group, which operates the world's largest travel booking system, plans to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, for €1.2B in cash — Spanis

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a “sustained, cross-border attack” — Servers operated by Ubuntu and

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: GoTo reports net income of ~$15M for Q1 2026, its first ever, after job cuts and unit disposals helped Indonesia's largest internet company reduce costs — GoTo Group shares jum

Makena Kelly / Ars Technica: Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more — It took jus

Reuters: S-1 excerpts: SpaceX warns multiple investigations into sexually abusive AI imagery created with xAI's Grok may hurt the company's global market access — The multiple investigations into xAI'

Reuters: Sources: Thoma Bravo prepares to hand over customer experience management company Medallia to creditors, leading to a ~$5.1B wipeout for Medallia's investors — Private equity firm Thoma Bravo

a16z: A new media company called MTS launches for “monitoring the situation” across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others — Thrilled to announce our investment in a

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple says Tim Cook, as executive chairman, “will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world” — Apple confirmed today th

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered — The former Inst

Bloomberg: A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; the apps earned $122M+ in revenue — Apple Inc. and Google have

John Collison / Cheeky Pint: Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more — Mati Stan

Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staf

Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic told investors that its revenue jumped to 16.8B in Q3, up from 11.5B in Q2, and that the company was profitable on an adjusted basis in Q3 — Rapid growth is slower

Wall Street Journal: Samsung commits 1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, adding to the 10B already secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia established Helix in June — Helix expects to le

Priyanka Salve / CNBC: VFX company DNEG's AI unit Brahma, whose customers include Warner Bros. and the NBA, raised 150M led by Indian PE firm Multiples at a 2B post-money valuation — Brahma AI, an Ind

Reuters: Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu says the company plans to train a 5T- to 10T-parameter AI model, as it lays out a sweeping push across AI models, chips, and data centers — Alibaba Group (9988.HK) plans

Reuters: Anthropic Life Sciences Head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research — Anthropic has quietly set up

Omar El Chmouri / Bloomberg: Sources: Saudi AI company Humain is planning to raise an initial 2.5B fund to help finance data center capacity of 250 MW in Saudi Arabia — Artificial intelligence firm Hu

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus — Chris Malone joins a string of

Reuters: Sources: Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support, which would make Apple the first foreign company to offer a proprietary AI model in China — Apple (AAPL.O) has trained a la

Nichiket Sunil / Reuters: Sydney-based AI data center company Firmus raised 2B in funding from Coatue, Nvidia, and others at a 10.5B post-money valuation, up from 5.5B in April — Firmus said on Friday

CNBC: In an internal meeting, OpenAI finance chief Sarah Friar told employees that the company's annualized recurring revenue in July was higher than in Q2 as a whole — As OpenAI chases rival Anthropi

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's $1.5B AI implementation company, announced in May, launches with the name Ode with Anthropic and 100 engineers — AI models

Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of the company deploying its new humanoid robot in factories — Aut