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AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Startup AI

Sources: the UK government wants Apple, Google, and others to block explicit images at the OS level by default to protect kids and have adults verify their ages (www.ft.com)
5 days ago Google Apple

Analysis: Tata, Infosys, and Cognizant are set to bear the brunt of Trump's $100K H-1B fee; from 2020 to 2024, 93% of Infosys' H-1B hires would have had to pay (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Trump H1B

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon's rivalry is moving beyond ads with explicit customer poaching efforts and lawsuits; AT&T twice blocked T-Mobile's Easy Switch tool (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago Mobile AT&T

DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust (www.ft.com)
5 days ago AI

London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (tech.eu)
5 days ago AI London

Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is “a collection of public fora” and social interaction isn't its “sole purpose” (www.businessinsider.com)
5 days ago Australia Ban Reddit

US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (www.nytimes.com)
5 days ago Equity

AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley (www.theverge.com)
5 days ago AI

Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
5 days ago AI Freelance

How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame the opposition to Trump's AI EO, reaching out to lawmakers and finally modifying the text of the order (www.washingtonpost.com)
5 days ago Trump AI

Microsoft: December security updates cause Message Queuing failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
5 days ago Microsoft

Are Warnings of Superintelligence 'Inevitability' Masking a Grab for Power? (slashdot.org)
5 days ago

How Nvidia's lobbying efforts grew after Howard Lutnick brokered Jensen Huang's access to Trump, ending with the president's approval of the H200 sales to China (t.co)
5 days ago Trump China Nvidia

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (www.theinformation.com)
5 days ago Oracle

SpaceX Alleges a Chinese-Deployed Satellite Risked Colliding with Starlink (science.slashdot.org)
5 days ago China SpaceX

A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago China Amazon

Roomba Maker 'iRobot' Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years (hardware.slashdot.org)
5 days ago

Investigation: after Trump's return to office, the SEC eased up on or dismissed 60%+ of ongoing crypto cases, including ones involving Trump-linked companies (www.nytimes.com)
5 days ago Trump

How UAE's growing interest in crypto drew Michael Saylor, Changpeng Zhao and other crypto executives to Abu Dhabi, hoping to secure deals with Emirati investors (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago

Like Australia, Denmark Plans to Severely Restrict Social Media Use for Teenagers (tech.slashdot.org)
5 days ago Australia Social Media

An interview with Marcos Galperin, CEO of MercadoLibre, which has a $105B market cap, on his upcoming resignation, MercadoLibre's rivalry with Amazon, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Amazon Interview

iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement to hand control to its secured lender and key supplier, Shenzhen Picea (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Shenzhen

CEOS Plan to Spend More on AI in 2026 - Despite Spotty Returns (it.slashdot.org)
5 days ago AI

Podcast Industry Under Siege as AI Bots Flood Airways with Thousands of Programs (slashdot.org)
5 days ago AI

How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator (www.theguardian.com)
5 days ago Startup Sweden

'Investors in Limbo'. Will the TikTok Deal's Deadline Be Extended Again? (tech.slashdot.org)
5 days ago

Podcast Industry Under Siege as AI Bot Flood Airways with Thousands of Programs (slashdot.org)
5 days ago AI

Stocks of private companies like OpenAI and SpaceX are being sold via invitation-only markets to the ultrawealthy before their IPOs, creating a two-tier system (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago IPO SpaceX

Entry-Level Tech Workers Confront an AI-Fueled Jobpocalypse (developers.slashdot.org)
5 days ago AI

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