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Databricks is set to close $1B in funding at a $100B valuation and is on track to generate $4B in revenue in its fiscal year ending January 2026, up 50% YoY (www.wsj.com)
2025-9-8

A deep dive on Huawei's Ascend AI chip production, SMIC, TSMC, US export controls, HBM bottlenecks, China's HBM issues, Huawei's data center chips, and more (semianalysis.com)
2025-9-8 China AI

Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub's Forced Copilot AI Features (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-9-8 AI GitHub

Forward Industries raised $1.65B via a private investment in a PIPE offering led by Galaxy, Jump, and Multicoin to start a Solana asset treasury strategy (www.theblock.co)
2025-9-8 Asset

SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for up to $8.5B in cash and up to $8.5B in stock, resolving an FCC inquiry into EchoStar (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-8 SpaceX

China's e-commerce companies are getting singed by a price war (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-8 China

Meta hiring contractors to build AI chatbots in Hindi with cultural nuances: report (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-8 AI chatbot

Uber and Shanghai-based robotaxi company Momenta plan to test Level 4 fully driverless cars in Munich from 2026, as a precursor to launching a robotaxi service (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-8 Uber Autonomous Car Shanghai Munich

Sources: the US is proposing annual approvals for exports of chipmaking supplies to Samsung and SK Hynix factories in China as part of a “site license” idea (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-8 China Samsung

Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement raises a drawbridge on its startup rivals, which could not afford to pay such fines, setting an AI copyright floor price (spyglass.org)
2025-9-8 Startup AI

Google updates a Help Center document to clarify Gemini 2.5 Pro usage limits: five prompts per day for free users, 100 prompts for AI Pro, and 500 for AI Ultra (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-8 Google AI

The Wizard of Oz's revamp draws 4,000 to 5,000 fans two or three times per day to the Las Vegas Sphere; a source says the 1939 film may gross $1B in its new run (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-8 Vegas

There's 50% Fewer Young Employees at Tech Companies Now Than Two Years Ago (it.slashdot.org)
2025-9-8

An interview with Dr. Raj Jena, the UK's first clinical professor of AI in radiation oncology, on how AI is improving cancer care, quality control, and more (t.co)
2025-9-8 Interview AI

US probes malware email targeting trade talks with China: Report (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-8 China

AI shakes up the call center industry, but some tasks are still better left to the humans (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-8 AI

The spectacular comeback tour of a crypto overlord (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-8

Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3, Apple Watch SE, AirPods Pro 3: Everything you can expect (indianexpress.com)
2025-9-8 Apple

A New Four-Person Crew Will Simulate a Year-Long Mars Mission, NASA Announces (science.slashdot.org)
2025-9-8 NASA

Filing: Shanghai-based, US-listed lidar maker Hesai aims to raise ~$497M in its Hong Kong IPO, offering 17M shares at up to $29.25 each, amid US delisting risks (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-8 Hong Kong IPO Shanghai

PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since 2022, including €1.4B in the first 7 months of 2025, up from €30M in 2020 and €150M in 2021 (t.co)
2025-9-8 Europe Startup

Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (www.cnbc.com)
2025-9-8 Alibaba Startup AI Robot Shenzhen

OpenAI is providing its tools and computing resources for an AI-made animated feature film called Critterz, which is set to hit theaters globally in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2025-9-8 AI

A profile of Zachary Cefaratti, a below-the-radar dealmaker for data centers, crypto mining, and tech groups in the Gulf through his advisory firm Dalma Capital (t.co)
2025-9-8

Microsoft's Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-9-8 Microsoft AI

ChatGPT makes Projects feature free, adds a toggle to split chat (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-9-8

Google to make it easier to access AI Mode as default (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-9-8 Google AI

A look at Marc Benioff's pursuit of productivity gains through AI at Salesforce, which has undergone a series of layoffs over the past two years (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-9-8 AI Layoffs Salesforce

Microsoft's Cloud Services Disrupted by Red Sea Cable Cuts (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-9-8 Microsoft

Chinese Hackers Impersonated US Lawmaker in Email Espionage Campaign (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-9-8 China

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