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Meta Just Bought Manus, an AI Startup Everyone Has Been Talking About (meta.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Startup AI

Fast delivery apps like Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy are expanding into India's Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, driven by rising incomes and cheap smartphones and data (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-30 India

PhDs Can't Find Work as Boston's Biotech Engine Sputters (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Biotech

Sources: the US has granted an annual license to Samsung and SK Hynix to ship their chip manufacturing equipment to their facilities in China for 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-30 China Samsung Manufacturing

Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B+, after approaching the startup during a fundraising at a $2B valuation; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will report to Javier Olivan (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-30 Startup

Researchers Make 'Neuromorphic' Artificial Skin For Robots (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Robot

Meta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and “will discontinue its services and operations in China” (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-30 China

Shares of Shenzhen-based OneRobotics opened flat in their HK debut after the Chinese home robotics maker raised $210M by selling 22M+ shares at about $9.50 each (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-30 China Robot Shenzhen

Shares of Insilico rose 45% in their Hong Kong trading debut after the AI drug discovery startup raised $293M in an IPO; Insilico reported $85M+ in 2024 revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-30 Hong Kong IPO Startup AI

Samsung, up 125%, and SK Hynix, up 268%, accounted for nearly half of the 76% gain in South Korea's Kospi, the world's best-performing major stock index in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-30 Korea Samsung

Driven by the AI boom, chipmakers posted $400B+ in sales in 2025; FactSet projects revenue for Nvidia, Intel, Broadcom, AMD, and Qualcomm to reach $538B in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-30 Intel AI Nvidia AMD

Russian Enthusiasts Planning DIY DDR5 Memory Amidst Worldwide Shortage (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Russia

Fedora Continued At The Forefront Of Upstream Linux Innovations In 2025 (linux.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Linux

'Pull Over and Show Me Your Apple Wallet' (mobile.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Apple

Chinese state hackers use rootkit to hide ToneShell malware activity (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-30 China

Tough Job Market Has People Using Dating Apps To Get Interviews (interviews.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30

Meta says it will continue to operate and sell the Manus service, and Manus' talent will join Meta to deliver agents across Meta products, including Meta AI (www.facebook.com)
2025-12-30 AI

UK-based Octopus Energy reaches a deal to sell about $1B of equity in Kraken Technologies, its tech spin-off, at an $8.65B valuation to a syndicate of investors (www.ft.com)
2025-12-30 Energy Equity

Sam Altman Offers $555K Salary To Fill Most Daunting Role In AI (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 AI

Nvidia Takes $5 Billion Stake In Intel Under September Agreement (slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Intel Nvidia

Meta agrees to acquire Singapore-based startup Manus, which makes an AI agent it sells to SMBs; Manus said in December its annual revenue run rate was $125M+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-30 Startup AI Singapore

Coupang to split $1.17 billion among 33.7 million data breach victims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-30

China Drafts World's Strictest Rules To End AI-Encouraged Suicide, Violence (slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 China AI

Stingless Bees From the Amazon Granted Legal Rights in World First (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Amazon

How diamonds are being converted to quantum sensors by inserting tiny imperfections, opening up potential uses in medicine, brain-computer interfaces, and more (www.ft.com)
2025-12-30 Quantum

After a Decade of Dead Ends, $70 Million Rides on Locating Flight MH370 (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 MH370

How Windows 10 Earned Its Good Reputation While Planting the Seeds of Windows 11's Problems (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30

A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and data centers, as pro-business Democrats oppose the fiery, anti-AI politics of the progressive wing (www.politico.com)
2025-12-30 AI Democrat

Hacker arrested for KMSAuto malware campaign with 2.8 million downloads (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-30 Hacker

How Japan's viral horse racing game Umamusume, developed by Cygames, passed 30M downloads in Asia, spurring anime adaptations, concerts, and new racetrack fans (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-30 Japan Asia

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