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An interview with GM SVP of Software and Services Engineering David Richardson on GM's new AI team, developing “cobots”, or collaborative robots, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-21 Interview AI Robot

Meta froze hiring in its AI division last week with sources saying exceptions need Alexandr Wang's permission; the duration of the freeze remains unclear (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-21 AI

Sources: Elon Musk is quietly pumping the brakes on his plans to start a US political party, telling allies he wants to focus his attention on his companies (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-20 Elon Musk

US federal prosecutors charge an Oregon man with operating the Rapper Bot, one of the most powerful DDoS botnets ever, which knocked X offline earlier in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-20

PE firm Advent International agrees to acquire U-blox, a SIX Swiss Exchange-listed wireless and positioning chipmaker, for about $1.3B via public tender offer (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-20 Switzerland

Federal prosecutors charge an Oregon man with operating the Rapper Bot, one of the most powerful DDoS botnets ever seen, which knocked X offline earlier in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-20

Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires as CTO and leaves the board; Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich, who joined in 2006, becomes CTO and joins the board (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-20

Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding round that would value it at $100B, up 61% from December 2024, co-led by Thrive Capital; a16z is set to participate (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-19

Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires and steps down as CTO and board member; Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich becomes CTO and joins the board (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-19

IVIX, which uses AI to help regulators detect financial fraud, raised a $60M Series B led by OG Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $85M (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-18 AI

A look at the “Palantir Mafia”, a group of Palantir alumni who have started or are leading 350+ tech companies, including at least a dozen valued at $1B+ (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-18

Big Tech's reverse acquihires for AI talent are hollowing out startups and eroding the culture that has made Silicon Valley an unparalleled source of innovation (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-17 Startup AI

XOPS, which uses AI and knowledge graphs to automate enterprise IT tasks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding led by Activant Capital and FPV Ventures (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-17 AI

Applied Materials Q3: revenue up 8% YoY to $7.3B, vs. $7.22B est., profit up 4% YoY to $1.78B, and projects Q4 revenue and profit below est. on China challenges (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-16 China 4Q

Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer step down as board chair and vice chair, convert their Class B stock to Class A, completing the succession plan (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-16

Source: AI coding startup Cognition raised nearly $500M led by Founders Fund, bringing its valuation to $9.8B, more than double the level earlier this year (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-15 Startup AI

Companies, including Google and Cisco, have reinstated in-person interviews for some roles to combat AI-driven cheating, with some using deepfake detection tech (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-14 Google AI Cisco

A look at social media “clippers”, who are paid $0.50 to $2 per thousand views by streamers, podcasts, and startups to make buzzy moments go viral online (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-14 Startup

US tech startups are reviving US hiring plans as President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill lets companies accelerate R&D tax deductions, starting in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-14 Trump Tax Startup

Sources: World Liberty Financial's partnership with Binance-run PancakeSwap is helping boost demand for USD1, generating profit for Trump, as CZ seeks a pardon (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-13 Trump

Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and others gaining global traction spurs US policymakers and companies to respond (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-13 China Alibaba AI

Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-13 Chrome

How Google, Meta, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B by July 2024, the most (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-12 Real Estate Google Apple

How Jensen Huang successfully lobbied Trump to restart H20 sales to China; US officials had not vetted Trump's 20% pay-to-play proposal when Trump offered it (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-12 Trump China

AI-focused hedge funds raise billions, such as ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness that amassed $1.5B+ for a “brain trust on AI” (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-11 AI

Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is set to meet Trump on Monday to propose ways the US and Intel could work together, show his commitment to the US, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-11 Trump Intel

Silver Lake unveils a $400M project to secure powered land for data center developers; it has secured 3GW of power and is developing sites in Texas and Georgia (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-9 Silver Texas

Sources: Intel's board has stalled recent efforts by CEO Lip-Bu Tan to raise capital and acquire an AI company meant to help it compete against Nvidia and AMD (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-9 Intel AI Nvidia AMD

An analysis of 96K public ChatGPT transcripts finds 100+ lengthy chats, of which dozens exhibited delusional traits where ChatGPT reinforced users' fringe ideas (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-8

Sources: TBD Lab, a team under Meta Superintelligence Labs that houses many researchers poached from rival labs, is spearheading work on Llama's newest version (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-8

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