Tech

Sources: SoftBank has completed its $40B investment in OpenAI (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-31

22 Million Affected By Aflac Data Breach (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-31

'One of America's Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt' (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-31 U.S.

China's draft AI rules have measures to protect kids, like time limits and parental consent, ban gambling promotion content, and add suicide chats restrictions (www.bbc.com)
2025-12-31 China AI Ban

Forget recurring fees—1TB of Koofr cloud storage is $130 for life (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-31

Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax is seeking to raise $600M+ from its Hong Kong IPO, set for January 2026, and has secured Alibaba and the ADIA as backers (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-30 China Hong Kong IPO Alibaba Startup AI

Sources: China is requiring chipmakers to use at least 50% domestically made equipment for adding new capacity, in a rule that is not publicly documented (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-30 China

Sources, PitchBook data, and news reports: the founders of Perplexity, Figure AI, Safe Superintelligence, Harvey, and others joined the nine-figure club in 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-30 AI

10 Fascinating Facts You Might Not Know About Snow (listverse.com)
2025-12-30

Sources: Satya Nadella is focused on the increasing AI competition from Amazon and Google; Microsoft Deputy CTO Dee Templeton says Nadella is in “founder mode” (t.co)
2025-12-30 Google Amazon Microsoft AI

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

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