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Crypto transaction volume linked to suspected human trafficking, largely based in Southeast Asia, hit hundreds of millions of dollars in 2025, up 85% YoY (www.chainalysis.com)
1 day ago Asia Southeast Asia

A profile of Applied Intuition, which makes self-driving simulation software and reported $800M in 2025 revenue and 80% gross margins, as it expands beyond cars (www.forbes.com)
1 day ago

Meta Auditor EY Raised Red Flag on Data-Center Accounting (tech.slashdot.org)
1 day ago

Google's TIG says Gemini has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it, including one campaign that prompted it 100K+ times (www.nbcnews.com)
2 days ago Google

Anthropic donates $20M to Public First, a super PAC pushing for AI guardrails and transparency in opposition to OpenAI-backed PACs, ahead of the US midterms (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago AI

This $30 AI training bundle shows you how to automate your tasks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 days ago AI

Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana expects the company to hit 1M+ paid weekly robotaxi rides in the US by the end of 2026, up from ~400K per week in six cities now (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago

Alibaba says Qwen generated 120M+ in orders from Chinese users over the past six days, ahead of the Lunar New Year; Alibaba is giving a ~$3.60 shopping voucher (www.theinformation.com)
2 days ago China Alibaba

Internal messages: Amazon pushes in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production code, prompting criticism and causing ~1,500 staff to push for Claude Code (www.businessinsider.com)
2 days ago Amazon AI

AI tools like Opus 4.6 actually do make engineers 10x more productive and are addictive, but the “AI Vampire” effect is causing widespread developer burnout (steve-yegge.medium.com)
2 days ago AI

xAI all-hands: Nikita Bier says X hit $1B in ARR from selling $3 to $40 per month subscriptions, but offered no details on ad revenue or other xAI financials (www.theinformation.com)
2 days ago

Dutch payments company Adyen reports H2 2025 net revenue up 17% YoY to €1.27B and forecasts 2026 net revenue growth at 20%-22%, vs 22.8% est.; ADYEN falls 15%+ (www.cnbc.com)
2 days ago Netherlands

Samsung says it sent the first commercial HBM4 shipments to customers, as it seeks to supply Nvidia and compete with memory rivals like SK Hynix and Micron (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Samsung Nvidia

Meta's auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep its $27B Hyperion data center project off its balance sheet (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago

US Hacking Tool Boss Stole and Sold Exploits To Russian Broker That Could Target Millions of Devices, DOJ Says (news.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Russia

SoftBank Group reports Q3 net profit of $1.6B after its Vision Fund posted a $2.4B gain, as a jump in the value of its OpenAI investment helped offset losses (www.cnbc.com)
2 days ago

Private equity and private credit groups' big bets on SaaS companies, the biggest area of PE activity in the past decade, risk being derailed by the rise of AI (giftarticle.ft.com)
2 days ago SaaS AI Equity

Sources: some OpenAI execs were surprised by WSJ's report that the company was targeting a Q4 2026 IPO; OpenAI hopes to triple its ~$13B 2025 revenue in 2026 (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago IPO 4Q

Some of the biggest VC firms are backing both OpenAI and Anthropic, breaking a taboo by investing in competing startups, as the AI race reshapes venture capital (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Startup AI

Google says hackers are abusing Gemini AI for all attacks stages (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 days ago Google AI

Google unveils WAXAL, a new open speech dataset for 21 African languages to ease speech technology development; African institutions own the dataset (restofworld.org)
2 days ago Google Africa

Grab agrees to acquire US fintech company Stash Financial in a deal initially valued at $425M and forecasts FY 2026 revenue of $4.04B-$4.1B, below $4.13B est. (www.reuters.com)
2 days ago Fintech

Multiple responses from DeepSeek's namesake chatbot confirm that the startup has expanded the context window of its flagship AI model from 128K tokens to 1M+ (www.scmp.com)
2 days ago Startup AI chatbot

Siri's AI Overhaul Delayed Again (apple.slashdot.org)
2 days ago AI

Hong Kong-listed Zhipu AI surged 30% after releasing its GLM-5, an open-source LLM with enhanced coding capabilities and long-running agent tasks (www.cnbc.com)
2 days ago Hong Kong AI

Zhipu AI says it will raise prices by at least 30% for new GLM coding plan subscribers to accommodate surging demand for its AI coding tools (www.reuters.com)
2 days ago AI

Lenovo reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $22.2B on strong PC sales ahead of expected memory price hikes and rising AI server demand; net income fell 21% to $546M (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago AI Lenovo

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is pursuing “true self-sufficiency” in AI by building enterprise- and healthcare-focused models and reducing reliance on OpenAI (www.ft.com)
2 days ago Microsoft AI

The US DOJ says Peter Williams, former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant, stole and sold tools that can hack millions of computers worldwide to a Russian broker (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Russia

The US CBP signs a one-year Clearview AI deal, granting access to its facial recognition tool for “tactical targeting” and “strategic counter-network analysis” (www.wired.com)
2 days ago AI Facial Recognition

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