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Articles from www.nytimes.com

NYC-based sales automation startup Clay raised $100M led by CapitalG at a $3.1B valuation, up from $1.25B in January 2025, and expects $100M in revenue in 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 Startup

Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports; Uber only disclosed 12,522 reports during the period (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 Uber

Source: OpenAI raised $8.3B led by Dragoneer at a $300B valuation, months ahead of schedule and part of a $40B goal for 2025; 5M business users pay for ChatGPT (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-1

A look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation packages; sources: Meta told potential hires they would be allotted 30K GPUs for their AI research (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-1 AI

How Meituan used Hong Kong as a trial market for global food delivery expansion, with its Keeta service driving out Deliveroo before moving to Saudi Arabia (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-31 Hong Kong Arabia Saudi Arabia

Gov. Tim Walz activates the Minnesota National Guard to help St. Paul address a cyberattack detected Friday that led the city to shut down many of its systems (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-30

How the video game industry, which has used AI since the 1980s, is embracing AI-enhanced gameplay, worrying some developers as major studios cut employees (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-28 AI

People are increasingly using generative AI to create digital vision boards, such as videos depicting their ideal futures, to help them achieve their goals (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-28 AI

Records show China's Starlink rivals have only ~120 satellites in orbit, less than 1% of their goal, vs. SpaceX's ~8,000, underscoring how far behind they are (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-28 China SpaceX

Meta debuts a prototype wristband to read electrical signals from forearm muscles, letting users control devices without touch, trained on 10K peoples' EMG data (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-24

A look at the video podcasting surge; study: ~75% of podcast consumers play video episodes and ~30% play video episodes minimized or in background mode (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-21

A look at the Dor Brothers, a video production studio that has gained over 100M views across platforms by creating viral subversive videos using only AI tools (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-20 AI

How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between “Islamists” and “Muslims” (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-20

Interviews with 12+ drone and military experts: the US lags China and Russia in manufacturing drones and training soldiers to use them and defend against them (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-18 Russia China Drone Manufacturing

Substack raised $100M from the Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds a social network and focuses on advertising (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-18

Sources: in a Trump meeting, Jensen Huang argued US chips should be the global standard and leveraged support from David Sacks, who disliked Biden's chip rules (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-17 Trump

Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-17 China

Jensen Huang says “I don't think I changed” Trump's mind on the US' China export rules, and “it's my job to inform the president about what I know very well” (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-17 Trump China

China, which pledged $8.5B for young AI startups in April, is taking an industrial policy approach to help its AI companies close the gap with those in the US (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-16 China Startup AI

Researchers: during the 12-day Iran-Israel war, both sides engaged in unprecedented psychological warfare using AI content and social media to spread propaganda (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-15 Israel AI Iran

Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang has mulled abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-15

Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived and receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-15

A four-day US military drone exercise in Alaska exposed significant technological and operational gaps compared to Chinese and Russian drone capabilities (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-14 Russia China Drone

A look at WindBorne, which uses weather balloons and AI to improve forecasting, as potential budget cuts to NOAA threaten its access to public weather data (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-14 AI Budget

YouTube and Netflix are increasingly locked in a battle over TV in the US; Nielsen: YouTube accounted for 12.5% of all TV viewing time in May and Netflix 7.5% (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-14 YouTube Netflix

Nvidia's rise after ChatGPT's release is reminiscent of dot-com era titans like Cisco and Juniper; Cisco's share price grew over 1000x between 1990 and 2000 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-12 Nvidia Cisco

The Internet Watch Foundation identified 1,286 AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse in H1 2025 globally, up from just two in H1 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-12 AI Child Abuse

The Internet Watch Foundation identified 1,286 AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse so far in 2025 globally, up from just two in the first half of 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-10 AI Child Abuse

How crypto executives, lobbyists, campaign operatives, and Trump business partners turned President Trump from an outspoken bitcoin skeptic into a supporter (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-10 Trump Bitcoin

Microsoft announces a $4B commitment in cash and tech to support AI education in schools and more, and starts Elevate Academy, an AI training program for adults (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-10 Microsoft AI Education

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