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Singapore-based bolttech, a B2B2C startup that offers “embedded” insurance products, raised a $100M+ Series C led by Dragon Fund at a $2.1B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-20 Startup Singapore Insurance

Swiss tech advisory SoftwareOne to buy Norwegian rival Crayon in a cash and stock deal valuing Crayon at ~$1.4B; the combined firm will have ~$1.8B in revenue (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-19 Switzerland Norway

Sony buys ~$320M of shares in Japanese media powerhouse Kadokawa, which owns FromSoftware, taking its stake to ~10% and becoming Kadokawa's top shareholder (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-19 Japan Sony

Sources: Apple is in early-stage talks with Tencent and ByteDance about integrating their AI models into iPhones sold in China; ChatGPT is unavailable in China (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-19 China AI Apple Tencent

Apple says Meta has made 15 interoperability requests under the EU's DMA, more than any other company, and that these could affect users' privacy and security (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-19 Apple

Bureau, which offers tools to prevent user identity fraud, raised a $30M Series B led by Sorenson Capital, a source says at a ~$150M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-19

The US ITC says smartphones made by Lenovo's Motorola Mobility infringe 5G patents owned by Ericsson; a final ruling is scheduled for April 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-18 5G Lenovo

Grubhub settled with the US FTC and IL AG for $25M, for allegedly adding restaurants without consent and misleading users about order fees and drivers about pay (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-18

NYC-based AI-powered accounting startup Basis raised a $34M Series A led by Khosla Ventures, with Nat Friedman, Jeff Dean, Adam D'Angelo, and others investing (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-18 Startup AI

Nigeria arrests 792 suspects, including 148 Chinese and 40 Filipino nationals, in a raid on a building believed to be a crypto romance scam call center (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-17 China Nigeria

Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in its supply chain (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-17 France Apple Belgium

Australia's privacy watchdog says Meta agreed to a AU$50M settlement over a 2020 Cambridge Analytica lawsuit alleging 300K+ Facebook users' data was exposed (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-17 Australia Facebook

Document: Trump's transition team seeks to repeal a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-15 Trump Tesla Autonomous Car

Malaysia, which has secured billions in AI and cloud infrastructure investments over the past year, launches a national AI office for policy and regulation (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-14 AI Malaysia

China plans to set up a committee of 41 members, including representatives from Baidu and Peking University, to set standards for LLMs and AI risk assessment (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-13 China AI

Texas AG Ken Paxton investigates 15 companies, including Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram, and Discord, over their privacy and safety practices for minors (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-13 AI Instagram Reddit Texas

Meta unveils Meta Motivo, an AI model for controlling the movements of a human-like digital agent, with the potential to enhance the Metaverse experience (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-13 AI

Vapi, which helps businesses deploy AI-powered voice agents, raised a $20M Series A from Bessemer, Y Combinator, and others, source says at a $130M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-13 AI Y Combinator

Forbes: Elon Musk's net worth crossed $400B on December 12, boosted by Tesla stock and SpaceX's valuation; Jeff Bezos has a $244B net worth, the second highest (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-13 Tesla Elon Musk SpaceX Jeff Bezos

Filing: Samsung accuses India's competition watchdog of unlawfully detaining its employees and seizing data in a 2022 antitrust raid tied to Amazon and Flipkart (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-13 India Amazon Samsung

Filing: Microsoft expects an $800M charge in Q2 2025 over GM's exit of the Cruise robotaxi business, after acquiring a minority stake in Cruise in January 2021 (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-12 Microsoft

An interview with OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on Donald Trump being the “president of this AI generation”, Elon Musk's public threats, ChatGPT user growth, and more (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-11 Trump Interview AI Elon Musk

Trump picks FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to chair the FTC; Ferguson has said the FTC should tackle perceived censorship of conservative viewpoints online (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-11 Trump

The US Commerce Department finalizes a $6.1B+ subsidy for memory chipmaker Micron under the CHIPS Act to fund its factory projects in New York and Idaho (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-10 New York

Filing: Japanese chipmaker Kioxia set its IPO price at ~$9.70, the middle of the range, raising ~$800M and valuing it at ~$5.2B, ahead of a December 18 listing (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-9 Japan IPO

CapitaLand: Asia Pacific's colocation data center market is expected to grow to $52.2B by 2026, up from $25.5B in 2022, driven by demand for AI-based services (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-8 Asia AI

A White House official says that the US believes China-linked Salt Typhoon hackers targeted and recorded the phone calls of “very senior” US political figures (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-8 China

The CFPB issues an order establishing supervisory authority over Google Payment; Google says it's challenging the decision in court (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-7 Google

Sources: Ubisoft shareholders are considering how to structure a possible buyout of the game maker without reducing the founding Guillemot family's control (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-7

The FCC proposes rules for carriers to submit an annual certification attesting they have a plan to protect against cyberattacks, after the Salt Typhoon hack (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-6

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