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Sunday, August 31, 2025

A profile of Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon, whose share price has doubled since the start of August, supported by Beijing's aims for tech self-sufficiency (Financial Times)
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Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on three consecutive profitable quarters, cofounders leaving the board, Freenow acquisition, the economics of robotaxis, and more (J. Edward Moreno/Sherwood News)
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A new policy document authored by seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030 (Emily Mullin/Wired)
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An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the company's M&A strategy as it acquires Madrid-based data observability startup Onum for about $290M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
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Saturday, August 30, 2025

An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic "algorithm films" intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style (Phil Hoad/The Guardian)
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How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens (Tor Blog)
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The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
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Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident (David Gilbert/Wired)
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Friday, August 29, 2025

WhatsApp fixed a zero-click bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used, alongside a now-fixed Apple flaw, to hack into devices of "specific targeted users" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
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Sources: Google is set to face a modest EU antitrust fine over adtech practices, in an investigation triggered by a complaint by the European Publishers Council (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
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Thursday, August 28, 2025

In a letter, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail; Google says its spam filters are not biased (Hans Nichols/Axios)
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Intel CFO David Zinser says the company received $5.7B from the US government on Wednesday evening; the White House says the deal is still "being ironed out" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 56% YoY to $46.74B, above $46.06B est., Data Center revenue up 56% to $41.1B, and approves an additional $60B in share buybacks (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
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Sources: cloud startup Vercel is raising hundreds of millions of dollars led by Accel at a valuation of about $9B, up from about $3B in a round last year (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Trump says Meta plans to spend $50B on its "Hyperion" data center under construction in Louisiana; earlier, Meta said that its investment would exceed $10B (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
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Blue Water Autonomy, which is building autonomous, unmanned ships for the US Navy, raised a $50M Series A led by GV, bringing its total funding to $64M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
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Google DeepMind's Weather Lab, launched in June, showed superior accuracy in forecasting Hurricane Erin's path up to 72 hours ahead, beating traditional models (Eric Berger/Ars Technica)
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Monday, August 25, 2025

Forty-four US AGs sign an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies, warning they'll be held accountable if their AI chatbots knowingly harm children (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
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Sources: Doug Beck, director of Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit, resigns; DOD officials had previously raised concerns about his donations to Democrats (Reuters)
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So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivoted into crypto to boost stock prices, frequently sparking frenzied but short-lived spikes in shares (Bloomberg)
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The US Commerce Department voids a Biden administration deal with the nonprofit Natcast to oversee $7.4B in semiconductor research funds, calling it illegal (David Shepardson/Reuters)
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Sunday, August 24, 2025

Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on developing AI-powered features like Wingman and A-List, Grindr's new telehealth service Woodwork, his RTO mandate, and more (J. Edward Moreno/Sherwood News)
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A look at FoundHer House, an all-female hacker house in San Francisco that has become a hot spot for dinners and panel discussions sponsored by a16z and others (New York Times)
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Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office say the US-Intel deal won't solve Intel's real issue: a lack of external customers for its foundry unit (Wall Street Journal)
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Researchers detail an indirect prompt injection flaw in Perplexity's Comet AI browser, letting attackers manipulate it into performing unauthorized actions (Brave)
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Saturday, August 23, 2025

An interview with Alex Kachkine, who shook the art world in June with a research paper in Nature on restoring paintings using AI, as he works to refine the tech (Ephrat Livni/New York Times)
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