Tech

Xiaomi launches the Xring O3, a 3nm SoC for its mobile devices, as the company seeks to reduce reliance on longtime suppliers Qualcomm and MediaTek (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago Mobile Xiaomi

Alibaba launches Wan3.0, a video generation model that can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages (www.reuters.com)
29 days ago Alibaba

Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures at a $6.3B valuation, with Tencent and Alibaba participating (www.reuters.com)
29 days ago China Alibaba Tencent Robot IDG

US business schools are racing to prepare students to become chief AI officers, even as companies are still figuring out what the newest C-suite role entails (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago AI

Global central banks are pushing CBDCs to defend monetary sovereignty against USD stablecoins, but are struggling to find demand for the digital currencies (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago Monetary Central Bank

SCO Successor Xinuos Asks Court to Rehear Its Claims Against IBM/Red Hat Over Project Monterey (linux.slashdot.org)
29 days ago IBM

A look at the collapse of Zondacrypto, Eastern and Central Europe's biggest crypto exchange, which went dark in April and is facing money laundering allegations (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago Europe

Oxford Economics: US corporate spending on equipment and facilities is set to rise 40% between 2021 and 2027, over 3x faster than Europe, driven by the AI race (www.ft.com)
30 days ago Europe AI

New Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for under-16s, requiring “high risk” platforms to check user ages or face penalties of up to 10% of global revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago New Zealand Ban

One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research (slashdot.org)
30 days ago AI

Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang (www.axios.com)
30 days ago AI

Sources: Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury's CFIUS national security review of its $80M deal to buy US clothing retailer Everlane, an unusual move (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago

Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity valuing it at $30B+, after weighing a tech licensing deal and staff hires, as Perplexity hits $750M+ in ARR (www.theinformation.com)
30 days ago Nvidia

At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records (www.telegraph.co.uk)
30 days ago China Robot

Could Mecha Comet's Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones? (linux.slashdot.org)
30 days ago Linux

SoftBank plans a $6.3B retail bond sale, a record for any Japanese issuer and its third this year, as the conglomerate raises funds for its OpenAI commitments (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago Japan Retail

A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools (www.nytimes.com)
30 days ago U.S. Google Microsoft AI

Trump says communities that oppose data centers are “making a mistake” as they create “tremendous amounts of jobs and money”, amid bipartisan backlash (www.axios.com)
30 days ago Trump

The Global Race To Make a Practical Quantum Computer Just Took a Big Leap Forward (tech.slashdot.org)
30 days ago Quantum

Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on Sept. 1, seeking up to $1.8B in its IPO with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan as joint sponsors (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago Hong Kong IPO Morgan Stanley JPMorgan Goldman

Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade “a lot of liberty for safety” (www.businessinsider.com)
30 days ago AI

Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers' Content (yro.slashdot.org)
30 days ago Amazon AI

OpenAI Faces Safety Scrutiny After Introducing 'ChatGPT For Teens' (news.slashdot.org)
30 days ago

Greg Abbott says data center companies “dug their own grave” by moving into communities without first gaining support, signaling growing Republican backlash (www.axios.com)
30 days ago Republican

Sources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to gauge bidders' interest (www.businessinsider.com)
30 days ago

Iran-linked Cyberattackers Shut Down a UK Power Plant for Four Days (news.slashdot.org)
30 days ago Iran

Slovakia Finds Russian Backdoor In Traffic Speed Cameras (yro.slashdot.org)
30 days ago Russia

Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 (www.ft.com)
30 days ago

Stanford Economist Now Believes an AI Job Apocalypse Is Unlikely (it.slashdot.org)
30 days ago AI

Stop renting cloud storage and own 2TB for just $55 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
30 days ago

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