Tech

SMIC CEO Zhao Haijun says the industry is “a bit panicked” about memory shortages, and new supply may arrive in nine months; memory prices are up 80%+ in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-11

Chinese video game giant NetEase reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4B and net profit down 29% to ~$903M, below ~$1.2B est., as it pushes self-developed games (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-11 China 4Q

JPMorgan exec Naveen Mallela, global co-head of blockchain division Kinexys, steps down after 11 years at the bank; Kinexys handled $5B transactions per day (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-11 Blockchain JPMorgan

Sources: Amazon, Google, and others plan to skirt Trump's $100K H-1B fee by finding workers in categories that don't include the fee, like existing H-1B holders (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-11 Trump Google Amazon H1B

KPMG citing PitchBook data: UK fintech investment totaled almost $11B in 2025 across 418 deals, down from ~$13.4B in 2024 across 527 deals; Revolut raised $4B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-11 Fintech KPMG

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says the startup's annualized revenue run rate was “north of $400M”, up from $20M a year ago, and it is set to hit $1B ARR by 2026-end (t.co)
2026-2-11 Startup

Discord Tries To Walk Back Age Verification Panic, Says Most Users Won't Need Face Scans (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-11

Q&A with Fidji Simo on ChatGPT ads, OpenAI's efforts to ship a new model soon to end Sam Altman's Code Red, Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Sora, Jony Ive, and more (sources.news)
2026-2-11

GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 can handle the full app development lifecycle on their own, a sign of what's coming for most knowledge work within five years (shumer.dev)
2026-2-11

An interview with LastPass CEO Karim Toubba on the company-wide changes after the 2022 data breach, new services such as controls to curb shadow SaaS, and more (www.zdnet.com)
2026-2-11 SaaS Interview

A study of 596 Indian high-tech startups suggests that homegrown entrepreneurs fare better over the long run than returning diaspora with overseas experience (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-11 India Startup Entrepreneur

Ant, which elevated its health unit to the same level as Alipay and its lending businesses, is betting on AI-powered healthcare to fuel its next phase of growth (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-11 AI Alipay

South Korea's Science Ministry blames Coupang's massive 2025 data leak on management failures and accuses it of defying a government order to preserve data logs (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-11 Korea

The First Signs of Burnout Are Coming From the People Who Embrace AI the Most (slashdot.org)
2026-2-11 AI

Docs: London-based AI chip startup Olix, founded by James Dacombe, CEO of brain monitoring startup CoMind, raised $220M led by Hummingbird at a $1B+ valuation (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-2-11 Startup AI London

Sources: ByteDance plans to produce at least 100,000 units of its in-house AI inference chip in 2026, and is in talks with Samsung to manufacture it (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-11 Samsung AI

NYC-based Garner Health, a platform using data analytics to help workers find healthcare providers, raised a $118M Series D at a $1.35B valuation (www.forbes.com)
2026-2-11

Iceland is Planning For the Possibility That Its Climate Could Become Uninhabitable (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-11 Climate

Isomorphic Labs, a Google DeepMind spinoff, unveils IsoDDE, a drug design system it says surpasses AlphaFold 3 in predicting biomolecular structures (www.isomorphiclabs.com)
2026-2-11 Google

Tel Aviv-based Backslash Security, which safeguards enterprise software development from vibe coding risks, raised a $19M Series A, taking total funding to $27M (siliconangle.com)
2026-2-11

Microsoft releases Windows 11 26H1 for select and upcoming CPUs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-11 Microsoft

ByteDance Suspends Seedance 2 Feature That Turns Facial Photos Into Personal Voices Over Potential Risks (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-11

Q&A with Siemens CEO Roland Busch on the company's 170+ year history, automation, managing 320K staff, US manufacturing investments, augmenting LLMs, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-11 Manufacturing Siemens

The FCC approves Amazon's request to launch a second-generation satellite constellation for its Leo system by deploying an additional 4,504 satellites (www.pcmag.com)
2026-2-11 Amazon

xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba is leaving xAI, the sixth co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts: more than half a dozen researchers left in recent weeks (www.ft.com)
2026-2-11

Sources: OpenAI fired VP Ryan Beiermeister in January for alleged sexual discrimination; she had earlier raised concerns about the upcoming launch of adult mode (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-11

Alphabet raised almost $32B in debt in less than 24 hours; it sold sterling- and Swiss franc-denominated offerings following Monday's $20B dollar debt sale (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-11 Switzerland Alphabet

Cloudflare reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $614.5M, vs. $591.3M est., and forecasts full-year and Q1 revenue above estimates; NET jumps 14%+ after hours (siliconangle.com)
2026-2-11 4Q

OpenAI updates ChatGPT's deep research tool with GPT-5.2, a full-screen report view, and an option to focus research on specific websites (the-decoder.com)
2026-2-11

A profile of Anthropic and its key executives like Chris Olah, and a look at Project Vend, an internal “Claudius” experiment to run the office vending machine (www.newyorker.com)
2026-2-11

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