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An overview of major streamers' revenues, subscriber churn, cancellation rates, shares of US TV viewing time, and shares of US sports TV rights deals since 2023 (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-22

Leaked recording: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI aims to ship 100M AI “companion” devices, with the goal of releasing a device by late next year (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-22 AI

Sources: Sam Altman and LoveFrom have been working for two years on a new device to move consumers beyond screens, including headphones and devices with cameras (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-22

AI startup Crusoe secures $11.6B in debt and equity to expand a Texas data center it is building for OpenAI, set to open in 2026 and host up to 400K Nvidia GPUs (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-21 Startup AI Nvidia Equity Texas

Google Meet's AI translator hands-on: emulates voice and tone, translating with a few seconds of lag, similar to watching an overdubbed foreign-language speaker (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-21 Google AI

Sources: US chipmaker Wolfspeed is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy within weeks after passing on debt-holder proposals to restructure its debt (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-21

The EU and the UK agree on a deal to let both regions' competition regulators work together more closely and flag important M&A investigations to each other (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-20

SignalFire: in 2024, Big Tech employment declined 1.6% in Austin, and startup employment fell 4.9%; Dallas, Houston, Denver, and Toronto also declined (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-20 Startup Toronto

Sources: Sam Altman had sought to delegate more responsibility for months before hiring Fidji Simo, an adept and detail-oriented manager, in contrast to Altman (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-20

Analysis: only four of the top 50 tech companies are European, and none of the top 10 quantum companies are in Europe, as the continent lags the US and China (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-20 China Europe Quantum

New lawsuit filings: Genesis creditors accuse Barry Silbert of fraud and propelling the 2022 crypto market collapse by misrepresenting his companies' finances (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-20

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals says it will acquire all of 23andMe's assets, including its Personal Genome Service, for $256M in a bankruptcy auction, closing in Q3 (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-19 Asset

Experts blame Big Tech lawyers' culture of lawlessness for Amazon, Apple, and Google being accused of abusing legal privilege in antitrust and other court cases (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-19 Google Amazon Apple

Nvidia plans to build an AI supercomputer with Foxconn and Taiwan's government to support local researchers and enterprises; TSMC plans to use the system (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-19 Taiwan AI Nvidia

A look at Neuralink and other brain-computer interface startups, as the number of people with brain implants is set to double from ~100 in the next 12 months (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-19 Startup

Government officials and experts say there have been dozens of recorded crypto-related abductions globally over the past year; France saw five in recent months (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-18 France

NYC-based Optimal Dynamics, a provider of AI-powered fleet management software to trucking companies, raised a $40M Series C led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-18 AI

MIT says it no longer stands behind a widely circulated research paper by its student that claimed an AI tool boosted discoveries in a materials science lab (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-17 AI

Analysis: since January, 36+ associates of Musk, Thiel, Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey have been tapped for federal roles that are critical to their companies (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-16

Taiwanese silicon wafer maker GlobalWafers plans to invest $4B in its US manufacturing operations, more than doubling its earlier pledge to $7.5B (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-16 Taiwan Manufacturing

Sources: Facebook and Instagram face scam ad surge from Asia and Meta is reluctant to add hurdles for ad buyers; Meta says it's tackling an “epidemic of scams” (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-16 Facebook Asia Instagram

Sources: Meta has delayed the rollout of its Behemoth LLM, internally slated for an April release, to fall or later after struggling to improve its capabilities (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-16

China sentences Zhao Weiguo, ex-chair of state-backed chip firm Tsinghua Unigroup, to death with a two-year reprieve, a de facto life sentence, for corruption (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-14 China

Databricks agrees to acquire cloud database startup Neon for ~$1B, set to close in Q2 2025; Neon's platform is based on open-source database PostgreSQL (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-14 Database Startup

Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$54B, net profit up 91% YoY to ~$1.38B, above est.,; cloud and networking, like AI servers, was 34% of its Q1 revenue (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-14 AI

Sources: Baidu plans to test its Apollo Go robotaxi service in Switzerland by the end of the year, its first expansion in Europe, and also launch it in Turkey (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-14 Europe Switzerland

The FCC will investigate EchoStar's compliance with requirements to build a nationwide 5G network and EchoStar's use of spectrum, sought by SpaceX and others (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-14 5G SpaceX

Carbon credit certifier Verra suspends a Kenyan project used by Netflix, Meta, and others to bolster their green credentials over a dispute with Maasai herders (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-13 Netflix

Apple partners with brain-computer interface startup Synchron to explore letting iPhone users control the device with brain signals via a stent-like implant (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-13 iPhone Startup Apple

UK retailer M&S says hackers stole customer data in a cyberattack reported on April 22; UK retailers Harrods and Co-op also reported hacks in recent weeks (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-13

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