Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says on Weibo that the company invested ~$1.9B to build its Xring O1 chip and plans to invest $6.9B+ in chip design over the next decade — China's Xiaomi will launch its highly-anticipated YU7 electric sports utility vehicle on Thursday, as well as other products …
An interview with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and CPO Mario Rodriguez on the year of SWE agents, Copilot phase two, Project Padawan, programming's future, and more — GitHub first introduced its now ubiquitous Copilot back in 2021. At the time, the Microsoft-owned company described it as …
How a hacker breached the Signal knockoff app TeleMessage in about 20 minutes thanks to a basic misconfiguration, leading to sensitive data spilling out — The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month.
Chime's S-1: MyPay revenue totaled $64.3M in Q1 vs. estimated credit losses from the product of $57.3M, highlighting the risks with the paycheck advance product — Last summer, banking app Chime introduced a lending product that let customers borrow small amounts to get them through to their next paycheck.
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 — As bitcoin soars, investors and executives are taking their swollen digital wallets offline for safety. Criminals are coming after them, violently.
A look at EA's attempts to shut down “anti-DEI” mods for The Sims 4, including one that changes LGBT and Black NPCs to straight and white — The download automatically changed Black NPCs to white, trans NPCs to cis-gendered, and gay NPCs to straight. And it's just the beginning.
What to expect at Google I/O 2025: an updated Gemini Ultra model, updates for Android 16, Project Astra AI assistant, and Project Mariner AI agents, and more — Google I/O, Google's biggest developer conference of the year, is nearly upon us. — Scheduled for May 20 to 21 …
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's next chip for China will not be from the Hopper series following US restrictions on Hopper H20 chip sales to China — Nvidia is evaluating how to address the China market after the U.S. government placed limits on sales of its Hopper H20 chip there but will not put …
Sources: White House and lawmakers are scrutinizing Apple's plan to use Alibaba's AI on iPhones in China, over concerns about data sharing, censorship, and more — The Trump administration and congressional officials have raised concerns about a deal to put a Chinese company's artificial intelligence on iPhones.
Sources: ByteDance expects 2025 revenue to grow 20% YoY to $186B vs. 29% growth in 2024, driven by TikTok's global expansion; ByteDance has 4B MAUs across apps — TikTok's owner expects sales to increase to roughly $186 billion from $155 billion in 2024, people familiar with its finances said.
Charter Is in Talks to Combine with Rival Cox Communications … The companies are discussing a cash and stock transaction that would value Cox at more than $30 billion including debt, according to the people. The Cox family would be the largest shareholder in the combined company with a stake …
Epic Games says Fortnite on iOS will be offline worldwide “until Apple unblocks it” after Apple rejected its latest submission to the US App Store — Epic says that the game is ‘offline’ on iPhones everywhere after Apple rejected its App Store resubmission.
Hacking group DragonForce says it stole UK retailer Co-op's customer data and planned to deploy ransomware, but Co-op quickly shut down its systems, unlike M&S — Co-op narrowly averted being locked out of its computer systems during the cyber attack that saw customer data stolen …
YouTube announces Peak Points, a pilot Gemini AI feature that lets advertisers target ads to viewers when they are most engaged with a video — YouTube on Wednesday announced a new tool that will allow advertisers to use Google's Gemini AI model to target ads to viewers when they are most engaged with a video.
Filing: GD Culture Group, a struggling China-linked company that has only eight staff, plans to buy $300M in BTC and $TRUMP, creating clear ethical conflicts — The firm, which produces content for TikTok, recorded no revenue last year, but it announced this week that a mysterious stock sale …
New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...
