Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Filing: Apple sues Di Liu, a former senior product designer who worked on the Vision Pro, for allegedly stealing trade secrets and taking them to Snap (Ethan Baron/SiliconValley.com)

Ethan Baron / SiliconValley.com:
Filing: Apple sues Di Liu, a former senior product designer who worked on the Vision Pro, for allegedly stealing trade secrets and taking them to Snap  —  Di Liu allegedly told iPhone maker he needed family time  —  Di Liu of San Jose told Apple he was resigning his position as a design engineer …



Huawei open sources its 7B and 72B Pangu AI models, and some of its model reasoning tech, to incentivize the use of Huawei products like its Ascend AI chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

Dylan Butts / CNBC:
Huawei open sources its 7B and 72B Pangu AI models, and some of its model reasoning tech, to incentivize the use of Huawei products like its Ascend AI chips  —  Huawei has open-sourced two of its artificial intelligence models — a move tech experts say will help the U.S.-blacklisted firm continue …



Google warns that the DMA is hampering innovation for EU users, asks regulators for more detailed guidance and critics to provide evidence to prove their case (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Google warns that the DMA is hampering innovation for EU users, asks regulators for more detailed guidance and critics to provide evidence to prove their case  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google will on Tuesday warn EU antitrust regulators and its critics that landmark European Union rules aimed …



Monday, June 30, 2025

Stockholm-based Tandem Health, which has developed an AI medical copilot for clinicians to record patient consultations, raised a $50M Series A led by Kinnevik (Maya Dharampal-Hornby/Sifted)

Maya Dharampal-Hornby / Sifted:
Stockholm-based Tandem Health, which has developed an AI medical copilot for clinicians to record patient consultations, raised a $50M Series A led by Kinnevik  —  Swedish healthtech startup Tandem Health has raised $50m in Series A funding for its AI-powered assistant for clinicians.



Tel Aviv-based Cato Networks, whose tools help protect remote workforces, raised a $359M Series G at a $4.8B+ valuation, taking its total funding to $1B+ (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
Tel Aviv-based Cato Networks, whose tools help protect remote workforces, raised a $359M Series G at a $4.8B+ valuation, taking its total funding to $1B+  —  Network security company plans to expand use of artificial intelligence with cash injection  —  Cyber company Cato Networks …



PitchBook: Australian startups raised $3.4B in 2024, down from 2021's $6.5B peak; 39% of early-stage capital in Australia came from overseas vs. 21% in the US (Benicia Tan/Bloomberg)

Benicia Tan / Bloomberg:
PitchBook: Australian startups raised $3.4B in 2024, down from 2021's $6.5B peak; 39% of early-stage capital in Australia came from overseas vs. 21% in the US  —  Australian startups lag far behind the US and China in funding raised despite the country's historical effectiveness at creating unicorns.



The White House announces an AI Education Pledge with commitments from 60+ companies to provide AI education materials to K-12 students over the next four years (Ashley Gold/Axios)

Ashley Gold / Axios:
The White House announces an AI Education Pledge with commitments from 60+ companies to provide AI education materials to K-12 students over the next four years



Sunday, June 29, 2025

Report: Swiss deep tech startups have created over $100B in total enterprise value, with 60% of VC funding in Switzerland from 2019 to 2025 going to deep tech (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu:
Report: Swiss deep tech startups have created over $100B in total enterprise value, with 60% of VC funding in Switzerland from 2019 to 2025 going to deep tech  —  With 60 per cent of venture capital now flowing into deeptech, the country outpaces global peers and redefines what a small market can achieve. .



Investigation: California colleges and universities continue to renew Turnitin subscriptions despite the cost, faulty anti-plagiarism tech, and privacy issues (Tara García Mathewson/The Markup)

Tara García Mathewson / The Markup:
Investigation: California colleges and universities continue to renew Turnitin subscriptions despite the cost, faulty anti-plagiarism tech, and privacy issues  —  Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive …



Synthesia says it has over 65K customers and serves more than 70% of the Fortune 100, with its AI avatars mainly used for training and internal communications (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Synthesia says it has over 65K customers and serves more than 70% of the Fortune 100, with its AI avatars mainly used for training and internal communications  —  Constructing an avatar of myself is even weirder than I expected.  —  It's a choreographed experience that made me feel …



Saturday, June 28, 2025

Tesla says a Model Y drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to a buyer's home 30 minutes away, marking its first fully autonomous vehicle delivery (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Tesla says a Model Y drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to a buyer's home 30 minutes away, marking its first fully autonomous vehicle delivery  —  The milestone was achieved a day early.  But Tesla's robotaxis still require safety monitors and remote supervisors.



A look at AIFF 2025, Runway's third annual AI Film Festival featuring 10 shorts, as the film and TV industry remains divided over the role of AI in its future (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)

Samuel Axon / Ars Technica:
A look at AIFF 2025, Runway's third annual AI Film Festival featuring 10 shorts, as the film and TV industry remains divided over the role of AI in its future  —  We saw 10 AI films and interviewed Runway's CEO as well as Hollywood pros.  —  Last week, I attended a film festival dedicated to shorts made using generative AI.



Atlantic Council: US cyber power is hampered by an inefficient supply chain for zero days, with too few providers and "levels of middlemen" driving up costs (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)

Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg:
Atlantic Council: US cyber power is hampered by an inefficient supply chain for zero days, with too few providers and “levels of middlemen” driving up costs  —  Atlantic Council research says market for zero days is bloated, leaving the US behind rivals such as China.  —  The Cyber Angle



Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (The Information)

The Information : Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researc...