Sources: TSMC delays construction of its second plant in Japan, originally planned for early 2025, to invest in US expansion ahead of potential Trump tariffs — Taiwanese semiconductor maker accelerates investment in Arizona — TOKYO—Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is delaying construction …
Mixpanel founder Suhail Doshi calls out Soham Parekh, who he says “works at 3-4 startups at the same time” and has “been preying on YC companies and more” — The AI founder shared Soham Parekh's resume, which shows that the techie has worked at Dynamo AI, Union AI …
Ford CEO Jim Farley, Andy Jassy, and other CEOs are now predicting AI will significantly cut white collar jobs, a shift from a reluctance to acknowledge losses — Ford chief predicts AI will replace ‘literally half of all white-collar workers’ — CEOs are no longer dodging the question of whether AI takes jobs.
Researchers detail Centaur, a modified version of Llama trained on 10M+ responses from 160 psychological experiments, in an attempt to mimic human cognition — To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions.
Sources: Apple supplier Luxshare is working with Goldman Sachs and others on a Hong Kong IPO that could happen as soon as this year, aiming to raise over $1B — The Shenzhen-listed Apple Inc. supplier is aiming to raise more than $1 billion in a share sale that could take place as soon as this year …
A US judge rules that Huawei must face criminal charges in an indictment alleging racketeering, stealing trade secrets, and bank fraud tied to Iran sanctions — A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Huawei Technologies' bid to dismiss most of a federal indictment accusing the Chinese telecommunications company …
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 — 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 — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google will on Tuesday warn EU antitrust regulators and its critics that landmark European Union rules aimed …
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+ — 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 — Australian startups lag far behind the US and China in funding raised despite the country's historical effectiveness at creating unicorns.
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 — Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge : Uber partners with China's Pony AI and Croatia-based, Rimac-spinoff Verne to launch Europe's firs...
