Saturday, September 6, 2025

Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges, not Justin Sun's token movements; WLFI blames phishing-related compromises (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges, not Justin Sun's token movements; WLFI blames phishing-related compromises  —  Onchain data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges - not Justin Sun's token movements …



OnePlus ends its five-year partnership with camera company Hasselblad and plans to develop its own imaging engine called DetailMax Engine for upcoming phones (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Dominic Preston / The Verge:
OnePlus ends its five-year partnership with camera company Hasselblad and plans to develop its own imaging engine called DetailMax Engine for upcoming phones  —  But Oppo and Hasselblad seemingly aren't. … From now on, OnePlus will develop its own imaging engine instead.



A look at the ramp up of Apple's retail footprint in India, as a source says Apple's revenue grew 13% YoY to $9B during India's fiscal year that ended in March (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
A look at the ramp up of Apple's retail footprint in India, as a source says Apple's revenue grew 13% YoY to $9B during India's fiscal year that ended in March  —  Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing.  Sign up here.



Thailand, aiming to become the second-largest PCB production hub, is witnessing a tech manufacturing boom as the PCB supply chain shifts from China and Taiwan (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia:
Thailand, aiming to become the second-largest PCB production hub, is witnessing a tech manufacturing boom as the PCB supply chain shifts from China and Taiwan  —  BANGKOK — Some 60 kilometers north of Bangkok in the old capital of Ayutthaya, China's Victory Giant Technology is in the hectic final stages …



Friday, September 5, 2025

Lenovo unveils Legion Go 2, with an 8.8" screen and AMD Ryzen Z2 or Z2 Extreme chip, available in October, starting at $1,099, costing $400 more than Legion Go (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Lenovo unveils Legion Go 2, with an 8.8" screen and AMD Ryzen Z2 or Z2 Extreme chip, available in October, starting at $1,099, costing $400 more than Legion Go  —  Bigger, heavier, almost certainly better. … Lenovo's Legion Go was a polarizing handheld gaming PC, and that won't change …



What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: major design upgrades for the iPhone, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, three Apple Watch models, and AirPods Pro 3 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: major design upgrades for the iPhone, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, three Apple Watch models, and AirPods Pro 3  —  Company is readying a slew of updated devices for the holidays.  —  Apple Inc.'s biggest product launch event of the year takes place on Tuesday …



Sources: chip design workers at ByteDance, many based in Beijing or Shanghai, unexpectedly discovered last week that they are part of a Singapore unit (Reuters)

Reuters:
Sources: chip design workers at ByteDance, many based in Beijing or Shanghai, unexpectedly discovered last week that they are part of a Singapore unit  —  Chip design workers at Chinese tech giant ByteDance, many based in Beijing or Shanghai, unexpectedly found out last week that they are part …



Monday, September 1, 2025

Sources: OpenAI is scouting local partners to set up a 1GW+ data center in India, although the exact timeline is unclear; Sam Altman is set to visit this month (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI is scouting local partners to set up a 1GW+ data center in India, although the exact timeline is unclear; Sam Altman is set to visit this month  —  OpenAI is seeking to build a massive new data center in India that could mark a major step forward in Asia for its Stargate …



AI shopping agents are prompting sellers and brands to rethink how they sell online, as advertisers adopt techniques to appear more prominently in AI results (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
AI shopping agents are prompting sellers and brands to rethink how they sell online, as advertisers adopt techniques to appear more prominently in AI results  —  OpenAI, Perplexity and Google create AI-powered features, leading brands to rethink how they sell products online



Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)

Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech:
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more  —  Sixteen years ago Matthew Prince and classmate Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School decided there was a better …



PE firm Everstone combines India's Wingify, which helps A/B test sites, and France's AB Tasty, which improves e-commerce UX; Everstone bought Wingify for $200M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : PE firm Everstone combines India's Wingify, which helps A/B test sites, and France's AB Tasty, which...