A profile of Figure CEO Mike Cagney, now a billionaire after Figure's post-IPO surge; he resigned as SoFi's CEO in 2017 after several workplace controversies (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A profile of Figure CEO Mike Cagney, now a billionaire after Figure's post-IPO surge; he resigned as SoFi's CEO in 2017 after several workplace controversies  —  It took him a few tries, but Mike Cagney is now a billionaire.  —  Shares of blockchain-based lender Figure Technology Solutions Inc …

How Kalshi is shaking up US sports betting, as its board member and CFTC Chair nominee Brian Quintenz takes a permissive stance on sports prediction markets (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
How Kalshi is shaking up US sports betting, as its board member and CFTC Chair nominee Brian Quintenz takes a permissive stance on sports prediction markets  —  Kalshi is spearheading a legal battle to expand access to online betting, with support from some in Trump's circle

SK Hynix announces that it has completed development of HBM4, the next generation of high-bandwidth memory crucial for AI work; stock jumps 7% to a record high (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
SK Hynix announces that it has completed development of HBM4, the next generation of high-bandwidth memory crucial for AI work; stock jumps 7% to a record high  —  SK Hynix Inc.'s stock climbed 7% on Friday to a record after the company announced it had completed development of HBM4 …

At the Semicon trade show in Taipei, Taiwan promotes diplomatic relations and pitches its tech manufacturing to "create trusted non-red supply chains" (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)

Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
At the Semicon trade show in Taipei, Taiwan promotes diplomatic relations and pitches its tech manufacturing to “create trusted non-red supply chains”  —  - Taiwan hosting annual Semicon trade fair for the chip industry  — Taiwan looking to leverage its chip dominance in diplomatic sphere

The EU ends an antitrust probe against Microsoft with no fine and accepts its concessions, including offering Office without Teams in Europe for seven years (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The EU ends an antitrust probe against Microsoft with no fine and accepts its concessions, including offering Office without Teams in Europe for seven years  —  US tech group faced scrutiny over how it bundled together its Teams and Office products  —  Microsoft has avoided an EU fine …

Digital banking group NOBA plans to list on Nasdaq Stockholm in Q3 2025, in a deal expected to value the company at around $3.74B (Reuters)

Reuters:
Digital banking group NOBA plans to list on Nasdaq Stockholm in Q3 2025, in a deal expected to value the company at around $3.74B  —  Digital banking group NOBA has announced plans to list on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange sometime in the third quarter of this year in a deal expected to value …

Apple's support page says AirPods' new Live Translation won't be available to users in the EU and with an EU-region Apple Account, likely due to EU regulations (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Apple's support page says AirPods' new Live Translation won't be available to users in the EU and with an EU-region Apple Account, likely due to EU regulations  —  Apple's new Live Translation feature for AirPods will be off-limits to millions of European users when it arrives next week …

How Larry Ellison, briefly the world's richest man, and Oracle CEO Safra Catz capitalized on the AI boom and vaulted Oracle into contention with industry giants (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
How Larry Ellison, briefly the world's richest man, and Oracle CEO Safra Catz capitalized on the AI boom and vaulted Oracle into contention with industry giants  —  Tech billionaire capitalised on the AI boom to briefly claim the title of world's richest person

Global premium smartphone sales rose 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1; Apple grew 3% YoY, capturing 62%+ of the overall sales (Varun Mishra/Counterpoint Research)

Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research:
Global premium smartphone sales rose 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1; Apple grew 3% YoY, capturing 62%+ of the overall sales  —  - The global premium smartphone market's unit sales grew 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1.

The EU's General Court sides with Meta and TikTok in their legal dispute with the EC over the DSA's 0.05% supervisory fee, saying the EU's methodology is flawed (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU's General Court sides with Meta and TikTok in their legal dispute with the EC over the DSA's 0.05% supervisory fee, saying the EU's methodology is flawed  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok on Wednesday won their legal fight against a European Union supervisory fee imposed …

Investigation: IBM, Dell, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's vast digital surveillance state (Associated Press)

Associated Press:
Investigation: IBM, Dell, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's vast digital surveillance state  —  BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody …

Sources: Ant Group's Ant Digital Technologies is quietly working to link ~$8.4B of energy infrastructure and other real-world assets to its AntChain blockchain (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Ant Group's Ant Digital Technologies is quietly working to link ~$8.4B of energy infrastructure and other real-world assets to its AntChain blockchain  —  A unit of Ant Group Co. is quietly making inroads to link over 60 billion yuan ($8.4 billion) worth of energy infrastructure …

Google updates a Help Center document to clarify Gemini 2.5 Pro usage limits: five prompts per day for free users, 100 prompts for AI Pro, and 500 for AI Ultra (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Google updates a Help Center document to clarify Gemini 2.5 Pro usage limits: five prompts per day for free users, 100 prompts for AI Pro, and 500 for AI Ultra  —  Now you know exactly how many prompts you get for free a day. … Until very recently it wasn't clear what usage limits were placed on Gemini at the various tiers.

A profile of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, as the gaming hardware giant readies AI tools for game development and to help players sharpen their skills (John Kang/Forbes)

John Kang / Forbes:
A profile of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, as the gaming hardware giant readies AI tools for game development and to help players sharpen their skills  —  Razer, founded and run by Min-Liang Tan for two decades, is prepping to release cutting-edge AI tools to help game developers produce games faster …

PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B+ in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B+ in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy  —  A frenzy of investment has created a crowd of new human-like designs.  —  SALEM, Ore. — In an office park opposite an Amazon warehouse, the robots are at work.