Perplexity struggles to scale its shopping and ad businesses nearly a year after launching ad sales and in-app purchasing, frustrating marketers and merchants — Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm …
Collins Aerospace, which provides check-in and boarding systems, confirms a “cyber-related disruption” as Heathrow and other European airports report issues — - London's Heathrow, airports in Berlin, Brussels affected by disruption — RTX experiencing ‘cyber-related disruption’ in airport software
Mastodon, the nonprofit behind the social network, plans to offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations joining the fediverse — Mastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative to social networks like Threads and X, has a new plan to make money.
Sources: Nvidia is in advanced talks to invest $500M in UK self-driving car startup Wayve, as part of a broader £2B funding pledge in UK startups — AI chipmaker's chief tells London audience that UK's first trillion-dollar company will be an AI business
ByteDance's valuation hit $400B in private deals, up from $230B in early 2025; shareholders see it as undervalued and plan to retain stakes amid US TikTok sale — Investor conviction in ByteDance's potential has climbed since Washington and Beijing this week reached a framework agreement …
Deliveroo CEO Will Shu will step down once its takeover by DoorDash takes effect; the deal is expected to close by October 2 — British food delivery firm Deliveroo (ROO.L) said on Thursday founder and CEO Will Shu will step down once its takeover by U.S. rival DoorDash takes effect.
Filing: Insight Partners says a ransomware attack on its systems between October 2024 and January 2025 affected 12,600+ people, including limited partners — Venture capital firm Insight Partners has notified thousands of people, including the firm's limited partners, that their personal information …
Sources: Anthropic refused federal law enforcement requests to use its AI models for some tasks, such as the surveillance of US citizens, irking the White House — THE SCOOP — Anthropic is in the midst of a splashy media tour in Washington, but its refusal to allow its models to be used …
Sources: China told ByteDance, Alibaba, and others to stop testing and ordering Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, a stronger ban than earlier guidance focused on H20 — Beijing steps up efforts to boost semiconductor independence to compete with the US — China's internet regulator has banned …
Seon, which uses AI to detect and prevent fraud, raised an $80M Series C led by Sixth Street Growth, bringing its total funding to $187M — Fraud prevention and anti-money-laundering compliance company SEON Technologies Kft. announced today that it has raised $80 million in new funding …
Sources: Nvidia's China-only RTX 6000D receives lukewarm demand, with some seeing it as expensive given its performance lags the RTX 5090 — - RTX6000D not cost-effective; better card can be found on grey market, sources say — Tech firms awaiting clarity on H20 orders, potential B30A chip, sources say
Qualcomm says its new flagship processor will be called Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5; Xiaomi says its 17 series will launch with the chip — The Xiaomi 17 series will be one of the first to adopt the new chipset. — • — • — • — TL;DR
The London Stock Exchange launches a blockchain-based platform, marking its push into digital assets, initially focused on private funds — London Stock Exchange Group Plc has rolled out a blockchain-based platform initially focused on private funds, marking a push by the bourse operator into digital assets.
An Anthropic report details how Claude usage varies by country and US states, finding 36% use it for coding, 77% of enterprise use is for automation, and more — Introduction — Introduction — AI differs from prior technologies in its unprecedented adoption speed.
Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal : Chinese video game giant NetEase reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4B and net profit down 29% to ~$903...
