Thursday, November 13, 2025

The EU opens a DMA investigation into Google over allegedly demoting news outlets with promotional content; Google says this is part of its anti-spam efforts (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The EU opens a DMA investigation into Google over allegedly demoting news outlets with promotional content; Google says this is part of its anti-spam efforts  —  Google is under investigation by European Union antitrust watchdogs over concerns it unfairly demotes some news results in a probe …



JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $42.1B, above ~$41.4B est., and net income down 55% YoY to ~$745M, as it competes in meal delivery and fast-commerce (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $42.1B, above ~$41.4B est., and net income down 55% YoY to ~$745M, as it competes in meal delivery and fast-commerce  —  JD.com Inc.'s revenue grew a faster-than-anticipated 15%, boosted by government-directed consumer subsidies as well as an aggressive drive …



Valve says it has stopped production of its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, which it's "no longer manufacturing", after unveiling the Steam Frame (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Valve says it has stopped production of its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, which it's “no longer manufacturing”, after unveiling the Steam Frame  —  While showing its new Frame VR headset to The Verge, Valve confirmed that it's moving on from its previous one.



Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$27B, above ~$26.6B est., net profit up 19% YoY to ~$8.9B, above ~$8B est., and domestic game revenue up 15% YoY (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)

Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal:
Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$27B, above ~$26.6B est., net profit up 19% YoY to ~$8.9B, above ~$8B est., and domestic game revenue up 15% YoY  —  The tech giant has invested heavily in artificial intelligence for years  —  Tencent Holdings reported double-digit growth on its top …



Sunday, November 9, 2025

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more  —  This month, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited …



Israel-based RAAAM, whose "GCRAM" on-chip memory tech aims to deliver up to 10x power savings relative to high-density SRAM, raised a $17M Series A led by NXP (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech:
Israel-based RAAAM, whose “GCRAM” on-chip memory tech aims to deliver up to 10x power savings relative to high-density SRAM, raised a $17M Series A led by NXP  —  RAAAM Memory Technologies' “GCRAM” promises denser, lower-power on-chip memory as the semiconductor industry races to support next-generation AI processors.



Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital  —  Ritankar Das, founder of Titan Holdings.  —  TITAN HOLDINGS  —  Ritankar Das wants the holding company to make its comeback.



Uber partners with China's Pony AI and Croatia-based, Rimac-spinoff Verne to launch Europe's first commercial robotaxi service, initially debuting in Zagreb (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge : Uber partners with China's Pony AI and Croatia-based, Rimac-spinoff Verne to launch Europe's firs...