ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia — ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia.
Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles — After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World's Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.
Nexperia's China unit asserts its operational independence and compliance with Chinese laws amid escalating tensions with Nexperia Netherlands — Nexperia's China unit has respected Chinese laws and has the right to operate independently, it said on Saturday, a day after the Netherlands …
An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's new Content Signals Policy, which lets sites fine tune how their data can be used by crawlers — It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions …
The AI boom has pushed SF's residential rents up by the most in the US over the past year, as AI companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees — The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco's residential rents up by the most in the nation …
Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine eligibility for EU MiCA licenses — France is widening its anti-money laundering checks on crypto exchanges, as regulators seek to determine which of more than 100 entities registered …
Israel-based Second Nature, whose conversational AI helps train sales teams, raised a $22M Series B led by Sienna VC, taking its total raised to $80M — The Israeli startup uses conversational AI to transform how companies coach sales teams. — Second Nature, an Israeli startup using …
EssilorLuxottica stock jumps 10%+ after reporting Q3 revenue up 11.7% YoY to €6.9B, with wearables like Ray-Ban Meta contributing 4 percentage points to growth — EssilorLuxottica said a healthy amount of its revenue growth in the third quarter was due to its partnership with Meta …
Meta plans new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026, letting parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and sending them “insights” from teens' chats — From next year Instagram will let parents stop teens from chatting with AI characters entirely.
How AI-powered tools like PainChek, an app that scans a person's face for tiny muscle movements, are helping healthcare providers better assess patients' pain — Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients' discomfort.
The Dutch seizing Nexperia from Wingtech is a landmark moment, showing it made a mistake allowing its sale and how ensnared the EU is in the US-China tech war — The Dutch seizure of Nexperia shows how ensnared the EU is in the US-China tech war — The Dutch government's seizure …
Sources: Apple is lobbying India to modify its income tax law to ensure Apple is not taxed for owning high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its manufacturers — - Apple is increasingly focusing on India expansion — Apple often owns machines used by partners, but not in India
UK startup Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips for Microsoft in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal — Nvidia-backed AI cloud group secures huge new contract as chief executive eyes public listing in ‘back end of next year’
Sources: Bank of England officials are holding up Revolut's full UK licence over concerns about whether its risk controls can keep pace with its global growth — Europe's most valuable start-up has waited years for approval to begin lending in its home market
A profile of eBay CEO Jamie Iannone, who said the platform was “too complacent” in 2020 and now focuses on its power users, boosting its stock by ~50% in 2025 — THE SIGNAL INTERVIEW — As the AI frenzy drives US stock markets higher, one tech company's shares have jumped almost 50% …
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