Japanese fabless SoC design company Socionext closes up 15.07% in its IPO debut, valuing it at ~$960M, in Tokyo's biggest offering so far in 2022 (Sam Byford/Reuters)

Sam Byford / Reuters:
Japanese fabless SoC design company Socionext closes up 15.07% in its IPO debut, valuing it at ~$960M, in Tokyo's biggest offering so far in 2022  —  Making its market debut on Wednesday, Japan's Socionext Inc (6526.T) bucked softening sentiment toward chips by surging 15% in Tokyo's biggest initial public offering of the year so far.

Blockchain web search startup nxyz, founded by ex-Google executive Sridhar Ramaswamy, raised a $40M Series A in May led by Paradigm; Ramaswamy also runs Neeva (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Blockchain web search startup nxyz, founded by ex-Google executive Sridhar Ramaswamy, raised a $40M Series A in May led by Paradigm; Ramaswamy also runs Neeva  —  - Sridhar Ramaswamy, who led Google's advertising business from 2013 to 2018, has launched a Web3 company called nxyz.

Ukraine seeks more Western air defence help, NATO tightens security

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy continued his appeals to leaders of the Group of Seven nations for more air defence capabilities as the G7 vowed to support Kyiv for "as long as it takes." https://ift.tt/FZEWp8X

The UK's CMA details its concerns with Microsoft's Activision acquisition, including withholding games from rivals; Microsoft argues Sony is the dominant player (Christopher Dring/GamesIndustry.biz)

Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz:
The UK's CMA details its concerns with Microsoft's Activision acquisition, including withholding games from rivals; Microsoft argues Sony is the dominant player  —  The CMA expects the deal to impact PlayStation and game streaming  —  The Competition and Markets Authority has detailed …

Google adds automatic transcriptions in English to Meet and plans to add support for French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese in 2023 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

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Google adds automatic transcriptions in English to Meet and plans to add support for French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese in 2023  —  Meetings — nobody wants them but everybody has them.  So for those times when you're in a meeting but mostly just surfing the web, it's nice to have a transcript …

IIHS survey: 53% of Super Cruise, 42% of Autopilot, and 12% of ProPILOT Assist users say they were "comfortable treating their vehicles as fully self-driving" (David Shepardson/Reuters)

David Shepardson / Reuters:
IIHS survey: 53% of Super Cruise, 42% of Autopilot, and 12% of ProPILOT Assist users say they were “comfortable treating their vehicles as fully self-driving”  —  Drivers using advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla (TSLA.O) Autopilot or General Motors (GM.N) …