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The Ethereum Foundation announces the "Privacy cluster", a team of 47 blockchain industry experts developing protocol&level privacy features for the network (Vince Quill/Cointelegraph)

The Ethereum Foundation announces the "Privacy cluster"...

Vince Quill / Cointelegraph: The Ethereum Foundation announces the “Privacy clus...

Sources: US Commerce Department's BIS approves several billion dollars' worth of Nvidia chip exports to the UAE, an early step in a May 2025 bilateral AI deal (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Sources: US Commerce Department's BIS approves several ...

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: US Commerce Department's BIS approves se...

Sources: Microsoft is planning a major healthcare push for Copilot in partnership with Harvard Medical School, as it seeks to reduce its dependence on OpenAI (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Microsoft is planning a major healthcare push ...

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Microsoft is planning a major ...

Chicago&based stablecoin payments startup Coinflow raised a $25M Series A led by Pantera and says it supports stablecoin&powered payments in 170+ countries (CoinDesk)

Chicago&based stablecoin payments startup Coinflow rais...

CoinDesk: Chicago-based stablecoin payments startup Coinflow raised a $25M Serie...

Germany's Federal Cartel Office opens an investigation into whether Temu is influencing the pricing of third&party merchants, potentially stifling competition (Mark Hallam/DW News)

Germany's Federal Cartel Office opens an investigation ...

Mark Hallam / DW News: Germany's Federal Cartel Office opens an investigation in...

Filing: Elon Musk and X settle a lawsuit by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, and others over $128M+ in unpaid 2024 severance (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Filing: Elon Musk and X settle a lawsuit by former Twit...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Filing: Elon Musk and X settle a lawsuit by former ...

Anthropic plans to open its first Indian office in Bengaluru in early 2026; Dario Amodei is visiting India to meet government officials and potential partners (Anthropic)

Anthropic plans to open its first Indian office in Beng...

Anthropic: Anthropic plans to open its first Indian office in Bengaluru in early...

A profile of Josh Wallace Kerrigan, also known as Neura...

Christopher Beam / Wired: A profile of Josh Wallace Kerrigan, also known as Neur...

Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and debt, tied to the Nvidia GPUs that xAI plans to use in Colossus 2; Nvidia is investing as much as $2B (Bloomberg)

Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and d...

Bloomberg: Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and debt, tied to t...

EU proposes halving steel import quota and doubling out&of&quota tariffs to 50%

EU proposes halving steel import quota and doubling out...

The European Commission has moved to cut free-trade quotas by 47% for steel and ...

FurtherAI, which uses AI to automate insurance tasks such as claims processing, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $30M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

FurtherAI, which uses AI to automate insurance tasks su...

Chris Metinko / Axios: FurtherAI, which uses AI to automate insurance tasks such...

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI&related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment&grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied t...

Caleb Mutua / Bloomberg: JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied t...

Dell says it now expects annual revenue to grow between 7% and 9%, up from its prior forecast of 3% to 4%, citing demand for AI infrastructure (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Dell says it now expects annual revenue to grow between...

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Dell says it now expects annual revenue to grow between 7% ...

Apps in ChatGPT could be OpenAI's most ambitious platform play to date, drawing parallels with Facebook's 2007 efforts to become a platform via social graph (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Apps in ChatGPT could be OpenAI's most ambitious platfo...

Casey Newton / Platformer: Apps in ChatGPT could be OpenAI's most ambitious plat...

Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which helps healthcare companies compile feedback from patients and doctors, for $6.75B including debt (Financial Times)

Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which h...

Financial Times: Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which helps hea...

Google launches a dedicated AI bug bounty program that offers security researchers up to $30,000 for finding vulnerabilities in its AI products (Elissa Welle/The Verge)

Google launches a dedicated AI bug bounty program that ...

Elissa Welle / The Verge: Google launches a dedicated AI bug bounty program that...

Will TikTok deal affect pro&Palestinian speech on platform?

Will TikTok deal affect pro&Palestinian speech on platf...

This week on FRANCE 24's media show Scoop we look at the future of TikTok. US Pr...

Verizon names Dan Schulman as CEO, replacing Hans Vestberg effective immediately; Schulman was PayPal CEO, and Vestberg will help manage the transition (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)

Verizon names Dan Schulman as CEO, replacing Hans Vestb...

Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: Verizon names Dan Schulman as CEO, replacing Hans Ves...

The Paris prosecutor's office refers a probe into Apple's Siri recordings to the Office for Combating Cybercrime, after a human rights organization's complaint (Bloomberg)

The Paris prosecutor's office refers a probe into Apple...

Bloomberg: The Paris prosecutor's office refers a probe into Apple's Siri record...

AstraZeneca signs $555mn AI deal to develop gene&editing therapies (Financial Times)

AstraZeneca signs $555mn AI deal to develop gene&editin...

Financial Times: AstraZeneca signs $555mn AI deal to develop gene-editing therap...

PitchBook: US VCs have invested ~$14.2B in European AI startups so far in 2025, with founders saying US investors better fit the sector's high upfront costs (Anvee Bhutani/Wall Street Journal)

PitchBook: US VCs have invested ~$14.2B in European AI ...

Anvee Bhutani / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: US VCs have invested ~$14.2B in ...

Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace for athletes and coaches, raised $40M led by Bluestone Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $51M (Jessica Golden/CNBC)

Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace fo...

Jessica Golden / CNBC: Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace for ...

Polars, the Amsterdam&based startup behind the popular open&source library for data manipulation of the same name, raised a €18M Series A led by Accel (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Polars, the Amsterdam&based startup behind the popular ...

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular o...

How Ordos, a coal&rich northern Chinese city, has become a testing ground for self&driving trucks after turning into a ghost town due to 2012's coal price crash (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)

How Ordos, a coal&rich northern Chinese city, has becom...

Kinling Lo / Rest of World: How Ordos, a coal-rich northern Chinese city, has be...

A study found that by late 2024, around 24% of English&language corporate press releases and 14% of UN press releases involved LLM&assisted writing (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)

A study found that by late 2024, around 24% of English&...

AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: A study found that by late 2024, around 24% of English-l...

PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in the first nine months of 2025, just over half of 2024's total, amid uncertainty due to US tariff policies (Pak Yiu/Nikkei Asia)

PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in th...

Pak Yiu / Nikkei Asia: PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in the ...

A look at challenges facing Tether and Circle's stablecoin duopoly, such as intermediaries like exchanges and DeFi protocols exploring their own stablecoins (Nic Carter/Murmurations II)

A look at challenges facing Tether and Circle's stablec...

Nic Carter / Murmurations II: A look at challenges facing Tether and Circle's st...

OpenAI updates GPT&5 Instant to better recognize and support people in distress; ChatGPT will route such sensitive parts of conversations to the model (@openai)

OpenAI updates GPT&5 Instant to better recognize and su...

@openai: OpenAI updates GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in ...

Huawei's Zurich Lab unveils SINQ, an open&source quantization method that it claims can reduce LLM memory use by 60&70% without significant quality loss (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Huawei's Zurich Lab unveils SINQ, an open&source quanti...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Huawei's Zurich Lab unveils SINQ, an open-source qua...

Will TikTok deal affect Pro&Palestinian speech on platform?

Will TikTok deal affect Pro&Palestinian speech on platf...

This week on FRANCE 24's media show Scoop we look at the future of TikTok. US Pr...

Kioxia, whose stock has more than tripled since its public debut in Tokyo last December, expects NAND storage demand to grow by ~20% annually amid the AI boom (Bloomberg)

Kioxia, whose stock has more than tripled since its pub...

Bloomberg: Kioxia, whose stock has more than tripled since its public debut in T...

Singapore dollar&pegged XSGD stablecoin debuts on Coinbase, giving the city&state a head start over Hong Kong in launching a local currency&linked stablecoin (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)

Singapore dollar&pegged XSGD stablecoin debuts on Coinb...

Dylan Loh / Nikkei Asia: Singapore dollar-pegged XSGD stablecoin debuts on Coinb...

Inside the aftermath of FTX's collapse, law firm Sullivan & Cromwell's role, and an interview with SBF, who is preparing to appeal his conviction in November (Mother Jones)

Inside the aftermath of FTX's collapse, law firm Sulliv...

Mother Jones: Inside the aftermath of FTX's collapse, law firm Sullivan & Cromwe...

Indonesia suspends TikTok's local operating license, saying it failed to share complete livestream activity data during protests following a government request (Chandra Asmara/Bloomberg)

Indonesia suspends TikTok's local operating license, sa...

Chandra Asmara / Bloomberg: Indonesia suspends TikTok's local operating license,...

An interview with Replit CEO Amjad Masad on its $3B valuation, rapid growth, pivoting to non&technical white&collar workers, its $350M war chest, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

An interview with Replit CEO Amjad Masad on its $3B val...

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: An interview with Replit CEO Amjad Masad on its $3B ...

TechInsights: Huawei used components from TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix in some of its Ascend 910C chips; TSMC says the analyzed dies were made before Oct. 2024 (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

TechInsights: Huawei used components from TSMC, Samsung...

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: TechInsights: Huawei used components from TSMC, S...

'Zucman tax': Calls to tax the ultra&rich grow louder in France

'Zucman tax': Calls to tax the ultra&rich grow louder i...

This week, we focus on the Zucman tax. Named after French economist Gabriel Zucm...

Russia's Ukraine war spurred a new generation of defense tech investors and startups like Helsing, applying a profit&driven model to Europe's military buildup (Patricia Cohen/New York Times)

Russia's Ukraine war spurred a new generation of defens...

Patricia Cohen / New York Times: Russia's Ukraine war spurred a new generation o...

Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more (Lex Fridman)

Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censo...

Lex Fridman: Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using...

Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedding Project, a vector&based semantic search database with nearly 120M entries, to make data accessible to AI (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedding P...

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedd...

The FTC sues Zillow and Redfin, alleging they violated antitrust laws when Zillow paid Redfin $100M to stop competing against it in online rental listings (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

The FTC sues Zillow and Redfin, alleging they violated ...

Jody Godoy / Reuters: The FTC sues Zillow and Redfin, alleging they violated ant...

Anthropic's System Card: Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to recognize many alignment evaluation environments as tests and would modify its behavior accordingly (Celia Ford/Transformer)

Anthropic's System Card: Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to ...

Celia Ford / Transformer: Anthropic's System Card: Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to...

President Trump signs an executive order directing his administration to invest $50M in AI&driven pediatric cancer research (Tina Reed/Axios)

President Trump signs an executive order directing his ...

Tina Reed / Axios: President Trump signs an executive order directing his admini...

NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a "total internet blackout" as the Taliban imposes a telecom shutdown; an official says it will last until further notice (Anbarasan Ethirajan/BBC)

NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a "total interne...

Anbarasan Ethirajan / BBC: NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a “total inter...

Analysis: US wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did in 2020 in areas located near significant data center activity (Bloomberg)

Analysis: US wholesale electricity now costs as much as...

Bloomberg: Analysis: US wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for...

OpenAI's financial disclosures to investors suggest it generated ~$4.3B in H1 2025 revenue, 16% more than all of 2024, and burned $2.5B, largely due to R&D (The Information)

OpenAI's financial disclosures to investors suggest it ...

The Information: OpenAI's financial disclosures to investors suggest it generate...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; the first&in&the&nation AI safety law requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; ...

Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 i...

Sources: Vanguard, the asset manager which has historically been critical of cryptocurrencies, prepares to allow access to crypto ETFs on its brokerage platform (Crypto in America)

Sources: Vanguard, the asset manager which has historic...

Crypto in America: Sources: Vanguard, the asset manager which has historically b...

Sources: OpenAI plans a stand&alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok&like vertical feed with AI&generated videos and a recommendation page (Wired)

Sources: OpenAI plans a stand&alone social app powered ...

Wired: Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuri...

Several US states have passed bills to ban or restrict AI mental health treatment, as experts say state laws lag behind the fast&moving AI therapy landscape (Devi Shastri/Associated Press)

Several US states have passed bills to ban or restrict ...

Devi Shastri / Associated Press: Several US states have passed bills to ban or r...

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