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The unlikely success story of tech&giant ASML, the biggest backer of France's Mistral AI

The unlikely success story of tech&giant ASML, the bigg...

France's Mistral AI has become Europe's most valuable artificial intelligence st...

Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shunyu from OpenAI; a source and Chinese media say Tencent offered him a CN¥100M+, or ~$66M, pay package (Pei Li/Bloomberg)

Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao ...

Pei Li / Bloomberg: Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shuny...

Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their own internally designed chips to train their AI models, partly replacing AI chips made by Nvidia (Qianer Liu/The Information)

Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their own i...

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their ...

Micro1, a Scale AI competitor that lets AI companies find contractors for data labeling and training, raised a $35M Series A led by O1A at a $500M valuation (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Micro1, a Scale AI competitor that lets AI companies fi...

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Micro1, a Scale AI competitor that lets AI companies ...

Apple gets FDA clearance for hypertension alerts on Apple Watch, and plans to roll out the feature to Series 11, 10, and 9, and Watch Ultra 3, and 2 next week (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Apple gets FDA clearance for hypertension alerts on App...

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple gets FDA clearance for hypertension alerts on App...

Sources: OpenAI and Nvidia will pledge billions in UK data center investments during their next week's trip, which coincides with President Trump's UK visit (Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI and Nvidia will pledge billions in UK d...

Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI and Nvidia will pledge billions in UK data center inv...

Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot industry faces hurdles, from battery life and design to limited demand for large&scale deployments (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)

Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid r...

Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum: Despite hype and optimistic projections, the huma...

GE Vernova plans to sell its Proficy industrial software unit to PE firm TPG for $600M and reinvest the proceeds in grid software (Reuters)

GE Vernova plans to sell its Proficy industrial softwar...

Reuters: GE Vernova plans to sell its Proficy industrial software unit to PE fir...

The US DOJ sues Uber, with its civil rights division alleging that Uber discriminates against people with physical disabilities in violation of federal law (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

The US DOJ sues Uber, with its civil rights division al...

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: The US DOJ sues Uber, with its civil rights division a...

Figure's shares opened up 44% at $44 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a $7.62B+ market cap, after the company and some of its backers raised $787.5M in its IPO (Reuters)

Figure's shares opened up 44% at $44 in its Nasdaq debu...

Reuters: Figure's shares opened up 44% at $44 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a $...

Oracle co&founder Ellison briefly overtakes Musk as world's richest man

Oracle co&founder Ellison briefly overtakes Musk as wor...

Larry Ellison, the 81-year-old co-founder of US business software company Oracle...

French budget crisis: What are the counter&proposals?

French budget crisis: What are the counter&proposals?

Protests gripped France nationwide on Wednesday as the newly appointed prime min...

Blockchain&based lender Figure and some of its backers raised $787.5M in an IPO, selling 31.5M shares at $25 each, valuing the company at about $5.3B (Bloomberg)

Blockchain&based lender Figure and some of its backers ...

Bloomberg: Blockchain-based lender Figure and some of its backers raised $787.5M...

Sensor Tower: as of July 2025, Rapido had 50M MAUs on Android in India vs. Uber's 30M; in the four&wheeler cab segment, Rapido holds ~30% share vs. Uber's ~50% (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)

Sensor Tower: as of July 2025, Rapido had 50M MAUs on A...

Pranav Mukul / The Economic Times: Sensor Tower: as of July 2025, Rapido had 50M...

Ant Group unit Robbyant showcases its first LLM&powered humanoid robot, the R1, at a conference in Shanghai, joining an intensifying effort by Chinese companies (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)

Ant Group unit Robbyant showcases its first LLM&powered...

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Ant Group unit Robbyant showcases its first LLM-pow...

French budget crisis: what are the counter&proposals?

French budget crisis: what are the counter&proposals?

Protests gripped France nationwide as the newly-appointed prime minister, Sébast...

Bluesky says it will comply with age&verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming because they strike the "right balance", after exiting Mississippi (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky says it will comply with age&verification laws ...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws...

ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral "nano banana" model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)

ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it c...

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI ...

Klarna shares jump 30% in their NYSE debut, opening at $52, above the IPO price of $40, after the company and some of its backers raised $1.37B in the offering (Bloomberg)

Klarna shares jump 30% in their NYSE debut, opening at ...

Bloomberg: Klarna shares jump 30% in their NYSE debut, opening at $52, above the...

The Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and its efforts to accelerate AI adoption across the US are alarming populists in the president's base (Joe Miller/Financial Times)

The Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and its e...

Joe Miller / Financial Times: The Trump administration's Big Tech courtship and ...

The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media acquires VideoVerse, whose AI tools let broadcasters extract highlights from sports footage, sources say for $200M&$250M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media acquires VideoV...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media acquires VideoV...

Leaked docs: Chinese network&monitoring provider Geedge Networks has sold Great Firewall&style censorship systems to at least four countries, including Pakistan (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

Leaked docs: Chinese network&monitoring provider Geedge...

Zeyi Yang / Wired: Leaked docs: Chinese network-monitoring provider Geedge Netwo...

Apple announces the iPhone 17, featuring the A19 chip, larger 6.3" display and 120Hz ProMotion support, improved brightness of up to 3,000 nits, and more (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Apple announces the iPhone 17, featuring the A19 chip, ...

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple announces the iPhone 17, featuring the A19 chip, ...

Apple says iOS 26 will officially release on September 15 with a Liquid Glass redesign, major updates to Apple Wallet, CarPlay, Messages, and more (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

Apple says iOS 26 will officially release on September ...

Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple says iOS 26 will officially release on Septemb...

Apple announces the ultra&slim iPhone Air with a 5.6mm design, an A19 Pro chip, a 6.5" display with ProMotion, N1 wireless chip for WiFi and Bluetooth, and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Apple announces the ultra&slim iPhone Air with a 5.6mm ...

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple announces the ultra-slim iPhone Air with a 5.6mm ...

Murdoch heirs settle dispute over control of the right&wing mogul's media empire

Murdoch heirs settle dispute over control of the right&...

Rupert Murdoch’s children reached a settlement in their legal battle over contro...

Helsinki&based ReOrbit, which builds satellites and a software platform to help countries fully control their satellite systems, raised a €45M Series A (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Helsinki&based ReOrbit, which builds satellites and a s...

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Helsinki-based ReOrbit, which builds satellites and a so...

The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed private data of 40M voters to Chinese spies (Joe Tidy/BBC)

The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years an...

Joe Tidy / BBC: The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £2...

Mistral raised a €1.7B Series C at an €11.7B valuation; ASML led the round with €1.3B to become its largest shareholder, joined by a16z, DST, and others (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Mistral raised a €1.7B Series C at an €11.7B valuation;...

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Mistral raised a €1.7B Series C at an €11.7B val...

In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech tri...

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: In a September 5 filing in the US v. ...

The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnership of Anduril and Meta and a $195M contract to Rivet, to produce competing prototypes of a new combat goggle (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnership of...

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnersh...

Local Nepalese media reports that 19+ people were killed after police opened fire on "Gen Z protests" against a government ban on major social media platforms (Andres Schipani/Financial Times)

Local Nepalese media reports that 19+ people were kille...

Andres Schipani / Financial Times: Local Nepalese media reports that 19+ people ...

Filing: Shanghai&based, US&listed lidar maker Hesai aims to raise ~$497M in its Hong Kong IPO, offering 17M shares at up to $29.25 each, amid US delisting risks (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)

Filing: Shanghai&based, US&listed lidar maker Hesai aim...

Dave Sebastian / Bloomberg: Filing: Shanghai-based, US-listed lidar maker Hesai ...

PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since 2022, including €1.4B in the first 7 months of 2025, up from €30M in 2020 and €150M in 2021 (Financial Times)

PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €...

Financial Times: PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B sin...

Shenzhen&based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Shenzhen&based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~...

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100...

A profile of Razer CEO Min&Liang Tan, as the gaming har...

John Kang / Forbes: A profile of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, as the gaming hardware...

Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B Series C funding round, becoming the top shareholder, and is expected to get a board seat (Reuters)

Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B S...

Reuters: Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B Series C funding ...

Shift5, which develops cybersecurity tools for the military and critical infrastructure, raised a $75M Series C led by Hedosophia (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Shift5, which develops cybersecurity tools for the mili...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Shift5, which develops cybersecurity tools for the milita...

Mojo Vision raised a $75M Series B led by Vanedge Capital to commercialize its microLED tech for products such as AI glasses and optical interconnects (David Harold/Jon Peddie Research)

Mojo Vision raised a $75M Series B led by Vanedge Capit...

David Harold / Jon Peddie Research: Mojo Vision raised a $75M Series B led by Va...

Recall.ai, which offers an API and a desktop SDK for managing meeting recordings and transcripts, raised $38M in a Series B led by Bessemer at a $250M valuation (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)

Recall.ai, which offers an API and a desktop SDK for ma...

Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: Recall.ai, which offers an API and a desktop SDK for...

Predoc, which uses AI to automate medical records management, raised $30M seed and Series A led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Northzone and others (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Predoc, which uses AI to automate medical records manag...

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Predoc, which uses AI to automate medical records man...

An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate fell from 5.5% in July to 4.5% in August, while active tech job postings declined 2.6% from July (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemploymen...

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's une...

Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges, not Justin Sun's token movements; WLFI blames phishing&related compromises (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and...

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and...

OnePlus ends its five&year partnership with camera company Hasselblad and plans to develop its own imaging engine called DetailMax Engine for upcoming phones (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

OnePlus ends its five&year partnership with camera comp...

Dominic Preston / The Verge: OnePlus ends its five-year partnership with camera ...

TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, up from 175M in 2024, the latest sign of its rapid growth among teenagers (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, u...

Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Euro...

C3 AI, whose NYSE ticker symbol is AI, has fallen 32%+ in the past month on growth concerns, after its Q1 revenue fell 19% YoY to $70.3M, below $100M+ est. (Hyunsoo Rim/Sherwood News)

C3 AI, whose NYSE ticker symbol is AI, has fallen 32%+ ...

Hyunsoo Rim / Sherwood News: C3 AI, whose NYSE ticker symbol is AI, has fallen 3...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurates the Jupiter supercomputer, powered by Nvidia chips, the world's fourth&fastest and Europe's first Exascale system (Reuters)

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurates the Jupite...

Reuters: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurates the Jupiter supercomputer,...

Isotopes, co&founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murthy to build an AI agent for enterprise business analytics, raised a $20M seed (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Isotopes, co&founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murt...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Isotopes, co-founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murt...

At the White House dinner on Thursday night, Big Tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump by taking turns praising his leadership (Brian Barrett/Wired)

At the White House dinner on Thursday night, Big Tech e...

Brian Barrett / Wired: At the White House dinner on Thursday night, Big Tech exe...

Roblox is testing Roblox Moments, a TikTok&like video app allowing users to share 30&second clips of gameplay, and makes the source code available to developers (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Roblox is testing Roblox Moments, a TikTok&like video a...

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox is testing Roblox Moments, a TikTok-like...

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