Technology

Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding round that would value it at $100B, up 61% from December 2024, co-led by Thrive Capital; a16z is set to participate (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding round that ...

Aug 29, 2025

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Databricks is finalizing a fundin...

Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their trade deal over "non-tariff barriers", including relaxing the DSA, which the EU sees as a red line (Financial Times)

Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their t...

Aug 29, 2025

Financial Times: Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their trade dea...

NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M Series A led by Footwork (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world ...

Aug 29, 2025

Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sel...

How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netflix in Southeast Asia through original productions and free, ad-supported services (Nikkei Asia)

How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gain...

Aug 29, 2025

Nikkei Asia: How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netfl...

Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two years' probation and a $34K+ fine for stealing trade secrets and sharing them with his new employer Microsoft (Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian)

Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two year...

Aug 29, 2025

Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian: Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two...

How an editor uncovered the "largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia's history" that promoted obscure composer David Woodard with entries in 335 languages (Nate Anderson/Ars Technica)

How an editor uncovered the "largest self-promotion ope...

Aug 29, 2025

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: How an editor uncovered the “largest self-promotio...

GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that the current approach of scaling LLMs is starting to reach the limits of available resources (Financial Times)

GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggest...

Aug 29, 2025

Financial Times: GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that t...

A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b, shows how open-weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across hosting providers (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI...

Aug 29, 2025

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, f...

Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning and planning coding tasks and is cost-effective, but Claude Opus and Sonnet still produce better code (Lauren Goode/Wired)

Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning...

Aug 29, 2025

Lauren Goode / Wired: Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning an...

Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must give investors short-term results to get permission for long-term investments, such as its AI ambitions (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must gi...

Aug 29, 2025

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must...

An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing u...

Aug 29, 2025

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growi...

Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta (Wired)

Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Super...

Aug 29, 2025

Wired: Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs ...

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $553.9M est., net loss down 14% to $47M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB jumps 28%+ after hours (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $...

Aug 29, 2025

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY ...

So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivoted into crypto to boost stock prices, frequently sparking frenzied but short-lived spikes in shares (Bloomberg)

So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivo...

Aug 29, 2025

Bloomberg: So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivoted into crypt...

Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking equipment, including AMEC's etching tools, from its most advanced 2nm production to avoid potential US backlash (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking equipmen...

Aug 29, 2025

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking eq...

Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office say the US-Intel deal won't solve Intel's real issue: a lack of external customers for its foundry unit (Wall Street Journal)

Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office ...

Aug 29, 2025

Wall Street Journal: Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office say ...

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