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Huawei debuts the CloudMatrix 384 AI computing system, which outperforms Nvidia's most advanced GB200 NVL72 system on some metrics, according to SemiAnalysis — China's Huawei Technologies showed off an AI computing system on Saturday that one industry expert has said rivals Nvidia's most advanced offering …
More: WinBuzzer, Wccftech, Ukrainian National News, Notebookcheck, and Cryptopolitan
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
At TrustCon 2025, trust and safety professionals expressed anxiety over the industry's retreat, but no leaders condemned platforms' rollback of safety policies — In 2023, I asked whether we had reached peak trust and safety. Noting the huge number of layoffs at tech companies that year …
More: Trust & Safety …. Bluesky: @metacurity.com, @vortexegg.com, @evelyndouek, and @caseynewton
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LinkedIn: Cassie Coccaro, Jacob Silver, and Trust & Safety …
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases its Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 reasoning LLM on Hugging Face, topping several benchmarks, as Alibaba moves away from hybrid reasoning models — If the AI industry had an equivalent to the recording industry's “song of the summer” — a hit that catches on in the warmer months …
More: Qwen on Hugging Face, Simon Willison's Weblog, WinBuzzer, and AI News
| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
AIUC, which offers enterprises insurance policies and audits for AI agents, emerges from stealth with a $15M seed led by Nat Friedman at NFDG — Today, the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) is emerging from stealth with a $15 million seed round led by Nat Friedman at NFDG …
More: Underwriting Superintelligence, Sourcery with Molly O'Shea on YouTube, For Real, Upstarts Media, and Pulse 2.0. LinkedIn: Rune Kvist
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Records show China's Starlink rivals have only ~120 satellites in orbit, less than 1% of their goal, vs. SpaceX's ~8,000, underscoring how far behind they are — It's looking unlikely. Here's why. — There are over 11,000 satellites in low Earth orbit, providing internet, surveillance and navigation services.
More: Asia Times, UPI, SPACE.com, and The Indian Express
| Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
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| Golan Hazani / CTech: |
New York City-based cybersecurity company Axonius acquires Cynerio, which offers healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management services, for $180M — Move expands company's offerings amid growing threats to connected medical devices. — Cynerio — Axonius — Cybersecurity — Acquisition
More: Tech in Asia
| Josh Noble / Financial Times: |
The English Premier League recently signed deals with Adobe and Microsoft to offer AI-powered tools to fans, including those playing the Fantasy Premier League — Football body's turn to Big Tech aims to cement dominance after it made €2.1bn in overseas broadcast deals last season| Moneycontrol: |
Indian software services provider Tata Consultancy Services plans to cut 2% of its global workforce, or about 12,000 employees, by March 31, 2026 — In an interview with Moneycontrol, TCS CEO K Krithivasan described the decision as one of the toughest he has faced, calling it a necessary step to build a stronger, future-ready company.
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
Satya Nadella's memo on Microsoft's layoffs portends the harsh reality that AI could make software companies more profitable while employing fewer people — To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a memo is not just a memo. That's why we have to read between the lines of Satya Nadella's 1,150-word memo.
More: Microsoft, Howie Town, The Decoder, Spyglass, Notebookcheck, and Financial Express
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| Tim Fernholz / Sherwood News: |
An interview with CEO David Baszucki on Roblox's origin story, what's next for the gaming platform whose shares have risen about 200% in the past year, and more — Founder and CEO David Baszucki tells us the origin story and what's next for a company that has nearly tripled in stock price … | Amin Haqshanas / Cointelegraph: |
Tyler Winklevoss claims JPMorgan paused onboarding crypto exchange Gemini after he criticized the bank's data access fees for fintech and crypto companies — Tyler Winklevoss claims JPMorgan paused Gemini's onboarding after he criticized the bank's data access fees, calling the move anti-competitive.| Nicolas Parasie / Bloomberg: |
Dubai-based Qlub, which offers contactless payment services to restaurants, raised $30M co-led by Shorooq and Cherry Ventures, taking its total funding to $72M — Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback — A Dubai-based restaurant payments platform …
| Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based Buena, which is building AI-powered software to automate property management tasks, raised $58M, including a Series A led by GV — Buena has acquired 20+ firms since 2023, with triple-digit growth and a product-first approach targeting 30,000 under-digitised players.
More: Buena, Pulse 2.0, Silicon Canals, Tech in Asia, FinSMEs, Forbes, and EU-Startups
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