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| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI is providing its tools and computing resources for Critterz, a largely AI-made feature-length animated film that is set to hit theaters globally in 2026 — OpenAI wants to prove that generative artificial intelligence can make movies faster and cheaper than Hollywood does today.
More: The Verge, Implicator.ai, Times of India, Digit, and WinBuzzer
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US is proposing annual approvals for exports of chipmaking supplies to Samsung and SK Hynix factories in China, as part of a “site license” idea — The US is proposing annual approvals for exports of chipmaking supplies to Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc.'s factories …
More: Reuters, ZeroHedge News, Yahoo Finance, DigiTimes, and Tech in Asia
| SemiAnalysis: |
A deep dive into Huawei's Ascend AI chip production, SMIC, TSMC, US export controls, HBM bottlenecks, China's HBM issues, Huawei's data center chips, and more — H20 Shipments, Blackwell B30A, Bottlenecks to Chinese Chip Production, Export Controls, CXMT, SMIC, Cambricon| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Google updates a Help Center article to clarify Gemini 2.5 Pro's usage limits: five prompts per day for free users, 100 prompts for AI Pro, and 500 for AI Ultra — Now you know exactly how many prompts you get for free a day. … Until very recently it wasn't clear what usage limits were placed on Gemini at the various tiers.
More: Google Help Center, Livemint, WinBuzzer, Tech Times, and Android Headlines
| Adam James / The Block: |
Forward Industries raised $1.65B via a private investment in a public equity offering led by Galaxy, Jump, and Multicoin for a Solana asset treasury strategy — - Forward Industries, Inc. announced a $1.65 billion private investment in a PIPE offering led by Galaxy Digital, Jump Crypto … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A reimagined Wizard of Oz draws 4,000 to 5,000 fans two or three times per day to the Las Vegas Sphere; a source says the 1939 film may gross $1B in its new run — A reimagined Wizard of Oz is a surprise hit at the Las Vegas Sphere — Good afternoon from Los Angeles.| Bloomberg: |
SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for up to $8.5B in cash and up to $8.5B in stock, resolving an FCC inquiry into EchoStar — SpaceX, the Elon Musk-backed company that owns the Starlink satellite internet network, agreed to acquire wireless spectrum …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber and Shanghai-based robotaxi startup Momenta plan to test Level 4 fully driverless cars in Munich from 2026, as a precursor to launching a robotaxi service — The tests are a precursor to the companies' plan to launch a robotaxi service in 2026.
More: Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, TechCrunch, CnEVPost, and EV
| Anirban Sen / Reuters: |
Filing: Nasdaq asks the US SEC to let investors trade tokenized securities on its exchange, potentially rolling out the first token-settled trades in Q3 2026 — Nasdaq (NDAQ.O) is working with U.S. regulators to introduce trading of tokenized securities, becoming the latest major financial player …
More: Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Coinpedia Fintech News, Crypto Briefing, and Cointelegraph
| Rebecca Ratcliffe / The Guardian: |
ASPI researchers: Myanmar's online scam centers on the Thai border rose from 11 to 27 since 2021's military coup, holding an estimated 100K trafficked people — Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country's military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021
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| Reuters: |
Cloud cybersecurity software startup Netskope plans to sell 47.8M shares at $15 to $17 each in its Nasdaq IPO, valuing it at up to $6.5B and raising up to $813M — Netskope is seeking a valuation of up to $6.5 billion in its initial public offering in the United States …
More: Bloomberg
| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Databricks is set to close $1B in funding at a $100B valuation and is on track to generate $4B in revenue in its fiscal year ending in January 2026, up 50% YoY — The data analytics company is close to completing its latest financing, raising $1 billion at a $100 billion valuation
More: Bloomberg
| Reuters: |
Sources: ASML is committing €1.3B for Mistral's €1.7B Series C at a €10B pre-money valuation, and is set to become its top shareholder and to get a board seat — ASML (ASML.AS), a crucial supplier of advanced chipmaking equipment, is set to become the top shareholder …
More: Implicator.ai, The French Tech Journal, Sifted, Fortune, Benzinga, Silicon Republic, DigiTimes, Verdict, The Information, The Chosun Daily, Tech Funding News, Morningstar, Inc., DutchNews.nl, Silicon Canals, and CTech
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement pulls up a drawbridge on its startup rivals that cannot afford such fines, setting a floor price on training infringement — $1.5B. Damn. Who can afford to pay that? — There I was, just sitting there enjoying life when I got the push notification … | Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, taking its total funding to ~$280M, and releases a foundation model for embodied AI — BEIJING — As the race for household robots heats up, Chinese humanoid startup X Square Robot announced Monday …
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