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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China told ByteDance, Alibaba, and others to stop testing and ordering Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, going beyond earlier guidance focused on Nvidia's H20 — Beijing steps up efforts to boost semiconductor independence to compete with the US — China's internet regulator has banned …
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Bluesky: @carlquintanilla, @parismarx.com, and @danielagabor
Forums: r/nvidia, r/LocalLLaMA, r/neoliberal, r/China, r/technews, r/hardware, r/wallstreetbets, r/NvidiaStock, and Slashdot
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he was “disappointed” after The Financial Times reported that China has banned Chinese companies from using Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D — LONDON — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has weighed in on the chipmaker's struggles in China after a report claimed the country has banned its AI semiconductors.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: an OLED MacBook Pro with a touchscreen is set to enter mass production by late 2026; a MacBook with an iPhone chip will enter mass production in Q4 2025 — Apple's first OLED MacBook Pro, set to enter mass production next year, will feature a touch screen display, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
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Forums: r/apple, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone Air review: light, easier to carry, and more pleasant to use for longer, but no ultrawide camera and the battery drains quicker than a standard phone's — The iPhone Air is as much a statement as it is a phone. It says something about the person using it: that they don't mind giving … | The Verge: |
iPhone 17 Pro review: solid battery life, a brighter screen outdoors, and doesn't get blazing hot, but it's heavier than the 16 Pro and Siri needs to catch up — It's a tricky year to review the iPhone Pro. It's long been the go-to choice for anyone who wants an iPhone with the nicest screen, longest battery, and great cameras.| Eric Zeman / PCMag: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: under the US-China framework, a US investor consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and a16z would hold an ~80% stake in TikTok's US business — Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of consortium that would control 80% stake — TikTok's U.S. business …
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X: @brij, @garymarcus, @rabois, @pitdesi, @girdley, @jamessurowiecki, @mattgertz, and @mattyglesias
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @supportdemocracy, @nicdawes, @lexroman.com, @sybren, @alanrozenshtein.com, @justinhendrix, @paleofuture, @jaspar, @jamescdownie, and @peark.es. Mastodon: @ngate@mastodon.social
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google updates its Search app's Discover page to let users follow specific publishers and creators; it plans to add YouTube Shorts and X and Instagram posts — Google announced on Wednesday that it's updating the Discover page in its flagship Search app to allow you to follow specific publishers … | Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: Anthropic refused US federal law enforcement requests to use its AI models for some tasks, like the surveillance of US citizens, irking the White House — THE SCOOP — Anthropic is in the midst of a splashy media tour in Washington, but its refusal to allow its models to be used …
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| Bloomberg: |
US tech giants announce £31B+ in UK investments, coinciding with Trump's visit to the UK; OpenAI says it will bring Stargate to the UK with partners like Nscale — Microsoft Corp., OpenAI and other American companies announced plans to spend tens of billions of dollars …
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LinkedIn: Matthew Hutchings, Stuart McMeechan, Simon Kohl, Matt Weaver, Tobias Halloran, Mark Taylor, and David Hogan
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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LinkedIn: Nick Goodwin, Nick Hedderman, Alison Say, James Dellamura, and Patrick Moorhead
Mastodon: @keithwilson@mastodon.social and @xtaldave@xtaldave.net
Forums: r/GoodNewsUK, r/ukpolitics, and r/unitedkingdom
| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon debuts a chatbot-style assistant to help advertisers use AI to make ads, which can run across Amazon's ad inventory and platforms that have Amazon deals — The biggest names in tech are racing to make advertising easier, especially for small businesses and consumer goods companies
More: CNBC, About Amazon, The Information, Amazon Ads, Search Engine Land, The Verge, Adweek, AdExchanger, ZDNET, MediaPost, WinBuzzer, Marketing Dive, and Sherwood News
LinkedIn: Siddhant Patra, Dharmesh Mehta, and Sukumar Ramaraj
| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
The UK FCA plans to exempt cryptoasset providers from some of its finance rules, as it prepares to integrate the sector into its regulatory framework from 2026 — FCA says traditional financial rules would not be effective for the sector as it prepares to fully integrate the market| Charlotte Yang / Bloomberg: |
The Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the top 30 Hong Kong-listed tech companies, rose 4.2% to its highest level since November 2021, amid renewed bets on AI — A blistering rally in Chinese technology shares accelerated on Wednesday as renewed bets on artificial intelligence sent a key gauge to the highest in nearly four years.
More: Benzinga, ZeroHedge News, and Implicator.ai
| CoinDesk: |
The NYDFS grants Bullish a BitLicense, allowing its US entity to offer spot trading and custody services in the state — The digital asset platform is now regulated in the U.S., Germany, Hong Kong and Gibraltar. — What to know: … Bullish (BLSH), the parent company of CoinDesk …
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Lyft partners with Waymo to launch robotaxis in Nashville starting in 2026, their first collaboration; Waymo started Nashville tests in March; LYFT jumps 10%+ — Lyft Inc. is partnering with Waymo for the first time to offer robotaxi service in Nashville starting next year …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Reddit is in early talks with Google to deepen integration of its content into Google's AI products, beyond its $60M data-sharing deal signed in 2024 — - Moving past a dollars-for-data model, Reddit seeks new deals — The social platform looks to bring new users into its forums| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
CrowdStrike: DeepSeek refuses to write code or produces less-secure code when English prompts say the code will be used by groups or regions disfavored by China — Research by a U.S. security firm points to the country's leading player in AI providing higher-quality results for some purposes than others.| New York Times: |
The UK has ramped up the use of facial recognition, AI, and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach — British authorities have ramped up the use of facial recognition, artificial intelligence and internet regulation to address crime … | Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis: |
How xAI is building Colossus 2, which is on track to be the world's first gigawatt-scale AI datacenter after reaching 200MW in six months — Much has been written about xAI's Colossus 1. The Memphis build belongs in the history books: the largest AI training cluster, erected from scratch in 122 days.
Forums: r/singularity
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Groq, which sells AI chips and data-center compute powered by those chips, raised $750M led by Disruptive at a $6.9B post-money valuation to expand its capacity — Funding round is led by Disruptive, includes Blackrock and Neuberger Berman — Artificial intelligence chip startup Groq Inc …
More: Reuters, Proactive, and MSPoweruser
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieves a gold medal performance at the 2025 ICPC World Finals programming competition; only four out of 139 human teams won gold medals — Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models.
More: The Guardian, ZDNET, Financial Times, Google DeepMind, and The Decoder
X: @mirrokni, @hengtze, @_philschmid, @jeffdean, @rseroter, @ymatias, @tokenbender, and @sundarpichai. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Irregular, which helps AI labs test their models' for misuse, raised $80M across seed and Series A rounds led by Sequoia and Redpoint at a $450M valuation — Frontier AI labs are relying on a small Israeli startup to run their AI through simulations to test its capacity for malicious hacking.| Bloomberg: |
Chinese state media: Alibaba has secured a high-profile client in China Unicom for its AI chips; prior reports said Alibaba supplies tens of thousands of chips — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has secured a high-profile customer in China Unicom for its AI chips, suggesting …
More: DatacenterDynamics, Reuters, South China Morning Post, Benzinga, Blockchain.News, and CNBC
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Macroscope, which was founded by Periscope's Kayvon Beykpour to help developers find bugs, raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed, following a $10M seed — It's been a decade since Kayvon Beykpour sold Periscope to Twitter for a reported $100 million, allowing the social media site to jump into livestreaming.| Reuters: |
Amazon says it's investing $1B+ to raise pay for US fulfillment and transportation staff, increasing the average total compensation to $30+/hour with benefits — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) said on Wednesday it is investing more than $1 billion to raise pay and lower healthcare costs for U.S. fulfillment … | The Economic Times: |
Bengaluru-based FinBox, which provides B2B digital lending infrastructure, risk intelligence, and orchestration tools, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge — FinBox, a digital credit infrastructure platform, secured $40 million in a funding round led by WestBridge Capital …
More: Inc42 Media, MSPoweruser, and VCCircle
| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
EvoluteIQ, which offers a low-code AI platform for companies to design, deploy, and scale business processes, raised $53M led by Baird Capital — EvoluteIQ unifies orchestration, data integration, and generative AI into a single platform to automate workflows for complex, regulated enterprises.
More: SiliconANGLE, Implicator.ai, MSPoweruser, Silicon Canals, and Tech Funding News. LinkedIn: EvoluteIQ
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