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How Manus distanced itself from its Chinese roots to court US investors; a source says Meta's $2.5B deal includes a $500M retention pool for Manus' employees — The $2.5 billion deal could herald a new era for China-linked AI companies and U.S. investors — Workers at Butterfly Effect …
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| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI firms are leading a wave of IPOs in Hong Kong, where at least 25 companies debuted in December 2025, the busiest month for deals since November 2019 — Chinese artificial intelligence firms are leading a wave of listings in Hong Kong, aiming to capitalize on a recent market momentum.
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OpenAI financial data: its stock-based pay averaged ~$1.5M per employee in 2025, ~7x Google pre-IPO and ~34x the average pay of other pre-IPO peers, per Equilar — The company's stock-based compensation in 2025 reached an average of $1.5 million per employee
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Elon Musk says xAI bought a third building called “MACROHARDRR”, reportedly adjacent to Colossus 2, that will take the company's training compute to almost 2GW — Elon Musk's xAI is planning an expansion of its massive data center complex in Memphis, and has purchased a third building … | Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: ByteDance plans to spend about $14B on Nvidia's AI chips in 2026, an increase of about 18% from 2025 — Chinese unicorn's computing needs have climbed across its portfolio of popular apps, cloud unit Volcano Engine and large language models — ByteDance plans to spend about 100 billion yuan …
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Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries — Move marks latest setback for project that originally promised to sell a US-made device — Trump Mobile, the phone company launched …
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| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa, reversing a designation imposed by the Biden administration in 2024 — The Treasury Department on Tuesday took three people closely affiliated with the holding company behind Predator spyware off of a sanctions list …
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Finland seizes a ship suspected of damaging an undersea cable linking Helsinki and Estonia in the Gulf of Finland; Estonia says a second cable was also damaged — Finnish police on Wednesday seized a ship suspected of damaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki …
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SoftBank says it has completed a $22.5B investment in OpenAI, finalizing its up to $40B investment commitment announced in March and taking its stake to ~11% — SoftBank Group Corp. ("SBG" or the “Company") today announced that it has completed an additional investment of $22.5 billion …
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Trump Media, owner of Truth Social, plans to distribute a new token to shareholders with partner Crypto.com, expected to operate on the Cronos blockchain — Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. plans to issue a new cryptocurrency, which will be distributed among its shareholders.
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Dealroom: 76 European deep tech and life sciences companies spun out from universities reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025, or both — Universities and research labs have long been Europe's deep tech treasure trove. Now, academic spinouts have consolidated … | Reuters: |
Filing: China's top DRAM maker CXMT plans to raise $4.2B in a Shanghai IPO; CXMT held a 4% global share in Q2 2025 and targets HBM production by the end of 2026 — China's leading maker of DRAM chips, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) Corp, said on Tuesday it plans to raise 29.5 billion yuan … | Bob Tita / Wall Street Journal: |
How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar's power and energy unit; generator sales are up 28% YoY through Sept. 2025, after growing 22% to $7.8B in 2024 — Sales of generators are powering the manufacturing giant's fastest-growing segment and a race to help data centers skip the grid
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| Zak Killian / Tom's Hardware: |
IDC expects shipments of PCs could shrink by up to 9% YoY in 2026 due to global memory shortages, as demand from AI data centers continues to outstrip supply — Memory shortages are expected to have a serious impact on the PC and smartphone market. … The International Data Corporation …
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