Category Archives: Tech News

Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, [...]

08
Sep
Sources: chip design workers at ByteDance, many based in Beijing or Shanghai, unexpectedly discovered last week that they are part of a Singapore unit (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: chip design workers at ByteDance, many based in Beijing or Shanghai, unexpectedly discovered [...]

05
Sep
TikTok rival Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in the US, saw its valuation rise 19% to $31B from $26B in March during recent GSR transactions (Echo Wong/Bloomberg)

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04
Sep
A profile of Ashish Vaswani, lead author of Attention Is All You Need and Essential AI co-founder, who says the transformer-based AI boom is stifling innovation (Julia Love/Bloomberg)

Julia Love / Bloomberg: A profile of Ashish Vaswani, lead author of Attention Is All [...]

03
Sep
An analysis of Grok’s responses to 41 political questions in May and July shows it shifted to the right on 50%+ of them, often aligning with Elon Musk’s views (New York Times)

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02
Sep
porn sites that don’t comply with the UK’s age verification laws have seen their traffic from UK users grow, while sites complying had declines (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

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01
Sep
A critique of two contrasting research papers on AI’s impact on US employment trends, along with caveats from a Stanford study on jobs in AI-exposed fields (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)

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31
Aug
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fires 24 FEMA IT staffers, including the CIO and CISO; DHS says they failed security protocols and let hackers access FEMA networks (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)

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30
Aug
Huawei reports H1 2025 revenue up 3.9% YoY to ~$58.5B, driven by soaring AI compute demand and a rebound in phone sales, and net profit down 32% YoY to ~$5.2B (Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts The Logan Bartlett Show: Marc Benioff Predicts Half of Conversations Will be With [...]

29
Aug
Maisa AI, which offers an enterprise agentic automation service that uses a proprietary system to limit hallucinations, raised a $25M seed led by Creandum (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

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28
Aug