Category Archives: Tech News

Taiwan says China’s cyberattacks on its hospitals, banks, energy, and other infrastructure rose 6% YoY in 2025 to an average of 2.63M attacks a day (Yimou Lee/Reuters)

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s Podcast: The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, [...]

05
Jan
EU officials and policymakers say the EC will intensify its enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to renew clashes with US Big Tech and Trump (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Meta’s AI Agent Plan, Grok’s Perversion, Prison Of Financial Mediocrity [...]

04
Jan
London is set to become the first city where both US and Chinese robotaxis operate, as Waymo and Baidu prepare to launch their robotaxis in the city in 2026 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Meta’s AI Agent Plan, Grok’s Perversion, Prison Of Financial Mediocrity [...]

03
Jan
How Nokia has reinvented itself for the AI revolution by expanding into cloud services, data centers, and optical networks, and by partnering with Nvidia (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s Podcast: We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened [...]

02
Jan
China-based Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital, with Alibaba and Tencent participating (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show With John Gruber: ‘2025 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie [...]

01
Jan
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 (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts The Social Radars: Jared Friedman, Partner, Y Combinator; Co-founder, Scribd Come be a [...]

31
Dec
Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B+, after approaching the startup during a fundraising at a $2B valuation; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will report to Javier Olivan (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B+, after approaching the startup during [...]

30
Dec
Sources and a memo: the US DOJ is using a novel reading of a federal anti-fraud law to probe contractors, including Google and Verizon, over their DEI programs (Lydia Wheeler/Wall Street Journal)

Lydia Wheeler / Wall Street Journal: Sources and a memo: the US DOJ is using [...]

29
Dec
Sam Altman says OpenAI is seeking a new Head of Preparedness, noting "the potential impact of models on mental health was something we saw a preview of in 2025" (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: Sam Altman says OpenAI is seeking a new Head of Preparedness, [...]

28
Dec
Despite Palantir's high trailing P/E ratio of ~450x, retail traders have poured billions of dollars into the stock, which is up ~3,000% in the past three years (Alex Harring/CNBC)

Alex Harring / CNBC: Despite Palantir’s high trailing P/E ratio of ~450x, retail traders have [...]

27
Dec