Category Archives: Tech News

As the US House probes Airbnb’s use of Chinese AI models, CEO Brian Chesky says the company is not sharing data with Chinese firms and uses open-source models (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, [...]

23
May
Sources: DeepSeek execs told potential investors in its ongoing $10B round that it will prioritize groundbreaking AI research over short-term commercialization (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Sources: DeepSeek execs told potential investors in its ongoing $10B [...]

22
May
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal (Preeti Singh/Bloomberg)

Preeti Singh / Bloomberg: Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman’s unnamed enterprise services JV buys [...]

21
May
Circle cofounder Sean Neville's Catena Labs, which lets users set financial guardrails for AI agents, raised a $30M Series A and applies for a US bank charter (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Circle cofounder Sean Neville’s Catena Labs, which lets users set financial [...]

20
May
Epic says Fortnite has returned to Apple's App Store globally, after its US re-launch in 2025, signaling confidence in a favorable outcome in an ongoing lawsuit (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Epic says Fortnite has returned to Apple’s App Store globally, after [...]

19
May
Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy specialized AI agents that work alongside humans, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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18
May
Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video [...]

17
May
Shenzhen-listed RoboTechnik, which claims to be the largest silicon photonics tool maker and whose stock is up 340% over the past year, files for a HK listing (Zinnia Lee/Forbes)

Zinnia Lee / Forbes: Shenzhen-listed RoboTechnik, which claims to be the largest silicon photonics tool [...]

16
May
Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate content within 24 hours, following a probe (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for [...]

15
May
Spotify says it will adopt Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming tech for video podcasts later in 2026, helping creators distribute podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Featured Podcasts Access: Inside Anthropic’s search for the next Claude Code A show about the [...]

14
May