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Tech / The Verge ·
When Donald Trump began his second term as president, Silicon Valley gratefully embraced moral nihilism. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and more collectively donated millions to Trump's inauguration fund to ensure his favor in a new era of gangster tech regulation. Meta overhauled its content policy…
Tech / Wired ·
A new study found evidence of natural selection in the dogs of Chernobyl, but it’s still unclear what drove these genetic differences and what evolutionary advantages they may provide.
Startups / EU-Startups ·
The world’s biggest startup campus, STATION F, has revealed its top 40 companies for 2026, as well as announcing that STATION F companies have raised a record €2 billion in 2026 alone. This is the 8th edition of the annual list, with 320 companies recognised to date. This year’s selected teams cover…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Qualcomm has completed testing the first chips built with its High Bandwidth Compute (HBC) memory technology, clearing a key step towards using it in data centre AI hardware. The company announced the results, saying the technology will feature in its Dragonfly AI250 accelerator, designed to run…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Traversal, a New York startup whose AI agents find out why company software breaks, has raised $120 million in a Series B round. The deal values it at $1 billion, the company announced on Tuesday. Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Khosla Ventures co-led the round. Sequoia Capital, Battery…
AI / The Verge ·
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spent election night defending his position on PC RAM purchases. He changed his name on X to "Ram Altman" in response to another user's comment, saying, "i actually do want the world to have tons of memory and people to put as much as they want in their computers, and it […]
Tech / The Next Web ·
OpenAI employees repeatedly warned the company’s leadership and board about weaknesses in its security practices over several years, including before ChatGPT launched in late 2022, Reuters reported, citing five people familiar with the matter. Some employees came away with the impression that…
Tech / The Verge ·
SpaceX is teaming up with Qualcomm to build out its nationwide mobile network. Under the multi-year deal, SpaceX will bring Qualcomm's Dragonwing technology to "tens of thousands" of 5G cell sites across the US, with the first deployments set for 2027. The news of the partnership comes as part of…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Google has offered voluntary exit packages to some staff in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland since June. The move, reported by Reuters today, widens a scheme that the company had already run in the US and the UK. Google confirmed the expansion to Reuters, which could not establish…
Startups / EU-Startups ·
Glovo showcased its growing influence on Europe’s entrepreneurial ecosystem at its fourth annual Startup Campus, held at its Yellow Park headquarters in Barcelona. The three-day event brought together 19 startups and 33 founders and team members for mentoring, networking and pitching…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Every year, Paris startup campus Station F tries to identify the young companies worth watching. Its latest Future 40 list names 40 startups it considers the strongest among more than 1,000 companies based at the campus in 2026. Now in its eighth edition, the Future 40 selection is based on results,…
Tech / The Verge ·
The fact our TVs are gathering our information isn't new, but what and how they're tracking - and if we can stop it - is hard to figure out. Researchers at Northeastern University monitored 12 TVs from 10 manufacturers to test whether opting out of automatic content recognition (ACR) actually works.…
Business / Fortune ·
The typical subscriber sees two or three films a month. Record revenue hasn’t yet erased AMC’s losses or the roughly $4 billion it owes.
Business / Fortune ·
Automakers are charging monthly for remote start and extra horsepower already built into cars. Next to a record $787 average car payment, the fees are easy to overlook.
Business / Fortune ·
The four largest gifts to democracy programs from 2021 to 2025 created or expanded university institutes named for Leonard Schaeffer, the Rooneys, the Karshes, and the Kinders, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Startups / EU-Startups ·
Hardt Hyperloop, a Rotterdam-based mobility systems developer, has secured a multi-million-euro investment, marking its return after one of its entities entered bankruptcy proceedings earlier this year. The investment round was led by Green Rock, a US-based investment and project development firm…
Business / Fortune ·
Abdul El-Sayed, Sherrod Brown and Amy Acton all campaigned against data centers, and even some Republicans moved their way.
Startups / EU-Startups ·
JawBuddy, a Leipzig-based HealthTech startup that helps people reduce jaw pain, bruxism, and TMJ-related tension, has raised €818k in a pre-Seed round led by healthcare platform HALBZEIT. The round was also backed by Dr. Siegfried Marquardt, a specialist in aesthetic and functional dentistry and…
Business / Fortune ·
Elon Musk’s pick lost in Texas and billionaires Vivek Ramaswamy and Rick Jackson lost their own races, though California’s wealth tax is trailing.
AI / The Verge ·
Search queries are growing at their fastest rate in five years, Google parent Alphabet said in its earnings report last week. However, Google's Search revenue growth slowed to 12 percent year over year in the third quarter, down from roughly 17 percent in the previous quarter. Meanwhile, growth in…
Business / Fortune ·
Republicans lost a six-term senator, a three-term governor and two appointed senators as voters named the cost of living a top issue.
Business / Fortune ·
The Buckeye State has become the prototype for how the country will respond to the rapid buildout of AI.
Startups / EU-Startups ·
Crediflow AI, a Manchester-based FinTech aiming to remove manual work from commercial loan processing, has secured €1.8 million (£1.5 million) in funding. The funding was led by NPIF II – PXN Equity Finance, managed by PXN Ventures as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II), a…
Business / Fortune ·
“It has been the honor of my life,” Collins said. One uncalled Maine House race will decide whether a GOP streak dating to 1854 ends.