OpenClaw mania hits China: AI labs launch tools to help users deploy OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts a policy encouraging free OpenClaw services, and more
Chinese software shares surged Monday after local government agencies joined tech leaders such as Tencent Holdings Ltd …
How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral
Piketty was wrong about the past. He's probably right about the future. — 1. Introduction X: @briancalbrecht , @saikatc , @harryh , @jankulveit , @daniel_271828 , @krishnanrohit...
SoftBank Group agrees to acquire ABB's robotics business, which generated $2.3B in sales in 2024, for $5.4B; ABB expects the deal to close in mid-to-late 2026
SoftBank Group (9984.T) said on Wednesday it has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB (ABBN.S) in a $5.4 billion deal.
Leaked a16z decks: $25B in net returns since its 2009 founding, including $11.2B in 2021, and 56 unicorn investments in the past 10 years, the most of any firm
The firm has held its $900 million 2012 Fund III at 9.4x net TVPI. — ∙ Paid — Andreessen Horowitz is perhaps … X: @iamhenrymascot , @doodcapital , @iamjakestream , @ctjlewis , ...
Elon Musk says xAI acquired X in an all-stock deal valuing xAI at $80B and X at $33B; xAI was reportedly in talks to raise funds in February at a $75B valuation
Elon Musk said on Friday that his startup xAI has merged with X, his social network, in an all-stock transaction that values …
OpenAI says it has seen some evidence that DeepSeek used “distillation” to train its open-source competitor by using outputs from OpenAI's proprietary models
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who oversees Big Tech regulation, says he is stepping down over a rift with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
Thierry Breton of France stepped down as a member of the European Commission on Monday and will no longer be his country's candidate …
Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in beta in October for US English language users, in more English countries in December, and in other languages in 2025
Apple today announced that Apple Intelligence will begin in beta starting in October, with iOS 18.1.
OpenSea suffered a database outage affecting some services that rely on its APIs to display NFTs, including Twitter and MetaMask; the issue has been fixed
OpenSea suffered a database outage affecting some services that rely on its APIs to display NFTs, including Twitter and MetaMask; the issue has been fixed
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Google researchers detail an AI system that outperforms humans in designing floorplans for microchips, promising better and more rapidly produced chip designs
A look back at HOTorNOT, created in 2000 by two UC Berkeley grads on a lark, which was one of the first popular sites to let users create a public profile
How “Huang's Law”, gains in AI chip performance even faster than Moore's Law, moves data processing from the cloud to the edge and may explain Nvidia's Arm deal
The rule that the same dollar buys twice the computing power every 18 months is no longer true, but a new law …Tweets:@pstasiatech,@eghosao,@octonion,@donal888,@paul_vucity,@mims,@...
How decentralized cryptonetworks, with better incentives for developers, can win against centralized platforms like Google in the next era of the internet
The first two eras of the internet — During the first era of the internet—from the 1980s through the early 2000s …