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 …
Fusion reactor startup Helion, which has a deal to supply Microsoft with electricity by 2028, raised a $425M Series F, valuing the company at $5.245B
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch :
Document: Trump's transition team seeks to repeal a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation
#DOGE #musk — www.reuters.com/business/aut... @lorifontanes : just like pregnancy health outcomes & gun violence, data on #selfdriving #car crashes shouldn't be suppressed & is e...
South Korea says it will bolster its domestic chipmakers in 2025 with $10.2B in support including loans, citing potential economic uncertainty under Trump
Sam Kim / Bloomberg :
Source: TSMC's US division president said during a webinar that production yields in Arizona are 4 percentage points higher than at similar facilities in Taiwan
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg :
Aston Martin and Porsche preview bespoke interfaces for the next generation of Apple CarPlay, which integrates into all the displays of upcoming vehicle models
here's your first look Joseph Bryans / Display Daily : Apple Unveils Next Gen CarPlay With Porsche and Aston Martin Sebastian Pier / PhoneArena : Want to buy a Porsche in 2024? It ...
SenseTime says co-founder Tang Xiao'ou, who was also a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, died of an unspecified illness at 55; 0020.HK drops 11%
California drops its 2021 sexual harassment case against Activision Blizzard saying investigations haven't substantiated allegations; Activision will pay ~$54M
New York Times :
California drops its 2021 sexual harassment case against Activision Blizzard saying investigations haven't substantiated allegations; Activision will pay ~$54M
The California Civil Rights Department said in a settlement agreement that no “investigation has substantiated any allegations” against the video game maker.
Apple says the UK should amend its Online Safety Bill, which would mandate scanning messages for CSAM, to protect encryption, joining WhatsApp and Signal
Apple has criticised powers in the Online Safety Bill that could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage …
NHTSA data shows Tesla's FSD and Autopilot were involved in 736 US crashes since 2019, far more than reported; the most recent data includes 17+ fatal incidents
Tesla's driver-assistance system, known as Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported
Meta briefed some creators on Instagram's decentralized text-based app that may launch in June 2023 with a Twitter-like design, Mastodon compatibility, and more
Meta's hosting secret meetings with select creators to share details — [a sneak peek at Instagram's new text-based app]
SCOTUS declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge of the NSA's warrantless Upstream surveillance of foreign targets, leaving in place a lower court's 2015 dismissal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia …
Amazon's Zoox says its fully autonomous vehicle carried staff between its two main buildings in Foster City, California on public roads for the first time
Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon.com Inc., carried passengers in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time.
Amazon launches RxPass, which lets US Prime users pay $5 per month to get as many generic versions of medications as they need, initially for 80 common ailments
A profile of Matrix, an open-source, decentralized protocol for messaging interoperability that saw its network's users double in 2022 to at least 80.3M
After years of walled gardens, cross-pollination could be in sight — Interoperability and decentralization have been major themes in tech this year … Tweets: @hannan_rai , @rschu...
Sources say Apple and Meta gave user data to hackers in response to forged Emergency Data Requests; Discord said it had also fulfilled a forged legal request
Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials …
Hackers are compromising police and government email accounts to send Emergency Data Requests to ISPs, telecoms, social networks, and others, who quickly comply
How Web3 apps and wallets inevitably depend on centralized services like OpenSea, Infura, and Alchemy, which don't even provide authenticated responses
Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”
I've been thinking about Matt Mullenweg's response to Brian Armstrong's response … Rick Webb / Webb Chatham Report : Good morning. Hello. How are you? #562 Cooper Midroni / Future ...