Chinese startup AgiBot said on Monday that the number of humanoids it has manufactured just reached 5,000, hitting a new milestone in its mass production. AgiBotâs announcement is the latest example of how Chinese companies are ramping up their production of humanoid robots. Last month, UBTech, ... Read more âș
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IBM is in advanced talks to acquire data analytics company Confluent for roughly $11 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. Confluent, which currently has a market capitalization of around $8 billion, provides infrastructure for analyzing and processing real-time data used in artificial ... Read more âș
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A new securities filing shows that corporate communications strategist Lulu Cheng Meservey has raised $40 million for a venture capital fund. Cheng Meservey has worked with clients like Ramp and Safe Superintelligence at her advisory firm, Rostra. She previously was an executive at ... Read more âș
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Step aside, young folks of tech. This week we hear from the industryâs, ah, elder statesmenâspecifically Larry Ellison at Oracle and Hock Tan from Broadcom, whose combined age is about 150. Oracle and Broadcom are each reporting their latest quarterly earnings this week, when the status of their newish AI businesses will be in the spotlight. In the case of Oracle, weâll be looking for an update on its AI-related... Read more âș
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Instrumental in helping OpenAIâs ChatGPT retain its lead as the dominant artificial intelligence is a low-profile, 30-year-old product manager named Nick Turley, The Information reported on Saturday. Turley, a former Instacart and Dropbox product executive, envisions OpenAIâs flagship chatbot ... Read more âș
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X has cut off the advertising account of the European Commission days after the agency imposed a 120 million fine on the platform for breaching the Digital Services Act, a set of regulations governing internet companies. Nikita Bier, Xâs head of product, wrote in a post on X on Sunday that the ... Read more âș
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U.S. tech mergers rebounded to their highest levels since 2021 this year, driven by big bets on AI and more tie-ups under a deal-friendly presidential administration. Total tech merger value reached $543 billion, more than the combined value of the past two years, according to data provider LSEG. Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst topped the charts for the year, both earning more than $400 million in fees. Read more âș
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The executive in charge of Appleâs hugely successful in-house chip design efforts is eyeing an exit from the company, Bloomberg reported. Johny Srouji, Appleâs senior vice president of hardware technologies, has told the companyâs CEO, Tim Cook, that he is âseriously consideringâ departing Apple ... Read more âș
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Meta Platforms has postponed the launch of its next-generation mixed-reality glasses, code-named Phoenix, from the second half of 2026 to the first half of 2027, Business Insider reported. In internal memos shared with employees, Meta leaders said the delay will give its teams more time to ... Read more âș
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently declared a âcode redâ to galvanize the AI startupâs staff to make bigger improvements to its flagship product, ChatGPT. The success of that push could hinge on Nick Turley, the little-known executive who runs the OpenAI chatbot. Turley, 30 years old, came to OpenAI three years ago after stints at Dropbox and Instacart, and since that time he has emerged as one of the AI... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! First, an exciting announcement: Amy Dockser Marcus, a Pulitzer Prizeâwinning former Wall Street Journal reporter, is joining The Information to cover health and science for Weekend. She begins next week. Amy has long chronicled those two fields, penning memorable pieces about fertility, DNA testing and how many of you badly want to live quite a long time. I canât wait to share her stories here. Goodness only knows... Read more âș
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An earthquake shook the sporting universe this week: Serena Williams, the 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion, has taken the first step toward a potential comeback by reentering the sportâs anti-doping test pool. After news reports surfaced on Tuesday of her registration with the International Tennis Integrity Agency, Williams tried to quell speculation about a potential return to play for the first time since 2022. âOmg yall Iâm NOT coming back,â... Read more âș
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Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell, another maker of custom chips, according to one person involved in the discussions. Those discussions come amid intense demand for such chips as companies like ... Read more âș
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Google cannot require partners like Apple or Samsung to distribute its generative AI products like Gemini as a condition of licensing Googleâs other apps such as Google Maps, a federal judge ruled on Friday as part of the final remedies judgment governing how Google must address its illegal ... Read more âș
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Meta Platforms has agreed to buy Limitless, a startup developing wearable AI devices, Limitless announced Friday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Limitless develops a device called a Pendant that can be clipped to an article of clothing or worn on a necklace. The device records ... Read more âș
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Texas billionaire banker Andy Beal, a big donor to President Donald Trump, is shifting the focus of one of two banks he owns to crypto. The move would ease a bottleneck that has made it difficult for the crypto industry to access the financial system. Beal is renaming Beal Bank, one of the two federally chartered banks he owns, Monet Bank, according to a regulatory approval issued by the Texas... Read more âș
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Elon Muskâs SpaceX has told investors and financial institution representatives that it is aiming for an initial public offering in the second half of next year, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The talks come as SpaceX considers holding a sale of shares held by investors and employees that would value the company at $800 billion, double its valuation in a sale this summer, in what would make... Read more âș
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Japanese conglomerate SoftBank is in talks to acquire DigitalBridge, one of the largest publicly-traded investors in data center companies, Bloomberg reported. A deal could be signed as soon as the coming weeks, but the talks are ongoing and wonât necessarily result in an agreement, the outlet ... Read more âș
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Microsoftâs shareholders approved the boardâs proposed compensation for CEO Satya Nadella and other top executives on Friday, raising Nadellaâs pay to $96.5 million, up from $79.1 million last year. The majority of Nadellaâs compensation will come from stock awards, while his base salary is $2.5 ... Read more âș
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Early last year, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan decided to host what he likes to call a âcoffee chatâ with the employees of VMware, the software giant that the Broadcom CEO had recently purchased for $84 billion. The companywide meeting was Tanâs effort to introduce himself and answer questions from those employees about life at the semiconductor firm. At that time, VMwareâs Palo Alto, Calif., campus sprawled over 18 buildings and... Read more âș
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