Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Sources: ByteDance shares are trading at a $600B+ valuation in gray markets; an IPO is unlikely and its growth continues to benefit its Chinese and US backers (Henny Sender/Nikkei Asia)

Techmeme

China adds ten US companies, including MP Materials and Teal Drones, to export controls and bars government purchases from 46 US companies, including Anduril (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)

Techmeme

Shenzhen-listed Apple supplier Lingyi iTech seeks to raise $1.1B in a June 26 Hong Kong debut, as the electronic parts maker expands into AI hardware and robots (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

Techmeme

Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all staff in Korea and DX division staff globally; OpenAI says it's one of its largest enterprise deployments (Kim Su-jeong/CHOSUNBIZ)

Techmeme

Japan's top five chip equipment makers posted their first-ever fall in combined China sales, down 10% in the year ended March 31, as China boosts local players (Nikkei Asia)

Techmeme

Sources: Shanghai-based Coowa, which develops embodied AI robots, plans to file a Hong Kong IPO; Coowa was valued at $3B after raising $600M in its latest round (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

San Diego-based Aether AI, which is building "causal world models" to teach robots cause and effect instead of pattern-matching, raised a $20M seed led by MPCi (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)

Techmeme

Toto, Japan's largest toilet maker, plans to invest $495M by 2030 to expand its semiconductor materials unit, targeting R&D for next-gen 1nm chip production (Nikkei Asia)

Techmeme

As Europe falls behind the US and China in consumer AI, its engineering companies and AI startups are turning to industrial AI applications to boost efficiency (Marilen Martin/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

SF-based Humble Robotics, which is developing an electric, self-driving cabless freight truck with 200 miles range and 55 mph max speed, raised $24M (Caroline Petrow-Cohen/Los Angeles Times)

Techmeme

Sources: Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree have deployed tech to disable phones stolen from their stores, after phone makers resisted broader antitheft measures (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

Techmeme

Sources: Anduril has begun exploring the possibility of establishing operations in Israel and is in talks to recruit a local manager (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

Techmeme

Sources: John Ternus gets ready to put his firm imprint on Apple's industrial design team, which has lost a true seat at Apple's exec table over the past decade (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

SoftBank says it is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments and has completed only two new deals over the past two years (Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Investigation: Polymarket is paying creators to make deceptive videos about winning bets, targeting users in the US, where its primary crypto platform is banned (Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

Inside Palantir's fight to save its £330M, seven-year contract with NHS England, as public and political pressure grows to end the deal via a 2027 break clause (Financial Times)

Techmeme

Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states (Mariana Catacci/CNN)

Techmeme

A look at Jane Street's push to supercharge trading with AI and become a major AI investor; it invested $1B in CoreWeave in April and has a stake in Anthropic (Gregory Zuckerman/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

A look at "humanizer" and "autotyper" apps that help students evade AI-detection software by slowly auto-typing essays and making AI text sound less robotic (Dana Goldstein/New York Times)

Techmeme

A speculative scenario titled "Europe 2031" projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race (Aisha Down/The Guardian)

Techmeme