Omnea, which makes AI tools for automating procurement, raised a $50M Series B led by Insight Partners and Khosla Ventures, taking its total funding to $75M (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Circuit & Chisel, whose ATXP protocol enables AI agents to make autonomous payments, raised a $19.2M seed led by Primary Venture Partners and ParaFi (Leo Schwartz/Fortune) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Google adds Gemini to Google TV, starting on TCL's new QM9K series TVs and expanding to Google TV Streamer 4K and other major TV brands later in 2025 (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Jensen Huang says the 10 GW OpenAI project is equivalent to 4M-5M GPUs; the first phase is expected to come online in H2 2026 using Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform (Kif Leswing/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Bitcoin-treasury company Strive, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, will acquire Semler Scientific, a medical device company that has a bitcoin treasury, for $1.34B (Ateev Bhandari/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Nvidia and OpenAI announce a partnership to deploy at least 10 GW of Nvidia systems for OpenAI's infrastructure, with Nvidia planning to invest $100B in OpenAI (OpenAI) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

MediaTek unveils its 3nm Dimensity 9500 mobile SoC, featuring an 8-core CPU, 12-core GPU with hardware ray tracing, and its ninth-gen MediaTek NPU 990 (Hadlee Simons/Android Authority) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Scale AI launches SEAL Showdown, a public AI benchmarking system that relies on votes from contributors in 100+ countries to gauge everyday usability of models (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The RIAA amends its lawsuit against Suno, now accusing it of unlawfully "stream ripping" songs on YouTube and violating the DMCA (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

A White House official says the US will not hold a golden share or equity in TikTok US and the new board will not have a member selected by the US government (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

AppZen, which builds AI-powered tools to automate finance functions, raised a $180M Series D led by Riverwood Capital, bringing its total funding to $290M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The $100K+ H-1B fee could accelerate offshoring as tech companies route work to India and other countries rather than bringing engineers to the US (Manish Singh/India Dispatch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Sources: smart ring maker Oura is raising an $875M+ Series E at a $10.9B valuation, up from $5B in November 2024, and has sold ~3M rings over the past year (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The US v. Google ad tech trial, in which a judge ruled that the company illegally monopolized the digital ad market, begins its remedies phase (Digiday) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Google DeepMind updates its Frontier Safety Framework to account for new risks, including the potential for models to resist shutdown or modification by humans (Ina Fried/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Oracle promotes Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-CEOs, replacing Safra Catz; Magouyrk previously led Cloud Infrastructure, and Sicilia led Oracle Industries (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Cardless, which lets Coinbase and others launch co-branded credit cards, raised $60M and projects annualized revenue will grow from $15M now to $150M by Q2 2026 (Emily Mason/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

White House says TikTok's new US entity would lease a copy of the algorithm from ByteDance, which Oracle would retrain; users won't need to re-download the app (Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The GSA adds Meta's Llama to its list of approved AI tools for US federal agencies, after previously approving Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and Open AI's tools (Courtney Rozen/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Low prices, available land, and cooler weather are driving the data center boom in the Nordics, which have 1.5 GW of capacity live and 7.5 GW in the pipeline (Maggie Shiltagh/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

UK-based Tide, a neobank used by 1.6M micro and small enterprises, half of them in India, raised $120M led by TPG at a $1.5B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

A look at the data center cluster in the Chinese city of Wuhu, where 15 companies, including Huawei, have built data centers with a total investment of $37B (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The EU Commission is considering tweaking rules to simplify users' cookie preference settings, after its 2009 rule plastered the internet with consent banners (Ellen O'Regan/Politico) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

How Seattle, transformed into a tech hub by Amazon and Microsoft's explosive growth, is grappling with the companies' layoffs affecting local economy (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

In an interview, Brian Armstrong says Coinbase plans to become a financial super app that integrates its crypto offering with traditional banking services (CoinDesk) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Ethereum's "low-risk DeFi" applications like payments and savings could drive the chain's revenue in a similar way that search and ads sustain Google's business (Vitalik Buterin/Vitalik Buterin's website) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

OECD lists 1,300+ AI regulations, guidelines, and other policies worldwide as of September 2025, up ~30% since 2022, but international cooperation has stalled (Naoki Watanabe/Nikkei Asia) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

A look at UAE-based Khazna, a real estate company that builds and rents out data centers and controls 70% of the country's operational data center capacity (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

A profile of Derek Li, founder of China's top adaptive learning edtech Squirrel AI, whose business is fueled by the country's relentless academic pressure (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

A look at life in online scam compounds run by Chinese gangs on the Myanmar-Thai border, with purported Thai immigration officials luring trafficking victims (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The UK FCA has improved its crypto registration process, reducing approval times and increasing acceptance rate after criticism it was too slow and restrictive (Martin Arnold/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Trump administration's $100,000 H-1B fee threatens India's $280B IT services sector, which heavily relies on H-1B visas to deploy engineers to US client sites (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

UK-based startup Mantic ranked #8 in the Metaculus forecasting cup that asks entrants to predict 60 geopolitical events, the first time an AI made the top 10 (Nikita Ostrovsky/Time) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The FTC's 2023 lawsuit against Amazon goes to trial this week, alleging it used misleading tactics to entice people into Prime and made cancellation difficult (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Markup AI, which scans, scores, and rewrites AI-generated content to ensure brand compliance for content marketers, raised a $27.5M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Kredete, which helps Africans abroad build credit while sending money home, raised a $22M Series A and launches Africa's first stablecoin-backed credit card (John Adoyi/TechCabal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Interviews with Apple's Tim Millet, Arun Mathias, and Kaiann Drance on the new neural accelerators in A19 Pro GPU cores, C1X modem, N1 wireless chip, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Trump says Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch "is involved" in the ownership group for TikTok US and "Rupert is probably going to be in the group" along with Michael Dell (Erin Doherty/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Inside the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack, which forced a shutdown of most systems and is likely to cost the company hundreds of millions of pounds (The Guardian) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

A review of Tim Berners-Lee's new book This is for Everyone, while his startup Inrupt, which aims to commercialize the Solid web protocol, struggles to scale (John Thornhill/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Ultralytics, which develops the YOLO series of open-source computer vision models and sells commercial licenses, raised a $30M Series A led by Elephant VC (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

An inside look at Léon Thévenin, the only undersea internet cable repair ship permanently stationed in Africa, operated by the French telecom company Orange (Rest of World) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

As carriers deploy protections against fraudulent texts, scammers are using "SMS blasters" that impersonate base stations to send fake messages to nearby phones (Matt Burgess/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

White House Press Secretary says the $100K H-1B fee is not an annual fee and it is a "one-time fee that applies only to the petition" in the upcoming lottery (Karoline Leavitt/@presssec) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Researchers suggest LLM-powered medical AI tools understate the severity of symptoms in female patients and show less "empathy" toward Black and Asian patients (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

A profile of Edwin Chen, the CEO of Surge AI, a Scale AI rival that had $1.2B revenue in 2024, is profitable, and is reportedly raising $1B at a $30B valuation (Phoebe Liu/Forbes) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the top 30 Hong Kong-listed tech stocks, is up 41% YTD vs. Nasdaq's 17%, driven by AI and China's chip self-sufficiency push (William Sandlund/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Amazon expands Multichannel Fulfillment to let Walmart sellers use Amazon's logistics network to deliver orders and announces support for Shein by year-end (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Diplomats say the EU is moving to exclude Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon from the new Financial Data Access system to protect the bloc's "digital sovereignty" (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

iPhone Air teardown: clever use of space by placing the logic board above the 12.26 Wh battery, the same cell used in Apple's MagSafe Battery pack, and more (Elizabeth Chamberlain/iFixit News) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink