SoftBank says it has secured a $40B bridge loan maturing in 2027 from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and other banks, to fund further investment in OpenAI (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

SoftBank says it has secured a $40B bridge loan maturing in 2027 from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and other banks, to fund fu…

Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance plan to order Huawei's new 950PR AI chip after tests show better CUDA compatibility; Huawei targets ~750K 950PR shipments in 2026 (Reuters)

Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance plan to order Huawei's new 950PR AI chip after tests show better CUDA compatibility; Huawei t…

Rocket stocks soar on report Musk's SpaceX to file for share sale

Rocket stocks soar on report Musk's SpaceX to file for share sale https://ift.tt/fV7iqBA Reports it plans the biggest listin…

BTS comeback concert on Netflix draws 18.4m global viewers

BTS comeback concert on Netflix draws 18.4m global viewers https://ift.tt/7SyQBAv The livestreamed show saw the band perform tog…

Uber partners with China's Pony AI and Croatia-based, Rimac-spinoff Verne to launch Europe's first commercial robotaxi service, initially debuting in Zagreb (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Uber partners with China's Pony AI and Croatia-based, Rimac-spinoff Verne to launch Europe's first commercial robotaxi s…

The $6M LA social media verdict is a win for the plaintiffs bar, not kids or society; parenting helps limit such harms, and most kids don't face severe issues (Wall Street Journal)

The $6M LA social media verdict is a win for the plaintiffs bar, not kids or society; parenting helps limit such harms, and most…

US digital rights group Holistic Resilience launched Mahsa Alert to provide Iranians with offline mapping and strike notifications, hitting 100K DAUs in days (Wired)

US digital rights group Holistic Resilience launched Mahsa Alert to provide Iranians with offline mapping and strike notificatio…

OpenAI hires Kiran Mani, the CEO of Indian streaming platform JioStar, for a newly created role leading its Asia-Pacific operations, reporting to CSO Jason Kwon (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

OpenAI hires Kiran Mani, the CEO of Indian streaming platform JioStar, for a newly created role leading its Asia-Pacific operati…

Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of "AGI Deployment" (Alex Heath/Sources)

Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji …

London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, a £1.7B pre-tax profit, up from £1.1B in 2024, and customers up 33%, as it moves to become a bank (Elena Vardon/Wall Street Journal)

London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, a £1.7B pre-tax profit, up from £1.1B in 2024, and customers up 3…

SK Hynix plans to spend ~$8B to buy cutting-edge EUV lithography chipmaking tools from ASML through 2027, as it competes with Samsung to supply DRAM and HBM (Bloomberg)

SK Hynix plans to spend ~$8B to buy cutting-edge EUV lithography chipmaking tools from ASML through 2027, as it competes with Sa…