Sources citing Firmus' IPO draft prospectus: the Australian data center operator expects to report a $77M loss after tax for H1 FY27 as it prepares to raise $5B (Christine Chen/Reuters)

Sources citing Firmus' IPO draft prospectus: the Australian data center operator expects to report a $77M loss after tax for…

FBI investigates claim by hackers they stole data on all agency staff

FBI investigates claim by hackers they stole data on all agency staff https://bit.ly/4hI67a9 The hackers claim they have every a…

Pornhub investigated over its age checks

Pornhub investigated over its age checks https://bit.ly/4hnAYYw The regulator said it had concerns Aylo "may not have condu…

German publisher C.H.BECK takes a majority stake in Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents and raised a $100M+ Series C (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

German publisher C.H.BECK takes a majority stake in Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documen…

Chinese optical transceiver maker Ligent jumps 19% in its Hong Kong debut, giving it a ~$4.6B market cap, after raising ~$727M, the latest Hong Kong AI IPO (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

Chinese optical transceiver maker Ligent jumps 19% in its Hong Kong debut, giving it a ~$4.6B market cap, after raising ~$727M, …

Some universities have barred using AI detectors due to student-instructor distrust over false positives; some educators have just cancelled writing assignments (Will Oremus/The Atlantic)

Some universities have barred using AI detectors due to student-instructor distrust over false positives; some educators have ju…

How the Clarity Act, heavily lobbied by Coinbase's Brian Armstrong and the crypto industry, and opposed by banks over stablecoin yields, collapsed in the Senate (Wall Street Journal)

How the Clarity Act, heavily lobbied by Coinbase's Brian Armstrong and the crypto industry, and opposed by banks over stable…

Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals (Josipa Majic Predin/Forbes)

Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT…

A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ staff (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple starte…

An interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi Foundation, his skepticism of AI evangelists, AI driving edge compute device demand, and more (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

An interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi Foundation, his skepticism of AI evangelists, AI driving edge …

US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others say several state-level AI chatbot safety bills included language that could provide loopholes for tech companies (Katie McQue/NPR)

US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others say several state-level AI chatbot safety bills included language that could provide l…

Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times (Axios)

Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their disput…

Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M S…

ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work (Anup Roy/Bloomberg)

ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country…

Paris prosecutors open at least one criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving the use of smart glasses to film women in public without consent (Reuters)

Paris prosecutors open at least one criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving the use of smart glasses to film w…

Sources: Chinese DRAM leader CXMT is preparing to expand into flash memory, competing with Samsung and domestic rival YMTC amid an AI-driven memory shortage (Reuters)

Sources: Chinese DRAM leader CXMT is preparing to expand into flash memory, competing with Samsung and domestic rival YMTC amid …

How beauty companies like Qoves are commercializing facial-analysis algorithms that evaluate geometric proportions, balding, and more to prescribe treatments (Alice Lassman/Bloomberg)

How beauty companies like Qoves are commercializing facial-analysis algorithms that evaluate geometric proportions, balding, and…

Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)

Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets …

Sources: Anthropic has signed its first Australian data center lease for a planned 2.16GW campus located ~150 miles from Brisbane, set to come online in 2027 (Byron Kaye/Reuters)

Sources: Anthropic has signed its first Australian data center lease for a planned 2.16GW campus located ~150 miles from Brisban…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing a blanket ban on social media for kids under 13 (New York Times)

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing a blanket ban on s…