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Samsung's Securities, SDS, and Card units jointly acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange, in a ~$446M all-cash deal (Choi Yeon-jae/The Korea Herald)

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London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security and governance platform for AI agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Balderton at an estimated $180M valuation (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

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The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from $399 in 2022 to $789 today, is the end of an era for gaming handhelds, coming amid RAMageddon, tariffs, and the Iran war (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from $399 in 202...

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As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in India's Visakhapatnam, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over "extremely high" water stress (Wall Street Journal)

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The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the DSA for allegedly failing to adequately stop the sale of illegal products; further penalties could follow (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the...

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London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a $50M Series B led by Plural (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which use...

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Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows to protect the company's 900,000 employees from AI and automation, saying it will "do everything possible" (Bloomberg)

Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows...

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The European Commission launches a full review of JD.com's €2.2B acquisition of German electronics retailer Ceconomy under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation (Bloomberg)

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UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years (Chris Vallance/BBC)

UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quant...

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Dealroom: London overtakes Paris to reclaim its position as Europe's leading tech hub, and now ranks fourth globally; London startups raised $17.7B in 2025 (Paul Sandle/Reuters)

Dealroom: London overtakes Paris to reclaim its po...

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Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence development to ensure Europe's independence from US tech giants, and signs deals to supply Airbus and BMW (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence ...

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Chip design software maker Synopsys reaches a deal with Elliott, giving one board seat to the activist investor's Jesse Cohn, after roughly two months of talks (Svea Herbst-Bayliss/Reuters)

Chip design software maker Synopsys reaches a deal...

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Sources: Australia-founded Airwallex, which Keith Rabois accused of being a "Chinese backdoor", is relocating some staff out of China amid its US expansion (Financial Times)

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As the US AI boom drains venture capital from Africa, startups on the continent are pivoting to domestic funding sources, like pension funds and local VC firms (Rivaldo Jantjies/Bloomberg)

As the US AI boom drains venture capital from Afri...

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Swedish chip optical component maker Sivers, whose stock is up ~1,700% YTD, giving it a ~$2.5B market cap, has become one of the country's most-shorted stocks (Jonas Ekblom/Bloomberg)

Swedish chip optical component maker Sivers, whose...

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Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for highly paid professionals (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found pr...

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Surging AI demand has caused shortages and price increases across the entire optical supply chain, from lasers and substrates to optical fibers and connectors (Nikkei Asia)

Surging AI demand has caused shortages and price i...

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Sources: ByteDance is developing its own CPUs to support growing AI infrastructure needs, as chip price hikes and supply shortages constrain expansion plans (Reuters)

Sources: ByteDance is developing its own CPUs to s...

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