Victoria Song / The Verge:
Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: identical to the Watch 7 with similar health features, but has the guts of a three-year-old Watch 4, poor battery, and one size — As an entry-level device, the FE doesn’t quite nail the right mix of price, features, and hardware. … Everybody loves a deal.
Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024 (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes Online)
Meytal Vaizberg / Globes Online:
Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024 — Cyera has more than doubled its valuation since its most recent financing round in April 2024, when it also raised $300 million.
As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing AI training returns, a break from the market hype could be useful, just as with previous innovations (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
Parmy Olson / Bloomberg:
As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing AI training returns, a break from the market hype could be useful, just as with previous innovations — Businesses will benefit from some much-needed breathing space to figure out how to deliver that all-important return on investment.
How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits — Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
SMIC’s Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China’s chip self-reliance push (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
SMIC’s Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China’s chip self-reliance push — – SMIC has more than doubled in two months as market eyes Trump — Competition looms and valuation not attractive: Morgan Stanley
Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website’s focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse” (Mia Sato/The Verge)
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website’s focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse” — Google is tightening its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles and pages that often have little …
Klarna’s US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the absence of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for an IPO (Richard Milne/Financial Times)
Richard Milne / Financial Times:
Klarna’s US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the absence of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for an IPO — Until there is a single market in areas from services to capital markets, more companies will choose American exchanges
ProRata, which is launching an AI search engine next month, inks licensing deals with DMG Media and more; sources say DMG bought a stake that values it at $130M (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
ProRata, which is launching an AI search engine next month, inks licensing deals with DMG Media and more; sources say DMG bought a stake that values it at $130M — Groups including Guardian, Telegraph and Daily Mail agree licensing deals to ensure payment for content
An investigation reveals how 3B+ phone coordinates collected by a US data broker Datastream expose movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany (Wired)
Wired:
An investigation reveals how 3B+ phone coordinates collected by a US data broker Datastream expose movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany — More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers …
How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn new skills and tasks (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn new skills and tasks — Advances in physical AI mean machines are learning skills previously thought impossible — “This is not science fiction,” …
