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Meta says it will continue to operate and sell the Manus service, and Manus' talent will join Meta to deliver agents across Meta products, including Meta AI (Meta)
2025-12-30 00:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
UK-based Octopus Energy reaches a deal to sell about $1B of equity in Kraken Technologies, its tech spin-off, at an $8.65B valuation to a syndicate of investors (Financial Times)
2025-12-30 00:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta agrees to acquire Singapore-based startup Manus, which makes an AI agent it sells to SMBs; Manus said in December its annual revenue run rate was $125M+ (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
2025-12-29 23:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How diamonds are being converted to quantum sensors by inserting tiny imperfections, opening up potential uses in medicine, brain-computer interfaces, and more (Financial Times)
2025-12-29 22:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Japan's viral horse racing game Umamusume, developed by Cygames, passed 30M downloads in Asia, spurring anime adaptations, concerts, and new racetrack fans (Katria Alampay/Bloomberg)
2025-12-29 20:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and data centers, as pro-business Democrats oppose the fiery, anti-AI politics of the progressive wing (Calder McHugh/Politico)
2025-12-29 20:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Michał Kiciński, co-founder of CD Projekt and DRM-free digital games store GOG, has acquired 100% of the shares in GOG from CD Projekt (Vikki Blake/Eurogamer.net)
2025-12-29 18:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China's SMIC plans to acquire the remaining 49% stake in its SMNC unit for ~$5.8B, making the unit wholly owned; SMNC focuses on 12" integrated circuit wafers (Reuters)
2025-12-29 16:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Samsung and Google partner to bring Google Photos to TizenOS-powered TVs, launching in March 2026 and showing curated memories, ahead of CES 2026 (Rajesh Pandey/Android Police)
2025-12-29 15:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SoftBank agrees to acquire NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and digital infrastructure operators, for $4B in cash (Bloomberg)
2025-12-29 14:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ACCA, the world's largest accounting body, says it is ending remote exams to combat a rise in students cheating by using AI tools when taking tests (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)
2025-12-29 14:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources detail how JD Vance, David Sacks, and others brokered a fragile truce between President Trump and Elon Musk, who threatened to fund an America Party (Washington Post)
2025-12-29 14:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Coupang says it is offering $1B+ in compensation to all 33.7M customers affected by South Korea's biggest-ever data breach, after an ex-staffer accessed data (Shinhye Kang/Bloomberg)
2025-12-29 12:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China's central bank unveils an overhaul of its digital yuan framework, including saying that commercial banks will soon begin paying interest on holdings (Timmy Shen/The Block)
2025-12-29 13:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SEC filing: Nvidia acquires Intel shares worth $5B, carrying out a transaction announced in September, buying 214.7M shares for $23.28 each (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
2025-12-29 13:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
PitchBook: the biggest US private startups raised $150B in 2025, surpassing the previous high of $92B in 2021, boosted by large funding rounds by AI startups (George Hammond/Financial Times)
2025-12-29 11:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Framework says it is raising DDR5 RAM prices to charge $10 per GB, after a price hike earlier in December due to "substantially higher costs" amid the AI boom (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2025-12-29 12:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A Kapwing study of the 15,000 top YouTube channels finds 278 of them have only posted AI-generated "slop" videos, amassing 63B+ views and 221M+ subscribers (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
2025-12-29 10:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to buy NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and digital infrastructure operators (Bloomberg)
2025-12-29 10:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Since the GENIUS Act's passage in July, the total value of stablecoins circulating rose from ~$250B to $300B+, as they become the "respectable" face of crypto (Joel Khalili/Wired)
2025-12-29 08:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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