The Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Project Intercept, a partnership with Google, TikTok, and Meta, sent 70M+ warning messages to users seeking CSAM in two years (Shiona McCallum/BBC)
Tech Blog
Published on 2026-05-13
Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$28.9B, below ~$29.4B est., and net income of ~$8.5B, meeting est., amid a costly AI pivot; its stock is down 23% YTD (Bloomberg)
SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~$11.6B, above ~$1.5B est., driven by a $25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit $64.6B (David Keohane/Financial Times)
Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised $650M+ from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a $4B valuation to pursue "recursive self-improvement" (Cade Metz/New York Times)
Anduril raised a $5B Series H led by Thrive and a16z at a $61B valuation, up from $30.5B in June 2025, taking its total funding to $6.82B, and may IPO in 2027 (Sheera Frenkel/New York Times)
Q&A with Amazon head of devices and services Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, the Leo satellite broadband business, and more (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
How the Strait of Hormuz blockade is disrupting global chip supply chains, affecting supplies of helium, bromine, sulfur, and thinners essential to chipmaking (Bloomberg)
China's move to block Meta's Manus acquisition challenges the "Singapore washing" model, as major Chinese tech companies build significant Singapore presences (Owen Walker/Financial Times)
The Facebook House in Los Altos, Mark Zuckerberg's former residence, has become a hub for Chinese AI talent, who are a key part of Silicon Valley's AI boom (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
Analysts say AI fervor in the US and Asia has spread to Europe, boosting stocks like STMicro and Nokia as investors seek the AI boom's pick-and-shovel stocks (Financial Times)
