Sources: Nvidia's China-only RTX 6000D receives lukewarm demand, with some seeing it as expensive given its performance lags the RTX 5090 (Reuters)
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Published on 2025-09-16
China says US spin-off of TikTok will use ByteDance's Chinese algorithm and the deal with the US includes "licensing the algorithm and other IP rights" (Financial Times)
Amazon plans to hold its 2025 Prime Big Deal Days from October 7 at 12:01am PT through October 8, exclusive to Prime subscribers (Brandon Russell/The Verge)
Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek tightened its grip on Meta's AI glasses supply chain, including making "Hypernova", through a spate of dealmaking (Financial Times)
OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as business finance officer, reporting to CFO Sarah Friar, to oversee infrastructure spend; he left xAI in July (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
Shanghai-based, US-listed lidar maker Hesai jumped 7.7% in its Hong Kong debut, giving the company a ~$4.5B market cap after raising ~$514M from the IPO (Nikkei Asia)
Nothing raised a $200M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.3B valuation, taking the total funding to $450M+, and says it had $1B in total sales in early 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Google plans to invest £5B in the UK on AI, energy, R&D, and more over the next two years, and expects to add 8,000 jobs a year at businesses across the country (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
A study finds that six major AI chatbots can be easily tricked into creating phishing emails targeting elderly people, despite being trained not to (Reuters)
