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Blackrock-backed Minute Media acquires Indian AI startup that extracts sports highlights

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-06 14:00:00

BlackRock and Goldman Sachs-backed media startup Minute Media, which owns properties like Sports Illustrated, The Players’ Tribune, and 90 Minutes, announced Monday that it is acquiring VideoVerse, an Indian AI startup that lets broadcasters extract highlights and create content from sports footage. VideoVerse’s clients include the Indian Premier League and Women’s Premier League Cricket tournaments, FIFA+, and broadcasters Nippon TV and Cubber TV. Mumbai-based VideoVerse was founded in 2016 by

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China’s Unitree plans $7 billion IPO valuation, Reuters reports, as humanoid robot race heats up

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-06 22:59:40

Humanoid robot from Unitree Robotics after a boxing match during the World Smart Industry Expo 2025 at Chongqing International Expo Center in Chongqing, China on September 7, 2025. Unitree Robotics, one of China's hottest technology startups, is planning an initial public offering that could value the company at up to 50 billion yuan ($7 billion), and help establish itself as a global leader in humanoid robots. So-called humanoid robots are artificial intelligence-powered machines designed to

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Genki will pay Nintendo damages over 3D-printed Switch 2

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-06 21:50:10

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nintendo has settled the lawsuit it filed against accessory maker Genki over the Switch 2 mockup it showcased at CES before the console was officially revealed, and accessories it promoted using the Switch 2 name. Genki’s parent company, Human Things, will pay Nintendo an undisclosed amount of money in damages to close the case, according to a legal filing submitted on Monday, and has agreed to stop giving i

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OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-06 23:00:44

In Brief OpenAI executives are discussing a potential relocation out of California as increasing political resistance threatens the company’s efforts to convert from nonprofit to for-profit status, according to The WSJ, though the company says it has no plans to leave. California’s attorney general is investigating whether OpenAI’s restructuring violates state charitable trust law, while a coalition of nonprofits, labor groups, philanthropies, and even rival Meta are pushing back against the c

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Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-10-07 01:00:00

A leak of more than 100,000 documents shows that a little-known Chinese company has been quietly selling censorship systems seemingly modeled on the Great Firewall to governments around the world. Geedge Networks, a company founded in 2018 that counts the “father” of China’s massive censorship infrastructure as one of its investors, styles itself as a network-monitoring provider, offering business-grade cybersecurity tools to “gain comprehensive visibility and minimize security risks” for its c

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Snap breaks into ‘startup squads’ as ad revenue stalls

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-06 23:41:29

In Brief Snap is breaking itself apart and rebuilding from within. In a new annual company letter, CEO Evan Spiegel just announced the company is restructuring around small “startup squads” of 10 to 15 people to better compete against larger competitors. The move comes as the 5,000-person company faces mounting pressure. Advertising revenue growth flatlined at 4% in the second quarter, and North American daily active users declined 2% to 98 million, a troubling sign in Snap’s most important ma

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Intel’s chief executive of products departs among other leadership changes

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-07 02:22:13

Semiconductor giant Intel continues to shake up its senior leadership since Lip-Bu Tan took the helm as CEO in March. Intel announced Monday that Michelle Johnston Holthaus will depart the company after more than three decades. Johnston Holthhaus was most recently chief executive officer of Intel products and will remain a strategic adviser. The company also announced the creation of a central engineering group that will build a new custom silicon business for outside customers, according to I

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Netskope follows Rubrik as a rare cybersecurity IPO, both backed by Lightspeed

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-10-07 06:35:58

Cybersecurity is a massive sector, but startups in the category are more likely to be acquired than go public. Even Wiz, which for a time held the title of the fastest-growing startup, abandoned its IPO ambitions when it agreed to sell to Google earlier this year. In the past few years, there have been scant few significant cybersecurity debuts such as SentinelOne in 2021, and Rubrik last year. Next week, the sector is expected to add one more public company: the cloud cybersecurity platform N

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Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 10:26:07

WhatsApp’s former head of cybersecurity filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that parent company Meta disregarded internal flaws in the app’s digital defenses and exposed billions of its users. He says the company systematically violated cybersecurity regulations and retaliated against him for reporting the failures. Attaullah Baig, who served as head of security for WhatsApp from 2021 to 2025, claims that approximately 1,500 engineers had unrestricted access to user data without proper oversight

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Trump’s Policies Are Shutting Out Americans From the Coolest New Gadgets

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-07 14:10:46

Tech companies big and small now struggle to tantalize you with tech without telling you how much it will cost, or—hell—whether you can even buy it. The still-ongoing IFA 2025 tech conference in Berlin proved how merely shipping tech to the U.S. is more tenuous than at any time in the last few decades. From what I saw and heard both on the floor and off, it became clear that the era of plentiful, affordable, and cool shit will melt away in favor of an epoch of dull and ever-more expensive tech.

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Google expands AI Mode beyond English for the first time

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 18:22:45

Google is opening up AI Mode to more languages. Starting today, the AI chatbot the company is integrating into Google Search is available in Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese. The company has been rapidly expanding access to the search experience. In May, Google started offering it to everyone in the US (and later the UK and India) after starting public tests just two months earlier. Google added more features to AI Mode in July, including support for the Gemini 2.5

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Report: OpenAI will launch its own AI chip next year

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-07 18:41:00

XH4D/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: OpenAI is building an in-house AI chip with Broadcom. The effort is likely the result of a partnership valued at $10 billion. Many AI companies are launching their own chipmaking operations. OpenAI is gearing up to launch its own AI chip, part of a broader industry effort to gain independence from third-party semiconductor companies. The ChatGPT-maker will start mass

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Vodafone is testing an AI 'actor' to sell its products instead of paying a human to do it

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 22:53:01

Vodafone made a commercial starring an AI avatar posing as a real lady. This is interesting because Vodafone is a major global brand and not a fly-by-night TikTok company using a ridiculous deepfake of Jackson Galaxy to sell cat toys. The tells in the commercial are obvious and what one would expect. The AI avatar's hair is a bit off, which ruins the charade that this is a real person. The physical mannerisms and speaking tone are also wonky. A facial mole moves around at one point. It's AI. Yo

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Nothing's Ear 3 Wireless Buds Set For Sept. 18 Launch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 22:16:51

With the unveiling of the Nothing Ear 3, British tech company Nothing is set to cap off a summer of high-profile product launches. This new pair of buds, the latest in Nothing's original product series, will be released on Sept. 18 at 1 p.m. BST (5 a.m. PT). The company unveiled the Nothing Ear 1 in 2021. Since its inception, Nothing has been renowned for its transparent design language, setting it apart in a sea of otherwise visually unremarkable tech. A teaser image for the Ear 3 suggests tha

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The Polestar 5 is an 884hp fastback sedan that should make Porsche nervous

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-07 22:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s been five years since Polestar first introduced the Precept, a concept car that the electric automaker described as “a manifesto of things to come; a declaration.” Well, come they have, because today Polestar finally revealed the p

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inDrive has big plans to become a global ‘super app’ where others have failed

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-07 12:00:00

Known for its bidding-based ride-hailing model across Asia and Latin America, inDrive is rolling out a “super app” strategy aimed at frontier markets — expanding beyond cabs to deliver daily essentials to its users. Beginning with grocery deliveries in Kazakhstan, inDrive plans to expand into multiple verticals over the next 12 months across its top markets, including Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Pakistan, Peru, and Mexico. The shift comes on the heels of more than 360 million app downloads and 6.5

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StubHub IPO: Ticket reseller aims to raise up to $9.2 billion, pricing at $22 to $25 per share

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-08 02:54:09

The StubHub logo is seen at its headquarters in San Francisco. StubHub is aiming to raise as much as $851 million in its initial public offering, giving it a valuation of up to $9.2 billion, the company revealed in a new filing on Monday. The ticket reselling marketplace plans to sell more than 34 million shares priced between $22 and $25 per share, according to the filing. The long-awaited IPO comes after StubHub hit pause on the process in April as the stock market was reeling from Presiden

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Nova Launcher’s founder and sole developer has left

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-08 02:45:53

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. After nearly everyone working on the Nova Launcher, one of the most recognizable names in Android launchers, was laid off last year, founder Kevin Barry, Nova’s sole remaining developer, said this weekend that he has left Nova’s parent company after being asked to stop working on the launcher and an effort to open-source it. Nova Launcher’s website currently shows a 404 er

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Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre, or mood

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-07 23:50:40

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audiobooks and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The smart filters, which began rolling out on Friday, will first be made available to Premium subscribers on mobile devices and tablets in select markets, inclu

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StubHub aims to raise up to $9.2 billion in IPO, pricing at $22 to $25 per share

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-08 10:02:18

The StubHub logo is seen at its headquarters in San Francisco. StubHub is aiming to raise as much as $851 million in its initial public offering, giving it a valuation of up to $9.2 billion, the company revealed in a new filing on Monday. The ticket reselling marketplace plans to sell more than 34 million shares priced between $22 and $25 per share, according to the filing. The long-awaited IPO comes after StubHub hit pause on the process in April as the stock market was reeling from Presiden

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Here’s when the Nothing Ear (3) will launch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 10:02:18

TL;DR Nothing has revealed the launch date for the Ear (3). The company’s flagship TWS earbuds will be unveiled on September 18. In a social media post, the firm provided another teaser of the design. Nothing ended last week with a teaser revealing that it plans to launch the Nothing Ear (3) soon. No other details were given, so it was anyone’s guess as to how soon “soon” would actually be. But we now have a definitive answer to that question. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authori

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Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre or mood

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-08 14:50:40

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audio books and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The smart filters, which began rolling out on Friday, will first be made available to Premium subscribers on mobile devices and tablets in select markets, incl

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Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones will get a 2nd-gen update next month

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-08 18:09:05

The popular Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones already got one update back in the summer, but the company has now announced a bigger deserving of a 2nd-generation label … Back in June, the company jumped on the AI bandwagon with what it described as enhanced adaptive noise cancellation. It also claimed better call quality and wireless charging capabilities. Those improvements weren’t enough to see it become an official second-generation model, but Engadget reports that’s what the company will

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Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

news.ycombinator.com Jon Swaine 2025-10-08 17:59:28

At her home in western Germany, a woman told a team of visiting researchers from Meta that she did not allow her sons to interact with strangers on the social media giant’s virtual reality headsets. Then her teenage son interjected, according to two of the researchers: He frequently encountered strangers, and adults had sexually propositioned his little brother, who was younger than 10, numerous times. “I felt this deep sadness watching the mother’s response,” one of the researchers, Jason Satt

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InDrive has big plans to become a global ‘super app’ where others have failed

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-09 04:00:00

InDrive, known for its bidding-based ride-hailing model across Asia and Latin America, is rolling out a “super-app” strategy aimed at frontier markets — expanding beyond cabs to deliver daily essentials to its users. Beginning with grocery deliveries in Kazakhstan, InDrive plans to expand into multiple verticals over the next 12 months across its top markets, including Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Pakistan, Peru, and Mexico. The shift comes on the heels of more than 360 million app downloads and 6.

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Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

news.ycombinator.com Bradford Morgan White 2025-10-08 22:50:30

Sim Wong Hoo was born on the 28th of April in 1955, the tenth child in a family of twelve children (five brothers, seven sisters). His family were Singaporean Hoklo with ancestry in the southernmost area of Fujian, China, and they spoke Hokkien. He grew up in a kampung called End of Coconut Hill in Bukit Panjang, and his father, Sim Chye Thiam, was a factory worker while his mother, Tan Siok Kee, raised chickens, ducks, pigs, and rabbits, and grew fruits and herbs. The young Sim had chores aroun

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Way to Address Product Design Failure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 10:59:15

We live in an age of shitty product design and no customer support. Stuff breaks because it's poorly made, and then you have no recourse but to throw it into the trash, because it's unrepairable. If you try to get someone on the line, it's endless sub-menus before you finally get a live person overseas, who struggles with the language and has not been empowered by their bosses to actually solve your problem. Here, however, we have a product design failure that was handled masterfully. I think

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Apple faces lawsuit over alleged use of pirated books for AI training

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 23:00:16

Two authors have filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of infringing on their copyright by using their books to train its artificial intelligence model without their consent. The plaintiffs, Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, claimed that Apple used a dataset of pirated copyrighted books that include their works for AI training. They said in their complaint that Applebot, the company's scraper, can "reach 'shadow libraries'" made up of unlicensed copyrighted books, including (on

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996

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 20:20:57

996 “Amazing salary, hackerhouse in SF, crazy equity. 996. Our mission is OSS.” — Gregor Zunic “The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6, […].” — Daksh Gupta “The truth is, China’s really doing ‘007’ now—midnight to midnight, seven days a week […] if you want to build a $10 billion company, you have to work seven days a week.” — Harry Stebbings I love work. I love working late nights, hacking on things. This week I didn’t go to sleep before midnight once. And yet… I also love my wife

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Musk’s $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-08 21:02:36

Tesla has proposed a massive new $1 trillion compensation package for its CEO Elon Musk, and many of the benchmarks he needs to hit are simply watered-down versions of promises he’s spent years making about the company. That’s not the picture Tesla’s board of directors paints in the company’s annual proxy statement, where they revealed the proposed pay package. Instead, the board focuses on how it plans to create “the most valuable company in history.” To be sure, if Tesla accomplishes all tha

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Nova Launcher’s founder and sole developer has left

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