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A French court finds three ex-Ubisoft executives, including the chief creative officer, guilty of enabling a culture of sexual and psychological harassment (Angelique Chrisafis/The Guardian)
2025-07-02 15:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Berlin-based Talon.One, which provides software for brands to run personalized promotions and loyalty schemes, raised $135M (Freya Pratty/Sifted)
2025-07-02 15:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Microsoft plans to lay off ~9,000 employees, or less than 4% of its global workforce, across teams and role types, after cutting ~6,000 jobs in May (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
2025-07-02 13:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tax credits for Intel, TSMC, and other chip companies under the Big Beautiful Bill would rise from 25% to 35% if they expand their US manufacturing before 2026 (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
2025-07-02 14:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amsterdam-based Dexter Energy, which offers AI-based forecasting and trading products for renewable energy and batteries, raised a €23M Series C led by Alantra (Sudip Kar-Gupta/Reuters)
2025-07-02 12:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A report finds Google undercounted its carbon emissions, which rose 65% from 2019 to 2024, not 51% as claimed; biggest yearly jump was 26% between 2023 and 2024 (Johana Bhuiyan/The Guardian)
2025-07-02 12:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Foxconn recalled 300+ Chinese engineers from its Indian iPhone factories over the past two months, a blow for Apple as it ramps up iPhone 17 production (Bloomberg)
2025-07-02 10:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple supplier Luxshare is working with Goldman Sachs and others on a Hong Kong IPO that could happen as soon as this year, aiming to raise over $1B (Bloomberg)
2025-07-02 11:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A US judge rules that Huawei must face criminal charges in an indictment alleging racketeering, stealing trade secrets, and bank fraud tied to Iran sanctions (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
2025-07-02 09:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Alibaba plans $7B in delivery and shopping subsidies over the next 12 months, opens Singapore AI hub, and plans new data centers in Malaysia and the Philippines (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal)
2025-07-02 08:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A deep dive into Oracle's data center strategy and its emergence as an AI computing powerhouse, amid questions about the sustainability of the GPU business (SemiAnalysis)
2025-07-02 06:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Sweden-based AI-powered app builder Lovable is set to raise $150M+ led by Accel at a ~$1.8B valuation, as investors rush to back "vibe coding" startups (Financial Times)
2025-07-02 06:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and others are becoming more popular worldwide; Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has 910M global downloads compared with DeepSeek's 125M (Wall Street Journal)
2025-07-02 05:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Internal emails and audit reports warn that the Schengen Information System II, used by EU border forces, is rife with software and security vulnerabilities (Bloomberg)
2025-07-02 05:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
VC firms Thrive Capital and General Catalyst are adopting the "roll-up" strategy from the PE playbook, as Khosla Ventures, 8VC, and others explore similar moves (George Hammond/Financial Times)
2025-07-02 05:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TikTok launches its e-commerce platform, TikTok Shop, in Japan, marking its 17th market, following launches in the US, the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, and others (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)
2025-07-02 05:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Qantas discloses a data breach after hackers gained access to a third-party platform with personal data of 6M customers, but says no financial info was exposed (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
2025-07-02 04:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic to their sites (Bloomberg)
2025-07-02 04:53 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Intel is considering ending marketing of its 18A process to new clients and writing off investments, focusing instead on 14A to compete with TSMC (Reuters)
2025-07-02 03:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the FTC has opened an in-depth investigation of SoftBank's $6.5B acquisition of Ampere, which could take a year or more to conclude (Bloomberg Law)
2025-07-02 01:52 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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