Source: Thrive Capital spinoff Thrive Holdings seeks to raise around $2B from SoftBank, Altimeter, D1, and others, after previously raising $1B — Some of the biggest backers of OpenAI and its rivals are pooling their money in an offshoot of Thrive Capital that buys controlling stakes …
Sources: the US considers housing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve at Commerce instead of Treasury amid concerns over Treasury's legal authority to manage it — The Trump administration's plan to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve has been complicated by two government departments vying to run it …
Kuo: suppliers plan to ship less than 1M iPhone fold units in 3Q26, which may push the start of device pre-orders and sales to Q4, with weeks of delivery delays — My latest industry survey indicates that assembly shipments for the foldable iPhone in 2H26 will be roughly 7-8 million units …
Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 — Tesla said it rolled out its Robotaxi service in Miami on Friday, according to a post from its social media account on X.
ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will disable humanlike and user-created agents before July 15, as China's anthropomorphic AI interaction rules take effect — Two of China's major consumer-facing artificial intelligence apps, ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba Group Holding's Qwen …
Data centers offer US a chance to get ahead in the next key technologies and to build domestic supply chains based on demand rather than subsidies and tariffs — America must not repeat the mistakes that handed China rare-earth dominance … America's China policy over the past decade …
AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement — Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts — Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers …