MFs up startup ante; Rupeek’s new raise
Happy Tuesday! Exposure of domestic mutual funds to new-age stocks significantly increased in 2025. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
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Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Lots of influential people in tech last week were describing Moltbook, an online hangout populated by AI…
The Download: what Moltbook tells us about AI hype, and the rise and rise of AI therapy
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Moltbook was peak AI theater For a few days recently, the hottest new hangout on the internet was…
Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s new AI newsletter, is here
For years, our newsroom has explored AI’s limitations and potential dangers, as well as its growing energy needs. And our reporters have looked closely at how generative tools are being used for tasks such as coding and running scientific experiments. …
Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable
A firm that wants to use a large language model (LLM) to summarize sales reports or triage customer inquiries can choose between hundreds of unique LLMs with dozens of model variations, each with slightly different performance. To narrow down the…
Australian AI infrastructure developer Firmus lands $10 billion debt package from Blackstone, Coatue
Australian AI firm Firmus has secured a $10 billion debt funding package led by Blackstone and Coatue. The money will support the next phase of Project Southgate to build AI training and inference data centres across Australia. Developed with CDC…
Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is ‘impossible’
In an interview with Taiwanese television channel CTS that was broadcast late on Sunday, Taiwan Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun said she had made it clear to Washington that Taiwan’s semiconductor ecosystem, built up over decades, could not be relocated.
Arguments to begin in key US social media addiction trial
Arguments are set to begin Monday in a landmark US trial that could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberately designed their platforms to lead to addiction in children.
Chinese chip firm Montage Technology surges over 50% in Hong Kong debut
China’s Montage Technology jumped more than 50% in its Hong Kong trading debut on Monday after the world’s biggest memory interconnect chip supplier raised HK$7.04 billion ($900 million) in a share sale to mainly fund research.
UAE firm G42, Vietnamese firms in deal to develop AI infrastructure in Vietnam
Abu Dhabi-based technology group G42, and a consortium comprising the FPT Corporation and the Viet Thai Group, have signed a deal to develop sovereign AI capabilities and cloud infrastructure across Vietnam, G42 said on Monday.