Trump Jr’s fund 1789 Capital leads a $1bn round valuing Polymarket at $21bn

Donald Trump Jr is a partner at the fund leading Polymarket’s new funding round. He is also a strategic adviser to Kalshi, Polymarket’s principal competitor. 1789 Capital is putting about $300m in [...]

Your next enterprise software feature won’t be shipped. It will be generated.

The enterprise feature backlog is where good user requests go to wait. That wait is about to get much shorter, not because product teams got faster, but because the missing feature can now be generate [...]

A Chinese court has frozen Nexperia’s stakes in four of its own subsidiaries

A court in Dongguan has frozen Nexperia’s shareholdings in four of its Chinese subsidiaries, worth about 2.14 billion yuan, with the order remaining in place until August 2029. The order took effect [...]

Texas has 474GW of data centre requests and no idea how many are real

Texas has 474 gigawatts of requests from data centre developers waiting to connect to its power grid, more than five times the state’s record peak demand. In 2023, the figure was just 48 gigawatts, [...]

The next cybersecurity battleground is inside the processor

Cybersecurity has a location problem. Attackers often exploit vulnerabilities in systems that businesses have spent years protecting with software, yet the processor at the center of those systems can [...]

Brazil is defining what a deepfake is, five weeks before it votes

Brazil votes on October 4, and its electoral court spent Tuesday working through a question that many regulators are still struggling to answer: what exactly counts as a deepfake? The Tribunal Superio [...]

UBS says China is unlikely to match ASML’s top tool this decade

UBS analysts say China’s lithography programme is at roughly the stage ASML reached in 2004 and will not produce a viable EUV alternative within a decade. They also expect China to reach high-volume [...]

Micron’s Taiwan unions are heading for a strike vote over bonuses

Roughly 10,000 Micron workers in Taiwan are represented by two unions that are now preparing their members for a possible strike. About 80% of workers polled in a preliminary survey supported industri [...]

Dyson has built a toothbrush with a camera in it, for $499

Dyson has put a camera inside a toothbrush. The CameraJet went on sale Tuesday for $499, combining a 100,000-pixel macro camera in the brush head with a small jet that sprays mouthrinse between the te [...]