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Naver, South Korea’s largest buyer of Nvidia chips, pitches its AI cloud services as an alternative to countries reluctant to use U.S. or Chinese services (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 12, 2026

Song Jung-a / Financial Times: Naver, South Korea’s largest buyer of Nvidia chips, is pitching its AI cloud services as…

Technology

How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the Transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 8, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The 100-person AI lab that has become Anthropic and Google’s secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge…

Technology

Google’s proposed Epic settlement includes reduced fees for global app stores and a new program to allow alternative app stores to become first-class Android citizens (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 5, 2025

Sean Hollister / The edge: Google’s proposed Epic settlement includes a reduction in app store fees globally and a new…

Technology

AI browsers can bypass certain paywalls; The OpenAI Atlas appears to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, instead providing summaries or alternative reports (Columbia Journalism Review)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 2, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Meatbags,” with Brian Mueller The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long…

Business & Money

Startups remaining private longer with alternative capital

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 7, 2025

Note Klarna Group PLC during the initial public offer (IPO) of the company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)…

Business & Money

Michael Arougheti, CEO of Ares, speaks of the “retail revolution” in alternative assets

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 7, 2025

A version of this article is published in the Inside Alts Information Bulletin of CNBC, a guide to the rapidly…

Technology

Apple denies removing Fortnite from alternative markets in the EU and says that he asked Epic Sweden to submit to the update of the application to the exclusion of the American App Store (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 16, 2025

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:: Apple denies removing Fortnite from alternative markets in the EU and says that he asked Epic…

North Korean hackers offer $70,000 per month to act as front – Radio Free Asia

Iran war could revive cooperation between Beijing and Manila in the South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Vietnam protests China’s development of controversial reef in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Potential and limits – The diplomat

After 29 years, RFA is on hiatus – Radio Free Asia

JetBlue Airways Raises Checked Baggage Fees as Fuel Prices Soar

Chinese suppliers warn of rising prices in the United States due to Hormuz closure

Pokémon Card Value Rises Amid Logan Paul Pikachu Auction

Expensive plane tickets and airport chaos put travelers to the test

The list of Paramount-Warner Bros. films. needs animation to compete with Disney and Universal

Karoline Leavitt just prepared to face war crimes charges

America rejects Trump as his approval rating hits new low

Trump arrested for lying about Iran war negotiations

No Kings 3 was the largest one-day protest against a president in US history

Bernie Sanders destroys Trump’s lies about the Iran war

Median base salary offers for U.S. software engineers at venture-backed startups have increased 25% to $200,000 since 2022; total compensation increased only 18% (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30 million Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57 million (Meir Orbach/CTech)

ScaleOps, which makes automated cloud spending tools, raised a $130 million Series C led by Insight Partners at a valuation of more than $800 million, bringing its total funding to more than $210 million (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Finnish startup IQM Quantum Computers has raised 50 million euros from BlackRock to accelerate its global growth, ahead of a dual IPO in the United States and Helsinki later in 2026 (Anne Kauranen/Reuters)

A look at Amazon’s major push into rural America, including building 24-hour delivery distribution centers in recent years, encroaching on Walmart’s turf (Bloomberg)

Browsing: alternative

Naver, South Korea’s largest buyer of Nvidia chips, pitches its AI cloud services as an alternative to countries reluctant to use U.S. or Chinese services (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the Transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)

Google’s proposed Epic settlement includes reduced fees for global app stores and a new program to allow alternative app stores to become first-class Android citizens (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

AI browsers can bypass certain paywalls; The OpenAI Atlas appears to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, instead providing summaries or alternative reports (Columbia Journalism Review)

Startups remaining private longer with alternative capital

Michael Arougheti, CEO of Ares, speaks of the “retail revolution” in alternative assets

Apple denies removing Fortnite from alternative markets in the EU and says that he asked Epic Sweden to submit to the update of the application to the exclusion of the American App Store (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)