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Chinese AI Company Kuaishou Reports Q4 Revenue Up 12% YoY to ~$5.7 Billion, Hitting Estimate, Adjusted Net Profit Up 16% YoY, and Kling Text-Video Revenue of ~$49 Million (Rachel Yeo/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 25, 2026

Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg: Chinese AI company Kuaishou reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to ~$5.7 billion, hitting estimate, adjusted…

Business & Money

Toyota to invest $1 billion to increase U.S. production in Kentucky and Indiana

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 23, 2026

Production of the Toyota Camry at the automaker’s Georgetown, Kentucky, plant.Courtesy of ToyotaToyota engine announced Monday that it would spend…

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Reality Labs lost more than $80 billion, but it still makes all of Meta’s hardware and reflects Mark Zuckerberg’s desire to run a company without Google or Apple as intermediaries (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 23, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The art of influence: the most important skill that AI cannot replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow,…

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Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated with WeChat, allowing its more than 1 billion MAUs to send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 22, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The art of influence: the most important skill that AI cannot replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow,…

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US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by badmouthing the company in 2022 to buy it for less than its initial $44 billion offer (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 20, 2026

Bloomberg: A US jury finds that Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by badmouthing the company in 2022 to buy…

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Indian AI data center operator Yotta aims to raise $500 million to $600 million at a valuation of around $4 billion, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 20, 2026

Featured Podcasts Social radars: Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator’s…

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Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chip manufacturing and defense and revamp them with AI (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Social radars: Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator’s…

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Uber and Rivian announce $1.25 billion deal for 50,000 robotaxis

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 19, 2026

The Rivian R2 is on display during the 2025 Los Angeles Auto Show at the Los Angeles Convention Center on…

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Chip cooling startup Frore, which designs channels that conduct coolant into 3D shapes unique to each chip, raised $143 million led by MVP at a valuation of $1.64 billion (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Pod BG2: ChatGPT – The era of super assistants Open source podcast about all things technology, markets, investing,…

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Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500 million in 2025, compared to $3.5 billion in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Pod BG2: ChatGPT – The era of super assistants Open source podcast about all things technology, markets, investing,…

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Anthropic releases Claude for Word in beta, which adds AI editing tools and clickable quotes, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users (Tristan Anthony/Business Insider)

Police report: Sam Altman’s home appears to have been the target of a second attack after a gun was fired at his home from a car early Sunday (Jonah Owen Lamb/The San Francisco…)

As weather bets surge in forecast markets, climate experts question whether they improve forecasts by aggregating knowledge or whether it’s simply a zero-sum game (Bloomberg)

UK regulators plan to warn banks, insurers and exchanges about security risks exposed by Claude Mythos Preview at a meeting in the next two weeks (Martin Arnold/Financial Times)

Flipkart and Amazon’s rapid business push in India is intensifying competition in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Chinese AI Company Kuaishou Reports Q4 Revenue Up 12% YoY to ~$5.7 Billion, Hitting Estimate, Adjusted Net Profit Up 16% YoY, and Kling Text-Video Revenue of ~$49 Million (Rachel Yeo/Bloomberg)

Toyota to invest $1 billion to increase U.S. production in Kentucky and Indiana

Reality Labs lost more than $80 billion, but it still makes all of Meta’s hardware and reflects Mark Zuckerberg’s desire to run a company without Google or Apple as intermediaries (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated with WeChat, allowing its more than 1 billion MAUs to send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat (Reuters)

US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by badmouthing the company in 2022 to buy it for less than its initial $44 billion offer (Bloomberg)

Indian AI data center operator Yotta aims to raise $500 million to $600 million at a valuation of around $4 billion, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chip manufacturing and defense and revamp them with AI (Wall Street Journal)

Uber and Rivian announce $1.25 billion deal for 50,000 robotaxis

Chip cooling startup Frore, which designs channels that conduct coolant into 3D shapes unique to each chip, raised $143 million led by MVP at a valuation of $1.64 billion (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500 million in 2025, compared to $3.5 billion in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)