July 28, 2025
Mon. 07/28 – Tea Has Been Spilt
Samsung’s foundry business gets a shot in the arm from Tesla. Zuck’s hiring spree nabs a Chat GPT creator. Anthropic is raising and leveling up in a big way. And no sooner did the hot new dating app Tea get hot, then it got hacked. Tea was spilt, if you will.
Links:
- Samsung to Make Tesla AI Chips in Multiyear Texas Deal (Bloomberg)
- Donald Trump freezes export controls to secure trade deal with China (FT)
- Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit (TechCrunch)
- PayPal to Roll Out ‘Pay With Crypto’ Feature for Merchants (Bloomberg)
- AI start-up Anthropic open to Mideast funds in talks to double valuation to over $150bn (FT)
- Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app (NBCNews)
- Hackers leak 13,000 user photos and IDs from the Tea app, designed as a women's safe space (NBCNews)
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