Venture Dispatch

Deep Tech

  1. Moore Threads plans a Hong Kong listing after its shares surged 420% since its Shanghai debut
  2. Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.
  3. Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.
  4. China’s new AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s running out of Chinese-language training data.
  5. South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.
  6. NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI
  7. The ‘SaaSpocalypse’ was meant to kill Atlassian. It soared instead
  8. Google may spend $1.5bn on a 35-person startup to catch up on AI coding
  9. Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could escape its local VM and read credentials on a Mac
  10. Apple targets WWDC 2027 for smart glasses but is still deciding on the camera question
  11. Why businesses are bracing for more economic volatility in 2026
  12. Google confirms higher Pixel 11 prices as RAM costs surge sixfold, and says it is reworking Android to use less memory
  13. AI chatbots are quietly becoming the uninvited third person in people’s relationships
  14. DeepSeek pauses its second fundraising round after founder’s leaked investor comments go viral
  15. EV owners are more satisfied with their cars than gas car drivers in nearly every category, JD Power finds
  16. Canon registered three new cameras. One may be a digital tribute to the legendary AE-1.
  17. People are quietly recording every conversation they have with AI, and the person across the table has no idea