SCOOP: A TikTok data scientist says he was assigned a Seattle-based manager on paper, while actually reporting to a Beijing-based ByteDance executive, who ordered him to regularly email U.S. data in spreadsheets to ByteDance workers in China during 2022.

RT @alexrkonrad: Startups raised $91B in Q2. But one-third of it went to just 16 mega rounds of $500M or more, per Crunchbase data, mostly….

RT @BariAnasse: Honored to be featured in @Fortune by brilliant journalist Alexandra Sternlicht on the AI brain drain: .

A PhD student being recruited by Google was slated to meet with Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai when he visited their HQ, says a Northwestern department head who was attempting to hire this person as a researcher. “How are we going to compete?" he asks.

RT @Techmeme: Legal AI startup Harvey raised a $300M Series E co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue at a $5B valuation and says it serves 33….

NEWS: Legal AI Harvey raises $300 million at $5 billion valuation. This is the largest valuation for a legaltech company in history . Me for @FortuneMagazine .

If true, this should chill investors who’ve sunk hundreds of billions into deeply unprofitable LLM makers like OpenAI.

Snapchat will beat Meta, Google and Apple to market with its new AI/AR glasses. Will the first-mover advantage help it compete in the hot hardware category?

One analyst I interviewed likened CoreWeave to WeWork 👀👀👀 for @FortuneMagazine .

RT @leomschwartz: After Circle's red-hot IPO yesterday, mainstream attention around stablecoins is only likely to grow. @bdanweiss and I….

The Circle IPO underpricing has only been exceeded by Visa, Airbnb, Snowflake, Rivian, DoorDash and Coupang 🤯🤯.By @shawntully1

RT @lexnfx: Nvidia’s chips are among the world’s hottest commodities. So why is the company trashing $4.5 billion of H20s just because Trum….

"These chips will meet the “cool lava lamp” you got from your aunt in a landfill somewhere,” one expert told me. Why Nvidia decided to maximize value by writing $4.5 billion in chip inventory to $0. For @FortuneMagazine .

While his words were pointed, Huang was careful not to call out President Trump by name in his critique, referring only to U.S. policy.

While Wall Street obsesses over Nvidia, a lone analyst placed a "sell" rating on the stock. I spoke with him and learned why.

Hi again! I've graduated from @Bagehots and am back at @FortuneMagazine covering tech—notably Nvidia and Google—before I return to @Columbia_Biz for MBA year 2 in the fall. Let's chat! alex.sternlicht@fortune.com // asternlicht.01 on signal 😎😎.

And huge congrats to my fellow @FortuneMagazine finalists @shawntully1 @philwahba @erikafry @jeffjohnroberts :).

Thank you to my amazing editors @vkopytoff and @lexnfx for supporting and pushing this reporting.

You can read the story here:

Honored to be a National Headliner Award finalist for my year-long investigation into China's role in the lives of ex-TikTok employees. I owe the deepest gratitude to my sources who were so brave to speak to me about their experiences.

RT @Ali_Lev: Scoop:. TikTok projects that TikTok Live could generate $77 billion a year globally by 2027, according to a newly unsealed law….