TECH

Chinese marketplace DHgate becomes a top US app as trade war intensifies
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 14, 2025
The Trump trade war has gone viral on TikTok, pushing a Chinese e-commerce app, DHgate, to the top of the Apple App Store in the

Mira Murati’s AI startup is reportedly aiming for a massive $2B seed round
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 10, 2025
Thinking Machines Lab, the new AI startup from ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is reportedly attempting to close one of the largest seed rounds in history.

BBC seeks more prominent credit in Apple and Google News
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 6, 2025
The British Broadcasting Corporation has filed a complaint with a UK antitrust regulator complaining that aggregators like Apple News and Google News minimize credit for

The affidavit of a Rippling employee caught spying for Deel reads like a movie
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 2, 2025
On Wednesday, Rippling publicly released the affidavit of the Rippling employee who testified that he was working as a spy for the HR tech company’s

Amazon shakes up streaming leadership team
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 29, 2025
Amazon announced this week that Jennifer Salke is stepping down as the head of Amazon MGM Studios — a move that could indicate high-level dissatisfaction

Earth AI’s algorithms found critical minerals in places everyone else ignored
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 25, 2025
Last summer, mining startup KoBold made a splash when it said it had discovered in Zambia one of the world’s largest copper deposits in more

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 21, 2025
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, acquires a generative AI video startup
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 17, 2025
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has acquired Hotshot, a startup working on AI-powered video generation tools along the lines of OpenAI’s Sora. Aakash Sastry, Hotshot’s

Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 13, 2025
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her

Colossal CEO Ben Lamm says humanity has a ‘moral obligation’ to pursue de-extinction tech
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 9, 2025
The CEO of Colossal, a startup that aims to use genetic editing techniques to bring back extinct species, including the wooly mammoth, assured audiences at