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Around 50% of US adults say AI will have a negative impact on news over the next 20 years; 10% say a positive effect; 59% say AI will lead to fewer journalists (Michael Lipka/Pew Research Center)

Around 50% of US adults say AI will have a negative impact...

Michael Lipka / Pew Research Center: Around 50% of US adults say AI will have a...

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Sources: a group of Wall Street banks has sold the final $1.2B of X debt at 98 cents on the dollar, after lending $13B for Musk's takeover of Twitter in 2022 (Alexander Saeedy/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: a group of Wall Street banks has sold the final...

Alexander Saeedy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: a group of Wall Street banks has...

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Alibaba unveils the Qwen3 family of open-weight "hybrid" AI reasoning models, including Qwen3-235B-A22B, with 235B total parameters and 22B activated parameters (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Alibaba unveils the Qwen3 family of open-weight "hybrid"...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Alibaba unveils the Qwen3 family of open-weight “hybrid”...

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Global military spending rises to level not seen since Cold War

Global military spending rises to level not seen since...

Defence expenditure rose by 9.4 percent worldwide in 2024 amid wars in Ukraine and...

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IBM Invests $150 Billion to Enhance U. S. Manufacturing and Quantum Computing     

IBM Invests $150 Billion to Enhance U. S. Manufacturing...

IBM commits $150 billion to U. S. manufacturing and quantum computing innovation,...

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Music creation startup Splice buys London-based orchestral sound studio Spitfire Audio, a source says for ~$50M; sources say Splice has $100M+ in annual revenue (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Music creation startup Splice buys London-based orchestral...

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Music creation startup Splice buys London-based...

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A deep dive on Apple's iPhone manufacturing process, including 2,700 parts from 187 suppliers in 28 countries; just 30 suppliers have no presence in China (Financial Times)

A deep dive on Apple's iPhone manufacturing process, including...

Financial Times: A deep dive on Apple's iPhone manufacturing process, including...

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German defense startup ARX Robotics, which makes self-driving, modular battlefield robots, raised €31M led by HV Capital and plans to build a plant in England (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

German defense startup ARX Robotics, which makes self-driving,...

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: German defense startup ARX Robotics, which makes self-driving,...

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While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China in quality, making the extraordinarily complex 20th anniversary iPhones outside China remains doubtful (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China...

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Analysis: Meesho accounts for about 37% of India's e-commerce orders, but only 8%-9% of the sector's total value due to the small average transaction size (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)

Analysis: Meesho accounts for about 37% of India's e-commerce...

Manish Singh / India Dispatch: Analysis: Meesho accounts for about 37% of India's...

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A profile of Darktrace CEO Jill Popelka, who joined the British cyber security firm in Jan. 2024 and was at the helm when it was bought by Thoma Bravo for £4.3B (Anjli Raval/Financial Times)

A profile of Darktrace CEO Jill Popelka, who joined the...

Anjli Raval / Financial Times: A profile of Darktrace CEO Jill Popelka, who joined...

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Tel Aviv-based Sentra, whose cloud data security software now includes controls aimed at keeping AI prompts free from restricted data, raised a $50M Series B (Ryan Naraine/SecurityWeek)

Tel Aviv-based Sentra, whose cloud data security software...

Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: Tel Aviv-based Sentra, whose cloud data security software...

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Trump's tariffs could slow robot adoption in the US, as buyer demand weakens and supplies of key components like magnets and actuators are disrupted (Financial Times)

Trump's tariffs could slow robot adoption in the US, as...

Financial Times: Trump's tariffs could slow robot adoption in the US, as buyer demand...

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Experts say that India lags behind China in deep tech innovation due to its historical focus on services, lower R&D investment, and a brain drain of AI talent (Furquan Ameen/Rest of World)

Experts say that India lags behind China in deep tech innovation...

Furquan Ameen / Rest of World: Experts say that India lags behind China in deep...

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Watching OpenAI's o3 guess a photo's location, including the model running Python code to examine license plates, is surreal, dystopian, and entertaining (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Watching OpenAI's o3 guess a photo's location, including...

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Watching OpenAI's o3 guess a photo's location,...

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Stripe plans to test a stablecoin payments product aimed at companies outside the US, the UK, and the EU, using tech from Bridge, which Stripe acquired recently (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

Stripe plans to test a stablecoin payments product aimed...

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Stripe plans to test a stablecoin payments product...

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At a major Hong Kong electronics exhibition, some Chinese companies say they are exploring ways to lower or skirt tariffs while others plan to wait them out (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

At a major Hong Kong electronics exhibition, some Chinese...

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: At a major Hong Kong electronics exhibition, some Chinese...

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IBM has booked $6B in sales around generative AI and Red Hat's revenue has about doubled since IBM bought it, fueling a ~2x jump in IBM's stock since April 2020 (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

IBM has booked $6B in sales around generative AI and Red...

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: IBM has booked $6B in sales around generative AI...

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A profile of Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed, who, along with his investment firm Kingdom Holding, is the second-biggest shareholder in XAI Holdings (Devon Pendleton/Bloomberg)

A profile of Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed,...

Devon Pendleton / Bloomberg: A profile of Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed,...

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Docs and sources detail the opaque market for shares of Elon Musk's private companies; Valor recently offered investors $1B worth of shares in SpaceX and xAI (Wall Street Journal)

Docs and sources detail the opaque market for shares of...

Wall Street Journal: Docs and sources detail the opaque market for shares of Elon...

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Meta and Booz Allen partner to deploy Space Llama, a fine-tuned version of Llama 3.2, for research aboard the International Space Station National Laboratory (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Meta and Booz Allen partner to deploy Space Llama, a fine-tuned...

Hayden Field / CNBC: Meta and Booz Allen partner to deploy Space Llama, a fine-tuned...

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Sources: Microsoft plans to increase the use of third-party firms for selling software to SMBs; in-house sellers will get more training and focus on AI products (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Sources: Microsoft plans to increase the use of third-party...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft plans to increase the use of third-party...

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Deel sues Rippling for alleged defamation, libel, and deceptive trade practices, says Rippling placed an insider within Deel, is not tax compliant, and more (Dan Primack/Axios)

Deel sues Rippling for alleged defamation, libel, and deceptive...

Dan Primack / Axios: Deel sues Rippling for alleged defamation, libel, and deceptive...

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Sustainable Energy from Rain: Scientists Unlock a New Power Source 

Sustainable Energy from Rain: Scientists Unlock a New Power...

Researchers create an innovative system that produces clean electricity from falling...

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Google keeps growing, as federal judges decide whether to break it up

Google keeps growing, as federal judges decide whether...

Google is still making lots of money. Its parent company Alphabet reported $90.2...

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Nissan sees record annual net loss as carmaker tries to turn around business under new CEO

Nissan sees record annual net loss as carmaker tries to...

Nissan has announced that it now expects a record net loss of up to €4.6 billion...

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Quantum Computing Race 2025: The Future is Measured in Qubits 

Quantum Computing Race 2025: The Future is Measured in...

IBM, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia lead the 2025 quantum computing race,...

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JD.com's costly bid to challenge Meituan in food delivery, while the latter enters the e-commerce space, has led to a loss of ~$70B in combined market value (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)

JD.com's costly bid to challenge Meituan in food delivery,...

Charlotte Yang / Bloomberg: JD.com's costly bid to challenge Meituan in food delivery,...

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Three European scientific funding agencies have put research programs with China on hold since 2021 due to concerns over the country's Data Security Law (Andrew Silver/Reuters)

Three European scientific funding agencies have put research...

Andrew Silver / Reuters: Three European scientific funding agencies have put research...

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Brazil's AI-based social security app, launched in 2018, has cut bureaucracy in some cases but wrongly rejected hundreds of vulnerable people over minor errors (Gabriel Daros/Rest of World)

Brazil's AI-based social security app, launched in 2018,...

Gabriel Daros / Rest of World: Brazil's AI-based social security app, launched in...

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Nissan sees record annual net loss for 2024 as carmaker tries to turn around business under new CEO

Nissan sees record annual net loss for 2024 as carmaker...

Nissan has announced it now expects a record net loss of up to 4.6 billion euros...

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Intel reports Q1 revenue flat YoY at $12.67B, vs. $12.3B est., forecasts Q2 revenue below est., and reduces its 2025 capex target; INTC drops 5%+ after hours (Reuters)

Intel reports Q1 revenue flat YoY at $12.67B, vs. $12.3B...

Reuters: Intel reports Q1 revenue flat YoY at $12.67B, vs. $12.3B est., forecasts...

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Ziff Davis sues OpenAI, alleging it used Ziff Davis' content to train AI models; sources say Ziff Davis is seeking at least hundreds of millions of dollars (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)

Ziff Davis sues OpenAI, alleging it used Ziff Davis' content...

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: Ziff Davis sues OpenAI, alleging it used Ziff...

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The EU Commission says it banned officials from meeting with lobbyists acting on Huawei's behalf, after the EU Parliament banned Huawei staff from its premises (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)

The EU Commission says it banned officials from meeting...

Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: The EU Commission says it banned officials...

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US states sue Trump administration over use of 1977 tariff law

US states sue Trump administration over use of 1977 tariff...

Twelve US states have filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, arguing that...

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Aviation and tariffs: A globalised industry braces for impact

Aviation and tariffs: A globalised industry braces for...

Donald Trump's trade policy and back-and-forth on tariffs are already impacting...

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How geopolitics and trade wars are reshaping the global economy

How geopolitics and trade wars are reshaping the global...

Countries that once followed the gospel of free trade and liberalism are changing...

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Trump administration 'feeling the heat from a lot of different quarters', trade reporter says

Trump administration 'feeling the heat from a lot of different...

FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade speaks to Gavin Bade, Trade and Economic Policy Reporter...

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Neural Interfaces and Brain Tech: A New Era of Human Enhancement 

Neural Interfaces and Brain Tech: A New Era of Human Enhancement 

 Neural interfaces like Neuralink are reshaping tech and medicine—enabling thought-controlled...

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Revolut reports 2024 revenue up 72% YoY to £3.1B, net profit up 149% YoY to £1.1B, and wealth unit revenue up 298% YoY to £506M; its loan book grew 86% to £979M (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Revolut reports 2024 revenue up 72% YoY to £3.1B, net profit...

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Revolut reports 2024 revenue up 72% YoY to £3.1B, net profit...

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Adobe unveils its Firefly Image Model 4 and Model 4 Ultra, launches a redesigned Firefly web app, is testing a new Adobe Content Authenticity web app, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Adobe unveils its Firefly Image Model 4 and Model 4 Ultra,...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe unveils its Firefly Image Model 4 and Model 4 Ultra,...

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LinkedIn expands its free verification system to the wider web, letting sites display LinkedIn verification, starting with Adobe's new Content Authenticity app (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

LinkedIn expands its free verification system to the wider...

Dominic Preston / The Verge: LinkedIn expands its free verification system to the...

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Aviation and tariffs: globalised industry braces for impact

Aviation and tariffs: globalised industry braces for impact

Donald Trump's trade policy and back-and-forth on tariffs are already impacting...

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New Jersey sues RealPage, accusing the property management software company and 10 of the state's largest landlords of conspiring to drive up residential rents (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

New Jersey sues RealPage, accusing the property management...

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: New Jersey sues RealPage, accusing the property management...

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TSMC plans to begin production with its A14 fabrication process in 2028 and an intermediary A16 chip process in late 2026 (Bloomberg)

TSMC plans to begin production with its A14 fabrication...

Bloomberg: TSMC plans to begin production with its A14 fabrication process in 2028...

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Tesla says it has started testing its autonomous ride-hailing service with employees in Austin and the Bay Area, and has completed 15,000 miles of driving (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Tesla says it has started testing its autonomous ride-hailing...

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Tesla says it has started testing its autonomous ride-hailing...

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Musk vows to spend more time on Telsa after net income falls 71%

Musk vows to spend more time on Telsa after net income...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he will be dedicating more time to the electric vehicle...

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IMF slashes growth outlook as Trump tariffs 'reset' the global economy

IMF slashes growth outlook as Trump tariffs 'reset' the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) slashed its 2025 forecast for global growth...

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Twenty years of YouTube: How the site has revolutionised the internet

Twenty years of YouTube: How the site has revolutionised...

Exactly 20 years ago, a 19-second clip was uploaded to a website that would, in...

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Nari Labs unveils Dia, a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts, built with "zero funding" (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Nari Labs unveils Dia, a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Nari Labs unveils Dia, a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech...

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Trump Media partners with Crypto.com and Florida-based Yorkville America Digital to launch ETFs by the end of 2025, as it moves into financial services (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)

Trump Media partners with Crypto.com and Florida-based...

Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: Trump Media partners with Crypto.com and Florida-based...

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The EU Commission fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M under the DMA and issues cease-and-desist orders; Apple says it will appeal, and Meta says it likely would (Wall Street Journal)

The EU Commission fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M under...

Wall Street Journal: The EU Commission fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M under the...

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IMF slashes global growth forecast amid Trump tariff turmoil

IMF slashes global growth forecast amid Trump tariff turmoil

The International Monetary Fund said it expected global economic growth to be slower...

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SK Telecom, South Korea's largest telecom, says hackers accessed USIM-related customer info, potentially useful in SIM swap attacks and targeted surveillance (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

SK Telecom, South Korea's largest telecom, says hackers...

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: SK Telecom, South Korea's largest telecom, says...

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Researcher: the official SDK JS library for interacting with the XRP Ledger, with 140K+ weekly downloads, was compromised; XRP Ledger Foundation says it's fixed (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Researcher: the official SDK JS library for interacting...

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Researcher: the official SDK JS library for interacting...

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WBD rolls out a $7.99/month Extra Member Add-On for US Max subscribers, about two years after Netflix made a similar move to crack down on password sharing (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)

WBD rolls out a $7.99/month Extra Member Add-On for US...

Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter: WBD rolls out a $7.99/month Extra Member Add-On...

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Why Diginar Will Lead Website UI and Custom Development Trends in 2025 

Why Diginar Will Lead Website UI and Custom Development...

Diginar leads UI and web development trends in 2025 with smart design, custom builds,...

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Stock markets rattled by Trump's attacks on US Federal Reserve

Stock markets rattled by Trump's attacks on US Federal...

Wall Street closed in firmly negative territory on Monday, continuing a rout that's...

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Flipkart plans to shift its holding company from Singapore to India as Walmart aims to take it public; Flipkart moved the entity to Singapore in 2011 (Kashish Tandon/Reuters)

Flipkart plans to shift its holding company from Singapore...

Kashish Tandon / Reuters: Flipkart plans to shift its holding company from Singapore...

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DOJ v. Google: a Google VP says the company pays Samsung an "enormous sum of money" every month to preinstall Gemini on its devices as part of a two-year deal (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

DOJ v. Google: a Google VP says the company pays Samsung...

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: DOJ v. Google: a Google VP says the company pays Samsung...

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Google rolls out opt-in Sensitive Content Warnings in Messages to blur nude images on Android; the System SafetyCore-powered content classification is on-device (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google rolls out opt-in Sensitive Content Warnings in Messages...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google rolls out opt-in Sensitive Content Warnings in Messages...

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Pope Francis dies at 88: The legacy of a 'pope for the poor'

Pope Francis dies at 88: The legacy of a 'pope for the...

Pope Francis was known for his vision that the Catholic Church should be representative...

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After Meta blocked news on its platforms in Canada, misleading content from right-wing pages like Canada Proud filled the gap ahead of the federal election (New York Times)

After Meta blocked news on its platforms in Canada, misleading...

New York Times: After Meta blocked news on its platforms in Canada, misleading content...

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Airbnb now shows the full cost of a stay, excluding taxes, in search results by default; a Biden-era FTC rule on "junk fees" is set to go into effect on May 12 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Airbnb now shows the full cost of a stay, excluding taxes,...

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Airbnb now shows the full cost of a stay, excluding taxes,...

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Judge overseeing hearing on fixing Google's monopoly questioned if DOJ's proposal to force a sale of Chrome met the "causation" standard for a structural remedy (Erin Woo/The Information)

Judge overseeing hearing on fixing Google's monopoly questioned...

Erin Woo / The Information: Judge overseeing hearing on fixing Google's monopoly...

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JD Vance in India for trade talks as Modi seeks to avoid US tariffs

JD Vance in India for trade talks as Modi seeks to avoid...

US Vice President JD Vance landed in New Delhi this Monday for a four-day cross-country...

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Models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro feel like "Jagged AGI": unreliable, even at some mundane tasks, but still offering superhuman capabilities in many areas (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)

Models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro feel like "Jagged AGI":...

Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: Models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro feel like “Jagged...

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Q&A with Dan Kim and Hassan Khan, former officials at the CHIPS Program Office, on subsidizing supply versus coercing demand, the program's future, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Q&A with Dan Kim and Hassan Khan, former officials at the...

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Dan Kim and Hassan Khan, former officials at...

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A look at the tactile devices from OneCourt, Field of Vision, and Touch2See that help visually impaired spectators follow live sports with their fingers (Tom Wiggins/Wired)

A look at the tactile devices from OneCourt, Field of Vision,...

Tom Wiggins / Wired: A look at the tactile devices from OneCourt, Field of Vision,...

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India's Open Network for Digital Commerce has struggled to break the near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy in online food delivery after cutting back on discounts (Krishnapriya V.S./The India Forum)

India's Open Network for Digital Commerce has struggled...

Krishnapriya V.S. / The India Forum: India's Open Network for Digital Commerce has...

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The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M in ticket sales globally this weekend, signals Hollywood's breakthrough in adapting video games into films (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)

The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M in ticket...

Christopher Grimes / Financial Times: The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit...

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A look at the race to turn brainwaves into fluent speech, as researchers at universities in California and companies use brain implants and AI to make advances (Financial Times)

A look at the race to turn brainwaves into fluent speech,...

Financial Times: A look at the race to turn brainwaves into fluent speech, as researchers...

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Crux, a financing software provider for clean energy companies, raised a $50M Series B led by Lowercarbon Capital, taking its total funding to more than $77M (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)

Crux, a financing software provider for clean energy companies,...

Katie Fehrenbacher / Axios: Crux, a financing software provider for clean energy...

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Assort Health, which is developing voice AI agents for healthcare to manage patient phone calls, raised a $22M Series A co-led by First Round and Chemistry (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Assort Health, which is developing voice AI agents for...

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Assort Health, which is developing voice AI agents for...

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How YouTube is adapting to the AI era; a VP expects that in five years, every video uploaded to YouTube could be dubbed automatically into every spoken language (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

How YouTube is adapting to the AI era; a VP expects that...

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: How YouTube is adapting to the AI era; a VP expects that...

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A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed a multi-step financial modeling task; Scale AI CEO says o3 is "a big breakthrough" (Every)

A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron...

Every: A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed...

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Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to hit mass production in H2 2025, after Trump included Nvidia H20 in the ban on AI chip exports to China (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to hit...

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to...

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Sales data: AI evaluation startups have modest revenue; Weights & Biases hit $50M ARR by Dec. 2024, but only 2% of that was from its AI evaluation product Weave (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Sales data: AI evaluation startups have modest revenue;...

Sri Muppidi / The Information: Sales data: AI evaluation startups have modest revenue;...

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Sources: BOA, principally lobbying through trade associations, is pushing US lawmakers for rules favoring banks over tech companies in stablecoin issuance (The Block)

Sources: BOA, principally lobbying through trade associations,...

The Block: Sources: BOA, principally lobbying through trade associations, is pushing...

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India's top IT firms, TCS, Infosys, and Wipro, are facing their steepest growth slowdown in years amid global economic uncertainty and geopolitical challenges (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)

India's top IT firms, TCS, Infosys, and Wipro, are facing...

Manish Singh / India Dispatch: India's top IT firms, TCS, Infosys, and Wipro, are...

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A profile of Bo Hines, a 29-year-old official in the Trump administration who has become the main liaison between the White House and the crypto industry (Fortune)

A profile of Bo Hines, a 29-year-old official in the Trump...

Fortune: A profile of Bo Hines, a 29-year-old official in the Trump administration...

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A US judge temporarily halts mass firings at the US CFPB after the agency fired between 1,400 and 1,500 workers, eliminating as much as 90% of its workforce (Douglas Gillison/Reuters)

A US judge temporarily halts mass firings at the US CFPB...

Douglas Gillison / Reuters: A US judge temporarily halts mass firings at the US...

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Oregon sues Coinbase, alleging it's selling unregistered securities; Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer says it's a "copycat case" of SEC's now-dropped lawsuit (Vince Quill/Cointelegraph)

Oregon sues Coinbase, alleging it's selling unregistered...

Vince Quill / Cointelegraph: Oregon sues Coinbase, alleging it's selling unregistered...

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Experts say two federal judges declaring Google a monopoly within a year signals a judicial shift toward addressing anticompetitive behavior in digital markets (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

Experts say two federal judges declaring Google a monopoly...

Steve Lohr / New York Times: Experts say two federal judges declaring Google a monopoly...

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Soaring price of gold brings long-abandoned Welsh mine back to life

Soaring price of gold brings long-abandoned Welsh mine...

Miners are once again digging for gold at Clogau-St David's, once Britain's richest...

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Bruised by Washington's chip controls, Nvidia turns to China

Bruised by Washington's chip controls, Nvidia turns to...

"I'm not worried about Jensen [Huang] at all," said US President Donald Trump, commenting...

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Moscow's next target? Heeding Estonia's call for more defence spending

Moscow's next target? Heeding Estonia's call for more defence...

The Baltic nation of Estonia has been calling for a significant boost in EU defence...

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Trump says Fed Chair Powell's termination 'cannot come fast enough'

Trump says Fed Chair Powell's termination 'cannot come...

US President Donald Trump has called for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to...

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TikTok trials its own take on X-style 'community notes' against misinformation

TikTok trials its own take on X-style 'community notes'...

To add context to videos, social media behemoth TikTok has launched Footnotes: a...

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A look at ways AI is being used to cut carbon emissions: calculating fuel-efficient driving patterns, monitoring grid infrastructure, and more (Coco Liu/Bloomberg)

A look at ways AI is being used to cut carbon emissions:...

Coco Liu / Bloomberg: A look at ways AI is being used to cut carbon emissions: calculating...

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Insiders, including tech execs, say President Trump's trade war may hinder the US computing industry by raising costs for building chip fabs and AI data centers (Financial Times)

Insiders, including tech execs, say President Trump's trade...

Financial Times: Insiders, including tech execs, say President Trump's trade war...

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Exaforce, which lets cybersecurity teams work with AI agents to cut false positives and busywork, raised a $75M Series A led by Khosla, Mayfield, and Thomvest (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)

Exaforce, which lets cybersecurity teams work with AI agents...

Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: Exaforce, which lets cybersecurity teams work with...

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Trump says Fed Chair Jerome Powell's termination "cannot come fast enough"

Trump says Fed Chair Jerome Powell's termination "cannot...

US President Donald Trump has called for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to...

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Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $10.54B, vs. $10.51B est., net income of $2.89B, and stops reporting subscriber numbers on a quarterly basis (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $10.54B, vs....

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $10.54B, vs....

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Netflix says co-founder Reed Hastings has left his post as executive chairman to become chairman and non-executive director of the company (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

Netflix says co-founder Reed Hastings has left his post...

Dade Hayes / Deadline: Netflix says co-founder Reed Hastings has left his post as...

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Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview, with support for Canvas for working on text or code; developers can disable thinking or set a token limit for it (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview, with support...

Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview, with...

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US stocks, dollar slide as Fed chair warns tariffs likely to spur inflation

US stocks, dollar slide as Fed chair warns tariffs likely...

Wall Street traders returned to selling Wednesday, pushing stocks lower as Federal...

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Polish parcel locker operator InPost acquires UK delivery service Yodel, boosting its UK market share from 2% to ~8% and delivering 300M+ UK parcels annually (Konrad Krasuski/Bloomberg)

Polish parcel locker operator InPost acquires UK delivery...

Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg: Polish parcel locker operator InPost acquires UK delivery...

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and visited Beijing on April 17, a source says to meet officials to discuss Trump's new chip export rules (Financial Times)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and...

Financial Times: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and visited...

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TSMC CEO C. C. Wei says "TSMC is not engaged in any discussion with other companies regarding any joint venture", after a recent report of a tie-up with Intel (Bloomberg)

TSMC CEO C. C. Wei says "TSMC is not engaged in any discussion...

Bloomberg: TSMC CEO C. C. Wei says “TSMC is not engaged in any discussion with other...

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US stocks, dollar slide as Powell warns tariffs likely to spur inflation

US stocks, dollar slide as Powell warns tariffs likely...

Wall Street traders returned to selling Wednesday, pushing stocks lower as Federal...

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China appoints new trade negotiator amid tariff war with US

China appoints new trade negotiator amid tariff war with...

Emboldened by the latest economic data that showed China's economy in the first...

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Sources: Intel told its Chinese clients last week that sales of some AI chips would require a license; Nvidia was blindsided by Trump's curbs on its H20 chips (Financial Times)

Sources: Intel told its Chinese clients last week that...

Financial Times: Sources: Intel told its Chinese clients last week that sales of...

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Sensor Tower: Temu and Shein cut their ad spending on platforms including Meta and X an average of 31% and 19%, respectively, so far in April, compared to March (Financial Times)

Sensor Tower: Temu and Shein cut their ad spending on platforms...

Financial Times: Sensor Tower: Temu and Shein cut their ad spending on platforms...

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Indian EV ride-hailing startup BluSmart appears to have suspended service a day after regulators launched a probe into Gensol, which shares its co-founders (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Indian EV ride-hailing startup BluSmart appears to have...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Indian EV ride-hailing startup BluSmart appears to have...

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China's Xi continues charm offensive in Southeast Asia

China's Xi continues charm offensive in Southeast Asia

After Vietnam, China's President Xi Jinping has arrived in Malaysia. Unlike Vietnam,...

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Experts say Chinese investors would be wary of backing AI startups building foundation models; PitchBook: in Q1, AI/ML VC funding in China fell 30% YoY to $1.2B (Rest of World)

Experts say Chinese investors would be wary of backing...

Rest of World: Experts say Chinese investors would be wary of backing AI startups...

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European carmakers are increasingly doing deals with Chinese rivals to prevent them from falling behind in core areas such as software and autonomous driving (Financial Times)

European carmakers are increasingly doing deals with Chinese...

Financial Times: European carmakers are increasingly doing deals with Chinese rivals...

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Inside San Francisco-based live-in startup accelerator HF0, whose alumni include OpenSea's founders; HF0's latest fund is $100M, up from its previous $16M fund (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)

Inside San Francisco-based live-in startup accelerator...

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: Inside San Francisco-based live-in startup accelerator HF0,...

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China's Xi continues charm offensive in SouthEast Asia

China's Xi continues charm offensive in SouthEast Asia

After Vietnam, China's president Xi Jinping arrived in Malaysia.  Unlike Vietnam...

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Anthropic's Claude adds Research, capable of searching the web and internal documents to give comprehensive answers, in beta for Max, Team, Enterprise plans (Ben Sherry/Inc)

Anthropic's Claude adds Research, capable of searching...

Ben Sherry / Inc: Anthropic's Claude adds Research, capable of searching the web...

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The valuation of Kavak, a Mexico City-based online used car dealer and LATAM's most valuable startup, was cut by $6.5B to $2.2B in a $127M equity round in March (Michael O'Boyle/Bloomberg)

The valuation of Kavak, a Mexico City-based online used...

Michael O'Boyle / Bloomberg: The valuation of Kavak, a Mexico City-based online...

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A look at the FCC's "Delete, Delete, Delete" initiative, meant to identify burdensome rules, as ISPs, broadcasters, and others send in deregulation wishlists (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

A look at the FCC's "Delete, Delete, Delete" initiative,...

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: A look at the FCC's “Delete, Delete, Delete” initiative,...

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India plans to add 200M-300M UPI users, including via delegated accounts for kids, and pitch UPI abroad; PwC: India makes up ~46% of global digital transactions (Bloomberg)

India plans to add 200M-300M UPI users, including via delegated...

Bloomberg: India plans to add 200M-300M UPI users, including via delegated accounts...

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At the request of South Korean regulator, Apple blocked 14 and Google blocked 17 crypto apps, including exchanges KuCoin and MEXC, from their app stores (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)

At the request of South Korean regulator, Apple blocked...

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: At the request of South Korean regulator, Apple blocked...

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An interview with Google VP of Search Elizabeth Reid on AI Overviews' launch a year ago, the future of AI search, its impact on the ad revenue model, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

An interview with Google VP of Search Elizabeth Reid on...

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: An interview with Google VP of Search Elizabeth...

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Landmark US antitrust trial against Meta begins

Landmark US antitrust trial against Meta begins

Meta's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg took the stand as a historic antitrust trial...

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Sources: OpenAI's upcoming o3 and o4-mini reasoning models may excel at suggesting new types of science experiments, from nuclear fusion to pathogen detection (The Information)

Sources: OpenAI's upcoming o3 and o4-mini reasoning models...

The Information: Sources: OpenAI's upcoming o3 and o4-mini reasoning models may...

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OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano, which excel at coding, instruction following, and long context understanding, available via its API (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano,...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano,...

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Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in beta versions of iOS 18.5, macOS 15.5 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis...

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China hits back at Trump tariffs with export restrictions on rare earths

China hits back at Trump tariffs with export restrictions...

China has restricted the export of rare earth minerals critical to the production...

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China calls on the US to 'correct its mistakes' by cancelling reciprocal tariffs

China calls on the US to 'correct its mistakes' by cancelling...

China called on the United States on Sunday to "correct its mistakes" by cancelling...

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President Trump told reporters he would announce the tariff rate on imported semiconductors over the next week, giving some flexibility to certain companies (Reuters)

President Trump told reporters he would announce the tariff...

Reuters: President Trump told reporters he would announce the tariff rate on imported...

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A look at the limits of large context LLMs, as their increased latency, higher costs, and reduced usability result in diminishing returns for enterprises (VentureBeat)

A look at the limits of large context LLMs, as their increased...

VentureBeat: A look at the limits of large context LLMs, as their increased latency,...

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Dealroom: UK-based startups raised £16.2B in 2024, the lowest amount since 2020, as several consider moving their headquarters to the US in search of capital (Financial Times)

Dealroom: UK-based startups raised £16.2B in 2024, the...

Financial Times: Dealroom: UK-based startups raised £16.2B in 2024, the lowest amount...

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Source: Trump plans to instruct the Commerce Department to launch a Section 232 national security probe into chip imports, which could lead to new tariffs (Ari Hawkins/Politico)

Source: Trump plans to instruct the Commerce Department...

Ari Hawkins / Politico: Source: Trump plans to instruct the Commerce Department...

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Lawmakers who benefited from crypto super PACs are advancing crypto priorities in Congress, like the Genius Act, which establishes rules for stablecoin issuers (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

Lawmakers who benefited from crypto super PACs are advancing...

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Lawmakers who benefited from crypto super...

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China has suspended exports of a wide range of rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for making semiconductors, robots, drones, cars, and more (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)

China has suspended exports of a wide range of rare earth...

Keith Bradsher / New York Times: China has suspended exports of a wide range of...

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China calls on the US to 'correct its mistakes' by canceling reciprocal tariffs

China calls on the US to 'correct its mistakes' by canceling...

China called on the United States on Sunday to "correct its mistakes" by canceling...

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Tel Aviv-based Groundcover, an eBPF observability service for monitoring the performance of apps, systems, and their infrastructure, raised a $35M Series B (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Tel Aviv-based Groundcover, an eBPF observability service...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Tel Aviv-based Groundcover, an eBPF observability...

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Copenhagen-based Sparrow Quantum, which is developing photonic quantum chips based on research conducted at the Niels Bohr Institute, raised a €21.5M Series A (Vishal Singh/Silicon Canals)

Copenhagen-based Sparrow Quantum, which is developing photonic...

Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals: Copenhagen-based Sparrow Quantum, which is developing...

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Analysis: paper gains from the Trump family's investments in various crypto projects, including NFTs, DeFi, Bitcoin mining, and memecoins, are approaching $1B (Bloomberg)

Analysis: paper gains from the Trump family's investments...

Bloomberg: Analysis: paper gains from the Trump family's investments in various...

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India's JioHotstar now has 200M+ paid subscribers, driven by multi-language IPL cricket streams, ranking third-largest globally after Netflix and Prime Video (Bloomberg)

India's JioHotstar now has 200M+ paid subscribers, driven...

Bloomberg: India's JioHotstar now has 200M+ paid subscribers, driven by multi-language...

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Arguments start Monday in the FTC's antitrust suit targeting Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, amid reports Zuckerberg asked Trump to intervene (Washington Post)

Arguments start Monday in the FTC's antitrust suit targeting...

Washington Post: Arguments start Monday in the FTC's antitrust suit targeting Meta's...

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UK government report: 43% of businesses faced a cyber breach or attack in the past year; phishing was the most common type, affecting 85% of those attacked (Connor Jones/The Register)

UK government report: 43% of businesses faced a cyber breach...

Connor Jones / The Register: UK government report: 43% of businesses faced a cyber...

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Investors dump US government bonds as faith in America falters

Investors dump US government bonds as faith in America...

Investors are dumping once-reliable US government bonds, sparking fears that major...

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Asia's startup funding fell 40% YoY to ~$13B in Q1 2025, the lowest funding for a quarter since $12.3B in Q4 2014; AI startup funding fell 50% YoY to just $1.8B (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)

Asia's startup funding fell 40% YoY to ~$13B in Q1 2025,...

Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: Asia's startup funding fell 40% YoY to ~$13B in...

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Architect Partners: Q1 2025 was a record quarter for crypto M&A with 61 deals and $2.2B in total deal value, including Kraken's $1.5B acquisition of NinjaTrader (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)

Architect Partners: Q1 2025 was a record quarter for crypto...

Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: Architect Partners: Q1 2025 was a record quarter for crypto...

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ByteDance, which spent an estimated $11B in 2024 on infrastructure for AI, is using data from ~1B users of its apps as the linchpin of its growing AI business (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)

ByteDance, which spent an estimated $11B in 2024 on infrastructure...

Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: ByteDance, which spent an estimated $11B in 2024...

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How Nintendo is navigating tariff chaos, including shipping an estimated 1.7M Switch 2 units to the US before tariffs took effect, assembling in Vietnam, more (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

How Nintendo is navigating tariff chaos, including shipping...

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How Nintendo is navigating tariff chaos,...

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There is increasing uncertainty about China approving Synopsys' $35B Ansys acquisition, amid the escalating tariff fight between the US and China (Bloomberg)

There is increasing uncertainty about China approving Synopsys'...

Bloomberg: There is increasing uncertainty about China approving Synopsys' $35B...

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A group of former OpenAI employees file an amicus brief in support of Elon Musk in his lawsuit opposing OpenAI's for-profit transition (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

A group of former OpenAI employees file an amicus brief...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: A group of former OpenAI employees file an amicus brief...

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Are claims that AI is accelerating climate change 'overstated'?

Are claims that AI is accelerating climate change 'overstated'?

One concern around artificial intelligence is its voracious appetite for energy....

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Source: Google laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices unit, which works on Android, Pixel, and Chrome, after offering buyouts in January (Erin Woo/The Information)

Source: Google laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms...

Erin Woo / The Information: Source: Google laid off hundreds of employees in its...

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Despite Trump admin pressure, Apple is unlikely to move iPhone production to the US soon due to facility, labor, and supply chain gaps only Asia can fill now (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Despite Trump admin pressure, Apple is unlikely to move...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Despite Trump admin pressure, Apple is unlikely to move...

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EC president von der Leyen: the EU may tax Big Tech ad revenue, targeting Meta and Google, if Trump trade talks fail and won't revisit its "untouchable" rules (Financial Times)

EC president von der Leyen: the EU may tax Big Tech ad...

Financial Times: EC president von der Leyen: the EU may tax Big Tech ad revenue,...

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Trump warns of 'transition cost' as uncertainty over tariffs lingers

Trump warns of 'transition cost' as uncertainty over tariffs...

US President Donald Trump acknowledged "transition problems" on Thursday as Wall...

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US stocks tumble a day after Trump announces 90-day pause on tariffs

US stocks tumble a day after Trump announces 90-day pause...

US stocks fell Thursday after a historic rally on Wednesday following President...

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nEye Systems, which is developing data center chips that use light to send data, raised a $58M Series B led by CapitalG, bringing its total funding to $72.5M (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

nEye Systems, which is developing data center chips that...

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: nEye Systems, which is developing data center chips that...

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BeReal rolls out in-feed ads in the US, says it has an estimated 40M MAUs, including 5M in the US, and 85% of its users are Gen Z (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

BeReal rolls out in-feed ads in the US, says it has an...

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: BeReal rolls out in-feed ads in the US, says it...

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UK home secretary criticizes Steam for hosting No Mercy, a game with sexual violence, rape, and incest; Steam removed the game in the UK, Australia, and Canada (Vikki Blake/GamesIndustry.biz)

UK home secretary criticizes Steam for hosting No Mercy,...

Vikki Blake / GamesIndustry.biz: UK home secretary criticizes Steam for hosting...

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Stocks soar as Trump backtracks on some tariffs

Stocks soar as Trump backtracks on some tariffs

Facing a global market meltdown, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday abruptly...

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Trade war: As Trump tariffs take effect, what next for China?

Trade war: As Trump tariffs take effect, what next for...

Donald Trump's new tariffs on almost all US trading partners have taken effect,...

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Trump pauses 'reciprocal tariffs' for 90 days while raising rate on China to 125%

Trump pauses 'reciprocal tariffs' for 90 days while raising...

Less than 24 hours after his new, high tariffs on dozens of US trading partners...

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Ex-Facebook employee accuses Meta of 'betraying US values' and collaborating with China

Ex-Facebook employee accuses Meta of 'betraying US values'...

Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams, who wrote a scathing memoir about...

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'Deals are my art form': How Trump backed down on tariffs

'Deals are my art form': How Trump backed down on tariffs

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced an abrupt rollback of his new tariffs...

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Markets in Europe and Asia rebound on back of Trump's 90-day tariff pause

Markets in Europe and Asia rebound on back of Trump's 90-day...

Stocks in Asia and Europe rebounded on Thursday, following in Wall Street's footsteps,...

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Live: Wall Street rally fizzles as uncertainty over Trump's tariffs lingers

Live: Wall Street rally fizzles as uncertainty over Trump's...

Wall Street shares fell Thursday as a rally faded over lingering concerns about...

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Gig economy: The plight of delivery workers

Gig economy: The plight of delivery workers

From food delivery and ride-hailing apps to handywork and domestic services, millions...

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Tel Aviv-based Anecdotes, which helps automate corporate governance, risk, and compliance processes, raised a $30M Series B extension, taking the round to $55M (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

Tel Aviv-based Anecdotes, which helps automate corporate...

Sophie Shulman / CTech: Tel Aviv-based Anecdotes, which helps automate corporate...

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Solid, which offers APIs for banking, payments, cards, and crypto products and had raised $81M, files for Chapter 11, citing a "costly" lawsuit with FTV Capital (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Solid, which offers APIs for banking, payments, cards,...

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Solid, which offers APIs for banking, payments, cards,...

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Q&A with CMU professor and OpenAI board member Zico Kolter on CMU's partnership with Google, the dangers of AI agents interacting with one another, and more (Will Knight/Wired)

Q&A with CMU professor and OpenAI board member Zico Kolter...

Will Knight / Wired: Q&A with CMU professor and OpenAI board member Zico Kolter...

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Trade war: Is China better equipped to confront Trump than in 2018?

Trade war: Is China better equipped to confront Trump than...

The current trade tensions between the US and China have an air of familiarity dating...

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Trade war: Trump tariffs take effect.  What next for China?

Trade war: Trump tariffs take effect. What next for China?

Donald Trump's new tariffs on almost all US trading partners have taken effect,...

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Trump pauses "reciprocal tariffs" for 90 days while raising the rate to 125% on China

Trump pauses "reciprocal tariffs" for 90 days while raising...

Less than 24 hours after his new, high tariffs on dozens of US trading partners...

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Google announces Agent2Agent, an open interoperability protocol to enable seamless collaboration between AI agents across diverse frameworks and vendors (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)

Google announces Agent2Agent, an open interoperability...

Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: Google announces Agent2Agent, an open interoperability...

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Sources: Italy is seeking €1.2B from fintech group ION following a probe by prosecutors in Bologna into alleged tax evasion over the 2013-2023 period (Reuters)

Sources: Italy is seeking €1.2B from fintech group ION...

Reuters: Sources: Italy is seeking €1.2B from fintech group ION following a probe...

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Sen. Ron Wyden plans to block the nomination of Sean Plankey to head CISA until the agency releases a 2022 report about security flaws at US telecom companies (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Sen. Ron Wyden plans to block the nomination of Sean Plankey...

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Sen. Ron Wyden plans to block the nomination of Sean...

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Global markets roiled as Trump's 'reciprocal' tariffs take effect

Global markets roiled as Trump's 'reciprocal' tariffs take...

As of midnight on Wednesday April 9, the US's "reciprocal" tariffs against dozens...

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Trump's 104% tariffs on China to take effect on Wednesday

Trump's 104% tariffs on China to take effect on Wednesday

Tariffs that will effectively double the price of everything that comes from China...

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Microsoft is backing away from its October 2024 plan to invest $1B in three Ohio data centers, the latest in a string of its data center project cancellations (Georgia Butler/DatacenterDynamics)

Microsoft is backing away from its October 2024 plan to...

Georgia Butler / DatacenterDynamics: Microsoft is backing away from its October...

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Docs: Canadian telecom Bell is lobbying to block Starlink subsidies, as Canada-US tensions and Musk's Trump ties put his satellite business under more scrutiny (Ilya Gridneff/Financial Times)

Docs: Canadian telecom Bell is lobbying to block Starlink...

Ilya Gridneff / Financial Times: Docs: Canadian telecom Bell is lobbying to block...

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X's merger with xAI caps its yearslong turnaround push; sources say X's revenue fell to $2.6B in 2024, down from $3B in 2023 and about $4.6B in 2022 (Wall Street Journal)

X's merger with xAI caps its yearslong turnaround push;...

Wall Street Journal: X's merger with xAI caps its yearslong turnaround push; sources...

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US's 104% tariffs on China to take effect on Wednesday

US's 104% tariffs on China to take effect on Wednesday

Tariffs that will effectively double the price of everything that comes from China...

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Sources: hackers intercepted ~100 bank regulators' emails, 150K+ in total, for over a year at the US Treasury's OCC, which disclosed a breach on February 26 (Bloomberg)

Sources: hackers intercepted ~100 bank regulators' emails,...

Bloomberg: Sources: hackers intercepted ~100 bank regulators' emails, 150K+ in total,...

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Nintendo says Switch 2 pre-orders in Canada "will not start on April 9, 2025 in order to align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the US

Nintendo says Switch 2 pre-orders in Canada "will not start...

Bradly Shankar / MobileSyrup: Nintendo says Switch 2 pre-orders in Canada “will...

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Snap releases sponsored AI lenses, a new generative AI ad format users can interact with and that is powered by One Snap, its homegrown generative AI tech (Allison Schiff/AdExchanger)

Snap releases sponsored AI lenses, a new generative AI...

Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: Snap releases sponsored AI lenses, a new generative...

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China and US embark on tit-for-tat tariff retaliation

China and US embark on tit-for-tat tariff retaliation

In a statement, China's commerce ministry has responded to Donald Trump's threats...

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Global market turmoil continues as Trump threatens additional 50% tariffs on China

Global market turmoil continues as Trump threatens additional...

Global stocks continued to tumble for a third straight session on Monday, with Europe's...

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LMArena says it's updating its leaderboard rules after Meta secured the #2 spot with a Llama 4 Maverick version it noted in fine print was not released publicly (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

LMArena says it's updating its leaderboard rules after...

Kylie Robison / The Verge: LMArena says it's updating its leaderboard rules after...

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Q&A with UiPath CEO Daniel Dines on rejoining in May 2024 after stepping down, agentic AI being the future of automation, licensing AI tech, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with UiPath CEO Daniel Dines on rejoining in May 2024...

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with UiPath CEO Daniel Dines on rejoining in May 2024...

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IBM unveils the z17 mainframe with a Telum II chip, built for 250+ AI use cases and can perform 450B daily inferences, 50% more than z16, available on June 8 (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)

IBM unveils the z17 mainframe with a Telum II chip, built...

Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: IBM unveils the z17 mainframe with a Telum II chip,...

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Global market turmoil continues as Donald Trump threatens additional 50% tariffs on China

Global market turmoil continues as Donald Trump threatens...

Global stocks continued to tumble for a third straight session, with Europe's main...

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President Trump posts that the US will impose additional tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9, unless China withdraws its 34% retaliatory tariffs (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

President Trump posts that the US will impose additional...

Ben Berkowitz / Axios: President Trump posts that the US will impose additional...

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Krea, which helps creators generate AI content using the best available models, raised a $47M Series B and a $33M Series A; sources: Krea is valued at $500M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Krea, which helps creators generate AI content using the...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Krea, which helps creators generate AI content using...

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CaaStle’s Board Let CEO Stay After Fraud Allegations, Delayed Investor Disclosure

CaaStle’s Board Let CEO Stay After Fraud Allegations, Delayed...

Dan Primack / Axios: Sources: the board of directors of clothing inventory monetization...

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Markets plunge as Trump tariffs threaten global trade system

Markets plunge as Trump tariffs threaten global trade system

Asian indexes fell sharply on Monday in the wake of US President Donald Trump's...

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Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software, raised €75M, doubling its valuation to €2B, led by Sequoia and with Alphabet among investors (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting...

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software,...

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The UK bans hidden fees imposed by online businesses as well as the use or commissioning of fake reviews, effective April 6, with compliance enforced by the CMA (Jon Ungoed-Thomas/The Guardian)

The UK bans hidden fees imposed by online businesses as...

Jon Ungoed-Thomas / The Guardian: The UK bans hidden fees imposed by online businesses...

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Sources: OpenAI recently discussed acquiring io Products, a startup Sam Altman has been working on with Jony Ive to develop an AI-powered device, for $500M+ (The Information)

Sources: OpenAI recently discussed acquiring io Products,...

The Information: Sources: OpenAI recently discussed acquiring io Products, a startup...

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A look at the US market for humanoids in homes and businesses; PitchBook says investors have poured $7.2B into 50+ startups since 2015, including $1.6B in 2024 (New York Times)

A look at the US market for humanoids in homes and businesses;...

New York Times: A look at the US market for humanoids in homes and businesses; PitchBook...

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How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone 17 Pro's camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone...

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Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts, becomes an open-source protocol with a new long-range technology as it seeks Matter support to avoid obsolescence (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts, becomes an...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts,...

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The BBC complains to the UK CMA that Apple and Google's news aggregators weaken its relationship with the public by downplaying the BBC branding (Charles Martin/AppleInsider)

The BBC complains to the UK CMA that Apple and Google's...

Charles Martin / AppleInsider: The BBC complains to the UK CMA that Apple and Google's...

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SandboxAQ, which uses quantum computing to develop AI, raised a $150M Series E extension from Google, Nvidia, and others, taking its total funding to $950M+ (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

SandboxAQ, which uses quantum computing to develop AI,...

Krystal Hu / Reuters: SandboxAQ, which uses quantum computing to develop AI, raised...

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Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 24.2% YoY to $49.5B, driven by AI demand, but says the impact of evolving global political conditions will need "close monitoring" (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)

Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 24.2% YoY to $49.5B, driven...

Ben Blanchard / Reuters: Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 24.2% YoY to $49.5B, driven...

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Miami-based remittance startup Felix Pago, which uses stablecoins and handled $1B+ in money transfers via WhatsApp in 2024, raised a $75M Series B led by QED (Bloomberg)

Miami-based remittance startup Felix Pago, which uses stablecoins...

Bloomberg: Miami-based remittance startup Felix Pago, which uses stablecoins and...

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In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a "Decel-in-Chief", who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk...

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk...

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Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by Monday, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be...

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program...

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SensorTower: users in India have spent $8M on ChatGPT subscriptions through IAP since 2023, not including web app purchases, versus ~$330M spent by US users (TechCrunch)

SensorTower: users in India have spent $8M on ChatGPT subscriptions...

TechCrunch: SensorTower: users in India have spent $8M on ChatGPT subscriptions...

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A US federal judge decides Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI will go to a jury trial in spring 2026; Musk and OpenAI agreed to fast-track the trial last month (Anna Tong/Reuters)

A US federal judge decides Elon Musk's lawsuit against...

Anna Tong / Reuters: A US federal judge decides Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI...

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Utah-based SchoolAI, an AI-powered teaching and learning platform used in 1M+ classrooms across 80+ countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners (FinSMEs)

Utah-based SchoolAI, an AI-powered teaching and learning...

FinSMEs: Utah-based SchoolAI, an AI-powered teaching and learning platform used...

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US trade war: EU prepares to retaliate with Big Tech in its sights

US trade war: EU prepares to retaliate with Big Tech in...

France says a response from the EU to Trump's new 20 percent tariff will "probably"...

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Microsoft Copilot Introduces Memory, Personalization, Web Actions, Podcast Creation, and More Advanced Features

Microsoft Copilot Introduces Memory, Personalization, Web...

Dominic Preston / The Verge: Microsoft Copilot adds support for memory, personalization,...

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Microsoft brings Copilot Vision feature to Windows and its iOS and Android apps, letting it analyze real-time video from a mobile camera, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft brings Copilot Vision feature to Windows and...

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft brings Copilot Vision feature to Windows and its...

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Google releases API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro: $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $10 for 1M output tokens for prompts up to 200K tokens, its priciest model yet (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Google releases API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro: $1.25 per...

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Google releases API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro: $1.25...

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US stocks lead worldwide selloff after Trump's tariff announcement

US stocks lead worldwide selloff after Trump's tariff announcement

Stocks plummeted on Thursday after US President Donald Trump's trade war escalation...

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US officials say NSA director and Cyber Command head Timothy Haugh was fired on April 3, along with his deputy Wendy Noble (Washington Post)

US officials say NSA director and Cyber Command head Timothy...

Washington Post: US officials say NSA director and Cyber Command head Timothy Haugh...

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President Trump reiterates he's open to tariff relief for China if it approves the sale of TikTok's US operations; the app faces an April 5 divestment deadline (Annmarie Hordern/Bloomberg)

President Trump reiterates he's open to tariff relief for...

Annmarie Hordern / Bloomberg: President Trump reiterates he's open to tariff relief...

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Meta antitrust case is the first major test of President Trump's FTC and its chair Andrew Ferguson, a Big Tech critic; Meta is exploring a possible settlement (Financial Times)

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Financial Times: Meta antitrust case is the first major test of President Trump's...

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US stocks lead worldwide sell-off after Trump’s tariff announcement

US stocks lead worldwide sell-off after Trump’s tariff...

Stocks plummeted on Thursday after Donald Trump’s trade war escalation sparked a...

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'Looney tariffs', 'Trump's dumb war': How the press reacted to 'Liberation Day'

'Looney tariffs', 'Trump's dumb war': How the press reacted...

PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, April 3: There's disbelief, anger and scepticism in the...

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The White House appears to have used an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots recommend to calculate reciprocal tariffs (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

The White House appears to have used an oversimplified...

Dominic Preston / The Verge: The White House appears to have used an oversimplified...

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Oracle told some clients this week that hackers stole old login credentials, the second breach that Oracle acknowledged to clients in the past month.

Oracle told some clients this week that hackers stole old...

Jake Bleiberg Sources: Oracle told some clients this week that hackers stole old...

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Portland-based Hydrolix, a data lake service that offers a repository for log data, raised an $80M Series C led by QED, bringing its total raised to $148M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Portland-based Hydrolix, a data lake service that offers...

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Portland-based Hydrolix, a data lake service that offers...

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Trump's tariff bazooka: How did the previous trade war impact the economy?

Trump's tariff bazooka: How did the previous trade war...

With US President Donald Trump poised to unveil his "Liberation Day" tariff plan,...

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US announces a 34% "reciprocal" tariff hike on China, going into effect from April 9; economists: average US tariffs on Chinese products may get as high as 65% (Bloomberg)

US announces a 34% "reciprocal" tariff hike on China, going...

Bloomberg: US announces a 34% “reciprocal” tariff hike on China, going into effect...

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Sources: Google is in advanced talks to rent Nvidia Blackwell AI chips from CoreWeave, highlighting how major Nvidia customers are struggling to get chips (The Information)

Sources: Google is in advanced talks to rent Nvidia Blackwell...

The Information: Sources: Google is in advanced talks to rent Nvidia Blackwell AI...

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Samsung has turned to Chinese customers like Baidu to prop up its ailing chip business; SemiAnalysis says Samsung is the "biggest supplier of HBM into China" (Financial Times)

Samsung has turned to Chinese customers like Baidu to prop...

Financial Times: Samsung has turned to Chinese customers like Baidu to prop up its...

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Trump's tariff bazooka: How did the pverious trade war impact the economy?

Trump's tariff bazooka: How did the pverious trade war...

With US President poised to unveil his "Liberation Day" tariff plan, Yuka Royer...

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Sources: Amazon has put in a bid to acquire all of TikTok, but various parties involved do not appear to be taking it seriously, ahead of the April 5 deadline (New York Times)

Sources: Amazon has put in a bid to acquire all of TikTok,...

New York Times: Sources: Amazon has put in a bid to acquire all of TikTok, but various...

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Google replaces Sissie Hsiao, leader of its consumer AI apps, including Gemini, with Josh Woodward, who leads Google Labs and oversaw NotebookLM's launch (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Google replaces Sissie Hsiao, leader of its consumer AI...

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Google replaces Sissie Hsiao, leader of its consumer...

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Trump pardoned BitMEX owner HDR Global Trading, which had pleaded guilty and was fined $100M for money laundering, possibly the first US pardon of a corporation (Matt Sledge/The Intercept)

Trump pardoned BitMEX owner HDR Global Trading, which had...

Matt Sledge / The Intercept: Trump pardoned BitMEX owner HDR Global Trading, which...

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Thousands of websites created by AI: Unmasking the fake news generators

Thousands of websites created by AI: Unmasking the fake...

With the ever-growing and often overwhelming number of news outlets, it has become...

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European businesses brace for Trump's 'reciprocal tariffs'

European businesses brace for Trump's 'reciprocal tariffs'

Around the world, investors and businesses are anxiously awaiting the unveiling...

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In a new paper, Tim O'Reilly and other researchers say OpenAI likely trained GPT-4o on paywalled books from O'Reilly Media without a licensing agreement (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

In a new paper, Tim O'Reilly and other researchers say...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: In a new paper, Tim O'Reilly and other researchers say...

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Bybit shutters its NFT marketplace, following a similar decision by NFT marketplace X2Y2; Token Terminal: daily NFT trading volume has dropped 70% YoY to $5.34M (Adrian Zmudzinski/Cointelegraph)

Bybit shutters its NFT marketplace, following a similar...

Adrian Zmudzinski / Cointelegraph: Bybit shutters its NFT marketplace, following...

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Qualcomm acquires the generative AI division of Vietnamese startup VinAI, following the acquisition of German AI and IoT company Edge Impulse in early March (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Qualcomm acquires the generative AI division of Vietnamese...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Qualcomm acquires the generative AI division of Vietnamese...

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Business - Global shares dip as wolrd markets brace for Trump tariffs

Business - Global shares dip as wolrd markets brace for...

US trading partners scrambled on Tuesday to prepare for the latest round of Donald...

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OpenAI says ChatGPT has hit 20M paid subscribers, up from 15.5M at the end of 2024, suggesting the company is making at least $415M in monthly revenue (The Information)

OpenAI says ChatGPT has hit 20M paid subscribers, up from...

The Information: OpenAI says ChatGPT has hit 20M paid subscribers, up from 15.5M...

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Xiaomi says it is cooperating with a Chinese police probe into a fatal crash by a car using its autonomous features; its stock is down 10%+ over the past week (New York Times)

Xiaomi says it is cooperating with a Chinese police probe...

New York Times: Xiaomi says it is cooperating with a Chinese police probe into a...

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Meta VP of AI Research Joelle Pineau says she plans to leave in May 2025 after nearly eight years; she has led the FAIR group since early 2023 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta VP of AI Research Joelle Pineau says she plans to...

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta VP of AI Research Joelle Pineau says she plans to...

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Myanmar quake: Economic losses from disaster could exceed nation's GDP

Myanmar quake: Economic losses from disaster could exceed...

The USGS has warned that the final death toll from the magnitude-7.7 quake in Myanmar...

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Sources: in recent weeks, Meta executives including Mark Zuckerberg have pressed US trade officials to oppose an impending EU fine and cease-and-desist order (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: in recent weeks, Meta executives including Mark...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: in recent weeks, Meta executives including Mark Zuckerberg...

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Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of as much as $16.5B to help fund AI investments in the US; the loan may help SoftBank lead a $40B round in OpenAI (Bloomberg)

Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of as much as...

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of as much as $16.5B to help...

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Current and former Google DeepMind scientists say a tougher vetting process and more bureaucracy at Google's AI arm have made it harder to publish AI research (Financial Times)

Current and former Google DeepMind scientists say a tougher...

Financial Times: Current and former Google DeepMind scientists say a tougher vetting...

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Myanmar quake: economic losses from the disaster could exceed the nation's GDP

Myanmar quake: economic losses from the disaster could...

The USGS has warned that the final death toll from the magnitude 7.7 quake in Myanmar...

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Runway releases its Gen-4 video-generating AI model to individual and enterprise users, touting its ability to maintain consistency of subjects, styles, more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Runway releases its Gen-4 video-generating AI model to...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Runway releases its Gen-4 video-generating AI model to...

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Retym, which aims to bring its first AI data center chip to market this year, raised a $75M Series D led by Spark Capital, bringing its total funding to $180M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Retym, which aims to bring its first AI data center chip...

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Retym, which aims to bring its first AI data center chip...

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Alexa+ will start rolling out to users today; sources: some features demoed in February are slated to arrive in two months, while others will take longer (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)

Alexa+ will start rolling out to users today; sources:...

Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: Alexa+ will start rolling out to users today;...

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Asian economies brace for new Trump tariffs on 'Liberation Day'

Asian economies brace for new Trump tariffs on 'Liberation...

South Korea, Japan and China hold a top-level trade summit as Asia braces for new...

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Sources: Foxconn plans to assemble 25M to 30M iPhones in India in 2025, up from ~12M in 2024, and is conducting production trials at its new Bengaluru plant (Dia Rekhi/The Economic Times)

Sources: Foxconn plans to assemble 25M to 30M iPhones in...

Dia Rekhi / The Economic Times: Sources: Foxconn plans to assemble 25M to 30M iPhones...

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After Trump signed an EO to end the government's DEI programs, tech firms like Google are rebranding DEI efforts, using terms like "learning" or "hiring" (CNBC)

After Trump signed an EO to end the government's DEI programs,...

CNBC: After Trump signed an EO to end the government's DEI programs, tech firms...

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South Korea-based Wrtn, a free-to-use AI platform with 5M+ users aggregating LLMs like GPT-4, Stable Diffusion 3, and Claude 3, raised a ~$56M extension round (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

South Korea-based Wrtn, a free-to-use AI platform with...

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: South Korea-based Wrtn, a free-to-use AI platform with 5M+...

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Sources: Apple is working on a major Health app revamp and an AI doctor service, planned for H1 2026, and M5 updates for the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro this year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is working on a major Health app revamp...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is working on a major Health app revamp...

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Straiker, which develops tech for securing enterprise AI applications, emerges from stealth with a $21M Series A from Lightspeed and Bain Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Straiker, which develops tech for securing enterprise AI...

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Straiker, which develops tech for securing enterprise...

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A look at the RainbowEx crypto Ponzi scheme, which ensnared 16,000 people in San Pedro, Argentina; different versions of the scam have emerged around the world (New York Times)

A look at the RainbowEx crypto Ponzi scheme, which ensnared...

New York Times: A look at the RainbowEx crypto Ponzi scheme, which ensnared 16,000...

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Fleetio, which develops vehicle fleet management software, raised a $450M+ Series D and acquired Auto Integrate in a deal valuing the combined entity at $1.5B+ (PYMNTS.com)

Fleetio, which develops vehicle fleet management software,...

PYMNTS.com: Fleetio, which develops vehicle fleet management software, raised a...

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Chinese chip equipment manufacturer SiCarrier debuted ~30 "domestically controllable" products at the Semicon China show, as China pushes for chip self-reliance (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)

Chinese chip equipment manufacturer SiCarrier debuted ~30...

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: Chinese chip equipment manufacturer SiCarrier...

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Prolific fintech VC and QED Investors co-founder Frank Rotman says he will become partner emeritus by the end of 2025 and focus on launching his own startups (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Prolific fintech VC and QED Investors co-founder Frank...

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Prolific fintech VC and QED Investors co-founder...

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Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year (Arfa Javaid/Financial Express)

Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste...

Arfa Javaid / Financial Express: Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is...

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A book excerpt details how the OpenAI board ousted Sam Altman with help from Mira Murati, who provided examples of his alleged lies and other toxic behavior (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

A book excerpt details how the OpenAI board ousted Sam...

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: A book excerpt details how the OpenAI board ousted...

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Hamish McKenzie says Substack is partnering with FIRE to support "writers residing lawfully" in the US targeted by the government for their writing (Hamish McKenzie/@hamishmckenzie)

Hamish McKenzie says Substack is partnering with FIRE to...

Hamish McKenzie / @hamishmckenzie: Hamish McKenzie says Substack is partnering with...

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FTX tells a US bankruptcy judge it will make the first payment to its main creditors on May 30 using the $11.4B cash hoard it has collected since shutting down (Steven Church/Bloomberg)

FTX tells a US bankruptcy judge it will make the first...

Steven Church / Bloomberg: FTX tells a US bankruptcy judge it will make the first...

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Gensol's financial woes have cast doubt on the future of BluSmart, an Indian EV ride-hailing startup founded by Gensol's promoters, Anmol Jaggi and Puneet Jaggi (Debarghya Sil/Inc42 Media)

Gensol's financial woes have cast doubt on the future of...

Debarghya Sil / Inc42 Media: Gensol's financial woes have cast doubt on the future...

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Brooklyn-based Underdog, a fantasy sports and sports betting app, raised $70M in a first Series C tranche at a $1.23B valuation from Spark Capital (Dan Primack/Axios)

Brooklyn-based Underdog, a fantasy sports and sports betting...

Dan Primack / Axios: Brooklyn-based Underdog, a fantasy sports and sports betting...

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Boycotters attempt to unplug from tentacular US tech sector

Boycotters attempt to unplug from tentacular US tech sector

Anti-American sentiment is surging amid the second term of US President Donald Trump....

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Google says Pixel 9a will launch in the US, Canada, and UK on April 10; the company delayed the phone's launch to April to check "on a component quality issue" (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google says Pixel 9a will launch in the US, Canada, and...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says Pixel 9a will launch in the US, Canada, and UK...

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Sources: DOGE aims to migrate all Social Security Administration's computer systems off COBOL in a matter of months, risking the integrity of the system (Makena Kelly/Wired)

Sources: DOGE aims to migrate all Social Security Administration's...

Makena Kelly / Wired: Sources: DOGE aims to migrate all Social Security Administration's...

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Anthropic researchers share the surprises they observed while watching Claude think: planning ahead, confusion between safety and helpfulness goals, lying, more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Anthropic researchers share the surprises they observed...

Steven Levy / Wired: Anthropic researchers share the surprises they observed while...

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Nutrition for Growth summit: Leaders call for solidarity amid funding crisis

Nutrition for Growth summit: Leaders call for solidarity...

A major summit to discuss global efforts to tackle malnutrition has kicked off in...

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Q&A with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on working at Bell Labs and Google, building Neeva, Snowflake's business model and its approach to AI, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Q&A with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on working at...

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on working...

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PUBG developer Krafton acquires a "north of 75% stake" in Pune-based gaming studio Nautilus Mobile for $14M in an all-cash deal, its first acquisition in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

PUBG developer Krafton acquires a "north of 75% stake"...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: PUBG developer Krafton acquires a “north of 75% stake”...

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Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including SMIC, which is being probed for allegedly poaching engineers to access the island's advanced chip tech (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including...

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including SMIC,...

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Hunger and malnutrition: The cost of inaction

Hunger and malnutrition: The cost of inaction

The fight against malnutrition, the world's leading cause of infant mortality, was...

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Inroads: How China's BYD overtook Tesla as the global leader in electric cars

Inroads: How China's BYD overtook Tesla as the global leader...

China’s BYD automaker surpassed US rival Tesla for the first time in 2024 to become...

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Nutrition for Growth Summit: leaders call for solidarity amid a funding crisis

Nutrition for Growth Summit: leaders call for solidarity...

A major summit to discuss global efforts to tackle malnutrition kicked off in Paris....

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Mendel, which offers corporate spend management tools for companies in Latin America, raises a $35M Series B led by Base10, bringing its total funding to $60M (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mendel, which offers corporate spend management tools for...

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Mendel, which offers corporate spend management tools...

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Appfigures: Signal downloads were up 45% from the daily average on March 24 in the US and up 42% in Yemen, after The Atlantic's story; global downloads grew 28% (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Appfigures: Signal downloads were up 45% from the daily...

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Appfigures: Signal downloads were up 45% from the...

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Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content just from users' friends, with no recommended posts, as it brings back "OG" Facebook experiences (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content...

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show...

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Trump announces 25% tariffs on foreign cars and parts

Trump announces 25% tariffs on foreign cars and parts

US President Donald Trump has expanded his trade war with 25 percent tariffs on...

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Nvidia releases G-Assist, an experimental, gaming-centric AI chatbot that runs locally and provides real-time system information for a given game (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

Nvidia releases G-Assist, an experimental, gaming-centric...

Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Nvidia releases G-Assist, an experimental, gaming-centric...

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Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger joins VC firm Playground Global as a GP and the board of portfolio company xLight, which develops lasers for chip manufacturing (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger joins VC firm Playground...

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger joins VC firm Playground Global...

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Sam Altman says OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, an open-source standard that connects AI models to data for more relevant answers (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Sam Altman says OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model Context...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Sam Altman says OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model...

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EU wants citizens to stockpile supplies to last three days in case of crisis

EU wants citizens to stockpile supplies to last three days...

Amid rising threats from war, climate change and disease, the EU is urging every...

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Microsoft Abandons 2GW Data Center Projects in US and Europe, Signaling Possible AI Infrastructure Oversupply

Microsoft Abandons 2GW Data Center Projects in US and Europe,...

TD Cowen: Microsoft walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe...

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Waze says it is removing Google Assistant for iPhone users, citing "ongoing difficulties" with the integration, after recently testing a Gemini-based assistant (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Waze says it is removing Google Assistant for iPhone users,...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Waze says it is removing Google Assistant for iPhone users,...

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Sources: Italy hands tax demands to Meta, X, and LinkedIn in the last step in its VAT case, seeking €887.6M from Meta, €12.5M from X, and ~€140M from LinkedIn (Reuters)

Sources: Italy hands tax demands to Meta, X, and LinkedIn...

Reuters: Sources: Italy hands tax demands to Meta, X, and LinkedIn in the last step...

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UK's Reeves expected to boost defence spending in 'Spring Statement'

UK's Reeves expected to boost defence spending in 'Spring...

The UK's finance minister, Rachel Reeves, is delivering her "Spring Statement" this...

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23andMe users urged to delete accounts, protect DNA data after bankruptcy filing

23andMe users urged to delete accounts, protect DNA data...

Attorney generals in several US states have warned users to delete their accounts...

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Character.AI adds a Parental Insights feature that lets teens send reports of their chatbot usage to their parents, including which bots they are talking to (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Character.AI adds a Parental Insights feature that lets...

Adi Robertson / The Verge: Character.AI adds a Parental Insights feature that lets...

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Anthropic convinced a California federal judge to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by UMG and other music publishers to train Claude (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Anthropic convinced a California federal judge to reject...

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Anthropic convinced a California federal judge to reject...

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The US adds six subsidiaries of Inspur Group, China's top cloud provider, and dozens of other Chinese entities to its export blacklist; Inspur was added in 2023 (Reuters)

The US adds six subsidiaries of Inspur Group, China's top...

Reuters: The US adds six subsidiaries of Inspur Group, China's top cloud provider,...

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23andMe users urged to delete accounts and protect DNA data after bankruptcy filing

23andMe users urged to delete accounts and protect DNA...

Attorney Generals in several US states have warned users to delete their accounts...

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Fighting cybercrime: What can be done to prevent phishing attacks?

Fighting cybercrime: What can be done to prevent phishing attacks?

Have you ever received a phone call from a number you don't know, offering you a...

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India's Finance Minister says the country will scrap a 6% tax on digital advertisements, easing costs for US tech giants, as a way of soothing US trade concerns (Reuters)

India's Finance Minister says the country will scrap a...

Reuters: India's Finance Minister says the country will scrap a 6% tax on digital...

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Trump's World Liberty Financial unveils USD1, a 1:1 USD-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, with BitGo as custodian; its launch date is TBA (Bloomberg)

Trump's World Liberty Financial unveils USD1, a 1:1 USD-pegged...

Bloomberg: Trump's World Liberty Financial unveils USD1, a 1:1 USD-pegged stablecoin...

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As TikTok faces a US ban on April 5, the ByteDance-owned app has a new ad campaign framing TikTok as a savior of Americans and a champion of small businesses

As TikTok faces a US ban on April 5, the ByteDance-owned...

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: As TikTok faces a US ban on April 5, the ByteDance-owned...

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Trump promises 25% tariffs on all countries that buy Venezuelan oil and gas

Trump promises 25% tariffs on all countries that buy Venezuelan...

US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap tariffs of 25 percent on all imports...

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BYD's 2024 sales surpass $100 billion mark, overtaking rival Tesla

BYD's 2024 sales surpass $100 billion mark, overtaking...

China's EV company BYD has reported a record leap in sales, surpassing the $100...

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Sources: the European Commission is expected to find that Meta violated the DMA and fine the company hundreds of millions of dollars, possibly over $1B (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)

Sources: the European Commission is expected to find that...

Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: Sources: the European Commission is expected to...

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Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a data center bubble, saying the buildout may outpace early AI demand and is starting to look indiscriminate (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a data center bubble,...

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a data center bubble, saying...

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Some EU orgs weigh using Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services over privacy fears under Trump; two European cloud providers say this is driving interest (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Some EU orgs weigh using Amazon, Google, and Microsoft...

Matt Burgess / Wired: Some EU orgs weigh using Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud...

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BYD’s 2024 sales surpass the $100bn mark, overtaking rival Tesla

BYD’s 2024 sales surpass the $100bn mark, overtaking rival...

BYD has reported a record leap in sales, surpassing the $100bn mark for 2024 and...

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Q&A with Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on the music creation platform, the economics of creator platforms, why creatives "deserve better" than AI tools, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on the music creation...

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on the music creation...

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DeepSeek releases MIT-licensed DeepSeek-V3-0324, the latest version of their enormous DeepSeek v3 model; the previous DeepSeek v3 version had a custom license (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

DeepSeek releases MIT-licensed DeepSeek-V3-0324, the latest...

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: DeepSeek releases MIT-licensed DeepSeek-V3-0324,...

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Microsoft Expands AI-Powered Cybersecurity With 11 New Security Copilot Agents, Launching in April Preview

Microsoft Expands AI-Powered Cybersecurity With 11 New...

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils 11 Security Copilot AI agents, five created...

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China courts global CEOs amid falling foreign investment

China courts global CEOs amid falling foreign investment

Chinese officials pledge to open the country's economy further to international...

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Retail investors often bear the brunt of losses in the Solana blockchain's memecoin market, which is plagued by insider trading, rug pulls, and "sniping" (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

Retail investors often bear the brunt of losses in the...

Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: Retail investors often bear the brunt of losses in the Solana...

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The daily amount of ETH burned on Ethereum due to transaction fees hit an all-time low on March 22, amid dips in other network metrics like active addresses (Zack Abrams/The Block)

The daily amount of ETH burned on Ethereum due to transaction...

Zack Abrams / The Block: The daily amount of ETH burned on Ethereum due to transaction...

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A look at the Internet Archive, which sees ~100TB of material uploaded daily and has cataloged ~73K US government website pages that the Trump admin expunged (Emma Bowman/NPR)

A look at the Internet Archive, which sees ~100TB of material...

Emma Bowman / NPR: A look at the Internet Archive, which sees ~100TB of material...

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Sources: Apple plans to build its own AI models for Visual Intelligence and add cameras to the Watch; the redesigned plastic Apple Watch SE faces serious issues (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple plans to build its own AI models for Visual...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to build its own AI models for Visual...

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IFPI: global music streaming revenues hit a record $20.4B in 2024, driven by paid subscription revenues of $15.15B, up 9.5% YoY; paid subscribers reached 752M (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)

IFPI: global music streaming revenues hit a record $20.4B...

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: IFPI: global music streaming revenues...

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Browser Use, whose open-source tool converts website elements into a "text-like" format that AI agents can better understand, raised a $17M seed led by Felicis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Browser Use, whose open-source tool converts website elements...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Browser Use, whose open-source tool converts website elements...

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Sources: OpenAI has spoken with Reliance about a potential product and sales partnership in India; Meta also plans to work with Reliance on new AI businesses (The Information)

Sources: OpenAI has spoken with Reliance about a potential...

The Information: Sources: OpenAI has spoken with Reliance about a potential product...

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Cologne-based Buynomics, which uses AI to let companies optimize pricing and promotions by simulating real-world shoppers' behavior, raised a $30M Series B (PYMNTS.com)

Cologne-based Buynomics, which uses AI to let companies...

PYMNTS.com: Cologne-based Buynomics, which uses AI to let companies optimize pricing...

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Augment, a startup founded by Deliverr co-founder Harish Abbott and whose AI assistant can automate routine tasks in logistics, raised a $25M seed from 8VC (Grace Sharkey/FreightWaves)

Augment, a startup founded by Deliverr co-founder Harish...

Grace Sharkey / FreightWaves: Augment, a startup founded by Deliverr co-founder...

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Filings review: Builder.ai, which raised $450M from Microsoft and others, used an auditor with links to founder Sachin Duggal; Duggal resigned as CEO last month (Financial Times)

Filings review: Builder.ai, which raised $450M from Microsoft...

Financial Times: Filings review: Builder.ai, which raised $450M from Microsoft and...

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Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make AI-powered household robots, raised $150M at a $2B valuation, up from $550M in May 2024 (Reuters)

Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle...

Reuters: Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make...

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Tencent unveils Hunyuan T1, which leverages large-scale reinforcement learning to rival DeepSeek's R1 in both performance and pricing (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Tencent unveils Hunyuan T1, which leverages large-scale...

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: Tencent unveils Hunyuan T1, which leverages...

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CoreWeave, prepping for a roadshow, faces $7.5B in debt repayments by the end of 2026, far above its cash flow, asking IPO investors to take a leap of faith (Financial Times)

CoreWeave, prepping for a roadshow, faces $7.5B in debt...

Financial Times: CoreWeave, prepping for a roadshow, faces $7.5B in debt repayments...

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Coinbase and others eye India comeback as regulators tease pivot; Electric Capital: India had 12% of crypto devs in 2024, only behind the US, up from 4% in 2018 (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

Coinbase and others eye India comeback as regulators tease...

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Coinbase and others eye India comeback as regulators...

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Index Ventures, Wiz's largest outside shareholder with a 13% stake, is set to turn its $245M investment into $4.3B from Wiz's pending sale to Alphabet for $32B (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Index Ventures, Wiz's largest outside shareholder with...

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Index Ventures, Wiz's largest outside shareholder...

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OECD Global Debt Report: Borrowing has nearly tripled since 2007

OECD Global Debt Report: Borrowing has nearly tripled since...

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released its...

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The US Treasury's sanctions watchdog removes Tornado Cash from its global blacklist, after a federal appeals court ruled against the sanctions in November 2024 (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

The US Treasury's sanctions watchdog removes Tornado Cash...

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The US Treasury's sanctions watchdog removes Tornado Cash...

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Sources: KKR, Coatue, and other ByteDance investors are exploring buying out Chinese investors from TikTok US to assure Trump that it is free of Chinese control (Financial Times)

Sources: KKR, Coatue, and other ByteDance investors are...

Financial Times: Sources: KKR, Coatue, and other ByteDance investors are exploring...

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Lyft says it plans to roll out robotaxis in partnership with May Mobility in Atlanta, starting summer 2025 (Bruna Horvath/NBC News)

Lyft says it plans to roll out robotaxis in partnership...

Bruna Horvath / NBC News: Lyft says it plans to roll out robotaxis in partnership...

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France to raise €5 billion in new capital for defence sector

France to raise €5 billion in new capital for defence sector

French authorities are seeking to shore up investment in the defence sector, aiming...

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Denver-based Multiply Mortgage, which provides an AI-based mortgage origination service for tech employees, raised a $23.5M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Denver-based Multiply Mortgage, which provides an AI-based...

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Denver-based Multiply Mortgage, which provides an...

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Shipments of India-manufactured smartphones grew 6% YoY in 2024, with Samsung and Apple accounting for ~94% of exports; Samsung's India exports grew 13% YoY (Counterpoint Research)

Shipments of India-manufactured smartphones grew 6% YoY...

Counterpoint Research: Shipments of India-manufactured smartphones grew 6% YoY in...

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A look at Chinese AI startup Manycore, which develops spatial design software, has filed for a Hong Kong IPO, and reported a $58.3M loss from Q1 to Q3 2024 (Bloomberg)

A look at Chinese AI startup Manycore, which develops spatial...

Bloomberg: A look at Chinese AI startup Manycore, which develops spatial design...

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France to raise €5bn in new capital for defense sector

France to raise €5bn in new capital for defense sector

French authorities seek to shore up investment in the defense sector, aiming to...

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EU to curb steel imports in bid to protect industry

EU to curb steel imports in bid to protect industry

The European Union has unveiled a new package of measures, including reducing its...

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Filing: CoreWeave is aiming to raise up to $2.7B in its US IPO at a valuation between $27.4B and $32B, selling 49M shares for $47 to $55; Nvidia owns 5.96% (Reuters)

Filing: CoreWeave is aiming to raise up to $2.7B in its...

Reuters: Filing: CoreWeave is aiming to raise up to $2.7B in its US IPO at a valuation...

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Sources: Tim Cook lost faith in Apple AI head John Giannandrea to execute on product development and drafted in Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell to oversee Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Tim Cook lost faith in Apple AI head John Giannandrea...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Tim Cook lost faith in Apple AI head John Giannandrea...

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LG shuts down Art Lab, its NFT marketplace for TVs launched in 2022 during the NFT craze; LG Art Lab used the Hedera network and expanded to Ethereum in 2024 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

LG shuts down Art Lab, its NFT marketplace for TVs launched...

Emma Roth / The Verge: LG shuts down Art Lab, its NFT marketplace for TVs launched...

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US Federal Reserve holds rates steady, but warns of inflation and slowing growth

US Federal Reserve holds rates steady, but warns of inflation...

America's central bank keeps interest rates steady but warns that inflation projections...

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Sources: crypto exchange Kraken is nearing a $1.5B deal to acquire NinjaTrader, a US retail futures trading platform; the deal could be announced on March 20 (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: crypto exchange Kraken is nearing a $1.5B deal...

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: crypto exchange Kraken is nearing...

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia will spend hundreds of billions on US-made chips and electronics over four years as it shifts supply chains amid Trump's tariff threats (Financial Times)

Jensen Huang says Nvidia will spend hundreds of billions...

Financial Times: Jensen Huang says Nvidia will spend hundreds of billions on US-made...

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Analysis: Etsy's stock, which peaked during the COVID-19 pandemic, has lost its pandemic-era gains, while eBay's stock is up ~85% since January 2020 (Hyunsoo Rim/Sherwood News)

Analysis: Etsy's stock, which peaked during the COVID-19...

Hyunsoo Rim / Sherwood News: Analysis: Etsy's stock, which peaked during the COVID-19...

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A three-judge panel in US appeals court ruled, in a case involving AI generated poetry, that the Copyright Act requires human authorship for registration (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

A three-judge panel in US appeals court ruled, in a case...

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: A three-judge panel in US appeals court ruled, in...

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Sources: Nvidia acquires Gretel, which offers synthetic data tools, for more than its most recent $320M valuation; Pitchbook: Gretel had previously raised $67M+ (Lauren Goode/Wired)

Sources: Nvidia acquires Gretel, which offers synthetic...

Lauren Goode / Wired: Sources: Nvidia acquires Gretel, which offers synthetic data...

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X Secures Nearly $1 Billion in New Equity, Valuing the Company at $32 Billion

X Secures Nearly $1 Billion in New Equity, Valuing the...

Bloomberg: Sources: X has raised close to $1B in new equity in a deal that values...

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European Commission set to unveil capital markets investment plan

European Commission set to unveil capital markets investment...

Brussels prepares to release a proposal on boosting investment into European firms...

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Flashpoint: 3.2B credentials were stolen from organizations in 2024, up 33% YoY, of which 2.1B were compromised using info-stealing malware infecting 23M hosts (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)

Flashpoint: 3.2B credentials were stolen from organizations...

Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: Flashpoint: 3.2B credentials were stolen from organizations...

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A source details how Google built the Pixel 10's Tensor G5 chip without Samsung's help, using in-house and off-the-shelf IP, and partnering with Arm and others (Kamila Wojciechowska/Android Authority)

A source details how Google built the Pixel 10's Tensor...

Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: A source details how Google built the...

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Microsoft partners with Swiss startup Inait to deploy an AI model that simulates mammal brain reasoning to advance fields like financial trading and robotics (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

Microsoft partners with Swiss startup Inait to deploy an...

Michael Peel / Financial Times: Microsoft partners with Swiss startup Inait to deploy...

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German parliament approves massive spending boost for defence and infrastructure

German parliament approves massive spending boost for defence...

Lawmakers in Germany's Bundestag have passed a colossal defence and infrastructure...

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Sources: Oracle is weighing a TikTok proposal that would have it provide security assurances and take a small stake while leaving the algorithm in Chinese hands (Bloomberg)

Sources: Oracle is weighing a TikTok proposal that would...

Bloomberg: Sources: Oracle is weighing a TikTok proposal that would have it provide...

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GrubMarket, which offers food logistics AI tools, raised a $50M Series G at a $3.5B+ valuation, up from $1.2B in 2021, and is on track for $2.4B in 2025 revenue (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

GrubMarket, which offers food logistics AI tools, raised...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: GrubMarket, which offers food logistics AI tools, raised...

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A livestream of the Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote at the SAP Center in San Jose, California (NVIDIA on YouTube)

A livestream of the Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote at the SAP...

NVIDIA on YouTube: A livestream of the Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote at the SAP Center...

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Sources: Cognition, maker of AI coding assistant Devin, raised hundreds of millions led by 8VC at a ~$4B valuation, doubling its $2B valuation from April 2024 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Cognition, maker of AI coding assistant Devin,...

Bloomberg: Sources: Cognition, maker of AI coding assistant Devin, raised hundreds...

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Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was "donated", as some cite security concerns (New York Times)

Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus,...

New York Times: Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which...

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San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO roads with human-driven cars, paving the way for future commercial operations (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO...

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map...

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OECD cuts global economic outlooks amid Trump trade tariffs

OECD cuts global economic outlooks amid Trump trade tariffs

The OECD has cut global economic outlooks in its first report since US President...

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AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is brute forcing virality, and platforms like Meta embrace it; some AI videos get 350M+ views (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is brute...

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is...

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Amazon devices chief Panos Panay aims to unveil the first products he has overseen in the fall, talks of new premium devices, hints at wearables like AR glasses (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay aims to unveil the first...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Amazon devices chief Panos Panay aims to unveil the first...

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Telegram's Pavel Durov has left France, reportedly after a judge authorized him to leave the country for "several weeks"; the investigation is ongoing (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record)

Telegram's Pavel Durov has left France, reportedly after...

Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: Telegram's Pavel Durov has left France, reportedly...

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CoreWeave's upcoming IPO in a soft IPO market serves as a bellwether for both the tech industry and how the public market perceives AI in the years ahead (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)

CoreWeave's upcoming IPO in a soft IPO market serves as...

Rachyl Jones / Semafor: CoreWeave's upcoming IPO in a soft IPO market serves as...

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A profile of Chetan Nayak, who leads Microsoft's Station Q team trying to build a quantum computer; source: Microsoft spends ~$300M annually on quantum research (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)

A profile of Chetan Nayak, who leads Microsoft's Station...

Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Chetan Nayak, who leads Microsoft's...

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Some developers say licenses for "open" AI models like Google's Gemma and Meta's Llama have limits that restrict commercial use without fear of legal reprisal (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Some developers say licenses for "open" AI models like...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Some developers say licenses for “open” AI models like...

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A closer look at the iPhone 17 "Air", which lays the foundation for major design changes in future devices, including possible portless and foldable iPhones (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A closer look at the iPhone 17 "Air", which lays the foundation...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A closer look at the iPhone 17 “Air”, which lays the foundation...

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Ofcom will enforce rules under the UK's Online Safety Act, designed to protect internet users from illegal content and harmful activity online, from March 17 (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Ofcom will enforce rules under the UK's Online Safety Act,...

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom will enforce rules under the UK's Online...

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Directors Anthony and Joe Russo say they're building a high-tech studio aiming to help artists use AI as a creative tool to make films, shows, and video games (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo say they're building a...

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Directors Anthony and Joe Russo say they're...

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Bluesky proposes letting users indicate if their data can be used for AI training, web archiving, and more; critics see it as a reversal of its prior statements (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Bluesky proposes letting users indicate if their data can...

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Bluesky proposes letting users indicate if their data can...

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Garry Tan says ~80% of YC's W25 batch is AI focused and the cohort is growing significantly faster than past ones, with actual revenue, thanks to "vibe coding" (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

Garry Tan says ~80% of YC's W25 batch is AI focused and...

Kate Rooney / CNBC: Garry Tan says ~80% of YC's W25 batch is AI focused and the...

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Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similar to DeepSeek R1, and upgrades its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5 (Bloomberg)

Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its...

Bloomberg: Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similar...

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A lack of consensus on what defines an AI "agent" is leading to customer frustration, as Microsoft, OpenAI, Salesforce, and others market it differently (TechCrunch)

A lack of consensus on what defines an AI "agent" is leading...

TechCrunch: A lack of consensus on what defines an AI “agent” is leading to customer...

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Delaware lawmakers are considering a bill that would transform the state's corporate law to keep it attractive to both investors and CEOs, following Musk's exit (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Delaware lawmakers are considering a bill that would transform...

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Delaware lawmakers are considering a bill that would transform...

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A look at the challenges facing Nvidia ahead of its annual GTC conference, where CEO Jensen Huang is expected to outline the company's next chapter (Bloomberg)

A look at the challenges facing Nvidia ahead of its annual...

Bloomberg: A look at the challenges facing Nvidia ahead of its annual GTC conference,...

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A look at some standout startups from YC's W25 Demo Day, which showcased 160 companies, including several creating tools to enhance other companies' AI agents (TechCrunch)

A look at some standout startups from YC's W25 Demo Day,...

TechCrunch: A look at some standout startups from YC's W25 Demo Day, which showcased...

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Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lumafield, which manufactures industrial CT scanners with cloud-based analysis software, raised a $75M Series C led by IVP (Aaron Weitzman/Axios)

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lumafield, which manufactures...

Aaron Weitzman / Axios: Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lumafield, which manufactures...

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Nashville-based 360 Privacy, an identity and risk management startup protecting enterprises and high net-worth people from online threats, raised $36M from FTV (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

Nashville-based 360 Privacy, an identity and risk management...

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: Nashville-based 360 Privacy, an identity and risk...

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The DOJ says Rostislav Panev, who is accused of being a key developer for the LockBit ransomware gang, has been extradited from Israel to the US (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

The DOJ says Rostislav Panev, who is accused of being a...

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: The DOJ says Rostislav Panev, who is...

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Morgan Marquis-Boire, the once-celebrated hacker accused of sexual assaults in 2017, is the undisclosed co-founder of crypto intelligence firm Unciphered (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Morgan Marquis-Boire, the once-celebrated hacker accused...

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Morgan Marquis-Boire, the once-celebrated hacker...

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Reddit will allow users to hide ads from their feeds from an advertiser account for "at least a year"; some users report seeing a daily limit for hiding ads (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

Reddit will allow users to hide ads from their feeds from...

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Reddit will allow users to hide ads from their feeds...

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Trump threatens 200 percent tariffs on EU wine and spirits

Trump threatens 200 percent tariffs on EU wine and spirits

US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap a 200 percent duty on imports of...

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Russia's wartime economy: Resilient or on the edge of collapse?

Russia's wartime economy: Resilient or on the edge of collapse?

Since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Russia's economy has proved to be robust...

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Terabase, which is developing robots and automated systems using AI to rapidly build solar farms, raised a $130M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (Financial Times)

Terabase, which is developing robots and automated systems...

Financial Times: Terabase, which is developing robots and automated systems using...

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Sources: DeepSeek has shown little intention to further commercialize its tech in the near term, instead focusing on model development and building AGI (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Sources: DeepSeek has shown little intention to further...

Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: DeepSeek has shown little intention to further...

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Sources: SoftBank plans to buy a former Sharp LCD panel plant in Osaka for ~$676M and convert it into a data center for jointly developing AI agents with OpenAI (Nikkei Asia)

Sources: SoftBank plans to buy a former Sharp LCD panel...

Nikkei Asia: Sources: SoftBank plans to buy a former Sharp LCD panel plant in Osaka...

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Russia's wartime economy: resilient or on the edge of collapse?

Russia's wartime economy: resilient or on the edge of collapse?

Since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Russia's economy has proved to be robust...

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Trump threatens 200% tariffs on EU wine and spirits

Trump threatens 200% tariffs on EU wine and spirits

US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap a 200% duty on imports of wine...

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Adobe's stock falls 12%+ after reporting a disappointing Q2 outlook and investor concerns that it is falling behind some rivals and losing its AI advantage (CNBC)

Adobe's stock falls 12%+ after reporting a disappointing...

CNBC: Adobe's stock falls 12%+ after reporting a disappointing Q2 outlook and investor...

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Google’s Gemini Chatbots (Gems) Now Free for All Users, Offering Career & Coding Assistance

Google’s Gemini Chatbots (Gems) Now Free for All Users,...

Pranob Mehrotra / Android Authority: Google makes Gems, its personalized Gemini...

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Cohere debuts Command A, its latest generative AI model for agentic enterprise tasks, with a context length of 256K tokens and requiring just two A100s or H100s (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Cohere debuts Command A, its latest generative AI model...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Cohere debuts Command A, its latest generative AI model...

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US-Canada tourism takes a hit as Trump trade war heats up

US-Canada tourism takes a hit as Trump trade war heats...

The 48th International Tourism Salon gets underway in Paris, with the world's #3...

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Trump vows further action as US trading partners hit back at steel and aluminium tariffs

Trump vows further action as US trading partners hit back...

A new, 25 percent import tax on all steel and aluminium coming into the United States...

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D-Wave claims it has achieved "quantum supremacy" with its quantum annealing processors; some physicists say classical computers can achieve comparable results (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

D-Wave claims it has achieved "quantum supremacy" with...

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: D-Wave claims it has achieved “quantum supremacy”...

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UiPath shares fell over 15% after the company projected FY 2026 sales of $1.525B to $1.53B, vs. $1.58B estimates; PATH is down 51.6% over the past 12 months (Bill Peters/MarketWatch)

UiPath shares fell over 15% after the company projected...

Bill Peters / MarketWatch: UiPath shares fell over 15% after the company projected...

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By previewing smarter Siri vaporware at WWDC and the iPhone 16 launch, Apple burned a reputation earned over decades for only promising actual working products (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

By previewing smarter Siri vaporware at WWDC and the iPhone...

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: By previewing smarter Siri vaporware at WWDC and...

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Trump vows further action as US trading partners hit back at 25% steel and aluminium tariffs

Trump vows further action as US trading partners hit back...

A new, 25% import tax on all steel and aluminium coming into the United States has...

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Google DeepMind launches two AI models, Gemini 2.0-based Robotics and Robotics-ER, to help robots "perform a wider range of real-world tasks than ever before" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google DeepMind launches two AI models, Gemini 2.0-based...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google DeepMind launches two AI models, Gemini 2.0-based...

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Investigation: AI-powered student monitoring tool Gaggle, used to track ~6M US student, isn't always secure, and there's no research showing it increases safety (Associated Press)

Investigation: AI-powered student monitoring tool Gaggle,...

Associated Press: Investigation: AI-powered student monitoring tool Gaggle, used...

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The US FTC asks a judge to delay its case accusing Amazon of deceptive practices with Amazon Prime, citing staffing shortfalls (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

The US FTC asks a judge to delay its case accusing Amazon...

Annie Palmer / CNBC: The US FTC asks a judge to delay its case accusing Amazon of...

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Trump halts doubling tariffs after Ontario premier backs down on US electricity surcharge

Trump halts doubling tariffs after Ontario premier backs...

In the latest twist in an escalating trade war between the US and Canada, Donald...

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Trump tariffs on steel and aluminium come into effect, sparking EU retaliation

Trump tariffs on steel and aluminium come into effect,...

US President Donald Trump's 25 percent tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminium...

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OpusClip, which offers a multimodal AI tool to simplify short-form video editing for creators, raised $20M led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 at a $215M valuation (Riddhi Kanetkar/Business Insider)

OpusClip, which offers a multimodal AI tool to simplify...

Riddhi Kanetkar / Business Insider: OpusClip, which offers a multimodal AI tool...

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Sources: TSMC has pitched Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, and Qualcomm about taking stakes in a JV to run Intel Foundry; TSMC would hold no more than a 50% stake (Reuters)

Sources: TSMC has pitched Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, and Qualcomm...

Reuters: Sources: TSMC has pitched Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, and Qualcomm about taking...

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Spotify says it paid $10B+ in royalties in 2024, "the largest in music history", making up 60%+ of its $17.13B+ 2024 revenue, with ~1,500 artists earning $1M+ (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Spotify says it paid $10B+ in royalties in 2024, "the largest...

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Spotify says it paid $10B+ in royalties in 2024,...

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Donald Trump halts doubling tariffs after Ontario premier backs down on US electricity surcharge

Donald Trump halts doubling tariffs after Ontario premier...

In the latest twist in an escalating trade war between the US and Canada, Donald...

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Waymo expands its operating area around Silicon Valley to a 27 square-mile region, including Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Waymo expands its operating area around Silicon Valley...

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Waymo expands its operating area around Silicon Valley...

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Dexterity, maker of industrial robots that have "human-like" finesse, raised $95M at a $1.65B valuation, up from $1.4B in 2021, bringing total funding to ~$300M (Bloomberg)

Dexterity, maker of industrial robots that have "human-like"...

Bloomberg: Dexterity, maker of industrial robots that have “human-like” finesse,...

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A look at Crypto.com's perplexing trading volume surge, up 10x in 2024 per CoinGecko, vaulting it to the top tier of exchanges, as rivals question its growth (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

A look at Crypto.com's perplexing trading volume surge,...

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: A look at Crypto.com's perplexing trading volume surge,...

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A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly (Columbia Journalism Review)

A study of eight AI search engines found they provided...

Columbia Journalism Review: A study of eight AI search engines found they provided...

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ServiceNow says it plans to acquire agentic AI company Moveworks for $2.85B in its largest-ever acquisition, a cash and stock deal set to close in H2 2025 (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

ServiceNow says it plans to acquire agentic AI company...

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: ServiceNow says it plans to acquire agentic AI company...

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Thailand's SEC approves Tether's USDT and Circle's USDC for exchange trading, with both available in Thailand on March 16, signaling growing stablecoin adoption (Liz Napolitano/Decrypt)

Thailand's SEC approves Tether's USDT and Circle's USDC...

Liz Napolitano / Decrypt: Thailand's SEC approves Tether's USDT and Circle's USDC...

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Market selloff: Nasdaq logs worst day since 2022 as Trump's tariffs spark recession fears

Market selloff: Nasdaq logs worst day since 2022 as Trump's...

Wall Street stocks plummeted after Donald Trump refused to rule out the possibility...

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Breaking Borders The Future of Cryptocurrency in a Highly Regulated World

Breaking Borders The Future of Cryptocurrency in a Highly...

Governments worldwide are tightening regulations on cryptocurrency, creating a high-stakes...

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The Race for Quantum Computing Dominance A Global Tech War Unfolds

The Race for Quantum Computing Dominance A Global Tech...

The global race for quantum computing dominance is intensifying as world powers,...