Sources: Qualcomm made a takeover approach to Intel in recent days, but a deal is far from certain; Intel's market cap is ~$93B and Qualcomm's is ~$188B
A deal for Intel would be massive and come at a time when the chip maker is sputtering.
Filing: the US SEC says it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk for failing to appear for scheduled testimony for a probe into his $44B Twitter takeover
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk after he failed to appear …
California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect minors, banning “addictive feeds”, barring social media notifications from 12am to 6am, and more
California took a major step in its fight to protect children from the ills of social media with Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature …
A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover the Great Firewall's domain blocklists; GFWeb data reveals China blocked ChatGPT on March 2, 2023
Rest of World received exclusive access to a platform that tracks patterns and timing of Chinese online censorship.
Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for data centers
Nuke Will Be Restarted To Power Microsoft Data Center Jordan Valinsky / CNN : Three Mile Island is reopening and selling its power to Microsoft Reuters : Constellation to restart Three Mile Island nuc...
JPMorgan, Visa, and other financial firms join Project Agora, a blockchain-based project by Bank for International Settlements to overhaul cross-border payments
- Seven central banks from US, euro area, Japan also particiapte — Bank for International Settlements runs project with IIF
Nick Clegg criticized Rishi Sunak's doomerism after the PM held a summit on AI safety, saying Britain “wasted a huge amount of time” focusing on the risks of AI
The Meta exec and former deputy PM said Britain had “wasted a huge amount of time” focusing on the gloomy risks of artificial intelligence.
Hands on with Plaud's ChatGPT-powered NotePin: deliberate design that uses tap to trigger the device, can manage multiple speakers in 59 languages, and more
The Plaud.AI pin took up mercifully little space in my carry-on. It also presented an opportunity to kill two birds …
Email: Linda Yaccarino announces X is launching a “video tab” feature and an X-exclusive women's soccer reality show, The Offseason, produced by Alexis Ohanian
In a late Friday email, X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced the launch of a new “video tab” feature … Threads: @reckless1280 . Bluesky: @lupersec.bsky.social See also Mediagazer Threads: Nilay Patel / @re...
A profile of Santa Clara County Deputy DA Erin West, whose team clawed back ~$3M stolen from 26 US pig butchering victims, as she works to improve enforcement
Prosecutor Erin West has been one of the few to have any success against the criminals perpetrating a new type of fraud LinkedIn: C. Kelly Bissell LinkedIn: C. Kelly Bissell : “Pig-butchering” fraud s...
OpenAI's o1 models are dramatically better at reasoning than previous LLMs, but they struggle with spatial reasoning and are far from human-level intelligence
Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI :
The judge overseeing the Google ad trial calls Google's testimony that it faces “fierce competition” from the likes of Microsoft and Meta “highly questionable”
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg :
A Google threat analyst says the hacker behind the Snowflake breach recently broke into a “handful” of new orgs and is likely a male based in Canada in his 20s
Cyber investigators are tracking alleged scammer in connection with a string of compromises
Akur8, which uses AI to automate the generation of insurance pricing models, raised a $120M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total raised to $180M
FinTech Global :
A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device
Many people have wondered what Jony Ive has been up to since he left Apple five years ago.Carolyn Fong for The New York Times
Brazil-based Cayena, which operates a marketplace to connect suppliers and buyers in the wholesale food industry, raised a $55M Series B led by Bicycle Capital
Welcome, Bicycle Capital. …
Intezer, which develops AI-powered tools for autonomous security operations, raised a $33M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking total raised to $60M
The startups's Autonomous SOC platform uses AI models to simulate human analysts' decision-making process, effectively functioning as an extension of the security team.
Functional Finance, which offers financial operations software for managing general agents, insurers, and wholesalers, raised a $20M Series A led by Walkabout
Avi Ben-Hutta / Coverager :
Sources: EU officials are preparing formal charges against Google under the DMA, targeting how it displays rival product results across its search services
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg :
Twitch changes how it enforces its community guidelines: strikes for some offenses will depreciate over time, users will get more info about strikes, and more
Ash Parrish / The Verge :
Motion, which sells analytics and research tools for creative strategists, raised a $30M Series B led by Inovia Capital, bringing its total funding to $42M
Josh Scott / BetaKit :
Tumblr says it has seen a 222.99% growth in communities and a 349.55% growth in users since the X ban in Brazil, with DAUs up 30% from the 110K prior to the ban
Automattic (via Sarah Perez, Slashdot): — Since Automattic acquired …
Sources: Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation; it came out of stealth with $31M in August
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : X: @mattrosoff X: Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff : SCOOP from @ingridlunden Black Forest Labs, the company that powers Grok's image generation, is raising another $100M on a $...
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