Investors led by Elon Musk make an unsolicited $97.4B bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating Sam Altman's plans to convert to a for-profit
Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company — A consortium of investors led …
Google says it removed Calendar's Pride Month, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and more events in 2024 for not being “scalable or sustainable”
Google says it switched to only showing default entries for public holidays and national observances last year.
Paris AI summit: US VP JD Vance warns the EU that excessive AI regulation could strangle the tech and rejects content moderation as “authoritarian censorship”
U.S. Vice President JD Vance warned Europeans on Tuesday that what he called their excessive regulation …
Sam Altman says “OpenAI is not for sale” and “OpenAI's mission is not for sale”, especially to “a competitor who is not able to beat us in the market”
- “OpenAI is not for sale. … - Altman said the board has not determined a valuation for OpenAI's operations yet …
The US and the UK refuse to join France, China, India, and 57 other countries in signing the international agreement in Paris promoting “transparent”, “safe” AI
The UK and US have not signed an international agreement on artificial intelligence (AI) at a global summit in Paris.
Apple debuts the $250 Powerbeats Pro 2 with heart rate monitoring, an H2 chip, ANC, better water resistance, and 20% lighter design than the previous generation
Apple's Beats brand is officially introducing the Powerbeats Pro 2 today, bringing significant updates to the wireless earphones aimed at active users.
Google Maps now shows “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” for users in the US; users in Mexico see “Gulf of Mexico”, and everyone else sees both names
Google has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico for US users.
Paris AI summit takeaways: Europe has regulation regrets, AI doomsayers have lost ground, and policymakers can't seem to grasp how soon powerful AI could arrive
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Shopify shutters Ye's store, which began selling swastika shirts before a Super Bowl ad boosted traffic to the site, saying it violated Shopify's ToS
Shopify said in a statement: “This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify.”
Elon Musk's $97.4B OpenAI offer could force OpenAI's board to reassess how it is valuing the nonprofit, which could cost Sam Altman even though he rejected it
Trump's clashes abound Euan O'Byrne Mulligan / The i Paper : Elon Musk-led group of investors bid $97bn for ChatGPT maker OpenAI George Bunn / GB News : Elon Musk shut down by ChatGPT boss after launc...
Investors behind the $97.4B OpenAI bid include xAI, Baron Capital, Valor, Atreides, Vy Capital, Joe Lonsdale's 8VC, and an investment vehicle led by Ari Emanuel
Chinese EV maker BYD unveils a “God's Eye” self-driving system and aims to install it on its entire lineup, including its ~$9,600 Seagull hatchback
Tesla rival will equip hatchback on sale for less than $10,000 with features usually found only on upscale vehicles
AI Action Summit in Paris: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU plans to mobilize €200B to invest in AI to catch the US and China
The announcement underscores efforts from the EU to position itself as a key player in the AI race
In response to Elon Musk's $97.4B OpenAI bid, Sam Altman says on X “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want”; Musk replies “swindler”
OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman appeared to shut down a reported offer from an investor group led …
Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the US”, indicating YouTube is “the new TV”
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan released his annual letter Tuesday morning, outlining his priorities for the video platform.
In a January paper, three computer scientists presented a faster hash table, one of the oldest data structures, disproving a 40-year-old data science conjecture
Together, Krapivin (now a graduate student at the University of Cambridge), Farach-Colton (now at New York University) …
The US, the UK, and Australia sanction Russia-based bulletproof hosting provider Zservers and two Russian nationals for supplying the LockBit ransomware gang
The United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom have sanctioned Zservers, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) …
After the UK ordered Apple to build an encryption backdoor, Congress must enact a law prohibiting US tech companies from providing such backdoors to any country
Beijing would quickly exploit the British order to allow access to encrypted data. — The U.K. has ordered Apple to build …
Tencent's Supercell reports 2024 revenue up 77% YoY to almost $3B from its six titles and EBITDA up ~77% to $900M+; Squad Busters made $100M+ in revenue
Supercell Oy, the Finnish video-game company behind such hits as Brawl Stars and Clash of Clans, is delivering big gains …
How TSMC and Taiwan are rushing to avoid Trump's tariffs, as TSMC's board meets in Arizona for the first time; Trump has said TSMC “stole” the US' chip business
US president's complaints threaten top chipmaker's business model and east Asian country's security
A profile of Tom Krause, the CEO of Cloud Software Group, which runs government software security company Citrix, as he works with DOGE to cut federal staff
Tech CEO Tom Krause dismissed engineers and slashed expenses after the remote-work company's leveraged buyout. His company says defenses improved.
T-Mobile says satellite texting, currently in beta and powered by Starlink, will cost $15/month from July 2025; AT&T and Verizon users can use it for $20/month
and how much farther we'll go. … Damien Innes : Coverage like never before, the T-Mobile Starlink Direct to Cell beta is free for anyone on any carrier until July. … Forums: r/apple : T-Mobile Starlin...
An Alabama man pleads guilty over the SIM-swap hack of the US SEC's X account, which falsely claimed in January 2024 that the agency had approved bitcoin ETFs
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Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen criticizes rivals for seeking to buy successful new titles rather than creating them, saying the industry has stagnated since 2021
Richard Milne / Financial Times :
Discord unveils Ignore, a feature that lets users hide new messages, DMs, server notifications, profiles, and activity from selected users without alerting them
Internet safety is an industry-wide issue that requires a collaborative approach. Ana Diaz / Polygon : How to ignore people on Discord Kaaviya / Cyber Security News : Discord Unveils New Privacy Featu...
Google brings NotebookLM Plus, its AI research assistant tier with higher usage limits, to Google One AI Premium subscribers, and debuts a 50% student discount
NotebookLM Plus included X: @notebooklm : 📢 NEW LAUNCH 📢 Today NotebookLM Plus is available to everyone through Google One AI Premium Plans AND students are eligible for a 50% discount. This means ✅5x...
Anduril plans to assume management and eventual manufacturing of the US Army's infantry goggles from Microsoft, in an up to $20B deal that the Army must approve
It expands the previously announced role of the defense technology startup in a project that could be valued at more than $20 billion …
Saudi Arabia says its Neom megacity project is partnering with DataVolt to build a 1.5-gigawatt-scale AI data center by 2028, investing $5B into its first phase
Nora Redmond / Business Insider :
Sardine, which offers fraud-fighting AI agents for enterprises, raised a $70M Series C led by Activant Capital, valuing the company at $660M
Emily Mason / Bloomberg :
SMIC reports Q4 profit down 38% YoY to $107.6M, below $193.5 est., revenue up 32% YoY to $2.2B, above $2.18B est., and $7.33B capex in 2024, vs. $4.5B in 2021
Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 31% YoY to $2.8B, above $2.73B est., GMV up 26% YoY to $94.5B, a $465M operating loss, and 2024 revenue up 26% YoY to $8.9B
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Anthropic debuts Anthropic Economic Index to track AI's impact by analyzing Claude usage data, showing AI use leans 57% for augmentation vs. 43% for automation
https://lnkd.in/... Forums: r/singularity : The Anthropic Economic Index
Huawei's Watch D2 sees a sales bump in China after users discovered it can be registered as a medical device, letting them purchase the D2 via medical insurance
Karoline Kan / Bloomberg :
Tel Aviv-based Voyantis, which uses AI to predict a customer's future propensity and lifetime value for marketers, raised $41M, taking its total funding to $60M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Nineteen US states are weighing bills to put public money into crypto; Michigan and Wisconsin already have crypto in their public employees' retirement funds
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk :
Dublin-based Tines, which uses AI to automate tasks in cybersecurity and other business operations, raised $125M at a $1.13B valuation, up from $600M in 2024
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg :
Sydney-based Harrison.ai, which uses AI to analyze CT scans, X-rays, and pathology slides, raised a $112M Series C, after a ~$92.3M Series B in November 2021
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
Documents: Spotify co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon sold 2.5M+ shares in 2024, netting ~$1B, the highest sales since 2019, and now own ~16% of Spotify
Benjamin Stupples / Bloomberg :
Cybereason CEO Eric Gan sues investors Steven Mnuchin and SoftBank Vision Fund, alleging they put Cybereason at risk of bankruptcy by blocking fundraising plans
Bloomberg :
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