Sources: Broadcom has informally explored a bid for Intel's chip design and marketing unit, but only if it could secure a partner for Intel's foundry business
Broadcom has interest in Intel's chip-design business, while TSMC is looking at the company's factories
Sources: Apple plans to refresh the Vision Pro with Apple Intelligence, a new Spatial content app, and a revamped guest mode in visionOS 2.4, as early as April
- Company seeks to boost interest in headset with new features — Move marks the first device expansion for Apple Intelligence
Hector Martin, lead of Asahi Linux distribution for Apple Silicon, resigns, citing burnout, demanding users, and Linus Torvalds's handling of Rust integration
I fought the Torv and ... the Torv won — Hector Martin, project lead of Asahi Linux, resigned that project early Friday …
A look at Apple's and Meta's robotics efforts; sources: Apple is working on a 27" Studio Display successor to launch by 2026 and considering Maps monetization
Apple and Meta are set to go toe-to-toe in another emerging area: AI-powered humanoid robots. Also: Apple ramps up development …
The death of former OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji was ruled a suicide in a new autopsy report, countering suspicions by his family that had fueled speculation
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday …
Indian authorities have seized nearly $190M in cryptocurrency linked to the BitConnect Ponzi scheme, one of the country's largest crypto enforcement actions
Indian authorities have seized nearly $190 million in cryptocurrency linked to the BitConnect Ponzi scheme — one of the country's largest crypto enforcement actions.
Intel's foundry business lost over $13B on $17.5B revenue in 2024, while TSMC generated $41.1B in operating profit on $90B in revenue over the same period
While President Trump's domestic AI focus is a good sign for Intel, easy fixes have proved elusive
Argentine President Javier Milei posted and then deleted an X post promoting Libra, a memecoin that rose 2,000%+ to a $4.4B market cap before plunging 95%+
‘Not aware of the details’ Zack Abrams / The Block : Argentinian President Javier Milei retracts $LIBRA endorsement after insiders cash out $107 million Elendu Benedict / The Crypto Basic : Argentina'...
Maryland-based Uscreen, which helps creators launch apps, engage fans, monetize memberships, and more, raised $150M from PSG Equity, giving PSG a majority stake
- Uscreen, a startup that helps creators make apps, scored a $150 million investment from PSG Equity.
Meta's Joel Kaplan says Meta “won't shy away” from taking up its case with President Trump if the EU uses its rules to unfairly target Meta's products
- Kaplan says company will make case if EU singles it out — Tension over tech rules underscores transatlantic rift
India's BharatNet program to provide broadband access to 650K villages by 2025 is set to fall short of its target, with only 199K having broadband as of January
Pooja Dash / IndiaSpend : X: @indiaspend , @indiaspend , @indiaspend , and @indiaspend X: @indiaspend : Delays in BharatNet, the govt prog to get broadband to India's villages, impact edn, health & g...
Some Bolivians, frustrated with spotty internet from the state's China-built satellite, are smuggling in Starlink kits despite the country's ban in August 2024
Bolivia, which relies on a Chinese-built satellite for some of its connectivity, banned Starlink — but that hasn't stopped people …
Tencent is testing DeepSeek for search in its messaging app Weixin, while Baidu plans to fully connect its search engine to DeepSeek and its own LLM Ernie
Tencent said on Sunday its (0700.HK) Weixin messaging app, China's largest, is allowing some users to search via DeepSeek's artificial …
As JD Vance chastised the EU for its AI regulation, 12+ US states are considering algorithmic discrimination bills that look strikingly similar to EU's AI Act
The AI regulation onslaught — Introduction — At the AI Action Summit in Paris this week, Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a broadly optimistic message on AI. Bluesky: @hardxcoded . X: @markcarr...
Romance scams may rise as isolation grows and generative AI helps scammers scale; the FBI says US victims lost nearly $4.5B to such scams over the past decade
There are even sweatshop type setups where people are tricked into working in the romance scam industry. — It would be nice if Wired acknowledged that instead of using an illustration that promotes ...
Q&A with Google Gemini co-leads Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer on Google's path to AGI, the future of Moore's Law, TPUs, inference scaling, open research, and more
“as we scale up [training], there may be a push to have a bit more asynchrony in our systems than we do now” 👀 Haider / @slow_developer : Google Chief Scientist, Jeff Dean “AI now generates 25% of Goo...
CB Insights: a record 1,200 VC-backed unicorns have yet to IPO or get acquired; Carta: fewer than 30% of 2021 unicorns raised funding in the past three years
LPs are often invested in multiple firms which hold the same company and have an 🦅👀 into this Dave Kellogg / @kellblog : Hunker, baby, hunker [embedded post] LinkedIn: Katie Roof : Wrote something for...
Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi about his move from Expedia to Uber, getting out of the self-driving market, Uber becoming an aggregator, and more
Long but good. …
How Walmart's investment in tech, including an AI tool to plan worker shifts, helped it take on Amazon, with 18% of its ~$680B revenue in 2024 generated online
Walmart was founded by Sam Walton, who grew up in a farming family, in 1962. …
A profile of Watch Duty creator John Clarke Mills, who is expanding the free fire-tracking app so it becomes a one-stop shop for information during any disaster
www.wired.com/story/watch-... Katie Drummond / @katie-drummond : Watch Duty proved indispensable during the recent LA wildfires. — Meet John Mills, the Robin Hood-obsessed “weirdo and misfit” (and f...
Sources: DOGE is sending termination notices to USDS staff who worked as IT experts for the US government since the Obama era; USDS has been renamed as DOGE
Sophie Alexander / Bloomberg :
Industry executives say US crypto miners are facing delays receiving new equipment from Bitmain and other Chinese suppliers due to heightened customs scrutiny
David Pan / Bloomberg :
The website of President Trump's World Liberty Financial shows the crypto project sold 24B+ of its 25B WLFI tokens after a slow start, implying $1.25B in sales
We're a long way from Jimmy Carter putting his peanut farm in a blind trust on becoming president to avoid conflict of interest.
Sources: Lightspeed returned $8B from current and active funds in the past five years; its most recent fund with more than 1x DPI was its $500M fund in 2016
Eric Newcomer / Newcomer :
Analysis: consumers spent $259.1B on Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash in 2024, up 19% from $218.5B in 2023, with $162.8B on Uber, $80.2B on DoorDash, and $16.1B on Lyft
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