Apple says it will spend $500B in the US over the next four years, hire 20,000 new US workers, and produce AI servers in Texas, after Tim Cook met with Trump
- Company to begin producing Apple Intelligence servers in Texas — $500 billion planned to be invested in US over next four years
xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” as a public-facing instruction for its responses
The system prompt for Musk's chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results.
TD Cowen: Microsoft cancels leases for a substantial amount of US data centers, potentially due to over-investment fears; Microsoft plans to spend $80B in 2025
- The company has pledged $80 billion toward computing capacity — Wall Street is questioning AI demand over the longer-term
An analysis of the $1.46B Bybit hack, by far the largest crypto heist of all time, ahead of Poly Network's $611M in 2021, and possibly the biggest theft ever
On February 21st 2025, approximately $1.46 billion in cryptoassets were stolen from Bybit, a Dubai-based exchange.
Google says it plans to use QR codes for Gmail account authentication, ditching SMS to “reduce the impact of rampant, global SMS abuse”
It is certainly no secret that using SMS text messages for security codes used to authenticate your identity is far from ideal.
Robinhood says it received a letter from the SEC stating the agency is dropping its investigation into Robinhood Crypto, a sign of regulatory change under Trump
The Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping its investigation into Robinhood's crypto arm, the company revealed Monday.
Alibaba pledges to invest more than $53B on AI infrastructure, including new data centers, over the next three years
- The e-commerce firm is angling to become an AI company — Firm to invest in AI infrastructure such as data centers … The internet company co-founded by Jack Ma plans …
Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, bought 20,356 bitcoin for $1.99B between February 18 and 23, taking its holdings to 499,096, worth $47B, or 2.3% of BTC supply
- Strategy has purchased another 20,356 BTC for approximately $2 billion at an average price of $97,514 per bitcoin.
As the Trump administration neuters the PCLOB and reviews the EO behind the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the EU should stop moving to US clouds
We used to think that grieving went through five stages: denial, protest, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Prosus plans to buy Just Eat Takeaway for €20.30 per share, a 22% premium over its three-month high, in an all-cash deal valuing the delivery company at €4B+
Deal marks end to tumultuous few years for European food delivery group — Just Eat Takeaway is set to be acquired …
Salesforce signs a $2.5B, seven-year deal with Google Cloud to let customers run its software, Agentforce AI assistants, and Data Cloud on Google Cloud
The contract, worth $2.5 billion, is emblematic of how big tech companies are forging alliances to offer a broader menu of AI products.
Google prices Veo 2, its new AI video model, at $0.50 per second of generated video; in December 2024, OpenAI offered Sora to its ChatGPT Plus and Pro subs
for Now Inigo Salvatierra / MSPoweruser : Google's Veo 2 costs you $30 per minute and is more expensive than Sora BitcoinWorld : Shocking Veo 2 Pricing Revealed: Google's AI Video Costs $0.50/Second N...
Some hair stylists, bridal shops, and hardware stores say AI generated “inspo”, taken from platforms like Pinterest, is warping customers' sense of reality
From bridal shops to med-spas to hardware stores, AI-generated photos are warping our sense of reality and hurting small businesses along the way. Bluesky: @hypervisible Bluesky: @hypervisible : “...A...
Australian tech company WiseTech's shares dropped 22% after most of its board, including the chair, resigned over clashes on co-founder Richard White's role
Never change Australian business stories, never change! — By @nicfildes.ft.com www.ft.com/content/05b9...
Source: Ethena, which runs the USDe stablecoin, marketed as a “synthetic dollar” with a 9% yield and almost $6B in circulation, raised $100M in December 2024
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Meta rolls out Meta AI in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the UAE, and Yemen, and adds language support for Arabic
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IT management platform NinjaOne raised $500M led by Iconiq Growth and CapitalG at a $5B valuation, up from $1.9B after its Series C in February 2024
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Anthony Levandowski's self-driving truck startup Pronto signs a deal with Heidelberg Materials to use its tech in 100+ dump trucks in mines over three years
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MongoDB buys Voyage AI for $220M and plans to integrate Voyage's retrieval tools for higher-quality AI outputs with real-time operational data for businesses
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Dutch company Bird, which offers tools for enterprises to reach customers over SMS, WhatsApp, and more, says it's exiting the EU, blaming onerous AI regulations
Toby Sterling / Reuters : Forums: Slashdot Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : Software Firm Bird To Leave Europe Due To Onerous Regulations in AI Era, Says CEO
China is increasingly pooling resources from the state and private sectors, including startups like Infinigence AI, to accelerate adoption of AI data centers
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Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.