The White House hosted its first Crypto Summit, bringing together top crypto executives, including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss
The first-of-its-kind event at the White House with top crypto executives showcased the president's embrace of the once-renegade industry.
Filings: the US DOJ drops a bid to force Google to sell its AI investments to boost search competition but still seeks a court order requiring it to sell Chrome
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday dropped a proposal to force Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) to sell its investments …
The US OCC says banks can engage in some crypto activities, rescinding prior guidance that told them they should clear such activities with regulators first
The U.S. regulator overseeing national banks clarified Friday that banks can engage in some crypto activities …
Source: Bybit hackers planted malicious code to manipulate transactions by compromising a developer's computer at crypto wallet provider Safe, used by Bybit
On the night of Feb. 21, Ben Zhou, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, logged on to his computer to approve what appeared to be a routine transaction.
Sources: Craig Federighi and other Apple executives voiced concerns that personalized Siri didn't work properly; some think it has to be rebuilt from scratch
Apple Inc.'s turmoil in its AI division reached new heights on Friday, with the company delaying promised updates to the Siri digital assistant for the foreseeable future.
A look at YouTube's origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who is nearing 10 years at the company
It's a muggy morning the day before the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans, and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan is stuck in parade traffic and not happy about it.
Sources detail how crypto flooded Trump with cash, including $50M+ in donations from at least eight execs, and how he is doing much of what the industry wants
The president had called cryptocurrency a ‘scam’ but during his campaign last year he was persuaded of its value, especially as an investment for the Trump family
China plans a “state venture capital guidance fund”, expected to attract ~$138B over 20 years from local governments and private sector, to support AI and more
Hong Kong CNN — Fresh off the global success of DeepSeek's latest artificial intelligence reasoning model …
Unsealed court docs: US investigators believe hackers behind the 2022 LastPass breach stole $150M in XRP, now worth ~$700M, from one person in January 2024
The stolen XRP is now worth $716 million. The Secret Service is trying to claw it back from unknown hackers.
Sources: crypto exchange and custodian Gemini has filed confidentially for an IPO; the company is reportedly considering going public as soon as this year
Gemini, the cryptocurrency firm backed by the billionaire Winklevoss twins, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.
The FTC told a US district judge it is still determining who Amazon's competitors are for its 2023 antitrust lawsuit and the list could include Walmart and eBay
Lawyers for the company and the agency appeared Friday before US District Judge John Chun in Seattle to provide a high-level overview …
Filing: Elon Musk is set to be questioned under oath on April 3 in an investor lawsuit alleging his Twitter buyout flip-flop was a ruse to lower its stock price
After attorneys for the world's richest person initially balked at making him appear in person for a deposition …
Sources detail the nearly 10-hour-long tech meltdown of the European Central Bank's main payment system on February 27 due to a piece of malfunctioning hardware
The European Central Bank's payments crash last week meant salaries and welfare funds were delayed for thousands of people.
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases
Now, Trump wants to create a crypto “strategic reserve.” (1/2) @theangrydonkey : Earlier this week, Trump announced the names of five digital assets he expects to include in this reserve, spiking the...
After the ~$1.5B hack, Bybit borrowed about $280M in ether from crypto industry peers to help process 350,000 customer withdrawal requests over 10 hours
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Meta will recommend using Unity and Unreal's built-in OpenXR support, after developers said Meta's Unity and Unreal integrations blocked other PC VR headsets
Meta will recommend that developers use the built-in OpenXR support of Unity and Unreal from next week. — What Is OpenXR?
Jim Sanborn, creator of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA HQ, says he's frustrated with amateurs falsely claiming they cracked the 35-year unsolved code using AI
Jim Sanborn's inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they've cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.
Sources: activist investor Mantle Ridge has built a $1B+ stake in Cognizant and believes the tech services firm, which has a $41B+ market cap, is undervalued
The investor has been working behind the scenes at the tech-services firm and isn't currently planning to nominate directors
Sources: Kraken seeks to go public as soon as Q1 2026; the SEC recently agreed to drop its case against Kraken amid a friendlier regulatory climate under Trump
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg :
GSMA Intelligence: ~61 countries, including the US and China, plan to shut down their 2G networks, raising digital exclusion concerns, mainly affecting the poor
Lam Le / Rest of World :
Crogl, whose AI agent helps cybersecurity researchers analyze daily network alerts to find and fix security incidents, raised a $25M Series A and a $5M seed
AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field …
Source: Microsoft has completed training a family of models, codenamed MAI, and is experimenting with swapping out OpenAI's models in Copilot for the MAI models
Aaron Holmes / The Information :
Freed, which offers an AI scribe that automates clinical notetaking in real time and is used by 17K+ clinicians, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia Capital
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :
The CCI will review the antitrust case filed by an Indian distributors' federation over alleged deep discounting practices by Zomato, Swiggy, and Zepto
Aditya Kalra / Reuters :
Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”
techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s... … Paul Rietschka / @prietschka : Agents agents agents! — Yes, Whittaker is right! — Also: agents agents agents! If you say it enough — I've been told — it becomes t...
Europe is in talks with SES, Viasat, and others as it rushes to provide Ukraine with alternatives to Starlink, whose service became patchy near the front line
www.marketwatch.com/story/shares... Mastodon: @tdwllms1@mstdn.social : this is good news.. but they need to hurry... Ukraine doesn't have months... Shares of Starlink's European competitor have tripl...
Reflection AI, which wants to achieve superintelligence through autonomous coding agents, emerges from stealth with a $105M Series A and $25M in seed funding
Our team pioneered major advances in RL and LLMs, including AlphaGo and Gemini. … Ioannis Alexandros Antonoglou : Excited to finally share what we've been building. — Alongside my co-founder Misha L...
Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $10B valuation, up from $2.5B in January, and crossed $100M in ARR in 12 months
Cool AI startups in 2025: we will raise hundreds of millions of dollars [embedded post] X: Trace Cohen / @trace_cohen : $10B val doing $150M prob!? But like in 2yrs which is crazy but what... At this ...
Experts say Sean Cairncross' nomination as national cyber director signals the White House's ONCD will lead US cyber policy across the government
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A look at India's semiconductor push as it invests $18B in five projects, with combined federal and state subsidies covering approximately 70% of project costs
Manish Singh / India Dispatch :
Sources: virtual physical therapy service Hinge Health aims to file for a US IPO as soon as next week and could go public in April; it had $390M in 2024 revenue
> in general = more liquidity for the ecosystem - a new # of angels and founders coming from hinge Rex Salisbury / @rexsalisbury : companies that missed the 2021 IPO window don't want to miss the next...
CoreWeave's S-1 reveals its three co-founders own less than 3% of Class A shares after cashing out ~$488M, but still control ~80% of votes via Class B shares
Julie Bort / TechCrunch : Bluesky: @silversalty Bluesky: @silversalty : Reading the description of the IPO and the maneuvers of the founder controllers as well as the company's current circumstances,...
Revolut and Visa file challenges against UK's Payment Systems Regulator, say it overstepped its powers with a plan to cap international digital transaction fees
Akila Quinio / Financial Times :
Meta is testing a feature that lets Threads users add their interests to their profile; the interests will direct users to active conversations about the topic
See Cambridge Analytica and Meta Facebook. @daaitoulaam : Who cares? Threads is dead fish. [embedded post] @humoristguy : Meta can kiss at least 65% of their users good-bye. Zuck will never change ...
Sources: Figma has met with banks in recent weeks to discuss an IPO that could come as soon as 2025; EU and US regulators stymied its $20B sale to Adobe in 2023
The may not get $20B in the IPO but they've avoided the inevitable enshitification an Adobe acquisition would have caused.
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