Intel appoints former board member and chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO, effective March 18, and says he will rejoin the board; INTC jumps 10%+
Struggling U.S. chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) on Wednesday named former board member Lip-Bu Tan as its CEO effective March 18 …
Sources: Trump family representatives have held talks to take a financial stake in Binance US, and Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for Trump to pardon him
Discussions for stake in Binance's U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea
Meta says contributors will not be able to submit Community Notes on ads “to start with”, but they can submit them on posts by politicians and public figures
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By previewing smarter Siri vaporware at WWDC and the iPhone 16 launch, Apple burned a reputation earned over decades for only promising actual working products
In the two decades I've been in this racket, I've never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple's announcement …
Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan says he will stick with the costly foundry plan, which led to Pat Gelsinger's ouster, to make Intel “a world-class products company”
Incoming Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan is signaling that he'll stick with his predecessor's plan …
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected
An arbitrator has instructed the book's author and its publishers to stop publishing the book, though it's unclear how much authority the arbitrator has to do so.
A profile of new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, an early investor in SMIC who has extensive ties to China and gained fame by helping turn around Cadence Design Systems
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Interviews with seven CISA employees describe how mass layoffs and weak leadership are taking a severe toll on the US government's cyber defense agency
Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they're struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses …
Sources: President Trump's World Liberty Financial has discussed doing business with Binance, including the possibility of developing a stablecoin with Binance
Bloomberg :
Meta plans to test Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US from March 18; Joel Kaplan says notes will not have “distribution penalties”
Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan says in exclusive interview community notes won't penalize users
D-Wave claims it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with its quantum annealing processors; some physicists say classical computers can achieve comparable results
The company said classical computers can't beat its quantum computer in magnetic materials simulation. Some physicists disagree.
Meta says Community Notes will use the same open-source algorithm that powers X's Community Notes, but it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its apps
freely available for anyone to use and build upon. This openness has enabled Meta to start with a @xbusiness : We designed @CommunityNotes with transparency at the core, from day one recognizing its p...
Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox” and says “tens of millions” have positive experiences
Parents who are worried about their children being on Roblox should not let them use it …
In its final decision report, the UK CMA finds that Apple and Google's mobile browser duopoly is “holding back innovation”, but offers no enforcement action
A U.K. competition authority investigation of Apple and Google's mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly's policies are …
Microsoft announces Copilot for Gaming, available through the Xbox mobile app initially for Xbox Insiders and designed to work as a companion or gaming coach
Microsoft is launching a Copilot in gaming with Xbox testers next month. … Microsoft is preparing to launch an AI-powered Copilot …
Google calls the passage of Utah's app store age-verification bill “concerning” and part of an effort by Meta and others to “offload” kids' safety to app stores
Google has its own ideas about what kids online safety legislation should look like.
OpenAI releases a 15-page set of policy suggestions for the White House, arguing that hundreds of AI bills pending across the US risk undercutting US progress
OpenAI has asked the Trump administration to help shield artificial intelligence companies from a growing number of proposed state regulations …
A look at UK-based startup accelerator Founders Factory, which has invested in 300+ startups; KPMG says UK VC funding fell from $20B in 2023 to $15B in 2024
The infrastructure to help young companies grow in the UK is varied and well established — If 2023 was the year of downturn … Bluesky: @theopriestley.com . LinkedIn: Richard Dana and Nick Huber Blue...
In its proposal for White House's AI Action Plan, OpenAI calls for a strategy that preserves “American AI models' ability to learn from copyrighted material”
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Sources: Oracle is a leading contender to help run TikTok US; ByteDance management prefers Oracle but wants to retain a hands-on role with TikTok's operations
Oracle has emerged as a leading contender to help run TikTok as part of a deal President Donald Trump is orchestrating to satisfy …
Analysis: the UK has 29 of Europe's top 150 startup hubs, followed by Germany with 19; Munich's UnternehmerTUM, which has incubated 1K+ companies, ranks on top
John Thornhill / Financial Times :
Google adds new developer tools and programs to simplify PC game porting to Android and improves Vulkan support on Android, ahead of the GDC
Google is improving Vulkan support on Android and introducing new tools and programs to simplify PC game porting
A look at Paris-based incubator Station F, which includes Hugging Face as alumni and whose startups raised €1B+ for three straight years, up from €250M in 2017
Financial Times : LinkedIn: Cyril Véran LinkedIn: Cyril Véran : 🚀 Thrilled to see .omics featured in the Financial Times alongside amazing startups like Hugging Face and Entalpic! …
Sources: Sonos has abandoned plans to release a streaming video player, which was set to be the company's major hardware launch in 2025
what's next? iClarified : Sonos Abandons Streaming Device That Aimed to Rival Apple TV [Report] Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Report: Sonos Cancels Set-Top Box Matthew Keys / The Desk : Report: Sonos aba...
Singapore prosecutors say a case in which Singapore-based companies are accused of fraudulently supplying US servers to Malaysia involves $390M in transactions
Singapore prosecutors told a court on Thursday that a case in which Singapore-based firms have been accused …
Indian police arrest Aleksej Besciokov, the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian crypto exchange sanctioned by the EU and the US, at the request of US authorities
including terrorist [image] @secretservice : #ICYMI Our agency dealt a major blow to money launderers and cybercriminals, seizing website domains linked to Russian crypto exchange Garantex and freezin...
Estonia-based Blackwall, formerly BotGuard, raised a €45M Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic, after a €12M Series A in March 2024
A huge chunk of online traffic now comes from bots, both good and bad — but AI is boosting the latter.
CoinGecko data shows that daily crypto trading volume dropped from a peak of $440B in early February 2025 to $163B on March 12, a 63% decrease
Crypto trading volumes and dwindling digital asset prices are flashing signs of trader exhaustion and potentially weaker market momentum, according to analysts.
Deliveroo reports FY 2024 revenue up 2% YoY to £2.08B and a £2.9M net profit, up from a £31.8M loss in 2023, its first annual profit, and plans a £100M buyback
Kieran Smith / Financial Times :
The US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, to be funded via civil asset forfeitures, goes against bitcoiners' early skepticism of state overreach and market intervention
some in Congress — who don't think that the government has gone far enough. They're pushing for tens of billions of dollars in government money to be spent on acquiring bitcoin (and boosting their ow...
French publishers and authors sue Meta for allegedly training AI on their books without consent, saying they have evidence of “massive” copyright breaches
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg :
UiPath shares fell over 15% after the company projected FY 2026 sales of $1.525B to $1.53B, vs. $1.58B estimates; PATH is down 51.6% over the past 12 months
I remember when Peak was a tiny three-person startup. How they grow up. X: @thetranscript_ : UiPath CFO: “Over the last several weeks we have seen increasing global macro economic uncertainty, partic...
Xiaomi plans to preinstall PhonePe's Indus Appstore on all new smartphones sold in India and replace its GetApps app store with Indus Appstore on existing ones
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Sources: the FTC moves ahead with an antitrust probe of Microsoft opened by Lina Khan, signaling that new Chair Andrew Ferguson prioritizes Big Tech scrutiny
Bloomberg :
Tel Aviv-based Bria, which licenses images from 30+ partners like Getty to train AI, raised a $40M Series B led by Red Dot, taking its total funding to $65M
Globes Online :
GoTo, which operates Gojek and is a part owner of e-commerce company Tokopedia, reports adjusted EBITDA of $23.5M for 2024, its first annual profit
A. Anantha Lakshmi / Financial Times :
Boston-based Insilico, which uses AI for drug discovery and has extensive operations in China, raised a $110M Series E led by Value Partners at a $1B+ valuation
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
Alibaba debuts New Quark, an updated app using its flagship Qwen reasoning model, rolling out gradually, as it seeks to keep up with DeepSeek and Chinese rivals
Bloomberg :
Omni, which offers data analysis tools, raised a $69M Series B led by ICONIQ Growth at a $650M valuation, bringing its total raised to $97M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Ernst & Young: German startups raised ~€7B across 755 deals in 2024, up from ~€6B across 861 deals in 2023, but far below the €17B+ peak in 2021
Sophie Spiegelberger / Financial Times :
GSR, one of several VC firms rebuked in 2024 over China investments, splits its China business from its US business, which is renamed as Informed Ventures
Dan Primack / Axios :
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus has been slow to attract private sector investment, with only around $49M invested so far, compared to $6.23B in state assistance
Nikkei Asia :
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