CISA says it will extend funding to Mitre, which runs the CVE Program, and “there will be no lapse in critical CVE services”, after Mitre said funding expired
CISA says the U.S. government has extended MITRE's funding to ensure no continuity issues with the critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program.
SEC filing: Nvidia says it will record a $5.5B quarterly charge after new US rules to require a license to export the H20 chips to China; NVDA drops ~5%
Nvidia said on Tuesday that it will take a quarterly charge of about $5.5 billion tied to exporting H20 graphics processing units to China and other destinations.
Sources: Meta offered $450M in late March to settle the FTC's antitrust case and raised its offer to ~$1B as the trial neared; the FTC had demanded $30B
The FTC wanted $30 billion to drop its case. Zuckerberg offered much less and hoped Trump would back him up.
Spotify is down in the US, Europe, and more; users reported issues from 8:00AM ET, and Spotify says it is “aware of the outage” and it is not “a security hack”
Spotify is aware of the issues and is ‘checking them out.’ — Spotify is down according …
FTC v. Meta: in an email, Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that its success was hurting Facebook
meaning show people more ads — as a way to make more money and take some pressure off Facebook — Perhaps not surprisingly, IG's founders left the company a few months after all of this happened in S...
Sources: Nvidia did not warn at least some major customers in advance about new US export rules on its H20 chips to China; the US told Nvidia about a week ago
Nvidia (NVDA.O) did not warn at least some major customers in advance about new U.S. export rules it was told about a week ago requiring …
ASML reports Q1 net sales up 46% YoY to €7.74B, vs. €7.8B est., a €2.36B net profit, €3.94B net bookings, below €4.89B est., and warns of tariff uncertainty
Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML on Wednesday missed order expectations and said that uncertainty …
Q&A with Phil Spencer on A Minecraft Movie, potential IP for future movies, Microsoft's Hollywood goals, Fallout Season 2 and the Minecraft TV series, and more
The execs at Microsoft, Warner Bros. and Legendary can now breathe a collective sigh of relief as “A Minecraft Movie” …
Mark Zuckerberg says TikTok has been “probably the highest competitive threat for Instagram and Facebook over the last few years”, in his third day of testimony
New York Times :
SEC filing: AMD estimates new US export rules for its MI308 chips to China will cost ~$800M in inventory, purchase commitments, and related reserves charges
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Email: Mark Zuckerberg offered to buy Snapchat for $6B in 2013; Zuckerberg testified that he thought Snapchat “wasn't growing at the potential that it could”
Business Insider :
In a notice last week, China said it would exempt advanced chips from its US tariffs; experts say the move shows China won't let a trade war impact chip supply
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times :
Sources: chip industry executives told US officials and lawmakers that Trump's new tariffs could cost US semiconductor equipment makers more than $1B per year
Max A. Cherney / Reuters :
Microsoft adds a “computer use” tool in Copilot Studio to let AI agents use websites and desktop apps; the feature is designed to detect UI changes dynamically
Microsoft has its own ‘computer use’ feature for AI agents to automatically use websites and apps.
xAI unveils Grok Studio, a canvas-like tool for its Grok chatbot that can generate and edit documents, run code like Python and JavaScript, and more
Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has gained a canvas-like feature for editing and creating documents and basic apps.
A look at Huawei's AI CloudMatrix 384 rack-scale system, which is less power-efficient than Nvidia's GB200 NVL72, though this is not a limiting factor in China
Huawei is making waves with its new AI accelerator and rack scale architecture. Meet China's newest and most powerful Chinese domestic solution …
TikTok begins testing Footnotes, a Community Notes-like feature to add “more context” to videos, in the US; Footnotes won't affect algorithmic ranking
But the company isn't walking away from fact checking. — As TikTok continues to wait for a deal that will secure its future …
Documents: ICE awarded Palantir nearly $30M in April 2025 to enhance its Investigative Case Management system, after a $90M, five-year deal in September 2022
The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts …
Figma confidentially files for a US IPO, more than a year after Adobe's $20B acquisition failed; the company was valued at $12.5B in a May 2024 tender offer
Cloud-based designer platform Figma on Tuesday confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States …
UBS: Nvidia's $5.5B inventory charge indicates ~$13B in actual H20 sales; Nvidia reported $17.11B in FY 2025 revenue from China, up from $10.31B in FY 2024
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal :
Google says it suspended 39.2M US advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024, up over 3x from 12.7M in 2023, and took down 1.8B ads, aided by new AI tools
Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 — more than triple the number …
OKX relaunches in the US and unveils a new crypto wallet for users, two months after a $500M DOJ settlement over insufficient anti-money laundering processes
Seychelles-based OKX announced on Tuesday that it is relaunching the U.S. version of its crypto exchange and unveiled a new wallet …
River: China's local governments held 15,000 bitcoin worth $1.4B at the end of 2024, the world's 14th biggest holder, sparking a debate on how to handle it
China's growing pile of cryptocurrencies seized from illegal transactions is prompting local governments to find ways to dispose …
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB review: great value and performance, and GDDR7 offers more bandwidth, but the GPU's pricing and availability remain uncertain
Retail availability and pricing will be critical factors. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
Lyft acquires Hamburg-based taxi app FreeNow from BMW and Mercedes-Benz for €175M and says the combined operations will serve 50M+ riders annually
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times :
Trump's planned tariffs on chip imports risk upending a global supply chain and could lead to oversupply as the US and other countries seek domestic production
Nikkei Asia :
Infinite Reality, which recently bought Napster, acquires AI customer support startup Touchcast for $500M in cash and stock, valuing Infinite Reality at $15.5B
The acquisition comes just weeks after the company said it would buy iconic 2000s music brand Napster.
Medicare broker Chapter, which was co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy and uses AI to aggregate comprehensive plan data, raised $75M at a $1.5B valuation
Startup Chapter, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy and previously backed by Peter Thiel and JD Vance, just closed a VC round valuing it at $1.5 billion.
Sources: the US DOD's Defense Digital Service is effectively shutting down as nearly all staff are resigning, saying they were sidelined by DOGE's efforts
Pentagon's ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse — Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director. — www.politico.co...
Patreon plans to test livestreaming within its mobile app and on the web with select users this week ahead of a wider rollout in summer 2025
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch :
US credit and debit card data: Shein's US sales rose 29% YoY in March and 38% YoY in April's first 11 days, while Temu rose 46% and 60%, ahead of US tariffs
Bloomberg :
OpenAI is adding an image library to ChatGPT to make it easier for users to access their AI-generated images, rolling out to all Free, Plus, and Pro users
rolling out now to all Free, Plus, and Pro users on mobile and https://chatgpt.com/. [video]
UK filing: in 2023, following Elon Musk's acquisition, X had £69.1M in UK revenue, down 66.3% YoY, and its profit fell from £5.6M to £1.2M
Ben Quinn / The Guardian :
Indian food delivery and quick commerce platform Swiggy launches Pyng, an online marketplace to let users find verified professionals like financial advisors
Debaroti Adhikary / Moneycontrol :
California's AG declines to join Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, saying the office did not see how Musk's action serves the state's public interest
Anna Tong / Reuters :
Starlink, which entered Nigeria in January 2023, ranks second among pure-play ISPs with 65K+ Nigerian subscribers in Q3 2024 due to reliable, high-speed access
Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World :
FOI documents: Australian Communications Minister Michelle Rowland gave a personal guarantee to YouTube that it would be exempt from a teen social media ban
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg :
Data orchestration startup Hammerspace, which counts Nvidia, Meta, Tesla, Palantir, and the DOD as clients, raised $100M, sources say at a $500M+ valuation
At Altimeter, we love investing in companies solving … Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Hammerspace nabs $100M for its Linux-powered data management platform Business Wire : Strategic Investors Back H...
European carmakers are increasingly doing deals with Chinese rivals to prevent them from falling behind in core areas such as software and autonomous driving
and we should really call things by their names—good old European racism. — www.ft.com/content/9de3... [image] Ilias Alami / @iliasalami : “Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis and BMW have all si...
A look at India's efforts to catch up in the AI race, as the government reviews 67 bids from startups and research labs seeking funding for domestic AI models
Krishn Kaushik / Financial Times :
Analysis: stablecoins' market value rose ~4.5% from the end of February 2025 to a new high of ~$234B in April, as crypto traders sat out the market volatility
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg : X: @jjoemorgan and @jjoemorgan X: Joe Morgan / @jjoemorgan : @gwaisman on how stablecoins have become a sanctuary amid recent market turbulence, as sector grows, writes ...
Experts say Chinese investors would be wary of backing AI startups building foundation models; PitchBook: in Q1, AI/ML VC funding in China fell 30% YoY to $1.2B
Investors believe practical AI applications will fuel the next wave of growth, with startups building on top of DeepSeek's foundation, rapidly accelerating AI adoption throughout Chinese society. — ...
Inside San Francisco-based live-in startup accelerator HF0, whose alumni include OpenSea's founders; HF0's latest fund is $100M, up from its previous $16M fund
Ellen Huet / Bloomberg :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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