Nintendo says Switch 2 preorders will start in the US on April 24, with the price staying at the initially announced $450; prices of accessories will go up
The company delayed its original preorder date in the US. … Nintendo has announced a new date for when Switch 2 preorders will kick off in the US; April 24th.
OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallucinate more often than its previous reasoning and traditional models, and the company doesn't know why
OpenAI's recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate …
ChatGPT users are figuring out the location of photos using o3's image-analyzing capabilities paired with its web search functionality, raising privacy concerns
even when it shouldn't OpenAI : OpenAI o3, o4-mini, and o3-mini Usage Limits on ChatGPT and the API Aman Gupta / Livemint : ChatGPT's latest image trend? How Redditors are turning usernames into viral...
A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race with human runners and 21 Chinese humanoid robots, highlighting both the progress and limitations of such robots
A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—and showed how far robots still are from mimicking people.
Oregon sues Coinbase, alleging the exchange is selling unregistered securities; Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal says it's a “copycat case” of SEC's now-dropped lawsuit
While winning legal victories at the federal level, the crypto industry still faces regulatory hurdles at the state level in the United States.
Sources: the EU planned to penalize Meta and Apple on April 15 but delayed the announcement, avoiding conflict with the Trump administration before trade talks
Officials postponed an announcement initially planned for this week — The European Union recently delayed penalizing Apple …
Cybersecurity experts say the Trump administration's removal of security guardrails has given US adversaries more room to operate in the disinformation space
America's adversaries have more room to operate, at least in the disinformation space, cybersecurity experts say.
A look at Google's efforts to improve Search with AI; sources: its leaders have struggled to articulate a vision for how they want Search features to evolve
Next week, a federal judge will start the process of determining how to fix Google's search engine, which he ruled last summer was an illegal monopoly.
A profile of Bo Hines, a 29-year-old official in the Trump administration who has become the main liaison between the White House and the crypto industry
Since his appointment, Bo Hines has become a mini-celebrity in the crypto world—with CEOs, billionaire investors, and lobbyists vying for face time.
A US judge temporarily halts mass firings at the US CFPB after the agency fired between 1,400 and 1,500 workers, eliminating as much as 90% of its workforce
again! The CFPB has returned over $21 billion to millions of Americans scammed since its founding. Any cuts to the #CFPB are to rip off working families in favor of big banks and the billionaire cla...
India's top IT firms, TCS, Infosys, and Wipro, are facing their steepest growth slowdown in years amid global economic uncertainty and geopolitical challenges
Infosys, TCS and Wipro report disappointing results as Trump tariffs and economic headwinds prompt corporate caution
Experts say two federal judges declaring Google a monopoly within a year signals a judicial shift toward addressing anticompetitive behavior in digital markets
but investors shouldn't sweat it Rob Nicholls / The Conversation : Google loses online ad monopoly case. But it's just one of many antitrust battles against big tech Matt Milano / WebProNews : Google ...
A Nevada judge rules that “tower dumps”, the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers, is unconstitutional
Cell towers record the location of phones near them about every seven seconds. When police request a tower dump, they ask a telecom for the numbers & personal information of every phone connected dur...
Sources: BOA, principally lobbying through trade associations, is pushing US lawmakers for rules favoring banks over tech companies in stablecoin issuance
- Bank of America is lobbying for rules favoring banks over tech firms in stablecoin issuance. — Circle is positioning itself …
A look at Foxconn's $2.5B “Project Elephant”, an upcoming factory on the outskirts of Bengaluru, its second-largest factory outside China, creating 40,000 jobs
The $2.5 billion “Project Elephant” will be the company's second-largest factory outside China and create 40,000 jobs. Bluesky: @liviohenrik , @rinachandran , and @restofworld.org X: @devanahalliblr ,...
API-based background check provider Checkr acquires income and employment verification startup Truework, which had raised $125M+ and was last valued at ~$480M
Checkr, an API-based background check provider, is acquiring income and employment verification startup Truework, Checkr CEO Daniel Yanisse tells Axios exclusively.
China's Q1 2025 smartphone shipments grew 3.3% YoY to 71.6M units; Xiaomi led with 18.6% market share, Apple was the only foreign brand in top 5 with 13.7%
HR management company Paychex acquires Paycor, which provides HR and payroll management software, for $4.1B in an all-cash deal
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PE firm KKR agrees to acquire and take private Frankfurt-listed IT company Datagroup for about €450M in an all-cash deal expected to close in Q3 2025
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Exaforce, which lets cybersecurity teams work with AI agents to cut false positives and busywork, raised a $75M Series A led by Khosla, Mayfield, and Thomvest
Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News :
The Trump administration's restrictions on AI chip exports by Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to China could help turn Huawei into a global chip-making powerhouse
Tripp Mickle / New York Times :
Garment workshops are closing across the “Shein village” in Panyu, China, after the US ended the de minimis exemption; Shein urges suppliers to shift to Vietnam
Kentaro Shiozaki / Nikkei Asia :
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