Leaked letter: interim US Attorney for DC Ed Martin accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status
In a letter obtained by The Free Press, Trump appointee Ed Martin accuses the Wikimedia Foundation of violating the law.
Google says it will end support for 1st- and 2nd-gen Nest thermostats on October 25, and won't launch new models in Europe due to its “unique” heating systems
The company is also pulling Nest thermostats out of Europe entirely, citing “unique” heating challenges.
Sources: XAI Holdings, the newly combined entity housing xAI and X, is in talks to raise roughly $20B, or possibly more, valuing the company at more than $120B
Elon Musk's XAI Holdings is in talks with investors to raise roughly $20 billion in funding for his newly combined artificial intelligence startup …
Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on Motorola partnership, Perplexity's upcoming browser Comet, TikTok bid, ChatGPT's scale, Google's DOJ trial, and more
Aravind Srinivas discusses his partnership with Motorola, fighting Google, and why AI assistants are coming for browsers.
Docs and sources detail the opaque market for shares of Elon Musk's private companies; Valor recently offered investors $1B worth of shares in SpaceX and xAI
Lucrative stock deals have allowed SpaceX to avoid public scrutiny even as it has grown into one of the largest companies in the U.S.
Interpretability, or understanding how AI models work, can help mitigate many AI risks, such as misalignment and misuse, that stem from AI systems' opacity
In the decade that I have been working on AI, I've watched it grow from a tiny academic field to arguably the most important economic and geopolitical issue in the world.
Deel sues Rippling for alleged defamation, libel, and deceptive trade practices, says Rippling placed an insider within Deel, is not tax compliant, and more
The legal battle between HR software unicorns Deel and Rippling escalated on Friday, with Deel suing Rippling for alleged defamation, libel, and deceptive trade practices.
US v. Google: Chrome General Manager Parisa Tabriz testified that only Google can run Chrome, given the browser's “interdependencies” on other parts of Google
Google is the only company that can offer the level of features and functionality that its popular Chrome web browser has today …
a16z, which owns ~20% of Deel, a stake worth $2.5B+, is advising Deel in fighting Rippling, whose CEO Parker Conrad said a16z pushed him out of Zenefits in 2016
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has landed in the middle of a nasty Silicon Valley spy scandal between …
A profile of Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed, who, along with his investment firm Kingdom Holding, is the second-biggest shareholder in XAI Holdings
and what excites him most about Saudi's future. Full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/... @Alwaleed_Talal [video]
A Nigerian tribunal upholds a $220M fine imposed on Meta in July 2024 for discriminatory and exploitative practices against Nigerian consumers
Nnaemeka Onyekachi / Nairametrics :
Sources: China has quietly exempted from tariffs at least eight classifications of US-made microchips, as it seeks to exempt “irreplaceable” goods
duties paid are eligible for refunds Wency Chen / South China Morning Post : China said to waive retaliatory tariffs on some US chip imports in sign of trade war thaw Meaghan Tobin / New York Times : ...
A look at efforts by Apple and others to become carbon neutral by investing in eucalyptus farms in Brazil's Cerrado region, amid skepticism from some ecologists
We were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died at the edge of a strange forest. Mastodon: @peterpur@hci.social . X: @shehzadyounis . Linked...
Sources: Butterfly Effect, the Chinese startup behind Manus, has discussed setting up a new HQ outside China, and separating its domestic and global businesses
Leaders of the Chinese startup behind the hit artificial intelligence agent Manus have discussed setting up new headquarters outside China …
Microsoft makes Recall available to all Copilot+ PCs, along with a new AI-powered Windows search and Click to Do, which works like Google's Circle to Search
Click to Do and Improved Search also coming Mauro Huculak / Pureinfotech : Windows 11 builds 26200.5570 and 26120.3941 rollout visual changes in Dev and Beta Channels Mahnoor Faisal / XDA Developers :...
Symbiotic, which is building a “universal staking” platform after starting as a restaking protocol on Ethereum, raised a $29M Series A led by Pantera Capital
- Symbiotic has raised $29 million to expand from restaking into a broader “universal staking” platform.
NetEase has lost at least three senior executives in recent months, as CEO William Ding pulls back on investments and cuts jobs in a bid to boost profits
Simon Zhu, NetEase's president for global investments and partnerships, said he was leaving the Chinese video-game company in a social media post on Friday.
Many AI features, like Gmail's AI assistant, feel useless because they don't allow users to edit system prompts, constraining the AI models they're built with
Millions Of Email Users Now At Risk Of Attack Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : This blog captures my frustration with AI tools for work. Microsoft and Google are pushing tools to help...
Sources: Chinese AI startup Manus raised $75M led by Benchmark at a $500M valuation, and plans to expand to markets including the US, Japan, and the Middle East
incredible launch, incredible product, incredible investors. Sheel Mohnot / @pitdesi : Manus is based in Beijing. Wonder how you underwrite that risk. Perhaps why Gurley has been talking about how we ...
Meta and Booz Allen partner to deploy Space Llama, a fine-tuned version of Llama 3.2, for research aboard the International Space Station National Laboratory
deploying what we believe is the first multimodal AI in space. Space Llama replaces thousands of paper documents and makes astronauts less reliant on instructions from the ground. LinkedIn: Anna Kupr...
Etsy agrees to sell Reverb, an online musical instruments marketplace that it acquired for $275M in 2019, to investors Creator Partners and Servco
Music Marketplace Eyes ‘Exciting Changes’ Under New Owners Creator Partners and Servco Elizabeth Dilts Marshall / Billboard : Reverb Sold By Etsy to Fender Parent and Firm Led By SoundCloud Alum Blues...
A US DOJ official says Tyler Buchanan, a 23-year-old from Scotland, and an alleged Scattered Spider cybercrime group member, was extradited from Spain to the US
Margi Murphy / Bloomberg :
Deliveroo, which listed in London with a £7.6B valuation in 2021, says it received a buyout proposal from DoorDash that would value the company at £2.7B
Financial Times :
Reducto, which helps companies convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $24.5M Series A led by Benchmark, following a $8.4M seed in October 2024
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune :
Internal presentation by Microsoft's CFO Amy Hood: number of users for Copilot has been flat over the past year with ~20M weekly users, as ChatGPT grew to 400M
It's about as useless as their search bar. Linux is looking more and more tempting every day.. 😅 [embedded post] Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : Microsoft acqui-hired Mustafa Suleyma...
IBM has booked $6B in sales around generative AI and Red Hat's revenue has about doubled since IBM bought it, fueling a ~2x jump in IBM's stock since April 2020
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Microsoft plans to increase the use of third-party firms for selling software to SMBs; in-house sellers will get more training and focus on AI products
Channel partners will run more small/medium customer accounts — Broader product specializations (fewer overlays on each account) …
Autodesk adds Jeff Epstein and Christie Simons to its board and settles the proxy fight with Starboard Value, which has criticized Autodesk for underperformance
Svea Herbst-Bayliss / Reuters :
Docs: Scale AI had revenue of $870M in 2024, missing its $1B target, and plans a $150M share sale that values the startup at around $25B, up 80% from a year ago
W911QX20C0051, 110m, from 2020—which has since ended. I, as @procureFYI, haven't seen any significant traction since. [image] See also Mediagazer
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