Google closes its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for $32B, marking Google's biggest acquisition ever; Google initially approached Wiz in 2024
Google has officially acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal.
Amazon raised $37B from a US dollar bond sale that sources say has drawn ~$126B of orders; the sale could swell to ~$50B with a planned euro debt offering
Amazon.com Inc. has kicked off what is likely to be one of the biggest corporate bond offerings ever, in the latest blockbuster fundraising …
Yann LeCun's Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs raised a $1.03B seed at a $3.5B pre-money valuation to work on world models, in Europe's largest-ever seed round
Meta's former chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun has raised more than $1bn for his new start-up in Europe's largest ever seed funding round.
Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40B, its largest-ever borrowing denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI
China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware
TOKYO — China's smartphone market is seeing one of its biggest and widest price hikes ever, affecting almost all brands and product categories …
OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence
“People's habits are not solidified” Liz Reid has one of the hardest jobs in tech. She runs Google Search, arguably the best business ever built …
Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40B, its largest-ever borrowing denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI
SoftBank Group Corp. is seeking a loan of as much as $40 billion to mostly help finance its investment in US tech giant OpenAI …
Anthropic says Claude's free active users grew 60%+ and daily signups grew 4x since the start of the year, with Monday being its strongest day ever
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Dario Amodei says Anthropic has a better retention rate than OpenAI, reminding its employees of its “mission” while countering competitors trying to hire them
It's the fastest-growing software business ever.Reuters:State Department switches to OpenAI as US agencies start phasing out Anthropic
How some companies are trying to become the “Strava of tennis” by offering match video, stats, highlights, social features, and performance analysis for players
Share full article — More people are playing tennis in America than ever before.