SoftBank reportedly intends to turn the Osaka plant into a data center to jointly develop AI agents with OpenAI.
rumored 1 article 2025-03-14
SoftBank OpenAI
SoftBank plans to buy a former Sharp LCD panel plant in Osaka for ~$676M, sources say to turn it into a data center for jointly developing AI agents with OpenAI
TechCrunch · 2025-03-14 · #21
Xiaomi plans to preinstall PhonePe's Indus Appstore on all new smartphones sold in India.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-13
Xiaomi Indus Appstore PhonePe
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
TechCrunch · 2025-03-13 · #35
Bria licenses images from 30+ partners, including Getty, to train AI models.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-13
Bria Getty
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 · 2025-03-13 · #34
ByteDance management reportedly prefers Oracle as the partner to run TikTok US.
rumored 1 article 2025-03-13
ByteDance management Oracle
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
The Information · 2025-03-13 · #15
Oracle is reportedly a leading contender to help run TikTok US.
rumored 1 article 2025-03-13
Oracle TikTok US
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
The Information · 2025-03-13 · #15
World Liberty Financial has reportedly discussed the possibility of developing a stablecoin with Binance, according to sources.
rumored 1 article 2025-03-13
World Liberty Financial Binance stablecoin
Sources: President Trump's World Liberty Financial has discussed doing business with Binance, including the possibility of developing a stablecoin with Binance
Bloomberg · 2025-03-13 · #2
Manus announces strategic partnership with Alibaba's Qwen team to integrate Manus' AI agent functions with Qwen AI models and Chinese computing platforms, and to collaborate on Qwen's AI models.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-12
Manus Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen AI models AI models and computing platforms in China
Manus partners with Alibaba's Qwen to integrate Manus' AI agent functions with AI models and computing platforms in China and to collaborate on Qwen's AI models
Reuters · 2025-03-12 · #23
Niantic completes a $3.5B deal that gives Scopely access to a combined audience of over 500 million players.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-12
Niantic Scopely
Niantic's $3.5B deal gives Scopely, acquired by Saudi-owned Savvy Games Group in 2023 for $4.9B, a total audience of 500M+ players, driven by Monopoly Go!
Financial Times · 2025-03-12 · #4
Sources say TSMC pitched Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, and Qualcomm to take stakes in a joint venture to operate Intel's foundry.
rumored 1 article 2025-03-12
TSMC Nvidia Advanced Micro Devices Broadcom Qualcomm joint venture to run Intel's foundry
Sources: TSMC has pitched Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, and Qualcomm about taking stakes in a JV to run Intel Foundry; TSMC would hold no more than a 50% stake
Reuters · 2025-03-12 · #6
Sources say TSMC would hold no more than a 50% stake in the proposed joint venture to run Intel's foundry.
rumored 1 article 2025-03-12
TSMC joint venture to run Intel Foundry
Sources: TSMC has pitched Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, and Qualcomm about taking stakes in a JV to run Intel Foundry; TSMC would hold no more than a 50% stake
Reuters · 2025-03-12 · #6
Jio Platforms partners with SpaceX to offer Starlink satellite internet service in India.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-12
Jio Platforms SpaceX Starlink
India's largest telco Jio Platforms partners with SpaceX to offer Starlink in the country, just hours after rival Airtel announced a similar partnership
TechCrunch · 2025-03-12 · #33
Airtel announced a similar partnership with SpaceX to offer Starlink in India.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-12
Airtel SpaceX Starlink
India's largest telco Jio Platforms partners with SpaceX to offer Starlink in the country, just hours after rival Airtel announced a similar partnership
TechCrunch · 2025-03-12 · #33
The RDNA 4 upscaler is the first result of AMD and Sony's Project Amethyst collaboration.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-11
AMD Sony RDNA 4 upscaler
Q&A with PlayStation Lead System Architect Mark Cerny on FSR 4's PS5 Pro “reimplementation”, working with AMD on a better hardware architecture for ML, and more
Eurogamer.net · 2025-03-11 · #5
CoreWeave signs a five-year $11.9 billion contract with OpenAI.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-11
CoreWeave OpenAI
CoreWeave signs a five-year $11.9B contract with OpenAI and will issue shares worth $350M to OpenAI through a private placement at the time of CoreWeave's IPO
Reuters · 2025-03-11 · #39
The deal is intended to provide rural internet access in India via Starlink.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-11
Bharti Airtel Starlink rural areas India
India's Bharti Airtel signs a deal with SpaceX to launch Starlink in the country, offering it to business customers and providing rural internet access
Reuters · 2025-03-11 · #17
PlayStation (via Mark Cerny) is working with AMD on developing a better hardware architecture for machine learning.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-11
PlayStation AMD better hardware architecture for machine learning
Q&A with PlayStation Lead System Architect Mark Cerny on FSR 4's PS5 Pro “reimplementation”, working with AMD on a better hardware architecture for ML, and more
Eurogamer.net · 2025-03-11 · #5
Windows Central reports Microsoft is working with PC gaming OEM partners (e.g., ASUS, Lenovo, MSI) on the Project Keenan handheld.
rumored 1 article 2025-03-11
Microsoft ASUS Lenovo MSI PC gaming OEMs
Sources: Microsoft is working on an Xbox-branded gaming handheld, slated for later in 2025, and successors to the Xbox Series X|S, tentatively slated for 2027
Windows Central · 2025-03-11 · #38
General Catalyst posted in support of Lila Sciences, describing it as building scientific superintelligence.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-11
General Catalyst Lila Sciences
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lila Sciences, founded in 2023 to build AI to accelerate scientific discovery, emerges from stealth with a $200M seed
New York Times · 2025-03-11 · #35
Hinge Health is deployed at approximately 1,000 employers.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-11
Hinge Health ~1,000 employers
Virtual physical therapy service Hinge Health files for a US IPO, and reports revenue of $390M in 2024, up from $293M in 2023, and a net loss of $11.9M
Bloomberg · 2025-03-11 · #33
Bharti Airtel will offer Starlink service to business customers in India under the agreement with SpaceX.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-11
Bharti Airtel Starlink business customers India
India's Bharti Airtel signs a deal with SpaceX to launch Starlink in the country, offering it to business customers and providing rural internet access
Reuters · 2025-03-11 · #17
Bharti Airtel signs a deal with SpaceX to launch Starlink services in India.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-11
Bharti Airtel SpaceX Starlink India
India's Bharti Airtel signs a deal with SpaceX to launch Starlink in the country, offering it to business customers and providing rural internet access
Reuters · 2025-03-11 · #17
Lego's tie-up with Fortnite has reached 87 million players.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-11
Lego Fortnite
Lego CEO Niels Christiansen says the toymaker plans to make video games in-house, after 2024 revenue rose 13% YoY to ~$10B; its Fortnite tie-up has 87M players
Financial Times · 2025-03-11 · #6
Neo-Nazi influencers on Telegram formed the Terrorgram Collective.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-10
neo-Nazi influencers Terrorgram Collective
How neo-Nazi influencers on Telegram formed the Terrorgram Collective and a network of chats and channels, targeted a teen in Slovakia, and groomed him to kill
ProPublica · 2025-03-10 · #22
Nvidia provided support for FoxBrain via access to a Taiwan-based supercomputer, consulting, and use of H100 GPUs during training.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-10
Nvidia Foxconn FoxBrain
Foxconn says it built FoxBrain, an in-house reasoning LLM, trained in four weeks with support from Nvidia via its Taiwan-based supercomputer and consulting
Wall Street Journal · 2025-03-10 · #23
Bank of America and Stripe are targeting the payments market using cryptocurrencies.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-10
Bank of America Stripe
Stripe, Revolut, and other banks and fintechs rush to launch stablecoins; there are ~$210B in stablecoins issued globally, including Tether printing $142B
Financial Times · 2025-03-10 · #8
Crypto wallet provider Safe is used by the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit.
confirmed 2 articles 2025-03-08 — 2025-03-09
Safe Bybit
Source: Bybit hackers planted malicious code to manipulate transactions by compromising a developer's computer at crypto wallet provider Safe, used by Bybit
New York Times · 2025-03-08 · #4
EFF's K. Trendacosta told Variety that YouTube's Content ID was created to make big media companies comfortable and partner with them rather than support smaller individual creators.
confirmed 1 article 2025-03-09
YouTube Content ID big media companies
A look at YouTube's origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who is nearing 10 years at the company
Variety · 2025-03-09 · #3
Viasat is being considered as a provider of satellite communications services to Ukraine as an alternative to Starlink.
rumored 1 article 2025-03-08
Viasat Ukraine
Europe is in talks with SES, Viasat, and others as it rushes to provide Ukraine with alternatives to Starlink, whose service became patchy near the front line
Financial Times · 2025-03-08 · #36
SES is being considered as a provider of satellite communications services to Ukraine as an alternative to Starlink.
rumored 1 article 2025-03-08
SES Ukraine
Europe is in talks with SES, Viasat, and others as it rushes to provide Ukraine with alternatives to Starlink, whose service became patchy near the front line
Financial Times · 2025-03-08 · #36
Europe is in talks with SES, Viasat and other satellite operators to secure alternatives to Starlink for Ukraine.
rumored 1 article 2025-03-08
Europe SES Viasat other satellite operators
Europe is in talks with SES, Viasat, and others as it rushes to provide Ukraine with alternatives to Starlink, whose service became patchy near the front line
Financial Times · 2025-03-08 · #36