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Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record 2025 revenue, driven by AI demand and China's self&sufficiency push as a result of US restrictions (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported reco...

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record ...

Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment to sell their prior work materials for AI training, even if the IP could belong to ex&employers (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like ente...

Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Mercor asked professionals in ...

Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)

Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's ...

Maureen Farrell / New York Times: Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in ...

Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed "to sell more Cloudflare services" and lacks the cross&platform democratization of WordPress (Matt Mullenweg)

Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is desig...

Matt Mullenweg: Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to s...

Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in...

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Chinese companies move to cement ...

Arcee AI releases Trinity&Large&Thinking, a 399B&parameter MoE AI model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Arcee AI releases Trinity&Large&Thinking, a 399B&parame...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-par...

Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge)

Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom fee...

David Pierce / The Verge: Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom fe...

Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids,...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids,...

Google launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open model family, purpose&built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license (The Keyword)

Google launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open mo...

The Keyword: Google launches Gemma 4, its “most intelligent” open model family, ...

Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Nasdaq Wednesday, marking its entry into US public markets after its $1.2B SPAC merger with Vine Hill (Naga Avan&Nomayo/The Block)

Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Na...

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on t...

Treeline, which is building an AI and software&first alternative to legacy corporate IT systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Treeline, which is building an AI and software&first al...

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Treeline, which is building an AI and software-first...

Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' legacy, reaffirming the company's values, working with a "very accessible" Trump administration, and more (Ryan D'Agostino/Esquire)

Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' leg...

Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire: Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' l...

Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor, in some cases becoming difficult to unload, as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic (Hema Parmar/Bloomberg)

Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fal...

Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fal...

Anthropic's Claude Code leak reveals its "Kairos" updates, including letting Claude work in the background and using a "dream mode" to consolidate its memories (The Information)

Anthropic's Claude Code leak reveals its "Kairos" updat...

The Information: Anthropic's Claude Code leak reveals its “Kairos” updates, incl...

SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says it m...

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says ...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico)

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use Ti...

Chris Sommerfeldt / Politico: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to u...

Depthfirst, which aims to build a "general security intelligence" for finding and fixing company vulnerabilities, raised an $80M Series B at a $580M valuation (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Depthfirst, which aims to build a "general security int...

Thomas Brewster / Forbes: Depthfirst, which aims to build a “general security in...

Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later this year; it will include basic features and require a paid subscription for more functionality (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit ban...

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit ...

Nvidia invests $2B in chipmaker Marvell and says the two companies plan to work on silicon photonics tech, enabling high&speed data transmission; MRVL jumps 9%+ (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)

Nvidia invests $2B in chipmaker Marvell and says the tw...

Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: Nvidia invests $2B in chipmaker Marvell and says the t...

TCL agrees to buy a 51% stake in Sony's global home entertainment business for ~$472M, as the Chinese company seeks to expand overseas; Sony retains a 49% stake (Bloomberg)

TCL agrees to buy a 51% stake in Sony's global home ent...

Bloomberg: TCL agrees to buy a 51% stake in Sony's global home entertainment bus...

Sources: Tether cuts two senior precious metals traders who joined from HSBC just months ago in its push to build "the best trading floor for gold in the world" (Bloomberg)

Sources: Tether cuts two senior precious metals traders...

Bloomberg: Sources: Tether cuts two senior precious metals traders who joined fr...

France confirms oil crisis, says 30&40 percent of Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed

France confirms oil crisis, says 30&40 percent of Gulf ...

France's Finance Minister Roland Lescure revealed on Wednesday that between 30 a...

Iran&linked hacker group Handala Hack Team claims the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and publishes some documents online (Reuters)

Iran&linked hacker group Handala Hack Team claims the b...

Reuters: Iran-linked hacker group Handala Hack Team claims the breach of FBI Dir...

Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; the staffers arranged a polygraph for CISA's former acting director Madhu Gottumukkala that he failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; ...

John Sakellariadis / Politico: Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongd...

Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor AI agents, raised a $65M seed led by Coatue and Lightspeed (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath...

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to...

Sources: Aetherflux, founded by Robinhood co&founder Baiju Bhatt to develop orbital data centers, aims to raise $250M to $300M in a Series B at a $2B valuation (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Aetherflux, founded by Robinhood co&founder Ba...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Aetherflux, founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju ...

Bluesky's CEO talks about their new app, Attie, an agentic social app built on Bluesky's AT Protocol, which uses Claude and enables users to build custom feeds (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky's CEO talks about their new app, Attie, an agen...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bluesky's CEO talks about their new app, Attie, an age...

After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it "disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback" (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)

After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on Git...

Sean Endicott / Windows Central: After Copilot injected an ad into a pull reques...

Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude adding paid subs at a steadily increasing pace; Anthropic: paid subs have more than doubled this year (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Cla...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Cla...

Hong Kong&listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly sign a drug co&development deal worth up to $2.75B, with $115M in upfront payments (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Hong Kong&listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Med...

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicin...

Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones for anxiety, populism, and polarization, despite harms being concentrated in the Anglosphere (Derek Thompson)

Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which bl...

Derek Thompson: Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phon...

ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)

ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberatt...

Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data...

An AI&generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

An AI&generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Is...

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: An AI-generated TikTok parody of real...

Meta agrees to fund Entergy Louisiana's new energy infrastructure for its Louisiana data center, including seven natural gas power plants (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)

Meta agrees to fund Entergy Louisiana's new energy infr...

Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal: Meta agrees to fund Entergy Louisiana'...

The European Commission launches a DSA investigation into Snapchat for failing to protect children, including assessing its age verification measures (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)

The European Commission launches a DSA investigation in...

Eliza Gkritsi / Politico: The European Commission launches a DSA investigation i...

The EU accuses Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos of failing to protect kids from exposure to pornographic content, in preliminary DSA investigation findings (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

The EU accuses Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos of...

Barbara Moens / Financial Times: The EU accuses Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XV...

As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA and New Mexico juries take the lead, holding social media companies accountable for harming young users (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA...

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety la...

France confirms oil crisis, says 30&40% Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed

France confirms oil crisis, says 30&40% Gulf energy inf...

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Musk's lawyers ask a Delaware judge to step back from cases involving him, after her account "liked" a LinkedIn post celebrating his defeat in a California case (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)

Musk's lawyers ask a Delaware judge to step back from c...

Sujeet Indap / Financial Times: Musk's lawyers ask a Delaware judge to step back...

Singapore&based Startale, developer of the Strium blockchain for tokenized securities and JPYSC and USDSC stablecoins, raised a $63M Series A from SBI and Sony (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

Singapore&based Startale, developer of the Strium block...

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Singapore-based Startale, developer of the Striu...

Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit, as well as some in recruiting, sales, and Facebook (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees...

Eli Tan / New York Times: Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employee...

EQT and McKinsey study: between 2014 and 2025, European tech companies with a current combined value of ~$1.4T listed abroad or were acquired by foreign buyers (Bloomberg)

EQT and McKinsey study: between 2014 and 2025, European...

Bloomberg: EQT and McKinsey study: between 2014 and 2025, European tech companie...

Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of "AGI Deployment" (Alex Heath/Sources)

Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pret...

Alex Heath / Sources: Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretrai...

How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes around the world at high risk of slipping by analyzing data from satellites and ground&based sensors (Chris Baraniuk/BBC)

How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slop...

Chris Baraniuk / BBC: How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes ...

Amazon acquired New York&based Fauna Robotics, which is developing a human&like, 42&inch tall robot that can interact with people, walk, grip items, and dance (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Amazon acquired New York&based Fauna Robotics, which is...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is...

Baltimore becomes the first major US city to sue xAI, accusing it of violating consumer protection laws by marketing Grok as generally safe (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Baltimore becomes the first major US city to sue xAI, a...

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Baltimore becomes the first major US city to sue xAI, accus...

Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLMs, have been removed from PyPI after a supply chain attack injected them with credential&stealing code (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLM...

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessi...

Sources: Nintendo plans to cut Switch 2 production this quarter to 4M units, down ~33% from 6M, after weaker&than&expected holiday demand, especially in the US (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

Sources: Nintendo plans to cut Switch 2 production this...

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Sources: Nintendo plans to cut Switch 2 productio...

Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with search function in Google's mandated default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatb...

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI cha...

US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and Southeast Asia, following Supermicro co&founder Wally Liaw's indictment (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending Nvidia AI ...

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspend...

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