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March 22, 2025, 12:45 PM

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Eliza Gkritsi / Politico:
X suspends several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey, amid extensive protests sparked by the arrest of President Erdogan's main political rival  —  Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.  —  Elon Musk's social media platform X …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Financial Times:
Filings review: Builder.ai, which raised $450M from Microsoft and others, used an auditor with links to founder Sachin Duggal; Duggal resigned as CEO last month  —  Findings related to one of UK's best-funded tech start-ups raises alarm with corporate governance experts
Reuters:
Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make AI-powered household robots, raised $150M at a $2B valuation, up from $550M in May 2024  —  Kyle Vogt, former CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has raised $150 million in a new funding round led by Greenoaks …
More: Tech in Asia
Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review:
OpenAI, in partnership with MIT, releases its first study on how ChatGPT use affects emotional well-being, including differences in how men and women respond  —  OpenAI says over 400 million people use ChatGPT every week.  But how does interacting with it affect us?  Does it make us more or less lonely?
Bloomberg:
A profile of Jed McCaleb, the billionaire who was behind Mt. Gox and XRP, as his aerospace startup Vast looks to build a private space station with SpaceX  —  Crafting and launching a space station that can keep humans alive comfortably in orbit is no easy feat.  —  Jed McCaleb made a fortune in cryptocurrency.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
A profile of Lisa Su, as AMD vies for a bigger chunk of the AI market; CTO Mark Papermaster says AMD had $5B in AI chip sales in 2024, up from $100M in 2023  —  When Lisa Su became CEO of Advanced Micro Devices in late 2014, the company was in dire straits and on the brink of potential bankruptcy.
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Paul Liu / The Keyword:
Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal  —  Google ran an experiment to understand the value of European news content.  The data shows people visited Google …

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