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March 28, 2025, 11:05 PM
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CNBC:
Elon Musk says xAI acquired X in an all-stock deal valuing xAI at $80B and X at $33B; xAI was reportedly in talks to raise funds in February at a $75B valuation  —  Elon Musk said on Friday that his startup xAI has merged with X, his social network, in an all-stock transaction that values …
Bloomberg:
Source: the new combined entity housing xAI and X is called XAI Holdings and is valued at more than $100B, not including debt  —  - New joint entity is valued at over $100 billion, person says  — X, xAI already partnered on data sharing and Grok distribution
Pete Schroeder / Reuters:
The US FDIC says banks can engage in cryptocurrency and other legally permitted activities without prior regulatory approval if they manage risks appropriately  —  Another U.S. bank regulator has announced that banks do not need to receive advance permission to engage in some crypto-related activities.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI is finalizing a $40B round led by SoftBank, receiving $10B initially and another $30B by 2025's end if it restructures into a for-profit company  —  A stipulation of the funding round, led by SoftBank, adds pressure to OpenAI's efforts to convert to a for-profit company
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
CoreWeave closes flat at $40 in its Nasdaq debut; CoreWeave's offering is the largest US IPO since UiPath's NYSE debut in 2021  —  CoreWeave's stock opened at $39 and closed at $40 in its Nasdaq debut on Friday after the company sold shares at $40 a piece, below the expected range.
CNBC:
CoreWeave raised $1.5B in its IPO, selling ~37.5M shares at $40 each, down from a planned 49M shares at $47-$55; source: Nvidia anchored with a ~$250M order
CNBC:
Trump pardons BitMEX founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed, who previously pled guilty to federal criminal charges related to money laundering  —  President Donald Trump has granted pardons to three co-founders of the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange, CNBC has learned.
Steven Levy / Wired:
Anthropic researchers share the surprises they observed while watching Claude think: planning ahead, confusion between safety and helpfulness goals, lying, more  —  Researchers looked inside the chatbot's “brain.”  The results were surprisingly chilling.  —  The researchers …
Steven Levy / Wired:
Interviews with Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and other executives about Anthropic's origin, Claude, why DeepSeek isn't a threat, reaching AGI safely, and more
Luisa Beltran / Fortune:
A jury finds Frank founder Charlie Javice guilty of defrauding JPMorgan Chase by falsifying Frank user numbers; the charges carry a maximum sentence of 30 years  —  A Manhattan jury on Friday issued a guilty verdict against Charlie Javice, the 33-year-old CEO who duped JPMorgan Chase into buying …
Makena Kelly / Wired:
Sources: DOGE aims to migrate all Social Security Administration's computer systems off COBOL in a matter of months, risking the integrity of SSA infrastructure  —  Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language.
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows  —  The popular “bypassnro” command, which let users to skip connecting to the Internet and signing into a Microsoft Account, is being removed.
Bloomberg:
Source: hackers broke into Oracle's Cerner servers sometime after January 22 and stole patient data to extort US medical providers; the FBI is investigating  —  - The FBI is investigating the incident from earlier this year  — Hacker used stolen logins to access old servers, Oracle said
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google starts offering user choice billing in the UK, initially to non-game developers, says 90%+ of developers are satisfied with Google Play's native billing  —  Google said today that it will start offering user choice billing in the U.K., giving Google Play developers the ability to use …

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From Mediagazer

Financial Times:
The High Court in London rules against Prince Harry and six other claimants in the privacy lawsuit against Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers

Deborah Cole / The Guardian:
Hungarian public media outlets Kossuth and M1 suspend their broadcasts; M1's message reads, “Public media should not lie. We are sorry for doing it for so long”

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Early Nielsen numbers show 30M people watched the US-Belgium World Cup match through Fox, clearing the record for an English-language soccer telecast in the US

More News

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says Pixel 9a will launch in the US, Canada, and UK on April 10; the company delayed the phone's launch to April to check “on a component quality issue”
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
AppLovin hires a law firm to investigate short sellers' allegations that the mobile ad company's ad performance numbers are fraudulent

Earlier Picks

Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Crypto.com says the US SEC won't pursue enforcement action; Crypto.com sued the SEC in October after receiving a Wells notice signaling potential charges
Sheon Han / Wired:
How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints
Financial Times:
Sources: the EU will impose minimal fines on Apple and Meta next week, far below the DMA's 10% of global turnover cap, to avoid tensions with President Trump
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards, letting users transfer existing digital Switch games to other consoles and lend them out more easily, available in April
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