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France's antitrust regulator fines Apple €150M after a lengthy investigation into how iOS asks to collect user data under ATT and the impact on advertisers — France's antitrust regulator fined Apple Inc. €150 million ($162 million) after a lengthy probe into how the technology company asks …
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Isomorphic Labs, a DeepMind spinoff focusing on drug discovery, raised $600M led by Thrive to research treatments, including for cancer and immune disorders — The company, which uses artificial intelligence to develop new treatments, now counts the venture capital firm Thrive Capital as a backer.
More: Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Tech.eu, FinSMEs, Moneycontrol, Bloomberg, Isomorphic Labs, Reuters, UKTN, and Endpoints News
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's AGI Lab unveils Nova Act, a general purpose AI agent to control a web browser and independently perform some simple actions, and a Nova Act SDK — Amazon on Monday unveiled Nova Act, a general-purpose AI agent that can take control of a web browser and independently perform some simple actions.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail tensions between Apple and Elon Musk's SpaceX over expanding satellite cellphone services; Apple discussed linking iPhones to SpaceX satellites — The iPhone maker and SpaceX are competing in the race to eliminate cellphone dead spots, a rift that is set to intensify
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Eric and Donald Trump Jr.'s American Data Centers plans to merge with Hut 8's American Bitcoin and take a 20% stake, aiming to create the world's largest miner — A business led by two of the president's sons will invest in American Bitcoin, a new mining company controlled by Hut 8
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How the Trump family took over World Liberty Financial, which raised $550M+ via governance tokens; the family has a claim on 75% of net revenues of token sales — As World Liberty Financial raised more than half a billion dollars, President Donald Trump's family took control of the crypto venture … | Kevin Beaumont / DoublePulsar: |
Oracle is using very specific words to avoid responsibility for an Oracle Cloud breach, after a report on March 21 that a threat actor claimed responsibility — Being a provider of cloud SaaS (Software-as-a-service) solutions requires certain cybersecurity responsibilities — including being transparent and open.
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Chinese startup Manus, whose AI agent service is still in beta, announces a $39 per month Manus Starter plan and an upgraded $199 per month Pro tier — The Beijing-based startup behind Manus has set up a $39-per-month tier and a $199 upgraded option, the latter in line with OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro.| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
AMD completes its $4.9B purchase of data center equipment designer ZT Systems, announced in August 2024, taking on its roughly 1,000 design engineers — Chip giant CEO Lisa Su says AI is still in its ‘very early stages’ as the company revs up competition with Nvidia
More: AMD, Thurrott, Yahoo Finance, insideHPC, KitGuru, and Motley Fool
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: GlobalFoundries mulls merging with UMC, Taiwan's 2nd-largest chipmaker, to form a bigger, US-based company with production in Asia, the US, and Europe — TAIPEI — U.S. contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries and United Microelectronics Corp., Taiwan's No. 2 chipmaker … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Cerebras says it has resolved “all open issues” with the CFIUS, as it prepares for an IPO; the AI startup filed a notice about its ties to Abu Dhabi's G42 — G42 also planned to buy more than 22 million shares in Cerebras. The Sunnyvale, California-based company had said the arrangement … | TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based Temporal, an open-source microservices orchestration service, raised a $146M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.72B post-money valuation — Seattle-based Temporal has made its name over the last several years in the world of microservices — specifically providing a platform … | Reuters: |
TSMC says its Kaohsiung plant in Taiwan is set to begin 2nm wafer volume production in H2 2025, reaffirming its commitment to Taiwan during its US expansion — TSMC (2330.TW) said on Monday that its newly built domestic fab would add 7,000 tech jobs to the island's economy and that it will continue …
More: Benzinga, WinBuzzer, Tech Monitor, TrendForce News, Gizchina.com, and DigiTimes
| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
Nokia and Amazon settle a long-running, global patent dispute over Amazon using Nokia's video tech in Prime Video and its devices, without disclosing the terms — The agreement covers the use of Nokia video technologies in Amazon's streaming services and devices, resolving all patent litigation globally … | Zack Abrams / The Block: |
PumpSwap, a new DEX launched by Pump.fun's creators, processed $2.43B in cumulative trading volume after just 10 days, shaking up the Solana DEX ecosystem — - PumpSwap, the DEX recently launched by memecoin platform Pump.fun, has processed $2.43 billion in cumulative trading volume after just 10 days …
More: Dune, crypto.news, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, and Cryptopolitan. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Huawei reports FY 2024 revenue up 22.4% YoY to ~$118.2B, near its ~$123B record in 2020, net profit down 28% YoY to ~$8.63B, and R&D spend rising to ~$25B — Huawei on Monday reported a sharp jump in 2024 revenue as its core telecommunications and consumer businesses accelerated.
More: Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Huawei, Reuters, Nikkei Asia, Huawei, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, and RTÉ
| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, a Peter Thiel protégé confirmed by the Senate on March 25, on US plans to counter Beijing on AI — Michael Kratsios will work to counter Beijing without disrupting U.S. businesses — WASHINGTON—Many Trump … Sponsor Posts
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