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Letter: Synopsys tells staff to stop sales, services, and new orders in China to comply with new US export curbs, and pulls its annual and quarterly forecasts — Semiconductor design software firm Synopsys (SNPS.O) has told staff in China to halt services and sales in the country and stop taking …
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Sources: Trump administration plans to expand Entity List restrictions to cover subsidiaries of Chinese companies, aiming to block workarounds via new offshoots — The Trump administration plans to broaden restrictions on China's tech sector with new regulations to capture subsidiaries of companies under US curbs.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources say Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and other Chinese companies are testing domestic alternatives as they deal with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors — Tougher US export restrictions on advanced chips give added urgency to testing of domestic alternatives
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Sources: Palantir's Foundry is now deployed in at least four federal agencies, after Trump signed an EO calling for the government to share data across agencies — Alex Karp, a co-founder and the chief executive of Palantir, at a forum in Washington in April.
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Meta's Anduril deal shows how much has changed in the past couple of years in Silicon Valley, where developing war tech was once considered a hard red line — Meta is crossing a former hard red line in Silicon Valley to develop tech for military uses. — I can't think of any other deal …
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Q&A with Mary Meeker on publishing her first Trends report since 2019, its focus on the AI revolution, why OpenAI may have an insurmountable lead, and more — Mary Meeker, the famed internet analyst turned venture capitalist, on Friday published her first Trends report since 2019 — focused on the AI revolution.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
The US Treasury sanctions Philippines-based Funnull Technology for allegedly facilitating “pig butchering” crypto scams that stole over $200M from US victims — The U.S. government imposed sanctions on FUNNULL, a company accused of providing infrastructure for cybercriminals running so-called …
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Sources: Elon Musk engaged in intense drug use during the 2024 presidential campaign, as he juggled the messy consequences of efforts to produce more babies — As Mr. Musk entered President Trump's orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft hires ex-Biden administration lawyer Lisa Monaco as president of global affairs and promotes ex-Trump official C.J. Mahoney to general counsel — Microsoft is promoting former Trump Administration official C.J. Mahoney while also tapping former Biden Administration lawyer Lisa Monaco … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic says it will resume contributing to the WordPress project, after announcing a pause in April — WordPress.com parent company Automattic is changing direction... again. — In a blog post titled “Returning to Core” published Thursday evening, Automattic announced it will unpause its contributions to the WordPress project.| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Abridge, which uses AI to transcribe medical chats, is raising $300M led by a16z at a $5.3B valuation, up from $2.75B in February when it raised $250M — The startup is raising $300 million for software that takes notes on conversations with doctors and patients.| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Hugging Face unveils two open-source humanoid robots, the $3,000 full-sized HopeJR and a $250-$300 Reachy Mini desktop unit, expected to ship by the end of 2025 — AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots.
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Sources: Atticus, a stealthy stablecoin banking startup, is in advanced talks to raise new funding led by Palmer Luckey at a valuation of between $1.5B and $2B — Atticus, a stealthy stablecoin banking startup, is in advanced talks to raise new funding at a valuation of between $1.5 billion and $2 billion … | Washington Post: |
Sources: the White House is finalizing EOs on drones that could end Chinese drone sales in the US, update federal rules on where drones can be flown, and more — President Trump is expected to sign executive orders next week that widen his policies targeting China and Chinese companies.Sponsor Posts
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