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Sources: Apple formed an Answers, Knowledge, and Information team to work on ChatGPT-like search experiences; iPhone 17 Pro may have been seen in live testing — Apple has a new “Answers” team developing a stripped-down rival to ChatGPT to help users access world knowledge.
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| Clément Delangue / VentureBeat: |
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says open-source AI is vital for US innovation and the US risks losing the AI race to China if it falls behind in open source — When President Trump released the U.S. AI Action Plan last week, many were surprised to see “encourage open-source and open-weight AI …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the researcher who declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B+ package over six years is Thinking Machines co-founder and ex-Meta staffer Andrew Tulloch — The loyalties and larger-than-life figures prompting some people to turn down insanely lucrative offers in Silicon Valley right now
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| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
The US Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to serve as National Cyber Director, making him the first Senate-approved cybersecurity official of Trump's second term — Sean Cairncross, then-CEO Millenium Challenge Corporation, speaks onstage during the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit on September 24, 2019 in New York City.
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Arkham Intelligence claims to have uncovered a previously undisclosed heist of 127,426 BTC, now worth ~$14.5B, from Chinese mining pool LuBian in December 2020 — - Blockchain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence claims to have uncovered a heist of 127,426 BTC, now worth nearly $14.5 billion, from a Chinese mining pool in 2020.| Paul Kedrosky: |
As a percentage of US GDP, AI datacenter capex is already larger than peak telecom spending during the dot-com era and is approaching the railroad spending boom — AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom
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| Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
SAP plans to acquire HR software company SmartRecruiters, with the deal expected to close in Q4; SmartRecruiters was valued at $1.5B in a 2021 funding round — SAP SE, Europe's most valuable company, will buy San Francisco-based human resources software specialist SmartRecruiters.| Bloomberg: |
Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire a stake in Chicago-based Trading Technologies, sources say the deal values the capital markets industry SaaS provider at over $1B — Buyout firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to acquire a stake in Trading Technologies International Inc. in a transaction valued at more than $1 billion …
More: Trading Technologies and Finextra
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
The Marin Community Foundation sold 13.4M+ Figma shares for $440M+ in the IPO; source: the foundation had received the shares from Figma co-founder Evan Wallace — As Figma went public this week to much fanfare—and an almost instantaneous 250% stock pop—quite a few folks from Silicon Valley made money.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
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| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
A profile of Rumble founder Chris Pavlovski, who declined an offer to become CEO of Truth Social and opted to provide services to the platform through Rumble — Before he helped run Truth Social, Chris Pavlovski owned porn domains. Now, he's allied with a political movement that wants to ban pornography.| Kieran Smith / Financial Times: |
Darktrace says it plans to invest $200M in the US in 2026, up 11% YoY, as part of a push to surpass $1B in revenue and grow its US sales to 50% of its revenue — UK-based cyber security group steps up investment plans following takeover by US private equity firm Thoma Bravo| Jessica Roy / The Information: |
A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has hit $30M in ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% cut — Last August, when CNN's Oliver Darcy decided he wanted to leave the network and launch Status, an email newsletter focused on the media industry … | Himanshi Lohchab / The Economic Times: |
Xpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and their affiliates grew their combined India headcount by 16% over the past year, adding 28K+ jobs — Despite global layoffs, FAAMNG companies are expanding their India headcount, growing by 16% in the past year, driven by demand for AI, cloud, and cybersecurity skills.| Kai Schultz / Bloomberg: |
Internal documents and sources detail how Cambodia's Huione Group supercharged the growth of Asia's cyberscam industry into a multi-billion dollar behemoth — The US Treasury says this Cambodian conglomerate has laundered at least $4 billion for clients including North Korean hackers and transnational crime groups.| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn partners with Taiwan-based Teco for AI servers and other AI data center hardware, taking a 10% stake, while Teco gets a less than 1% stake in Foxconn — Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. formed a strategic alliance with Teco Electric & Machinery Co., a pact that should help … Sponsor Posts
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