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Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app — Bondi confirmed the department reached out to Apple on Thursday to demand it remove ICEBlock
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI's invite-only Sora app becomes the top free app in the US App Store three days after its launch, ahead of Gemini in second and ChatGPT in third — OpenAI now has two of the top three free apps in Apple's App Store, and its new video generation app Sora has snagged the coveted No. 1 spot.
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| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
a16z releases a report, citing Mercury data, on the top 50 AI companies that startups pay; OpenAI leads, followed by Anthropic, Replit, Freepik, and ElevenLabs — On Thursday, Andreessen Horowitz released its first AI Spending Report in partnership with the fintech firm Mercury.
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Source: OpenAI employees sold shares to a consortium of investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank, Dragoneer, Abu Dhabi's MGX, and T. Rowe Price — OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has reached a valuation of $500 billion, following a deal in which current and former employees sold … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
IBM releases Granite 4.0, an open source “enterprise-ready” LLM family with a hybrid architecture, claiming it uses significantly less RAM than traditional LLMs — Despite being one of the oldest active tech companies in the U.S. (founded in 1911, 114 years ago!), “Big Blue” …
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| Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: |
AI chip startup Groq, last valued at $6.9B, says it plans to break ground on 12+ new data centers in 2026; Groq has set up 12 data centers in 2025 so far — The company, which makes chips and software to run artificial-intelligence models, was last valued at $6.9 billion
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| Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker: |
Strava sues Garmin for allegedly infringing two patents related to its segments and heatmap features and violating a 2015 agreement between the companies — Strava has sued Garmin, an act that I very much did not have on my bingo card for 2025. In doing so, they are demanding …
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Doc: Amazon's Q Business AI assistant struggled with accuracy and data processing in its first year, drawing complaints; Amazon says the document is outdated — Follow Eugene Kim … Saved — Add us on — Amazon's Q Business AI tool faced accuracy issues in its first year.| Politico: |
CISA, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down — “We are without this critical line of defense,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee … | Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
TechInsights: Huawei used components from TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix in some of its Ascend 910C chips; TSMC says the analyzed dies were made before Oct. 2024 — Huawei Technologies Co. used advanced components from Asia's largest technology firms in at least some of its leading Ascend AI processors …
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Lapsus$ publishes a data leak site on the dark web threatening to release about ~1B records stolen from Salesforce-hosted customer databases — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker — A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website to extort its victims … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: BlackRock's GIP is in talks to buy Aligned, which operates 78 data centers across North and South America, in a deal that could value Aligned at ~$40B — BlackRock Inc.'s Global Infrastructure Partners is in advanced talks to acquire Aligned Data Centers, targeting a major beneficiary …
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Feedzai, which uses AI to detect and prevent financial crimes, raised ~$75M at a $2B valuation — Fraud and financial crime prevention platform company Feedzai Inc. revealed today that it has raised $75 million in new funding on a valuation of more than $2 billion.
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Supabase, an open-source rival to Google's Firebase, raised a $100M Series E led by Accel and Peak XV at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $500M+ — The vibe coding movement, as Paul Copplestone figures it, started last December—and we're already a few eras in.
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