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| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
US medtech giant Stryker suffers a global outage after a cyberattack; Iran-linked group Handala says the hack is retaliation for a strike on a school in Iran — The U.S. medtech company experiences a global outage, with some staff devices remotely wiped — Medical technology giant Stryker …
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X: @hprnew, @kimzetter, @juliettekayyem, @taylorkenneyitm, @kimzetter, @cormacjokeeffe, @kane, and @cormacjokeeffe. LinkedIn: Jessica Dabbs. Bluesky: @wbm312. Mastodon: @acdha@code4lib.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/technews, r/technology, and r/StockMarket
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models — The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.
More: NVIDIA Technical Blog, NVIDIA Nemotron, Motley Fool, NVIDIA, VentureBeat, The Deep View, SiliconANGLE, The New Stack, and Cloudflare
X: @kuchaev, @artificialanlys, @ctnzr, @ggerganov, @nvidiaaidev, @nvidianewsroom, @miles_brundage, @manuelfaysse, @samhogan, @_albertgu, @jiantaoj, @danprimack, @nvidiaai, @igtmn, @mweinbach, @kevinbankston, @jack, @cloudflaredev, @nvidia, @natolambert, @dr_alphalyrae, @nvidiaaidev, @zeffmax, @kimmonismus, @nvidiaaidev, and @benitoz
LinkedIn: Mostofa Patwary, Jiantao Jiao, and Samuel G. Rodriques
Forums: r/technology, r/ArtificialInteligence, and r/nvidia
| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Sources: xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Elon Musk says it is a joint xAI-Tesla project — Follow Grace Kay … - XAI's Macrohard project has stalled amid leadership changes and a data project pause.
More: Business Today, Firstpost, Watcher Guru, and The Information
X: @elonmusk, @tunguz, @mascobot, @graceihle, @luke_metro, @graceihle, @graceihle, and @graceihle
Threads: @fredlambert94 and @fredlambert94
| CNBC: |
Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investment in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M to $236M in charges — Atlassian said on Wednesday that it's eliminating 10% of its workforce, or about 1,600 jobs, as the company restructures following …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the foldable iPhone will feature an iPad-like interface for its iPad mini-sized inner display and have an outer screen the size of a small iPhone — Apple Inc.'s forthcoming foldable iPhone will include updates to the iOS operating system that enable iPad-like layouts and side …
More: Business Standard, Firstpost, iClarified, DigiTimes, Digit, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, Phandroid, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, and The Mac Observer
X: @justrouzbeh and @markgurman
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta unveils four new chips, the MTIA 300, MTIA 400, MTIA 450, and MTIA 500, set to launch by the end of 2027; the MTIA 300 is in production for content ranking — Meta Platforms Inc. plans to deploy four new generations of its in-house artificial intelligence chips by the end of 2027 …
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LinkedIn: Warner Tsang, Jonas Olsson, Dan Rabinovitsj, CQ Tang, and Yee Jiun. Threads: @metanewsroom
| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began with Windows on ARM, which to this day is still held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility — I'm completely blown away by Mac Neo. It made me think a lot about what we tried to accomplish with Windows 8 more than a dozen years ago.
More: Daring Fireball, Tyler Stalman on YouTube, and Marques Brownlee on YouTube
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| CoinDesk: |
Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure — More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant's recent crypto program.
More: Mastercard, Mastercard, The Crypto Basic, Bitcoin Insider, NullTX, and CryptoNinjas
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week — A few days ago, Google and iVerify published details on Coruna, an exploit that chained multiple vulnerabilities to target iPhones running older iOS versions.
More: Apple Support, Apple Support, MacRumors, Digit, Neowin, AppleInsider, iClarified, and iPhone in Canada
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| The Verge: |
Microsoft says the next Xbox, Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip, and it will begin sending out “alpha versions” of Project Helix to developers in 2027 — Microsoft announced new details about the console at the GDC Festival of Gaming.
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LinkedIn: Benoit Fouillet and Jack Huynh
Forums: r/gaming, r/pcmasterrace, r/XboxSeriesXlS, and r/xbox
| Abhijith M B / Windows Latest: |
More: The Verge, Business Standard, Windows Blog, The Register, Moneycontrol, Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, Ars Technica, Pureinfotech, TechCrunch, The Shortcut, Digital Trends, Thurrott, Pure Xbox, PCMag, and Engadget. LinkedIn: Ian LeGrow
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC and CFTC announce an agreement to coordinate operations where their duties overlap, including building a combined crypto oversight framework — The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Replit raised a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation and says it is on track to hit $1B in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026 — Amjad Masad's Replit allows users to build apps together like they're doodling on a white board. It also made the Jordanian immigrant a billionaire along the way.
More: The Economic Times, Georgian Partners Growth LP, TechCrunch, Replit Blog, San Francisco Business Times, Inc.com, FinSMEs, and Pulse 2.0
X: @amasad, @tbpn, @spotn00b, @replit, and @aakashgupta
| Michelle Chan / Financial Times: |
Sources: investors demanded steep concessions in Salesforce's $25B bond deal to fund a share buyback; it sold debt at a significant premium in borrowing costs — Software group sold debt at significant premium in borrowing costs in sign of Wall Street jitters over AI disruption
More: MarketWatch and Bloomberg
| Tom Dotan / Newcomer: |
Sources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions in a new funding round at a post-money valuation of up to $60B; one source puts the round size at $5B — Very early discussions involve a $5 billion raise at a valuation of up to $60 billion — Can a company be declared both passé and the next big thing?
More: The Information and Bloomberg
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ripple kicks off a share buyback at a $50B valuation to repurchase up to $750M in shares from investors and employees in a tender offer through April — Ripple has kicked off a share buyback that would value the company at $50 billion, cementing it as one of the most valuable digital-asset firms …
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X: @ripple and @wublockchain
| Varsha Bansal / The Guardian: |
How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workload despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work — Corporate employees said Amazon's race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.
X: @ichbingisele. LinkedIn: Varsha Bansal. Mastodon: @susankayequinn@wandering.shop. Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
FCC Chair Brendan Carr criticizes the slow pace of Amazon's satellite launches, after Amazon raised concerns about SpaceX's plan to launch up to 1M satellites — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission dismissed criticism from Amazon.com (AMZN.O) of Elon Musk's SpaceX plan …
More: Benzinga, Advanced Television, CNBC, The Information, Ars Technica, Via Satellite, and Bloomberg
X: @brendancarrfcc and @bscholl
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news. — CNBC Councils
More: GeekWire, Light Reading, Google Fiber Blog, Telecompaper, and PCMag
| Chris Kerr / Game Developer: |
Valve says 5,863 games made $100K+ on Steam in 2025, up from ~3,000 titles that reached that mark in 2020, and Steam passed 42M peak concurrent users last month — The PC platform also passed 42 million peak concurrent users a few weeks ago. — Valve has revealed that 5,863 games released on Steam earned over $100,000 in 2025.| Financial Times: |
SEC filing: Oracle sets aside an additional $500M for restructuring, bringing FY total to $2.1B, as it prepares to cut jobs and hails efficiencies from AI tools — Database group set aside an additional $500mn for restructuring costs — Oracle has stepped up preparations to cut jobs …
More: Benzinga
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Netflix will pay as much as $600M for InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI moviemaking company, including bonuses for meeting certain performance targets — Netflix Inc. will pay as much as $600 million for InterPositive, the AI moviemaking company founded by Ben Affleck …
More: The Wrap, TechCrunch, and Reuters
| Financial Times: |
Revolut says it has secured a full banking license from UK regulators after a four-year wait, allowing the company to expand lending to its 13M UK customers — Permit is crucial to growth strategy of Europe's most valuable fintech — Revolut has secured a full banking licence from UK regulators …
More: Tech.eu, TechCabal, The Times, CNBC, and Reuters
X: @revolut, @linasbeliunas, @cobratate, @clockendh, @maxkarpis, @itzmac_, @revolut, @napierholland, @revolut, and @sebjohnsonuk
LinkedIn: Siddhartha Jajodia, Nik Storonsky, and Antoine Le Nel
| Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: |
Chicago-based restaurant software startup Chowbus raised an $81M Series E led by Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital; it focuses primarily on Asian restaurants — Chowbus, an operating system for independent Asian restaurants, raised an $81m Series E, CEO Linxin Wen tells Axios exclusively.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp adds parent-managed accounts for users under the age of 13 and says the accounts will not get access to features like Meta AI, Channels, or Status — WhatsApp launched a new set of parent-supervised accounts for users under the age of 13 on Wednesday.
More: WhatsApp Blog, BleepingComputer, Business Today, The Indian Express, Digit, WABetaInfo, WeRSM, Social Media Today, Firstpost, MediaPost, Times of India, Phandroid, Neowin, Thurrott, Reuters, and RTÉ. LinkedIn: Karin L.
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Perplexity announces Personal Computer, an OpenClaw-like AI agent that can run on a Mac, and an enterprise version of Perplexity Computer — - “Personal Computer” runs locally on a dedicated device. — “Perplexity Computer,” which was announced a few weeks ago, operates in the cloud.| The Information: |
Source: Microsoft is in advanced talks to lease hundreds of MWs of data center capacity in Abilene, Texas, after Oracle abandoned its expansion plans there — Microsoft is in advanced talks to lease hundreds of megawatts of data center capacity at a closely watched artificial intelligence campus in Abilene …
X: @edzitron
| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Nuro says it has begun testing its self-driving tech on public roads in Tokyo, marking the US-based company's first international autonomous deployment — U.S.-based startup Nuro said on Wednesday its self-driving vehicles are now operating on public roads in Tokyo with safety operators present …
More: TechCrunch and Bloomberg
| CoinDesk: |
Binance.US names Stephen Gregory as CEO, replacing Norman Reed; Gregory was previously CEO of Currency.com and held compliance roles at Gemini and CEX.IO — The appointment of Stephen Gregory comes as U.S. crypto exchanges intensify competition and broaden offerings beyond digital assets.
More: Business Wire, The Information, crypto.news, and The Block
| Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: |
A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze — Feng Qingyang had always hoped to launch his own company, but he never thought this would be how—or that the day would come this fast.
More: Tom's Hardware, Nikkei Asia, Bloomberg, The Register, and South China Morning Post
X: @caiweic, @saritharai, @caiweic, and @techreview. LinkedIn: Charlotte Jee. Bluesky: @technologyreview.com
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