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The US FCC is banning imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns; China is estimated to control 60%+ of the US market for home routers — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday it was banning the import of all new foreign-made consumer routers …
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nintendo plans to cut its Switch 2 production this quarter by 33%, from 6M to 4M units, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US — Nintendo Co. is cutting back the production of Switch 2 after demand for the $450 gaming console trailed the company's expectations during …
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| Blake Stimac / CNET: |
Anthropic rolls out a computer use feature for Claude Cowork and the Claude Code desktop app, available in research preview on macOS for Pro and Max subscribers — The developer is boosting Claude's agentic capabilities in an apparent effort to compete with platforms like OpenClaw.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more — Today, I'm talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that's the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product.
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| TechCrunch: |
A GitHub user published a newer version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits “will work out of the box” — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker — Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How Nvidia became the AI industry's most powerful financier, investing tens of billions in startups and key customers who couldn't otherwise afford its chips — ‘This is what it is like to be rich!’ CEO Jensen Huang told guests before a recent opera performance.
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| Lex Fridman: |
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| James Titcomb / Telegraph: |
Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with a search function in Google's mandated Chrome and Android default search engine choice screens — ChatGPT maker pushes for browser ‘choice screen’ with alternative engine options — OpenAI is seeking to muscle …
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month — Amazon (AMZN.O) said on Monday its Amazon Web Services region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” amid the current conflict …
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| Bloomberg: |
Filing: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$8B on cutting-edge EUV lithography chipmaking tools from ASML through 2027, as it competes with Samsung to supply DRAM and HBM — SK Hynix Inc. plans to spend 11.9 trillion won ($7.9 billion) on cutting-edge extreme ultraviolet lithography chipmaking tools … | Nathan Bomey / Axios: |
Kalshi announces new tech guardrails that preemptively block politicians, athletes, coaches, officials, and others from trading in politics and sports markets — Prediction market Kalshi plans to block athletes, coaches and officials from betting on their sports and to block political candidates …
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
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| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
SoftBank says its loan-to-value ratio, a measure of net debt against the value of its holdings, could exceed its 25% limit, as it commits $30B more to OpenAI — Masayoshi Son faces investor nerves with massive spending on AI investments — SoftBank is testing a key self-imposed borrowing limit …
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Amazon's Zoox plans to launch a paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas by late June, pending local approvals and an NHTSA exemption, ahead of a San Francisco launch — Driverless car group pushes forward with commercial rollout to catch up with rivals Waymo and Tesla| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Mirage, formerly Captions, which develops an AI video editing and marketing suite, raised $75M from General Catalyst, after moving to a freemium model in 2025 — Mirage, the maker of video editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF).| Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg: |
Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5B for two new funds, allocating $1B to its 22nd early-stage fund and $2.5B to a growth-stage fund, taking its AUM to $21B+ — Kleiner Perkins, the half-century-old venture capital institution, is raising $3.5 billion to make bets on artificial intelligence startups … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will “never forget” nor “forgive” Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 — Emil Michael, who serves as a senior technology official at the Department of Defense … | Joe Miller / Financial Times: |
How Palantir became a flashpoint on the US campaign trail due to its ICE work, ahead of the midterms; six lawmakers publicly refuse any further Palantir funds — Donald Trump's unpopular immigration crackdown has made links to the Peter Thiel-backed company a liability for candidates| Elena Vardon / Wall Street Journal: |
London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, pretax profit up 54% YoY to £1.7B, and customers up nearly 33% YoY, as it moves to become a bank — Revenue rose 46% last year as its customer base grew by around a third, the fintech said
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
The NYSE partners with Securitize to develop the Digital Trading Platform, an alternative 24/7 trading system for tokenized stocks and ETFs on a blockchain — Under the exchange's plan, stocks would trade as digital tokens — The New York Stock Exchange said Tuesday that it was joining …
More: Reuters, CoinDesk, The Block, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, Bitcoin News, and Crypto Briefing
| Anthony Halpin / Bloomberg: |
Russian space startup Bureau 1440 says it launched 16 broadband internet satellites, an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network set to rival SpaceX — Russia's Bureau 1440 space company launched 16 broadband Internet satellites, marking an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network …
More: Reuters, Ars Technica, Asia Times, and Nikkei Asia
| Financial Times: |
European VC firm Hummingbird raised $800M to find “misfit” founders, taking its total assets to ~$2B, after backing Kraken and AI vibe coding startup Lovable — Hummingbird to put $800mn in funds to work after lucrative early bets on the likes of Kraken and Lovable
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft hires a group of top AI researchers from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI, including former CEO Ali Farhadi, who stepped down on March 12 — Microsoft is hiring a group of top AI researchers from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington …
More: Windows Central, Business Insider, and WinBuzzer
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
UK-based Internet Watch Foundation says it identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, up 14% from 2024 — Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy.
| Shannon K. Kingston / ABC News: |
The US State Department launches the Bureau of Emerging Threats to tackle current and future threats, including cyberattacks and AI weaponization by adversaries — Officials detailed the Bureau of Emerging Threats exclusively to ABC News. — Cyber attacks on the riseOne group of cyber experts …
More: Newsweek. X: @undersecretaryf, @defenseanalyses, @jordanschneider, @maxb____, @deanwball, @markszaidesq, @jachiam0, @ryanfedasiuk, and @statedeputyspox. Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta hires the team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents, including Hugo Barra, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, and designer Nicholas Jitkoff — Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the founders and team behind the artificial intelligence startup Dreamer, which launched earlier …
More: The Hans India, WinBuzzer, Silicon Republic, Bloomberg Law, Gizchina, Dreamer, and The Information
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