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Sources: SpaceX has filed confidentially for an IPO, putting it on track for a June listing; it could reportedly seek a valuation of $1.75T+ and raise ~$75B — SpaceX has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter …
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LinkedIn: Bailey Lipschultz and Sriram Sundararajan
Forums: Hacker News and r/Futurology
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel agrees to pay $14.2B to repurchase Apollo's 49% stake in the Fab 34 joint venture in Ireland, and plans to issue $6.5B in new debt to fund it; INTC up 10% — Intel Corp., the chipmaker aiming to restore its manufacturing prowess, agreed to pay $14.2 billion to buy back half of a plant …
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X: @jt_martin, @jukan05, @adrianweckler, and @dzinsner
LinkedIn: David Zinsner and Intel
| Financial Times: |
Source: AWS' operation in Bahrain was damaged after an Iranian strike; Bahrain earlier said the civil defence force was “extinguishing a fire in a facility” — US president says he would not consider the move unless Strait of Hormuz is reopened — Some content could not load.| Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: |
Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor, in some cases becoming difficult to unload, as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic — OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor on the secondary market — in some cases becoming almost impossible to unload …
X: @negligible_cap, @jimstewartson, @negligible_cap, @bennpeifert, and @elonmusk. Forums: Hacker News
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Apple says it will release rare “backported” patches to protect iOS 18 users from DarkSword, a hacking technique that silently takes over iPhones running iOS 18 — As a DarkSword takeover technique spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will release fixes for millions of iPhone owners … | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Raspberry Pi raises prices by between $11.25 and $150, citing higher memory costs after December and February hikes, and unveils a 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75 — Prices are going up by over $100 in some cases thanks to those AI fools. … As of today, the price of the 16GB version …
More: Raspberry Pi, Thurrott, XDA Developers, OMG! Ubuntu, HotHardware, CNX Software, and Hackster
| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
As Apple turns 50, a look at how a management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality and its dominance in the iPhone era — How a little-known yet highly influential management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality.
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally leaking Claude Code's source code, issuing a copyright takedown request to remove 8,000+ copies — Developer issues copyright takedown request in bid to prevent competitors from cloning coding tool's features
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| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
A suspected Baidu system failure caused a number of robotaxis to stop across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes — A suspected system failure froze Baidu's robotaxis across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes.
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Sources: Paradigm, a major investor in Kalshi, is building its own prediction markets trading terminal that will cater to professional traders and market makers — One of the most influential investors in crypto wants a bigger slice of the burgeoning prediction markets space.
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| Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft says it is on track to invest $5.5B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Singapore through 2029, a day after announcing plans to invest $1B+ in Thailand — The investment will also go toward ongoing operations, it said — Microsoft is on track to invest $5.5 billion in cloud …
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Franklin Templeton agrees to acquire CoinFund spinoff 250 Digital to form Franklin Crypto, which will offer strategies designed for institutional investors — Money manager's crypto investment unit will offer strategies designed for institutional investors| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says it is generating $2B in monthly revenue, with enterprise accounting for 40%+ of it, and is on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026 — Today, we closed our latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at a post money valuation of $852 billion.
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| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later in 2026 that will include basic features and require a subscription to unlock more functionality — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is developing its own fitness band, aiming to compete with screenless wearable devices from upstarts like Whoop Inc. and Oura Health Oy.| The Information: |
Sources: OpenRouter is in talks to raise $120M led by CapitalG at a $1.3B post-money valuation; it now has $50M+ in annualized revenue, up from $10M+ in Oct. — As more AI apps and agents shift to using multiple AI models, startups that help developers choose the right ones are gaining traction.
X: @amir and @steph_palazzolo
| Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
The EU's main institutions, the Commission, Parliament, and Council, ban their staff from using fully AI-generated videos and images in official communications — BRUSSELS — The European Union's main institutions have banned staff from using artificially generated videos and images in official communications.
More: TechRadar and The Decoder
LinkedIn: Pieter Haeck. Bluesky: @claesdevreese. Mastodon: @Khrys@mamot.fr. Forums: r/worldnews and r/neoliberal
| Catherine Perloff / The Information: |
Sources: Amazon's “sponsored prompts” for its Rufus AI shopping assistant are driving significantly lower traffic than its traditional ads, but they cost less — The early batch of ads running on OpenAI's ChatGPT has drawn a lot of attention in recent weeks.
LinkedIn: Catherine Perloff
| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Perplexity shared its users' data with Meta and Google even in its Incognito mode, violating California's privacy laws — Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc …
More: The Decoder and Livemint
| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
Sources: the FBI has declared a recent China-linked hack of a system, which contained pen register and trap and trace surveillance returns, a “major incident” — The determination suggests the hackers successfully compromised swathes of sensitive data stored directly on FBI systems …
X: @johnnysaks130 and @johnnysaks130
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Sona, which uses AI to help companies with scheduling, HR, payroll, and other workflows, raised a $45M Series B led by N47, bringing its total funding to $100M+ — Sona, which helps companies with workforce management, raised a $45 million Series B led by N47, co-founders Steffen Wulff Petersen … | Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw pleads not guilty to US federal charges of helping smuggle billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia-powered servers to China — Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw pleaded not guilty Wednesday in New York to charges …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Mercor confirmed it was affected by a supply chain attack involving open-source project LiteLLM; hacker group Lapsus$ claims it accessed and stole Mercor's data — Mercor, a popular AI recruiting startup, has confirmed a security incident linked to a supply chain attack involving the open source project LiteLLM.| Julia Hornstein / The Information: |
Austin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR, after raising $35M in 2024 — Coder, a startup making software for developers to build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised $90 million …
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Google says all users in the US can now change their Google Account username; users are restricted to one username change every 12 months — Your old email will still be available as an alternate address. … Many of us have a poorly chosen email address that's laced with regret, but we're now stuck with it.
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Threads: @imdavidpierce and @chriswelch
| Laura Pitel / Financial Times: |
How a small German state's bid to replace Microsoft with open-source alternatives like Linux and Kamailio faces issues, as the EU pushes “digital sovereignty” — Schleswig-Holstein's radical tech overhaul offers Europe a live experiment in ending dependence on US Big Tech
X: @ugambini. LinkedIn: Laura Pitel. Bluesky: @esmit-thefirewall …. Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange
| Reuters: |
India says its General Anti-Avoidance Rules do not apply to foreign investment gains made before 2017, after a court required Tiger to pay $1.6B on a 2018 sale — India said it would not apply its strict tax evasion rules on foreign investments made before April 2017, easing concerns among global investors … | Bloomberg: |
Grab, in partnership with WeRide, launches a robotaxi service in Singapore, becoming Southeast Asia's first ride-hailing provider to start a driverless service — Singapore's Grab Holdings Ltd. became Southeast Asia's first ride provider to start a driverless service, betting the technology …
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