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China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 — Regulators had reviewed whether deal violated Beijing's investment rules — China has blocked Meta's $2bn acquisition … | Makena Kelly / Ars Technica: |
Palantir's Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more — It took just a few months of President Donald Trump's second term for Palantir employees to question their company's commitments to civil liberties.
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| Boaz Sobrado / Forbes: |
A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized “clipping” for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake — Anthony Fujiwara is the co-founder of Clipping Exe, also known as the creator of clipping, the video marketing phenomenon … | @mingchikuo: |
Kuo: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone chips, with Luxshare handling the system co-design; mass production is expected in 2028 — • Latest industry checks: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone processors … | Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
OpenAI publishes a five-principle framework for AGI development, pledging to resist concentrating AI power and to collaborate with companies and governments — OpenAI published a five-principle framework on Sunday for the development of artificial general intelligence.
More: OpenAI, The Hans India, Business Insider, and Digit
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Jay Chen, who led Tokyo Electron's China operations, left the company after the chip toolmaker discovered his family invested in Chinese competitors — Veteran executive Jay Chen, who helped build Japanese group's China business, left after links to start-ups surfaced
More: Reuters
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical — More than three years after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk says he's nearing his long-stated goal of turning it into an … | Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta says it signed a deal with Overview Energy for 1GW of space solar energy; the startup seeks to collect sunlight in satellites, with a demonstration in 2028 — Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to power artificial intelligence data centers with solar energy collected in space …
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, Overview Energy, Meta Newsroom, and Benzinga
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| Bloomberg: |
How Sergey Brin's political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues — In a treehouse nestled in redwoods north of San Francisco, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood cold and hungry as Sergey Brin … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features — Truecaller is one of the world's most widely used caller identification platforms, with more than 500 million users.| The Information: |
Analysis: as of late 2025, 79 of 500 tracked software companies including HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce adopted usage-based AI fees, more than doubling on 2024 — Dozens of enterprise software firms have shifted away from charging customers flat, per-user subscription fees as AI threatens their seat-based pricing model.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A look at what's next for Netflix and Comcast's Peacock after the WBD-Paramount deal; Nielsen says Netflix had six of the top 10 original streaming shows in Q1 — The company's streaming service has lost more than $11 billion and can't keep customers form canceling| Neil Hacker / Works in Progress: |
A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, close collaboration with TSMC and the US government, and more — By betting on extreme ultraviolet lithography long before it worked, ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips.
More: The Decoder, DigiTimes, and Wall Street Journal
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources detail Microsoft's “Windows K2”, an ongoing initiative to address major Windows 11 user complaints about AI features, OS bloat, performance, and more — Microsoft has restructured its Windows team to better position Windows 11 as a strong platform that people should want to use.| Financial Times: |
Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation — Officials are concerned about the damage to the country's technology sector as well as its alliance with the USSponsor Posts
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