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Filings: the US DOJ drops a bid to force Google to sell its AI investments to boost search competition but still seeks a court order requiring it to sell Chrome — The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday dropped a proposal to force Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) to sell its investments …
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
The White House hosted its first Crypto Summit, bringing together top crypto executives, including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss — The first-of-its-kind event at the White House with top crypto executives showcased the president's embrace of the once-renegade industry.
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Sources detail how crypto flooded Trump with cash, including $50M+ in donations from at least eight execs, and how he is doing much of what the industry wants — The president had called cryptocurrency a ‘scam’ but during his campaign last year he was persuaded of its value, especially as an investment for the Trump family| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
Source: Bybit hackers planted malicious code to manipulate transactions by compromising a developer's computer at crypto wallet provider Safe, used by Bybit — On the night of Feb. 21, Ben Zhou, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, logged on to his computer to approve what appeared to be a routine transaction.| Pete Schroeder / Reuters: |
The US OCC says banks can engage in some crypto activities, rescinding prior guidance that told them they should clear such activities with regulators first — The U.S. regulator overseeing national banks clarified Friday that banks can engage in some crypto activities …
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Sources detail the nearly 10-hour-long tech meltdown of the European Central Bank's main payment system on February 27 due to a piece of malfunctioning hardware — The European Central Bank's payments crash last week meant salaries and welfare funds were delayed for thousands of people.| CNN: |
China plans a “state venture capital guidance fund”, expected to attract ~$138B over 20 years from local governments and private sector, to support AI and more — Hong Kong CNN — Fresh off the global success of DeepSeek's latest artificial intelligence reasoning model …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
A look at YouTube's origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who is nearing 10 years at the company — It's a muggy morning the day before the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans, and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan is stuck in parade traffic and not happy about it.
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| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
The FTC told a US district judge it is still determining who Amazon's competitors are for its 2023 antitrust lawsuit and the list could include Walmart and eBay — Lawyers for the company and the agency appeared Friday before US District Judge John Chun in Seattle to provide a high-level overview … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: activist investor Mantle Ridge has built a $1B+ stake in Cognizant and believes the tech services firm, which has a $41B+ market cap, is undervalued — The investor has been working behind the scenes at the tech-services firm and isn't currently planning to nominate directors
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Filing: Elon Musk is set to be questioned under oath on April 3 in an investor lawsuit alleging his Twitter buyout flip-flop was a ruse to lower its stock price — After attorneys for the world's richest person initially balked at making him appear in person for a deposition … | Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Unsealed court docs: US investigators believe hackers behind the 2022 LastPass breach stole $150M in XRP, now worth ~$700M, from one person in January 2024 — The stolen XRP is now worth $716 million. The Secret Service is trying to claw it back from unknown hackers.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Jim Sanborn, creator of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA HQ, says he's frustrated with amateurs falsely claiming they cracked the 35-year unsolved code using AI — Jim Sanborn's inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they've cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: crypto exchange and custodian Gemini has filed confidentially for an IPO; the company is reportedly considering going public as soon as this year — Gemini, the cryptocurrency firm backed by the billionaire Winklevoss twins, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Crogl, whose AI agent helps cybersecurity researchers analyze daily network alerts to find and fix security incidents, raised a $25M Series A and a $5M seed — AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Craig Federighi and other Apple executives voiced concerns that personalized Siri didn't work properly; some think it has to be rebuilt from scratch — Apple Inc.'s turmoil in its AI division reached new heights on Friday, with the company delaying promised updates to the Siri digital assistant for the foreseeable future.
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta will recommend using Unity and Unreal's built-in OpenXR support, after developers said Meta's Unity and Unreal integrations blocked other PC VR headsets — Meta will recommend that developers use the built-in OpenXR support of Unity and Unreal from next week. — What Is OpenXR?Sponsor Posts
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