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Sources: Meta is looking to raise $3B in equity and $26B in debt, from private capital firms, including Apollo Global and KKR, to fund its data center build out — Apollo, Brookfield and Pimco among the lenders in talks with Mark Zuckerberg's social media group
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at “The List”, a compilation of the most talented AI engineers and researchers that Mark Zuckerberg has put together in an effort to recruit them to Meta — Only a select few researchers have the skills for the hottest area in tech. Mark Zuckerberg and his rivals want to hire them …
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| Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: |
Experts detail how the Trump administration has seriously weakened the public-private partnerships that protect US critical infrastructure from cyberattacks — Recent federal cuts, reorganizations and other disruptions have alarmed industry leaders, who say the government is a less reliable partner even as cyber threats increase.| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Trump says the US is “terminating all discussions on trade with Canada” in response to Canada's decision to impose a digital services tax on US tech firms — - President Donald Trump said the United States is immediately “terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada.”
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
The term “context engineering” is gaining traction over “prompt engineering” as it better describes the skill of providing LLMs with the necessary information — I've spoken favorably of prompt engineering in the past - I hoped that term could capture the inherent complexity of constructing reliable prompts.
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| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
A look at AIFF 2025, Runway's third annual AI Film Festival featuring 10 shorts, as the film and TV industry remains divided over the role of AI in its future — We saw 10 AI films and interviewed Runway's CEO as well as Hollywood pros. — Last week, I attended a film festival dedicated to shorts made using generative AI.
More: The Verge
| Yi Wei Wong / Bloomberg: |
Canada orders Chinese video surveillance tech provider Hikvision to cease all operations and close its business in the country over national security concerns — Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Joly says that the government has ordered Hikvision Canada to cease all operations in the country … | Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg: |
Atlantic Council: US cyber power is hampered by an inefficient supply chain for zero days, with too few providers and “levels of middlemen” driving up costs — Atlantic Council research says market for zero days is bloated, leaving the US behind rivals such as China. — The Cyber Angle
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| Cezary Podkul / ProPublica: |
An in-depth look at how foreign scammers use US banks to facilitate large-scale transfers of funds stolen from victims of “pig butchering” scams overseas — - Struggling Gatekeepers: In the face of some $44 billion a year in pig-butchering scams conducted by Asian crime syndicates …
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| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI recently began renting Google's TPUs to power ChatGPT, marking its first significant use of non-Nvidia chips; Meta also considered using TPUs — OpenAI, one of the world's biggest customers of Nvidia artificial intelligence chips, recently began renting Google's AI chips …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Big Fund III, China's main chip fund that has secured only a part of its $48B goal, plans to focus on key shortcomings in lithography and EDA software — China's main chip investment fund is planning to focus on the country's key shortcomings in sectors like lithography …
More: Tom's Hardware
| Andrew Demillo / Associated Press: |
NetChoice sues Arkansas over two laws that would put limits on social media content and let parents of children who died by suicide sue over platform content — A tech industry trade group sued Arkansas Friday over two new laws that would place limits on content on social media platforms …
More: Bloomberg Law and Washington Examiner
| Cathy Chan / Bloomberg: |
EQT agrees to sell Japanese automotive electronics manufacturer Pioneer for $1.1B to CarUX, a unit of Taiwan-listed Innolux specializing in smart cockpit tech — EQT AB agreed to sell Pioneer Corp. for $1.1 billion, marking the biggest exit in Japan for the Swedish buyout firm that sees Japan …
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| Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Sources: Applied Compute, a pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by three former OpenAI staffers, raised $20M at a $100M valuation led by Benchmark — The pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by Rhythm Garg, Linden Li and Yash Patil, is now valued at $100 million … Sponsor Posts
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