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US prosecutors charge Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using inside information to make $1.2M on Polymarket bets about Google's Year in Search results — Michele Spagnuolo allegedly placed bets on what users were searching for. — In this Dec. 19, 2023, file photo …
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Meta rolls out Plus plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, and tests $7.99/month and $19.99/month Meta AI plans, and a $49.99/month creator plan — Meta is doubling down on its subscription offerings. On Wednesday, the social networking giant announced it's now rolling …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Last.fm says it is now an independent company again, 19 years after being acquired by CBS, and plans to keep its current team and continue the service as normal — Don't worry: It will keep your profiles and scrobbles. — Last.fm is an independent company again, it has announced on its forum …
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| Garrett Downs / CNBC: |
The US DOD announces a $9.7B, five-year deal with Dell to provide Microsoft 365, advanced cloud subscriptions, and on-premises licensing to the US military — The Department of Defense on Wednesday announced a five-year, roughly $9.7 billion deal with Dell to provide a suite of software to the U.S. military.
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Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for highly paid professionals — Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised …
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Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows to protect the company's 900,000 employees from AI and automation, saying it will “do everything possible” — JD.com Inc. founder Liu Qiangdong vowed to prevent the e-commerce firm's 900,000-strong workforce from losing their jobs to automation …
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| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Memo: Meta plans to embed engineers and product managers within large corporate customers as part of a new Enterprise Solutions unit to help deploy its AI tools — Meta Platforms plans to place engineers and product managers inside large corporate customers as part of a new unit …
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SoFi says SoFiUSD, its US dollar-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Solana, is now available for members to buy, sell, hold, and convert within the SoFi app — Quick Take — SoFi said its U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin is now available for members to buy, sell, hold, and convert within the SoFi app.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices due to “rising memory and storage costs”; the 512GB model is now $789, up from $549, and the 1TB model is $949, up from $649 — The 1TB OLED model got a $300 price increase, and now costs $949. … Valve has significantly increased the price …
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| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
Illinois Legislature passes SB 315, a bill requiring annual independent third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; the bill heads to the governor's desk — The measure, SB 315, goes beyond legislation from California and New York regulating America's largest AI companies.| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The CFTC files alongside Gemini to nullify Gemini's $5M settlement in January 2025, arguing that the agency's current management wouldn't have pursued the case — The regulator went back to analyze the 2022 case and decided that it wouldn't have been pursued under current management and practices.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Uber increases its stake in Delivery Hero to ~37% by acquiring Aspex Management's 14.6% share at a €12B valuation, after a takeover offer last week — Share purchase from Aspex Management steps up US ride-hailing group's pursuit of German food delivery company
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| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years — Scientists from King's College London have become the first UK academic research team to gain access to Google's cutting-edge …
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Snowflake reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $1.39B, above $1.32B est., and commits to spending $6B on AWS over the next five years; SNOW jumps 35%+ pre-market — Amazon said Wednesday that its cloud division has landed a $6 billion spending commitment from Snowflake, which includes the use …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the DSA for allegedly failing to adequately stop the sale of illegal products; further penalties could follow — Chinese online retailer Temu has been fined €200 million ($232 million) on Thursday for not doing enough to stop the sale …
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| Bloomberg: |
The European Commission launches a full review of JD.com's €2.2B acquisition of German electronics retailer Ceconomy under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation — Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com Inc.'s offer to acquire Germany's Ceconomy AG has been hit by an in-depth probe by European Union watchdogs …
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| Financial Times: |
Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals — World's highest-grossing law firm plans to put the ‘collective intelligence’ of its lawyers into a tech platform
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| Chloe Taylor / CNBC: |
The UK's GCHQ head says the UK and allies have a “narrowing window” to counter cyber threats from China and Russia, as Russia intensifies “daily” hybrid warfare — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
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| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
Dealroom: London overtakes Paris to reclaim its position as Europe's leading tech hub, and now ranks fourth globally; London startups raised $17.7B in 2025 — London has reclaimed its position as Europe's leading technology centre, overtaking Paris thanks to increased investment … | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a $50M Series B led by Plural — Orbital Industries, a startup using AI to design advanced materials, has raised a $50 million Series B funding round led by the venture capital firm Plural.
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As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in India's Visakhapatnam, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over “extremely high” water stress — Developing-world nations are offering billions of dollars in incentives for U.S. data centers, but locals say the cost is too high| Svea Herbst-Bayliss / Reuters: |
Chip design software maker Synopsys reaches a deal with Elliott, giving one board seat to the activist investor's Jesse Cohn, after roughly two months of talks — Chip design software maker Synopsys (SNPS.O) has reached an agreement with activist investor Elliott Investment Management …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence development to ensure Europe's independence from US tech giants, and signs deals to supply Airbus and BMW — French company's CEO says its—and Europe's—biggest obstacle to tech independence is the scale of investment necessary| Bloomberg: |
Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety says the company plans to stay out of India's commerce spending war, as Amazon and Flipkart ramp up their quick commerce efforts — Swiggy Ltd., one of India's top quick commerce firms, plans to restrain spending and focus on profitability while deeper-pocketed rivals Flipkart … | Aileen Chuang / Bloomberg: |
Taiwanese tech companies have completed a record $14.5B of debt deals so far this year, as they race to secure financing to meet soaring demand for AI capacity — Taiwanese tech firms have completed a record $14.5 billion of debt deals so far this year, as they race to secure financing …
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| Bloomberg: |
Global AI hardware demand is easing China's concerns over a stronger yuan hurting exports, as AI hardware exports surge and chip equipment imports rise — The global AI investment boom is powering a new wave of Chinese exports and making Beijing more comfortable with a stronger yuan.| Rivaldo Jantjies / Bloomberg: |
As the US AI boom drains venture capital from Africa, startups on the continent are pivoting to domestic funding sources, like pension funds and local VC firms — African startups are rewriting their funding playbook as the global artificial intelligence boom pulls venture capital toward the US … | Nikkei Asia: |
Surging AI demand causes shortages and price increases across the entire optical supply chain, from lasers and substrates to optical fibers and connectors — TAIPEI — Having already driven massive shortages in memory chips and CPUs, the global artificial intelligence boom is now disrupting … | Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Trade Desk's market cap fell ~70% from a December 2024 peak, as it contends with frustrated agency partners, competition from Google, and new entrant Amazon — The company lost about 70% of its value as Amazon gained ground and relationships with top ad agencies soured
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