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US prosecutors charge Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with using inside information to make ~$1.2M via Polymarket bets on Google's Year in Search 2025 results — Michele Spagnuolo allegedly placed bets on what users were searching for. — In this Dec. 19, 2023, file photo …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from $399 in 2022 to $789 today, is the end of an era for gaming handhelds, coming amid RAMageddon, tariffs, and the Iran war — The Steam Deck's huge price hike is the end of an era for gaming handhelds. … For a few glorious years …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Valve hikes the Steam Deck OLED's prices due to “rising memory and storage costs”: from $549 to $789 for the 512GB model and from $649 to $949 for the 1TB model — The 1TB OLED model got a $300 price increase, and now costs $949. … Valve has significantly increased the price …
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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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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for very well-paid professionals — Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised …
| 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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Forums: r/ValueInvesting and r/wallstreetbets
| 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.| Bloomberg: |
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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| Brian Danga / The Block: |
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.| 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.| Choi Yeon-jae / The Korea Herald: |
Samsung's Securities, SDS, and Card units jointly acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange, in a ~$446M all-cash deal — Samsung Securities, Samsung SDS and Samsung Card said Thursday they will jointly acquire a 4 percent stake in Dunamu … | Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Letter: US Central Command says it received “threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data” to target US personnel in war zones — U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data … | 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
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| Reuters: |
Source: the Shanghai Futures Exchange is in the early stages of designing futures contracts for AI tokens; US exchanges are set to launch GPU compute futures — China is designing a futures market for AI tokens, sources familiar with the matter said, as the country potentially takes …
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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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| CNBC: |
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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| Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new model for open-source software, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers, supported by AI — Project Lightwell will deploy a global force of 20,000 engineers, supported by advanced artificial intelligence| 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| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security and governance platform for AI agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Balderton at an estimated $180M valuation — Geordie AI, a London-based startup which provides a security and governance platform for AI agents, has raised a $30 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital.
More: FinSMEs, The SaaS News, and Unite.AI
| 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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X: @skynews, @rusi_org, @gchq, @sophgaston, @christopherjm, @gchq, @gerashchenko_en, @alexwickham, and @discoplomacy. LinkedIn: Peter Munford
| 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 …
More: The Quantum Insider and King's College London
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
AWS is rolling out Resilient Network Graphs, a “quasi-random” networking architecture that uses a flat mesh design, and says it accelerates information flows — The tech giant says a breakthrough in data-center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure.
More: Crypto Briefing
| 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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| 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.
More: FinSMEs, Tech.eu, The Next Web, Tech Funding News, and UKTN
| Wall Street Journal: |
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
X: @shalini, @shanumathew93, and @hanchunglee
| 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 …
More: Blockonomi and Bloomberg
| 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 …
More: Crypto Briefing
| 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 … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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