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France 24: Meta removes the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s supreme leader for repeatedly violating its Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy  —  Meta on Thursday said it had removed the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah… Read More »Meta removes the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s supreme leader for repeatedly violating its Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy (France 24)

Reuters: Sources: Nvidia plans to build a new business unit focused on designing custom chips, including AI chips, for cloud companies; custom chips are a $30B market  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) is building a new business unit focused on designing bespoke… Read More »Sources: Nvidia plans to build a new business unit focused on designing custom chips, including AI chips, for cloud companies; custom chips are a $30B market (Reuters)

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: The White House says it plans to invest $5B+ from the CHIPS Act in “semiconductor-related research”, including in the National Semiconductor Technology Center  —  – Officials seek to prevent China from benefiting from funding  — R&D… Read More »The White House says it plans to invest $5B+ from the CHIPS Act in “semiconductor-related research”, including in the National Semiconductor Technology Center (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Vera Bergengruen / TIME: How Palantir embedded itself in the day-to-day work of Ukraine’s wartime government in an unprecedented way, as Ukraine becomes a laboratory for military tech  —  Early on the morning of June 1, 2022, Alex Karp, the… Read More »How Palantir embedded itself in the day-to-day work of Ukraine’s wartime government in an unprecedented way, as Ukraine becomes a laboratory for military tech (Vera Bergengruen/TIME)

The Economic Times: Sources: Paytm E-commerce changed its name to Pai Platforms and acquired Bitsila, a seller platform on India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce  —  Paytm E-commerce has changed its name to Pai Platforms and has acquired Bitsila, a… Read More »Sources: Paytm E-commerce changed its name to Pai Platforms and acquired Bitsila, a seller platform on India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce (The Economic Times)

Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI’s annualized revenue hit $2B in December, up from $1.3B in October 2023, and the company believes it can more than double the figure in 2025  —  San Francisco-based start-up joins Google and Meta as one of… Read More »Sources: OpenAI’s annualized revenue hit $2B in December, up from $1.3B in October 2023, and the company believes it can more than double the figure in 2025 (Financial Times)

Matt Burgess / Wired: A look at the state of Passkeys, supported by Google, Apple, and others, which offer a seamless vision of a more secure future but the UX still needs work  —  Passkeys are here to replace passwords. … Read More »A look at the state of Passkeys, supported by Google, Apple, and others, which offer a seamless vision of a more secure future but the UX still needs work (Matt Burgess/Wired)

William Turton / Wired: Epik, a domain registrar serving far-right and extremist websites, has been acquired by Registered Agents, whose services allow companies to operate anonymously  —  Known for doing business with far-right extremist websites, Epik has been acquired by… Read More »Epik, a domain registrar serving far-right and extremist websites, has been acquired by Registered Agents, whose services allow companies to operate anonymously (William Turton/Wired)

Bloomberg: Sources: Singapore-based Grab and Jakarta-based GoTo revive talks for a ride-hailing merger in Southeast Asia; GoTo says “no such discussion is taking place”  —  – Southeast Asia’s tech leaders seek savings to reverse losses  — Regulatory hurdles remain in… Read More »Sources: Singapore-based Grab and Jakarta-based GoTo revive talks for a ride-hailing merger in Southeast Asia; GoTo says “no such discussion is taking place” (Bloomberg)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Stockholm-based Xensam, which offers AI-based tools for software asset management, raised $40M from Expedition Growth Capital  —  Software asset management — an area of enterprise IT designed, in part, to help companies save money — continues… Read More »Stockholm-based Xensam, which offers AI-based tools for software asset management, raised $40M from Expedition Growth Capital (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)