What Are Prediction Markets, and Why Are They Causing Controversy?
The indictment of a soldier who bet on the U.S. operation to capture President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela put renewed focus on a new way
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US government’s Intel stake jumps 300% to $36B after CHIPS Act grants were converted to equity under Trump
In short: The US government’s 9.9% stake in Intel, acquired for $8.9 billion last August by converting CHIPS Act grants and Secure Enclave funds into
SoftBank is converting a Sharp LCD factory into a battery plant for AI data centres. The data centres cannot wait five years.
Summary: SoftBank Corp. plans to convert part of the former Sharp LCD factory in Sakai, Osaka into one of Japan’s largest battery production lines for
Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
Back in March, Firefox 149 was released with many changes, like a free built-in VPN, a Split View that allows the loading of two pages
Will You Pay $119 For This Open Source KVM Built on Rust and Buildroot?
KVM devices let you remotely control a computer by capturing its display output and emulating a keyboard and mouse without having a hypervisor in the
Germany’s sovereign AI hope changes hands
As Europe seeks to assert its technological independence from the US vendors Aleph Alpha, once seen as Germany’s sovereign AI hope, is the target of
Agent Mode is now available in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Microsoft has beefed up Copilot’s capabilities in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, claiming its Agent Mode will help speed up workers’ output. The new features, announced
Google Commits to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic
The investment comes as the A.I. start-up looks to keep up with accelerating demand for its business and coding products.
5 Tall Tasks for John Ternus, Apple’s Next C.E.O.
John Ternus will face many of the same issues that Tim Cook has grappled with for years.
Europe’s child safety laws require collecting the data its privacy laws forbid
Summary: Europe’s effort to protect children online has collided with its own privacy architecture. The ePrivacy derogation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning expired on April 3
X-Energy’s failed $1 billion SPAC became a $1 billion IPO. The reactor did not change. The market did.
In short: X-Energy raised $1.02 billion in the largest nuclear IPO on record, pricing at $23 (21% above range) on the Nasdaq, with shares surging
Verda raises $117 million to expand its GPU cloud platform from the Nordics into the US, UK, and Asia
The Helsinki-based company, formerly DataCrunch, is backed by Lifeline Ventures, byFounders, Tesi, Varma, and a group of Nordic lenders. It is already cash-flow positive, holds
Norway plans to ban social media for children under 16 and shift age verification liability to platforms
The minority Labour government, led by PM Jonas Gahr Støre, announced the legislation on Friday. The age threshold has been raised from the 15-year limit
Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf
A 40-year-old man was arrested after using artificial intelligence to generate a fake image of a runaway wolf that South Korean authorities said obstructed an