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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple says it will spend $500B in the US over the next four years, hire 20,000 new US workers, and produce AI servers in Texas, after Tim Cook met with Trump  —  - Company to begin producing Apple Intelligence servers in Texas  — $500 billion planned to be invested in US over next four years
Bloomberg:
TD Cowen: Microsoft cancels leases for a substantial amount of US data centers, potentially due to over-investment fears; Microsoft plans to spend $80B in 2025  —  - The company has pledged $80 billion toward computing capacity  — Wall Street is questioning AI demand over the longer-term
Wes Davis / The Verge:
xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” as a public-facing instruction for its responses  —  The system prompt for Musk's chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results.
Elliptic:
An analysis of the $1.46B Bybit hack, by far the largest crypto heist of all time, ahead of Poly Network's $611M in 2021, and possibly the biggest theft ever  —  On February 21st 2025, approximately $1.46 billion in cryptoassets were stolen from Bybit, a Dubai-based exchange.
Davey Winder / Forbes:
Google says it plans to use QR codes for Gmail account authentication, ditching SMS to “reduce the impact of rampant, global SMS abuse”  —  It is certainly no secret that using SMS text messages for security codes used to authenticate your identity is far from ideal.
Bloomberg:
Alibaba pledges to invest more than $53B on AI infrastructure, including new data centers, over the next three years  —  - The e-commerce firm is angling to become an AI company  — Firm to invest in AI infrastructure such as data centers … The internet company co-founded by Jack Ma plans …
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Robinhood says it received a letter from the SEC stating the agency is dropping its investigation into Robinhood Crypto, a sign of regulatory change under Trump  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping its investigation into Robinhood's crypto arm, the company revealed Monday.
James Hunt / The Block:
Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, bought 20,356 bitcoin for $1.99B between February 18 and 23, taking its holdings to 499,096, worth $47B, or 2.3% of BTC supply  —  - Strategy has purchased another 20,356 BTC for approximately $2 billion at an average price of $97,514 per bitcoin.
Financial Times:
Prosus plans to buy Just Eat Takeaway for €20.30 per share, a 22% premium over its three-month high, in an all-cash deal valuing the delivery company at €4B+  —  Deal marks end to tumultuous few years for European food delivery group  —  Just Eat Takeaway is set to be acquired …
Bert Hubert's writings:
As the Trump administration neuters the PCLOB and reviews the EO behind the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the EU should stop moving to US clouds  —  We used to think that grieving went through five stages: denial, protest, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple aims to eventually meld the modem into the main processor on its devices but likely no sooner than 2028; the M4 MacBook Air may launch in March  —  Last week, Apple introduced the long-awaited successor to the iPhone SE: the iPhone 16e.  In doing so, it all but abandoned the budget smartphone market.

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CNBC:
Newsmax shares jumped 179% on April 1 and have risen 1,500%+ since their March 31 debut, bringing the company's market cap to ~$20.8B, above WBD and Fox Corp

Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Steve Kornacki signs a deal with NBC News and NBC Sports and departs from MSNBC, which Comcast is spinning off into a new corporate entity

American Journalism Project:
John Thornton, founder of The Texas Tribune, co-founder of the American Journalism Project, and venture capitalist, has died at age 59

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
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Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal:
Some US school districts are adopting Sonny, an AI “wellbeing companion”, to provide mental health support to students when there aren't enough counselors
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Nvidia confirms a “rare” manufacturing issue affecting under 0.5% of RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti GPUs, which are missing render units, the latest hitch since launch
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