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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023  —  After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down.  Microsoft, which acquired the messaging …
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Max Filby / The Columbus Dispatch:
Intel delays the opening of its first Ohio chip factory to 2030 due to financial struggles; the $28B project was originally scheduled to begin operating in 2025  —  Intel's promised $28 billion semiconductor project in central Ohio has been delayed again, this time by several years.
Martin Matishak / The Record:
Sources: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia …
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Recent incidents indicate the US no longer characterizes Russia as a cyber threat; source: CISA analysts were told not to follow or report on Russian threats  —  Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’
Nico Grant / New York Times:
Memo: Sergey Brin says Google could reach AGI if employees worked harder and were in the office more, saying “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity”  —  The tech giant's co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more …
Bloomberg:
Autodesk plans to cut about 1,350 employees, or ~9% of its workforce, as part of a focus on profitability following pressure from activist fund Starboard Value  —  - Actions ‘not the result of any third-party pressure,’ CEO says  — Reductions to reshape sales process and allow AI investment
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mozilla responds to backlash over Firefox's new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for being overly broad, and says it won't use people's data for AI  —  Mozilla has responded to user backlash over the Firefox web browser's new Terms of Use, which critics have called …
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk:
Consensys founder Joseph Lubin says the SEC has agreed “in principle” to end its securities enforcement case against Consensys' MetaMask, filed in June 2024  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is dropping yet another case against an American crypto company …
Theo Wayt / The Information:
Source: Amazon plans to expand Haul, the ultracheap Temu-like shopping site it launched in the US in November, to countries in Europe starting this year  —  Amazon is going global with its counterattack on bargain sellers Temu and Shein.  —  The e-commerce giant is planning on expanding Haul …
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Dan Primack / Axios:
Sources: General Catalyst is in the very early stages of considering an IPO, which would make it first US VC firm to go public  —  No bankers, timetable, etc.  — Instead, General Catalyst is in rapid expansion mode — trying to build the sort of diversified, fee-generating asset base …
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Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
The White House is eliminating the traditional press pool access for wire services after a court ordered the administration to lift its restrictions on the AP

Sewell Chan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Houston Landing, a nonprofit that launched in 2023 with $20M+ in philanthropic funding, says it is shutting down mid-May and laying off its 43 employees

Financial Times:
CNN CEO Mark Thompson says the company plans to roll out a “suite” of digital subscription services, including at least one in 2025, to combat TV's decline

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Steven Church / Bloomberg:
A US court finds that Byju's and founder Byju Raveendran's brother violated a fiduciary duty to lenders by fraudulently hiding $533M from them
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Filings: CFPB employees say the agency's Trump-appointed leadership plans to fire nearly all its 1,700 employees while “winding down” the agency
The Verge:
AMD unveils the $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 Radeon 9070 XT GPUs, featuring 16GB of GDDR6 memory, PCIe 5.0, and FSR 4 support, shipping March 6
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Reports of Meta launching standalone Meta AI and Reels apps aren't surprising, as the company has a history of repeatedly bundling and unbundling its products

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Justin Dawes / Skift:
Cross-border payments company Flywire acquires Sertifi, which helps hotels streamline events contracting, group bookings, and related payments, for $330M
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft releases Copilot for Mac, including a shortcut command to open the app, in the US, UK, and Canada, and adds a split screen mode to the iPad version
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
The SEC says that most memecoins are not securities, are akin to collectibles, and memecoin purchasers and holders are not protected by federal securities laws
The Verge:
OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its “most knowledgeable model yet” in research preview, initially warning it's not a frontier model and may perform below o1 or o3-mini
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
AWS unveils Ocelot, its new quantum chip built in partnership with Caltech, featuring five qubits that store data and four additional qubits to detect errors
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