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Financial Times:
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will spend “several hundred billion” on US-made chips and electronics over four years as it shifts supply chains amid US tariff threats  —  Jensen Huang's pledge follows onshoring plans by other tech companies as Trump trade policies ripple through industry
Reuters:
Jensen Huang says Nvidia has not been approached about purchasing a stake in Intel, following a report about a consortium with TSMC to operate Intel's factories  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday that his company had not been approached about purchasing a stake in Intel (INTC.O).
Bloomberg:
SoftBank acquires Ampere Computing for $6.5B in cash, with Oracle and Carlyle selling their stakes as part of the deal, which is expected to close in H2 2025  —  SoftBank is buying Ampere in an all-cash transaction that values the Santa Clara, California-based firm at $6.5 billion, according to a statement reviewed by Bloomberg News.
Sue Marek / Ookla:
Analysis: AT&T and Verizon Speedtest users saw higher median download speeds on the iPhone 16e and its C1 than the iPhone 16; T-Mobile users saw the opposite  —  The 16e is the first iPhone to feature the Apple-designed C1 modem.  —  Key Takeaways:  — AT&T and Verizon Speedtest® …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Meta plans to roll out Meta AI with text-only features in the EU this week on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, after pausing its debut in June 2024  —  A more limited version of Meta AI will head to WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger this week.
Echo Wang / Reuters:
Sources: CoreWeave plans to sell shares for $47 to $55 when marketing its IPO this week, aiming to raise $2.3B to $2.7B, possibly even before the IPO prices  —  CoreWeave, the artificial intelligence startup backed by Nvidia (NVDA.O), is planning to ask investors to pay $47 to $55 for each …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Newsletter service Ghost launches support for ActivityPub integration in beta for Ghost(Pro) subscribers, letting them share their posts across the fediverse  —  Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches o1-pro, which uses more compute than o1 for “consistently better responses”, to select developers for $150/1M input and $600/1M output tokens  —  OpenAI has launched a more powerful version of its o1 “reasoning” AI model, o1-pro, in its developer API.
Wayne Ma / The Information:
Sources: Apple TV+ is losing $1B+ annually even as its subscriptions grew to ~45M in 2024; source: Apple has spent $5B+ per year on content since its 2019 debut  —  Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook had questions about several pricey movie deals executives of Apple TV+, the company's video-streaming service …
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Crypto exchange Kraken acquires US retail futures trading platform NinjaTrader for $1.5B, pending “purchase price adjustments”; NinjaTrader has 1.8M+ customers  —  NinjaTrader, a futures trading platform, would expand Kraken's offerings  —  The cryptocurrency exchange Kraken agreed …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Google says more changes to Search in the EU would “reduce traffic to European businesses” and changes to the Play Store may expose users to “malware and fraud”  —  Google Search and its Play Store app marketplace are suspected of breaching the European Union's Digital Markets Act …
Anto Antony / Bloomberg:
Bakkt names ex-SoftBank rainmaker Akshay Naheta as co-CEO to help turn around the struggling US crypto trading and custody platform; BKKT is down 62%+ in 2025  —  Naheta will also be part of the company's board and will work with Andy Main, the firm's current CEO, according to a statement …
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
The UK NCSC urges large entities, including energy and transport providers, to introduce “post-quantum cryptography” by 2035 to protect against quantum hackers  —  Organisations including energy and transport firms told to guard systems against powerful new computers
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google and UCB researchers detail “inference-time search”, which some call a fourth AI scaling law, though experts are skeptical of its usefulness in many cases  —  Have researchers discovered a new AI “scaling law”?  That's what some buzz on social media suggests — but experts are skeptical.
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:
Trump eliminating the USAGM cut the budget of the Open Technology Fund, launched in 2012 to let 24M+ people living under repressive regimes access the internet  —  The demise of the Open Technology Fund could put millions at risk of being targeted by authoritarian governments for their internet activity.
Tim McLaughlin / Reuters:
A look at data centers' “unannounced disconnections” from the grid, which can occur when they switch to local generators and may cause cascading power outages  —  Data Center Alley, a 30-square-mile stretch outside Washington D.C. and home to more than 200 data centers, consumes roughly the same electricity as Boston.
RT Watson / The Block:
The TON Foundation raises over $400M from Sequoia Capital, Ribbit, and others via a sale of its Toncoin cryptocurrency, and says there are now 40M+ active users  —  - The Open Network Foundation, or TON Foundation, said a group of VCs including Sequoia Capital, Ribbit, Benchmark and Kingsway invested …
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
How Nvidia, SK Hynix, TSMC, and ASML, with a combined $4T+ market cap, dominate the AI supply chain, with 80% to 100% market share in their respective fields  —  Since ChatGPT arrived, Nvidia and its key manufacturing partners have dominated the market for AI chips.  Will it last?

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The Guardian:
Sources: the UK Foreign Office asks the BBC World Service to draw up a budget of up to £70M per year lower than the BBC management says it needs

Max Tani / Semafor:
G. Elliott Morris, the data journalist who took over 538 in 2023, launches Strength In Numbers, a paid Substack; his relationship with ABC deteriorated in 2024

Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
A look at the costs, incentives, benefits, and tradeoffs of filming in California as experienced by the show Fallout, which is shooting its second season in CA

More News

Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
US schools spending billions on laptops, an idea supported by technologists and computer makers, has led to students' worsening social skills and test scores
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy says the Disney+ show's scripts will not be released as planned, due to fears that they could be used as AI training data

Earlier Picks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
AI startups Intology and Autoscience submitted AI-generated studies at a conference without disclosure and face criticism of co-opting peer review for publicity
Rebekah Valentine / IGN:
A group of cross-discipline video game workers in the US and Canada announce United Videogame Workers, a direct-join industry-wide union organizing with the CWA
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Verizon says its satellite text messaging service is now available to owners of Google Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 series smartphones at no extra charge
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices for the first time in a decade and making remote playback for personal media a paid feature at $1.99/month or $19.99/year
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