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| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
US medtech giant Stryker confirms a global outage due to a cyberattack; Iran-linked group Handala says the hack is retaliation for a strike on a school in Iran — The U.S. medtech company experiences a global outage, with some staff devices remotely wiped — Medical technology giant Stryker …
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| CNBC: |
Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investments in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M to $236M in charges — Atlassian said on Wednesday that it's eliminating 10% of its workforce, or about 1,600 jobs, as the company restructures following …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models — The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for iOS and Android in the US and India that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions” — 'Where's the closest public bathroom that's not completely disgusting' is going to get asked a lot in my household.
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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab test results to give personalized advice, in the US — A new feature within the Copilot app will offer personalized healthcare advice and make it easy to upload test results, fitness data and more
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| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began 15 years ago with a demo of Windows on ARM, which is held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility — I'm completely blown away by Mac Neo. It made me think a lot about what we tried to accomplish with Windows 8 more than a dozen years ago.
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including the iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week — A few days ago, Google and iVerify published details on Coruna, an exploit that chained multiple vulnerabilities to target iPhones running older iOS versions.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's foldable iPhone will feature iPad-like layouts and side-by-side apps on its iPad mini-sized inner display and a small iPhone-sized outer screen — Apple Inc.'s forthcoming foldable iPhone will include updates to the iOS operating system that enable iPad-like layouts and side …
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC and the US CFTC enter an MOU to coordinate and collaborate where their work overlaps, including by building a combined crypto oversight framework — The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber partners with Nissan and Wayve to offer robotaxi services in Japan, its first AV partnership in the country, with a Tokyo pilot program set for late 2026 — Uber intends to start offering the service through a licensed taxi partner in Japan — Uber Technologies, Nissan Motor … | CoinDesk: |
Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure — More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant's recent crypto program.| Kaamil Ahmed / The Guardian: |
IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B+ on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M — Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not ‘necessary or proportionate’, new report finds| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news. — CNBC Councils
More: Engadget, The Register, GeekWire, Google Fiber Blog, Light Reading, TelecomTV, and PCMag
| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Replit raised a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation and says it is on track to hit $1B in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026 — Amjad Masad's Replit allows users to build apps together like they're doodling on a white board. It also made the Jordanian immigrant a billionaire along the way.| Tom Dotan / Newcomer: |
Sources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions at a post-money valuation of up to $60B, up from $29.3B in November 2025; one source puts the round at $5B — Very early discussions involve a $5 billion raise at a valuation of up to $60 billion — Can a company be declared both passé and the next big thing?
More: PYMNTS.com and Bloomberg
| Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K+ humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were for education and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services were 19% each — Network of training farms aims to supply data needed to put ‘brains’ into machines — At a new 12,000 square metre facility in Wuhan …
X: @rwmcmorrow, @rwmcmorrow, @rwmcmorrow, @rwmcmorrow, and @nicholasdwright
| Financial Times: |
SEC filing: Oracle sets aside $500M more for restructuring, taking its FY total to $2.1B, as it prepares to cut jobs and hails efficiencies from AI coding tools — Database group sets aside an additional $500mn for restructuring costs — Oracle has stepped up preparations to cut jobs …
More: The Economic Times, Wall Street Journal, CIO.com, and Capacity
| Varsha Bansal / The Guardian: |
How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workloads despite their concerns that the company's “half-baked” tools are creating more work for all — Corporate employees said Amazon's race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.
X: @ichbingisele. LinkedIn: Varsha Bansal. Mastodon: @susankayequinn@wandering.shop. Forums: r/technology and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation — In January, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a study analyzing the use of artificial intelligence technologies …
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| Kritika Lamba / Reuters: |
BMBL jumps 30%+ after Bumble reported Q4 revenue above estimates and unveiled an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO — Bumble (BMBL.O) shares jumped more than 40% in early trading on Thursday after the company posted upbeat fourth-quarter revenue …
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles — Flash floods are among the deadliest weather events in the world, killing more than 5,000 people each year. They're also among the most difficult to predict.
More: The Keyword, PCMag, Google Research, Times Of AI, and Heatmap News
| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raised a $100M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital — Oro Labs, a Silicon Valley startup that uses artificial intelligence to automate companies' procurement processes, has raised $100 million in new venture capital funding.
More: FinSMEs, ORO Labs, and SiliconANGLE
| Michelle Chan / Financial Times: |
Sources: investors demanded steep concessions in Salesforce's $25B bond deal to fund a share buyback; it sold debt at a significant premium in borrowing costs — Software group sold debt at significant premium in borrowing costs in sign of Wall Street jitters over AI disruption
More: Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg
| Max Hunder / Reuters: |
Ukraine's defense minister says Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train AI models — Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train drone AI software, the defence minister said on Thursday, as Kyiv seeks to harness the experience …
More: Defense News
| Chris Kerr / Game Developer: |
Valve says 5,863 games made $100K+ on Steam in 2025, up from ~3,000 titles that earned $100K+ in 2020, and Steam passed 42M peak concurrent users in February — The PC platform also passed 42 million peak concurrent users a few weeks ago. — Valve has revealed that 5,863 games released on Steam earned over $100,000 in 2025.
More: International Business Times, Gamereactor UK, and 80 Level
| Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: |
BackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26M Series A led by Theory Ventures — BackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26 million Series A round, CEO Sean McCarthy tells Axios exclusively.
More: BackOps and FreightWaves
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+ — Disney+ is starting to roll out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to U.S. users on its mobile app. First announced in January …
More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, The Walt Disney Company, and Telecompaper. Bluesky: @caseynewton
| Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more — Microsoft Corp. is making a push for more Africans to adopt its artificial-intelligence tools as the US tech giant competes …
More: Microsoft
| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
Qdrant, which develops an open-source vector search engine for production AI systems, raised a $50M Series B led by AVP — Qdrant develops a vector search engine designed for production AI systems, enabling teams to configure retrieval, ranking, and filtering to support scalable applications such as semantic search and AI workflows.
More: SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, Towards Data Science, Qdrant, Blocks and Files, and Axios
| Sofia Chierchio / Forbes: |
Sources: after Google's $32B deal, each of Wiz's four co-founders is set to get $2B+ in post-tax cash; Index is set to net $4B, Sequoia ~$3B, and Insight $2.7B — Two years after rejecting a $23 billion offer, Israel-based Wiz secured the largest acquisition in Google's history …
More: Tech Funding News, Android Headlines, Business Today, DigiTimes, Cyber Security News, and TechCrunch. X: @jasonlk
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng — Elon Musk's Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile …
More: China Money Network and The Next Web
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