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Cognichip, which is building an AI model for chip design, raised a $60M Series A led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from new board member Lip-Bu Tan (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch : Cognichip, which is building an AI model for chip desig…
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Franklin Templeton agrees to acquire CoinFund spinoff 250 Digital to form Franklin Crypto, which will offer strategies designed for institutional investors (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal : Franklin Templeton agrees to acquire CoinFun…
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Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw pleads not guilty to US federal charges of helping smuggle billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia-powered servers to China (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg : Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw pleads not guilty…
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Monzo is shuttering its US operations to focus on scaling in the UK and Europe; source: it will lay off ~50 employees and close clients' accounts in June (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg : Monzo is shuttering its US operations to focus on scalin…
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Iran says it will start targeting US tech companies like Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla in the Middle East from 8PM local time on April 1 (Julia Shapero/The Hill)
Julia Shapero / The Hill : Iran says it will start targeting US tech companies like…
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Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30M Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
Meir Orbach / CTech : Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game …
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Some developers say the App Store review process is taking significantly longer, up to multiple weeks, with an influx of vibe-coded apps as the likely cause (Business Insider)
Business Insider : Some developers say the App Store review process is taking signi…
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Midjourney CEO David Holz says the company's revenue "significantly surpassed" $200M in 2023, and has "gone up" since then, despite its declining web traffic (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)
Jemima McEvoy / The Information : Midjourney CEO David Holz says the company's …
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Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
Alex Isenstadt / Axios : Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David S…
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A look at Coinbase One and other insurance-like plans for crypto users that typically exclude coverage for many kinds of account hacks, including phishing scams (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : A look at Coinbase One and other insurance-like plans for crypto users …
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A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are off, vertical SaaS is up +3% last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other reflections on AI (Logan Bartlett/@loganbartlett)
Logan Bartlett / @loganbartlett : A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI …
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A profile of Mark Lanier, a TX lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the LA social media case and said Zuckerberg was "rattled" on the stand (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : A profile of Mark Lanier, a TX lawyer and part-time pastor wh…
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Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude adding paid subs at a steadily increasing pace; Anthropic: paid subs have more than doubled this year (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
Julie Bort / TechCrunch : Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claud…
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ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)
Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data i…
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The FBI confirms Iran-linked Handala breached Kash Patel's personal email but says the data accessed was "historical in nature" and involves no government info (TechCrunch)
TechCrunch : The FBI confirms Iran-linked Handala breached Kash Patel's persona…
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