IBM plans to invest $150B in the US over the next five years, including in R&D, to fuel the economy and "accelerate its role as the global leader in computing" (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter who Trump fired, likely illegally, as FTC commissioners, on Meta, fighting for privacy, and bribes in the US (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

2025-04-28 · 1 hits

Palo Alto Networks says it aims to acquire Seattle-based Protect AI, sources say for $500M; Protect AI's $60M Series B in 2024 was at a reported $400M valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

2025-04-28 · 2 hits

Tel Aviv-based Lightrun, an observability platform that uses AI to identify and debug code in production, raised a $70M Series B co-led by Accel and Insight (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

2025-04-28 · 6 hits

A look at Microsoft freezing ~1.5GW of data centers set for 2025 and 2026; Microsoft has walked away from significantly more than 2GW of non-binding contracts (SemiAnalysis)

2025-04-28 · 7 hits

Google Chrome won the browser wars fair and square, and the web will be worse off if Google is forced to sell it, even to atone for ad market monopoly abuses (David Heinemeier Hansson/HEY)

2025-04-28 · 10 hits