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A profile of Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed, who, along with his investment firm Kingdom Holding, is the second-biggest shareholder in XAI Holdings (Devon Pendleton/Bloomberg)
2025-04-26 07:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Docs and sources detail the opaque market for shares of Elon Musk's private companies; Valor recently offered investors $1B worth of shares in SpaceX and xAI (Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-26 07:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US v. Google: Chrome General Manager Parisa Tabriz testified that only Google can run Chrome, given the browser's "interdependencies" on other parts of Google (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
2025-04-26 15:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on Motorola partnership, Perplexity's upcoming browser Comet, TikTok bid, ChatGPT's scale, Google's DOJ trial, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
2025-04-26 14:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
IBM has booked $6B in sales around generative AI and Red Hat's revenue has about doubled since IBM bought it, fueling a ~2x jump in IBM's stock since April 2020 (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-26 07:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
NetEase has lost at least three senior executives in recent months, as CEO William Ding pulls back on investments and cuts jobs in a bid to boost profits (Bloomberg)
2025-04-26 07:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A Nigerian tribunal upholds a $220M fine imposed on Meta in July 2024 for discriminatory and exploitative practices against Nigerian consumers (Nnaemeka Onyekachi/Nairametrics)
2025-04-26 06:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Symbiotic, which is building a "universal staking" platform after starting as a restaking protocol on Ethereum, raised a $29M Series A led by Pantera Capital (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
2025-04-26 06:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A US DOJ official says Tyler Buchanan, a 23-year-old from Scotland, and an alleged Scattered Spider cybercrime group member, was extradited from Spain to the US (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)
2025-04-26 05:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Etsy agrees to sell Reverb, an online musical instruments marketplace that it acquired for $275M in 2019, to investors Creator Partners and Servco (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally)
2025-04-26 05:01 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Autodesk adds Jeff Epstein and Christie Simons to its board and settles the proxy fight with Starboard Value, which has criticized Autodesk for underperformance (Svea Herbst-Bayliss/Reuters)
2025-04-26 04:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Many AI features, like Gmail's AI assistant, feel useless because they don't allow users to edit system prompts, constraining the AI models they're built with (Pete Koomen/koomen.dev)
2025-04-26 03:00 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: XAI Holdings, the newly combined entity housing xAI and X, is in talks to raise roughly $20B, or possibly more, valuing the company at more than $120B (Bloomberg)
2025-04-26 01:59 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Interpretability, or understanding how AI models work, can help mitigate many AI risks, such as misalignment and misuse, that stem from AI systems' opacity (Dario Amodei)
2025-04-26 00:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Reducto, which helps companies convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $24.5M Series A led by Benchmark, following a $8.4M seed in October 2024 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
2025-04-26 00:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google says it will end support for 1st- and 2nd-gen Nest thermostats on October 25, and won't launch new models in Europe due to its "unique" heating systems (Chris Welch/The Verge)
2025-04-25 23:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Leaked letter: interim DC attorney Ed Martin accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status (Gabe Kaminsky/The Free Press)
2025-04-25 23:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta and Booz Allen partner to deploy Space Llama, a fine-tuned version of Llama 3.2, for research aboard the International Space Station National Laboratory (Hayden Field/CNBC)
2025-04-25 19:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Butterfly Effect, the Chinese startup behind Manus, has discussed setting up a new HQ outside China, and separating its domestic and global businesses (Juro Osawa/The Information)
2025-04-25 22:58 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Microsoft plans to increase the use of third-party firms for selling software to SMBs; in-house sellers will get more training and focus on AI products (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
2025-04-25 20:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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