Category Archives: Tech News

China fines leading food delivery apps, including Alibaba and Meituan, a combined ~$528M, the largest fine for the sector since the 2015 food safety law (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: China fines leading food delivery apps, including Alibaba and Meituan, a [...]

17
Apr
Bubblemaps analysis: an anonymous Polymarket trader netted $316,346 in profits by correctly betting on Biden's pardons for Hunter Biden, Liz Cheney, and others (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Bobby Allyn / NPR: Bubblemaps analysis: an anonymous Polymarket trader netted $316,346 in profits by [...]

16
Apr
Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional $1B stake in CoreWeave, and plans to spend ~$6B to access CoreWeave’s Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI (Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts Cheeky Pint: The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs Stripe [...]

15
Apr
Amazon agrees to pay $11.57B to acquire Globalstar, or $90 per share; the deal requires Globalstar to meet certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones (Reuters)

Reuters: Amazon agrees to pay $11.57B to acquire Globalstar, or $90 per share; the deal [...]

14
Apr
23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive’s crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Featured Podcasts Acquired: Ferrari Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies – and [...]

13
Apr
Flipkart and Amazon’s quick commerce push in India is intensifying competition in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta The [...]

12
Apr
An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices (The Citizen Lab)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta The [...]

11
Apr
CoreWeave says it has signed a multiyear deal with Anthropic, including a variety of Nvidia chips at data centers in the US; it now has 43 active data centers (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts Hard Fork: Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on [...]

10
Apr
Researchers: a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader has been actively exploited since at least December 2025, and some docs contain Russian-language lures (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Researchers: a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader has been actively exploited [...]

09
Apr
UK-based currency hedging platform MillTech raised $60M from Apax Digital Funds at a $325M valuation, and plans to expand in North America and build AI tools (Carter Johnson/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts Great Chat: OpenAI’s new media M&A and old media exposé A podcast mostly [...]

08
Apr