Category Archives: Tech News

Sources detail the nearly 10-hour-long tech meltdown of the European Central Bank's main payment system on February 27 due to a piece of malfunctioning hardware (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources detail the nearly 10-hour-long tech meltdown of the European Central Bank’s main payment [...]

08
Mar
Investors are turning to "AI wrappers", startups that leverage existing LLMs by other developers to build tools for coders, clinicians, lawyers, and others (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

Kate Clark / Bloomberg: Investors are turning to “AI wrappers”, startups that leverage existing LLMs [...]

07
Mar
DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia; setting AI answers to "often" shows them ~20% of the time (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge: DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now [...]

06
Mar
The UK CMA clears Microsoft's $13B OpenAI investment in 2023, ending 14 months of uncertainty over the deal, but says "Microsoft did acquire material influence" (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)

Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: The UK CMA clears Microsoft’s $13B OpenAI investment in 2023, ending [...]

05
Mar
Peregrine, which develops a platform used by state and local law enforcement agencies with smaller budgets, raised $190M led by Sequoia at a $2.5B valuation (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Peregrine, which develops a platform used by state and local law [...]

04
Mar
Sources: Nvidia and Broadcom are running 18A manufacturing tests with Intel, and AMD is also evaluating whether Intel's 18A process is suitable for its needs (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: Nvidia and Broadcom are running 18A manufacturing tests with Intel, and AMD is [...]

03
Mar
How tech companies moving to or investing in Texas, attracted by lower taxes and fewer regulations on land use and labor, are transforming the state's economy (Harriet Torry/Wall Street Journal)

Harriet Torry / Wall Street Journal: How tech companies moving to or investing in Texas, [...]

02
Mar
Sources: Larry Ellison's Sensei Ag, a venture backed by his $500M investment to change farming with AI, robotics, and software, has mostly been a bust so far (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)

Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Larry Ellison’s Sensei Ag, a venture backed by [...]

01
Mar
Experts say stopping North Korean thefts will require higher security spending by crypto exchanges, more stringent rules, and better government cooperation (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Experts say stopping North Korean thefts will require higher security spending by crypto exchanges, [...]

28
Feb
Stripe announces a tender offer for staff and shareholders that values it at $91.5B, down from $95B in 2021, and reports 2024 payment volume up 38% YoY to $1.4T (Jacqueline Corba/CNBC)

Jacqueline Corba / CNBC: Stripe announces a tender offer for staff and shareholders that values [...]

27
Feb