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After Elon Musk Delaware exit, state weighs overhaul of corporate law
Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as they stand next to a Tesla vehicle on the South Portico of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty ImagesTesla CEO…
Y Combinator startups are fastest growing in fund history because of AI
Silicon Valley's earliest stage companies are getting a major boost from artificial intelligence.Startup accelerator Y Combinator -- known for backing Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe -- this week held its annual demo day in San Francisco,…
SpaceX launches astronauts for long-awaited International Space Station crew swap
SpaceX successfully launched four people into space on Friday, beginning a mission that will give the International Space Station enough crew members to allow astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to return to Earth after their…
New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to receive $69 million compensation package
Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as CEO.Courtesy: IntelNew Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will receive total compensation of $1 million in salary and about $66 million in stock options and grants vesting over the coming years, according to filing on…
Republican Congressman Jim Jordan asks Big Tech if Biden tried to censor AI
On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the Biden administration that might suggest the former president…
Buy now, pay later lender Klarna files for U.S. IPO
Pedestrians walk by an advertisement for Klarna.Daniel Harvey Gonzalez | In Pictures via Getty ImagesKlarna, a provider of buy now, pay later loans filed its IPO prospectus on Friday, and plans to go public on the New York Stock Exchange…
US lawmakers urge UK spy court to hold Apple ‘backdoor’ secret hearing in public
A group of bipartisan U.S. lawmakers are urging the head of the U.K.’s surveillance court to hold an open hearing into Apple’s anticipated challenge of an alleged secret U.K. government legal demand.
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, along with…
Tech’s 3-week selloff wipes out $2.7 trillion in value from megacaps
Less than two months ago, the tech industry's top leaders flocked to Washington, D.C., for the presidential inauguration, part of an effort to strike a friendly tone with President Donald Trump after a contentious first go-round in the…
Nvidia to detail Vera Rubin chips at GTC conference
Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, displays the new Blackwell GPU chip during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2024.David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang is…
Anti-aging zealot Bryan Johnson wants to start ‘foodome sequencing’
In the same way that genome sequencing determines the genetic makeup of an organism, Bryan Johnson — the investor and founder behind the Don’t Die movement — wants to start “foodome” sequencing.
“We’re going to sequence the U.S.…
Why toll text scam is out of control and Apple, Android can’t stop it
The texts first started arriving on Eric Moyer's phone in February. They warned him that if he didn't pay his FastTrak lane tolls by February 21, he could face a fine and lose his license.The Virginia Beach resident did what the…
Singapore grants bail for Nvidia chip smugglers in alleged $390M fraud
A judge in Singapore granted bail to three men suspected of deceiving suppliers of server computers that may contain Nvidia chips affected by U.S. export rules that bar the sale of them to certain countries, as a route to halting them…
Arbitrator prohibits Meta whistleblower from promoting tell-all book
This photo illustration created Jan. 7, 2025, shows an image of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and an image of the Meta logo.Drew Angerer | Afp | Getty ImagesMeta is seeking to stop the promotion of a new memoir by a former staffer that…
Abu Dhabi’s MGX to invest $2 billion in crypto exchange Binance
The Binance logo is displayed on a screen in San Anselmo, California, June 6, 2023.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesEmirati state-owned investment firm MGX announced a $2 billion investment into Binance, in what marks the cryptocurrency…
Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’
Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried that spies, likely from China, are getting their hands on costly “algorithmic secrets” from the U.S.’s top AI companies — and he wants the U.S. government to step in.
Speaking at a Council on…
Tesla bounces for second day after steepest drop since 2020
Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as they stand next to a Tesla vehicle on the South Portico of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty ImagesTesla shares…
Uber terminates Foodpanda Taiwan acquisition, citing regulatory hurdles
Uber Technologies has ended its acquisition of Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda in Taiwan, the Germany-based tech firm said on Tuesday.
The announcement comes roughly three months after Taiwan’s antitrust regulator blocked the deal, citing…
Salesforce to invest $1 billion in Singapore over 5 years in AI push
Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO of Salesforce, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBCSalesforce on Wednesday announced plans to invest $1 billion in…