Music creation startup Splice buys London-based orchestral sound studio Spitfire Audio, a source says for ~$50M; sources say Splice has $100M+ in annual revenue — Music samples group Splice agrees deal to acquire London-based Spitfire Audio for its library of orchestral sounds
Architect Partners: crypto firms have struck 88 M&A and SPAC deals worth $8.2B so far in 2025, nearly 3x the $2.75B transaction value across 188 deals in 2024 — Companies seek to capitalize on lighter regulation, growing mainstream interest — President Trump's embrace of digital currencies …
Sources: Huawei has approached some clients to test the technical feasibility of the Ascend 910D, Huawei's newest AI chip that it hopes will beat Nvidia's H100 — Superpower rivalry over semiconductors heats up despite Washington's attempts to block Beijing
A look at the rise of “pure play” bitcoin companies like Twenty One, as the stock market is paying far more for crypto exposure than the crypto market itself is — Twenty One, Trumpcoin dinner, KKR empathy, carry on co-investments and quantitative analysis of hockey. — Project Mystery
India faces a shortage of agentic AI professionals, with executives estimating fewer than 100,000 available against a projected need of 200,000 by 2026 — India is grappling with a critical shortage of agentic AI professionals as demand surges, driven by the shift towards sophisticated AI agents capable of autonomous decision-making.
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 — Google is the only company that can offer the level of features and functionality that its popular Chrome web browser has today …
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 — Aravind Srinivas discusses his partnership with Motorola, fighting Google, and why AI assistants are coming for browsers.
A look at efforts by Apple and others to become carbon neutral by investing in eucalyptus farms in Brazil's Cerrado region, amid skepticism from some ecologists — We were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died at the edge of a strange forest.
Sources: Tencent Music is in advanced talks to buy Chinese podcasting startup Ximalaya in a $2.4B deal — An agreement could be reached as soon as the coming weeks, the people said. — Talks are ongoing and no final decisions have been made, the people said.
Baidu CEO Robin Li says demand for text-based models like DeepSeek's is “shrinking” and claims its model had a higher propensity for “hallucinations” — Search group's chief makes rare criticism of China's generative artificial intelligence darling
Toshiba Europe researchers say they used quantum key distribution cryptography to send messages over a 250km German commercial telecommunications network — Researchers harness quantum mechanics to create communications system that can avoid being hacked — Scientists have sent messages …
Adobe unveils its Firefly Image Model 4 and Model 4 Ultra, launches a redesigned Firefly web app, is testing a new Adobe Content Authenticity web app, and more — Adobe on Thursday launched the latest iteration of its Firefly family of image generation AI models, a model for generating vectors …
Trump Media partners with Crypto.com and Florida-based Yorkville America Digital to launch ETFs by the end of 2025, as it moves into financial services — The agreement will allow the president's social media company to market investment products, including crypto, to retail investors through a series of exchange-traded funds.
Duolingo plans to add a chess course, which uses short puzzles to help learn the game, in beta on iOS in English in the coming weeks before an Android launch — Practice the classic game with help from Duolingo. … Duolingo will soon be able to help you learn another new skill: chess.
DOJ v. Google: a Google VP says the company pays Samsung an “enormous sum of money” every month to preinstall Gemini on its devices as part of a two-year deal — The company began paying Samsung for Gemini in January, according to Peter Fitzgerald, Google's vice president …
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-worl...
