Monday, February 19, 2024

Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, currently undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, currently undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities  —  In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to join him in ditching San Francisco for Miami …



FBI Director Christopher Wray says China is inserting "offensive weapons" into critical US infrastructure, with malware pre-positioning reaching a "fever pitch" (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
FBI Director Christopher Wray says China is inserting “offensive weapons” into critical US infrastructure, with malware pre-positioning reaching a “fever pitch”  —  Christopher Wray says Beijing's hacking operations had reached a ‘fever pitch’



Document: the European Commission opens formal DSA proceedings against TikTok to assess its efforts to protect children, the second DSA investigation after X (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Document: the European Commission opens formal DSA proceedings against TikTok to assess its efforts to protect children, the second DSA investigation after X  —  The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against ByteDance's TikTok under the Digital Services Act (DSA) …



Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...