Meta:
Meta says it plans to train its AI models on public content, like posts and comments, and interactions that users have with its AI in the EU starting this week  —  Takeaways  — In the EU, we will soon begin training our AI models on the interactions that people have with AI at Meta …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Nvidia starts making its Blackwell chips at TSMC’s Phoenix plant and says it aims to make up to $500B of AI infrastructure in the US in the next four years  —  Nvidia says it has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test AI chips in Arizona and Texas …

Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
Autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics says it plans to go public in the US via blank-check company Ares Acquisition Corp II, valuing Kodiak at $2.5B  —  Autonomous truck technology firm Kodiak Robotics said on Monday it plans to go public in the U.S. later this year through a merger …

Will Knight / Wired:
Hugging Face acquires French startup Pollen Robotics, which makes the bug-eyed, two-armed, humanoid robot called Reachy 2, and plans to sell the robot  —  Hugging Face has acquired the open source robot startup Pollen Robotics to help “democratize” robotics.

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Intel says it will sell a 51% stake in Altera to Silver Lake, valuing the programmable chip unit at $8.7B; Intel bought Altera for $15B in 2015  —  Intel said on Monday it would sell a 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm Silver Lake, valuing the programmable chip unit at $8.75 billion.

Financial Times:
NATO says it will start using Palantir’s Maven Smart System, which uses AI to provide “commanders with a secure, common operational capability”  —  Alliance to use artificial intelligence developed by company of prominent Donald Trump backer  —  Nato has acquired …

The Keyword:
Google details DolphinGemma, a new 400M-parameter LLM to decode dolphin communication by analyzing the vocalizations of wild Atlantic spotted dolphins  —  DolphinGemma, a large language model developed by Google, is helping scientists study how dolphins communicate — and hopefully find out what they’re saying, too.

Counterpoint Research:
Global smartphone sales grew 3% YoY in Q1 2025; Apple took the top spot, its first ever for Q1, with a 19% share, and Vivo was the fastest growing brand  —  – The global smartphone market continued its growth trajectory in Q1 2025.  Smartphone sell-through grew 3% YoY during the quarter …

Ruth Olurounbi / Bloomberg:
African Private Capital Association: VC inflows to Africa fell 22% YoY to $3.6B in 2024, after a 31% YoY drop in 2023; fintechs had 116 deals raising $1.4B  —  Venture capital funding for African startups shrank again last year, though the share of home-grown investors advanced.

Bloomberg:
Sources: Intel is nearing a deal to sell its stake in Altera to Silver Lake and could announce it as soon as this week; Intel paid $17B for Altera in 2015  —  Intel may announce a deal to sell Altera to the private equity firm as soon as this week, people familiar with the matter said …