Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
a16z is a prosecution witness in the DOJ’s case against BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji, who raised hundreds of millions dollars for his failed crypto startups — Just east of Princeton University in central New Jersey lies Lake Carnegie, a three-mile stretch of glistening …
Google says its transition to memory-safe languages like Rust led to memory-safe vulnerabilities in Android dropping from 76% in 2019 to 24% in 2024 (The Hacker News)
The Hacker News:
Google says its transition to memory-safe languages like Rust led to memory-safe vulnerabilities in Android dropping from 76% in 2019 to 24% in 2024 — Google has revealed that its transition to memory-safe languages such as Rust as part of its secure-by-design approach has led to the percentage …
Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and WP Engine customers having trouble with their sites should contact WP Engine support (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and WP Engine customers having trouble with their sites should contact WP Engine support — WordPress on Wednesday escalated its conflict with WP Engine, a hosting provider, by blocking the latter’s servers …
A look at Chinese PE firm CSC Group, which has stakes in 360 US tech startups via Hone Capital that is reportedly under an FBI probe over IP transfers to China (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
Tabby Kinder / Financial Times:
A look at Chinese PE firm CSC Group, which has stakes in 360 US tech startups via Hone Capital that is reportedly under an FBI probe over IP transfers to China — Shan Xiangshuang’s $10bn buyout group quietly became a top US tech investor. That has triggered official concern
Blackstone confirms a £10B investment for an AI data center in northeast England; UK PM Keir Starmer says the construction will create 4,000 jobs in 2025 (Surbhi Misra/Reuters)
Surbhi Misra / Reuters:
Blackstone confirms a £10B investment for an AI data center in northeast England; UK PM Keir Starmer says the construction will create 4,000 jobs in 2025 — U.S. private equity firm Blackstone (BX.N) has confirmed a 10 billion pound ($13.3 billion) investment for an artificial intelligence data centre …
SK Hynix starts mass producing its new 12-layer HBM3E chips with 36GB per chip capacity, up 50% from its previous gen, slated for delivery by the end of 2024 (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
Anniek Bao / CNBC:
SK Hynix starts mass producing its new 12-layer HBM3E chips with 36GB per chip capacity, up 50% from its previous gen, slated for delivery by the end of 2024 — SK Hynix shares surged more than 9% Thursday morning after the company said it has started mass production of a new version …
Tokyo-based Dinii, which lets diners order food from restaurants and shops through a mobile platform, raised a ~$48M Series B led by Bessemer and Hillhouse (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
Kate Park / TechCrunch:
Tokyo-based Dinii, which lets diners order food from restaurants and shops through a mobile platform, raised a ~$48M Series B led by Bessemer and Hillhouse — Japan has always been a strong market for bringing technology into the experience of consuming food, and now one of the startups leading …
Source: a demo of Sora initially took 10+ minutes to make a 1-minute clip; source: OpenAI execs spoke of training an improved Sora that could quickly make clips (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: a demo of Sora initially took 10+ minutes to make a 1-minute clip; source: OpenAI execs spoke of training an improved Sora that could quickly make clips — Between OpenAI’s long-awaited Strawberry launch and its monster ongoing fundraising, it might be easy to forget about Sora …
OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, are leaving the company; OpenAI names Mark Chen as new SVP of Research, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, are leaving the company; OpenAI names Mark Chen as new SVP of Research, and more — OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, have left the company hours after OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, announced she would be departing.
Meta says Horizon Store now supports 2D apps built as PWAs, Android native apps, or via the new Meta Spatial SDK, which lets developers use Android dev tools (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta says Horizon Store now supports 2D apps built as PWAs, Android native apps, or via the new Meta Spatial SDK, which lets developers use Android dev tools — During its developer keynote at the Meta Connect conference on Wednesday, the company pitched its Quest mixed reality platform to developers as the next big app store.
