Category: Consumer Assistance
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Memo: Google tells staff they can discuss the DOJ’s antitrust case, rescinding an earlier command, as part of a settlement with the Alphabet Workers Union (Nico Grant/New York Times)
Nico Grant / New York Times: Memo: Google tells staff they can discuss the DOJ’s antitrust case, rescinding an earlier command, as part of a settlement with the Alphabet Workers Union — The Silicon Valley giant had ordered employees to stay silent on the landmark case before reaching a settlement with a workers’ union over…
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Rescale, which develops engineering software to help simulate complex physical systems, raised a $115M Series D, bringing its total funding to over $260M (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Rescale, which develops engineering software to help simulate complex physical systems, raised a $115M Series D, bringing its total funding to over $260M — Rescale, a San Francisco-based startup that makes engineering software used to design race cars and computer chips, raised $115 million on Monday in venture financing.
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Broadcom announces a share buyback program of up to $10B, set to run through the end of the year; AVGO jumps 3%+ after hours, after closing up 5.37% on Monday (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Broadcom announces a share buyback program of up to $10B, set to run through the end of the year; AVGO jumps 3%+ after hours, after closing up 5.37% on Monday — Broadcom (AVGO.O) said on Monday it was launching a new share buyback program of up to $10 billion through December…
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Framework stops selling its six lowest-priced laptops in the US, saying those models would sell at a loss due to tariffs that went into effect on April 5 (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
Matthew Gault / 404 Media: Framework stops selling its six lowest-priced laptops in the US, saying those models would sell at a loss due to tariffs that went into effect on April 5 — Framework—a company that makes upgradeable and repairable laptops—has said it will pause sales on several versions of one of its models…
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Infineon agrees to acquire Marvell’s Automotive Ethernet business for ~$2.5B in cash; the unit is expected to generate revenue of $225M to $250M in FY 2026 (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
Vallari Srivastava / Reuters: Infineon agrees to acquire Marvell’s Automotive Ethernet business for ~$2.5B in cash; the unit is expected to generate revenue of $225M to $250M in FY 2026 — German chipmaker Infineon Technologies (IFXGn.DE) said on Monday it would buy Marvell Technology’s (MRVL.O) automotive ethernet business for about $2.5 billion in cash.
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Apple Store employees say the past few days have felt like holiday season, as the threat of tariffs and potential price hikes sparked a shopping frenzy (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Apple Store employees say the past few days have felt like holiday season, as the threat of tariffs and potential price hikes sparked a shopping frenzy — – Store sales were higher this past weekend than in prior years — Employees say the frenzy has felt like holiday shopping season
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Meta VP of generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle denies a rumor that the company trained its Llama 4 models on test sets, saying Meta “would never do that” (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Meta VP of generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle denies a rumor that the company trained its Llama 4 models on test sets, saying Meta “would never do that” — A Meta exec on Monday denied a rumor that the company trained its new AI models to present well on specific benchmarks while…
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In a memo to staff Shopify’s CEO says using AI is now a baseline expectation and that teams asking for more resources must first show why AI can’t do the job (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
Annie Palmer / CNBC: In a memo to staff Shopify’s CEO says using AI is now a baseline expectation and that teams asking for more resources must first show why AI can’t do the job — Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is changing his company’s approach to hiring in the age of artificial intelligence.
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Google Search’s AI Mode feature, rolled out to millions more in the US, now gains multimodal capabilities, letting users ask complex questions about pictures (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Google Search’s AI Mode feature, rolled out to millions more in the US, now gains multimodal capabilities, letting users ask complex questions about pictures — Google started cramming AI features into search in 2024, but last month marked an escalation. With the release of AI Mode …
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Sources: Apple aims to send more iPhones to US from India, given new tariffs on China, but sees the situation as too uncertain to upend supply chain investments (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple aims to send more iPhones to US from India, given new tariffs on China, but sees the situation as too uncertain to upend supply chain investments — Apple plans to send more iPhones to the U.S. from India to offset the high cost of China tariffs, people familiar with the…
