Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal:
Nintendo reports net profit up 13% YoY to ~$3.2B in the past fiscal year and expects profit to drop 39% YoY and revenue to drop 19% YoY in this fiscal year — The Japanese videogame maker expects revenue to fall 19% for the fiscal year that started in April 1
A look at Campaign Nucleus, an AI company from ex-Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, who says its AI can generate emails, gauge voter sentiment, and more (Associated Press)
Associated Press:
A look at Campaign Nucleus, an AI company from ex-Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, who says its AI can generate emails, gauge voter sentiment, and more — Donald Trump’s former campaign manager looked squarely into the camera and promised his viewers they were about to witness a bold new era in politics.
Amazon announces plans to double its cloud infrastructure investment in Singapore to $9B, to be done over the next four years, to meet the cloud and AI demand (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg:
Amazon announces plans to double its cloud infrastructure investment in Singapore to $9B, to be done over the next four years, to meet the cloud and AI demand — – Cloud operator is latest global tech company to target region — Firms grow in Southeast Asia as they diversify away from China
Q&A with Ethereum co-founder and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin on Consensys’ lawsuit against the SEC, implications of SEC classifying ETH as a security, and more (Joel Khalili/Wired)
Joel Khalili / Wired:
Q&A with Ethereum co-founder and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin on Consensys’ lawsuit against the SEC, implications of SEC classifying ETH as a security, and more — Joe Lubin cofounded Ethereum. Now his company is suing the Securities and Exchange Commission, and he says the future of the internet is at stake.
A US court rejects Realtek’s lawsuit accusing MediaTek of paying a company to file meritless US patent lawsuits to drive Realtek out of the TV chip market (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US court rejects Realtek’s lawsuit accusing MediaTek of paying a company to file meritless US patent lawsuits to drive Realtek out of the TV chip market — Chipmaker MediaTek (2454.TW) has convinced a California federal court to reject a lawsuit accusing it of illegally partnering …
UK-based Wayve, which is developing a self-learning system for autonomous driving, raised a $1.05B Series C led by SoftBank, the UK’s largest AI fundraise ever (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
UK-based Wayve, which is developing a self-learning system for autonomous driving, raised a $1.05B Series C led by SoftBank, the UK’s largest AI fundraise ever — Wayve, a U.K.-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving …
A look at the trademark dispute over the name AGI House between two rival hacker houses, one in Hillsborough and the other in Twin Peaks in the Bay Area (Forbes)
Forbes:
A look at the trademark dispute over the name AGI House between two rival hacker houses, one in Hillsborough and the other in Twin Peaks in the Bay Area — Two rival hacker houses, both claiming the name “AGI House,” have attracted the attention of Silicon Valley’s biggest names.
Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK’s Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed (Sky News)
Sky News:
Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK’s Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed — MPs will be told on Tuesday of a massive data breach involving the Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel.
Google Cloud unveils Google Threat Intelligence, which uses Gemini and combines insights from Mandiant, VirusTotal, and Google to provide faster protection (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
Kyle Alspach / CRN:
Google Cloud unveils Google Threat Intelligence, which uses Gemini and combines insights from Mandiant, VirusTotal, and Google to provide faster protection — Launched at RSAC 2024, the new Google Threat Intelligence offering provides faster protection against threats by combining insights from Mandiant …
Sources: Apple has been working on its own chip designed to run AI software in data center servers; the project is internally codenamed Project ACDC (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple has been working on its own chip designed to run AI software in data center servers; the project is internally codenamed Project ACDC — The company is leaning on its long history of chip development in the effort, code-named Project ACDC — Apple has been working …
