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Exclusive: Glean Nears $7 Billion Valuation in Wellington-Led Round

Apr 30, 2025 · 2:54pm PDT
The deal would indicate investors are still willing to pay high prices for fast-growing artificial intelligence startups despite stock volatility that threatened to cool dealmaking.
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Glean Nears $7 Billion Valuation in Wellington-Led Round

Apr 30, 2025 · 2:53pm PDT
The deal would indicate investors are still willing to pay high prices for fast-growing artificial intelligence startups despite stock volatility that threatened to cool dealmaking.
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Amazon to Open Dozens of Warehouses in Rural Expansion

Apr 30, 2025 · 2:51pm PDT
The announcement comes one day after United Parcel Service said it planned to lay off 20,000 employees and close 73 facilities as it handles fewer Amazon packages.
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Ripple Had Offered to Buy Circle

Apr 30, 2025 · 2:04pm PDT
Ripple’s bid to buy Circle for $4 billion to $5 billion was rejected, Bloomberg reports.
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Exclusive: Tesla’s Head of Battery Architecture Departs

Apr 30, 2025 · 2:03pm PDT
Vineet Mehta is the latest senior battery executive to leave Elon Musk's EV maker as the company pivots away from EVs and to robots and Robotaxis.
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Meta’s Revenue Rises 16% in the First Quarter

Apr 30, 2025 · 1:36pm PDT
Meta also increased its estimate for capital expenditures this year to $64 billion to $72 billion.
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Microsoft Reports 13% Revenue Growth, Faster Cloud Growth Than Expected

Apr 30, 2025 · 1:19pm PDT
The company’s capital expenditures were $21.4 billion in the most recent quarter, slightly down from $22.3 billion in the quarter prior.
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Visa Launches AI Agent Payments Tools

Apr 30, 2025 · 12:49pm PDT
The launch follows a similar release by Mastercard earlier this week.
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Meta Delayed Reasoning Version of Llama 4

Apr 30, 2025 · 10:35am PDT
Meta previously delayed other versions of Llama 4 over performance problems during its development.
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Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook Talked About Gemini Deal, Pichai Says

Apr 30, 2025 · 8:06am PDT
Cook wanted to understand Google’s AI roadmap, Pichai testified, and as part of that the two discussed Google’s plans for distributing Gemini’s app.
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Waymo and Toyota Explore Autonomous Car Partnership

Apr 30, 2025 · 1:16am PDT
The partnership could result in Toyotas in Waymo's fleet of self-driving cars.
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Google Security Executive Says Google Can Best Safeguard Chrome

Apr 29, 2025 · 2:29pm PDT · 1 comment
A senior Google executive testified that forcing Google to share data or spin off its Chrome browser, as the Justice Department has proposed, would jeopardize user security.
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Snap Shares Fall on Q2 ‘Headwinds’

Apr 29, 2025 · 1:59pm PDT
Snapchat grew revenue, but couldn’t provide second-quarter guidance due to macroeconomic uncertainty.
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Thrive Capital Launches Vehicle to Buy and Hold Businesses

Apr 29, 2025 · 12:57pm PDT
Venture firms, such as General Catalyst and 8VC, have pursued a similar strategy of investing services that usually don't get VC backing.
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UPS to Cut 20,000 Jobs as Amazon Deal Shrinks

Apr 29, 2025 · 11:43am PDT
The cuts, which represent about 4% of UPS’s workforce, are part of a plan to respond to lower volumes from its largest customer.
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Meta Announces Llama API at Developer Conference

Apr 29, 2025 · 10:18am PDT
The API could help Meta more effectively sell its artificial intelligence models to business customers, after Llama has struggled to gain traction on cloud services.
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Mastercard Announces Tools to Manage AI Agent Payments Risks

Apr 29, 2025 · 9:27am PDT
The tools will verify agents are authorized to make purchases on users’ behalf.
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Meta Release Standalone App for Meta AI Assistant

Apr 29, 2025 · 8:29am PDT
Meta converted its Meta View smartphone app, which people used to manage their Ray-Ban smart glasses, into a more general app for the assistant.
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White House Slams Amazon After Report it Will Highlight Tariff Costs

Apr 29, 2025 · 6:50am PDT
President Donald Trump’s press secretary called it a “hostile and political act by Amazon."
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Spotify Lifts Revenue 15% Despite Soft Ad Pricing

Apr 29, 2025 · 5:21am PDT
The quarter shows how the music streaming-and-podcasting firm has benefited from raising prices on its premium subscription offering.