SpaceX Said to Submit Confidential Filing for IPO
Musk-founded company expects to debut in June
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Exclusive: Coder Raises $90 Million Led by KKR
A startup making software for developers to build and run code from local devices to the cloud raised $90 million in a Series C funding round led by private equity firm KKR.
Iran Threats to Attack Microsoft, Google, Oracle in Middle East
Iran has already damaged Microsoft and Amazon facilities in the region.
Sequoia Capital Names Former Leader Leone as Chairman
Leone will begin making new investments again.
Nvidia Invests $2 Billion in Marvell
The investment is part of a partnership in which Marvell will supply chips that work with Nvidia technology.
OpenAI Says Latest Funding Round Raised $122 Billion at $830 Billion Valuation
The company is currently generating about $2 billion revenue per month
Microsoft Energy VP Departs
He joined Microsoft three years ago, coinciding with the start of an artificial intelligence boom requiring the company to seek unprecedented sources of energy for its facilities.
Oracle Lays Off Thousands of Employees
Oracle has been operating less efficiently than peers, with its revenue per employee sat at $354,000 for its most recent fiscal year.
Anthropic’s Coding Agent Source Code Exposed in Leak
In a statement, an Anthropic spokesperson said the leak was “caused by human error, not a security breach” and that no sensitive customer data was exposed.
Activist Investor Calls on Snap to Make “Meaningful Changes”
Public shareholders have no voting rights in Snap, which means the activist has no way to exert any influence.
Chinese AI Firm Zhipu’s 2025 Revenue Jumps 132%
The Beijing-based company is tapping into robust AI coding demand to sell its models to developers overseas.
Fashion Brand Firm to Buy Allbirds for $39 Million
The sale is an ignominous end to the once-trendy venture-backed shoe firm that went public in 2021 with a valuation as high as $4 billion.
Amazon’s Starlink Rival to Offer Wifi on 500 Delta Air Lines Planes
Delta is already a large Amazon Web Services customer and is open to other deals with Amazon in the future, such as adding Amazon entertainment content to seatback screens, an executive said.
U.K. Launches Antitrust Probe of Microsoft’s Cloud and Software Bundling
Both Microsoft and Amazon also agreed to make it less onerous for U.K. customers to switch from one cloud provider to another.
Alibaba’s New Multimodal AI Model is Not Open-Source
The decision to offer Qwen3.5-Omni as a proprietary model signals a potential shift away from a strategy that centers on open-source models.
DeepSeek’s Chatbot Goes Dark for Over 10 Hours
The outage has fueled speculation that DeepSeek may be quietly preparing a new model, though the company hasn’t said anything.
Space Data Center Startup Starcloud Raises $170 Million
A startup developing solar-powered data centers in space said Monday it has raised a round co-led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures that valued the company at $1.1 billion.
Apple Kicks Out Vibe Coding App
The action comes as part of Apple’s broader crackdown on vibe coding apps
DOJ Reportedly Probing Insider Trading on Prediction Markets
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan met with representatives of Polymarket, CNN reports.
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