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This week we are checking everything in SXSW. Expansion to silicon valley of Waymo; Intel’s new CEO; TIKTOK’s new guests; And why DeepSeek doesn’t get VC money. Let’s go to it!
Environmental impact: The FBI, EPA, EPA inspectors and the Treasury have requested Citibank to freeze accounts of various non -profit organizations and state government agencies. The account was frozen in February, but the new document provides unknown public details until this week’s court submission.
SXSW is over. TechCrunch took a WAYMO taxi from SXSW this week in Austin, learning Mark cuban’s thoughts on AI (not a panacea), and deciphering a T -shirt that WORE’s WORE (Mark Zuckerberg) was deciphered by WORE.
Intel’s new patriarch: Intel has appointed LIP-BU TAN as the next CEO. TAN, a long -term technical investor from Malaysia, has previously worked as CEO of Cadence Design Systems, and Intel said it would be an “engineering -based company” under his leadership. And he will cut his work for him.
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New era: Rad Power Bikes has a new CEO a few days after the former CEO retreated. Kathi Lentzsch, which spent years in turning a company with low performance of consumers and B2B spaces, will take over an electronic bicycle company as it prefers the retail -based approach and continues to move directly from consumers.
Backdoor Policy: Last month, the British government ordered Apple to secretly create a “backdoor” so that the authorities could access all Apple customers’ cloud storage data. US lawmakers are asking the British Surveillance Court to hold an open hearing on Apple’s possible challenges for the secret of the British government.
Food for thought: Bryan Johnson (DON’t Die’s investor and founder) wants to start a “Foodome” sequencing. His goal is to test as much food as possible to create a public database that allows people to donate money to test certain foods and brands for toxins.
No parking: Waymo’s 300 unmanned vehicles in San Francisco are building parking tickets. CARS’s 589 week violations were fined last year a total of $ 65,065.
Sesame Open: AI Company SESAME has launched the default model used in Maya, a very real voice assistant. This model is also open source, so it can be used commercially.
Tock, Tiktok: The deadline for finishing the sale to Tiktok’s US company is on the corner, and now other guests are interested. Oracle. Sources talked about information that Tiktok’s parent, BYTEDANCE, prefers Oracle over other companies.
Little Tech’s Hero: The Y Combinator sent a letter to the White House this week and urged the government to support the European digital market law. It is unclear how the White House will react.
Caviar Dreams: Trump’s family is looking for an investment in Binance us. This is only a few years after Binance’s US Arm has convicted the violation of the anti -money laundering regulations.
It was easy. I do not oppose AI. Especially when it helps more efficiently. For example, take an example of a new feature released in GMAIL this week. You can now add events to Google Calendar directly from your email. awesome!
I got him: Co -founder of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange, was arrested in India. Last week, the US Justice Department accused the Aleksej Besciokov personally approved the personal approval of Garantex, which was connected to the North Korean government hackers and other cyber criminals.
Pokémon Sales: Niantic, a company of the viral sense Pokémon Go, sells the game department for $ 3.5 billion for Scopare. Niantic said it will now focus on building a real 3D map through a new standalone entity called Niantic Spatial.
Deep and deep pocket? I am interested, but China’s AI Company DeepSeek is not yet available for VC. Charles Rollet has some reasons.
New Day, New Deal: Openai has signed a $ 11.9 billion contract with GPU-HEAVY Cloud Service provider Coreweave for five years. But this is not the only reason for this deal. Before this transaction, COREWEAVE’s biggest customer was Microsoft.
Waymo One: Waymo is expanding its initial rider program in Silicon Valley and currently provides robotaxi ride to some people in Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos and Sunnyvale. The new territory is added to the 55 square miles of coverage already provided in the San Francisco Bay area.
Cool and cool: The fact confirmation is being checked in the meta. From Tuesday, the company begins to launch a community notes version for Facebook, Instagram and thread users in the United States.
I have a question. Three years after its launch, how exactly how the locking mode works. There is no explanation of why you take the necessary measures, and some of them are very confused.
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Writing is on the wall. Openai’s new creative writing AI is impressive, but I feel as if a child in a high school novel club is working too hard to hear deeply. The AI can solve clever meta problems, but critics say that the article is less likely than the actual storyteller because of the lack of real feelings and originality.
