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Supreme Court reportedly leaning toward upholding TikTok ban
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to uphold a law that requires ByteDance Ltd. to sell TikTok or face a ban of the app. Several publications reported on the court’s position today following a three-hour hearing about the matter. During the hearing, several justices leaned toward accepting the U.S. government’s arguments in favor of the ...
Report: Chinese hackers breached US government office that reviews foreign investments
Chinese state-backed hackers have breached a U.S. government office that reviews foreign investments for national security risks, CNN reported today. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS, is headed by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. It also includes representatives from more than a dozen other government agencies as well as the White ...
Ivanti discloses critical VPN vulnerability being actively targeted by hackers
Hackers are actively targeting deployments of some Ivanti Inc. software products using a newly discovered security vulnerability. The company disclosed the exploit, which is tracked as CVE-2025-0282, on Wednesday. Ivanti is a major provider of infrastructure management and cybersecurity software with more than 40,000 customers. According to the company, those customers include several U.S. government ...
Report: SoftBank and Arm could acquire server chip provider Ampere
SoftBank Group Corp. and Arm Holdings plc may acquire chipmaker Ampere Computing LLC, Reuters reported on Wednesday. It’s unclear what price the company might fetch. Two years ago, SoftBank reportedly considered buying a stake in Ampere at an $8 billion valuation. It earlier expressed interest in acquiring the chipmaker outright. SoftBank became a major chip ...
Cohere introduces AI large language model-powered North productivity platform
Cohere Inc. today introduced North, a new product designed to make it easier for business workers to use its artificial intelligence models. The company describes the offering as a “secure AI workplace platform.” It’s available through an early access program. Toronto-based Cohere develops a series of large language models called Command. Unlike OpenAI, the company ...
AMD invests $20M in AI-powered drug discovery company Absci
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced that it has invested $20 million in Absci Corp., a company using artificial intelligence to develop new medicines. AMD will also partner with the company to support its research efforts. Absci launched in 2011 to develop proteins with therapeutic applications. In 2018, the company debuted a system called SoluPro ...
Microsoft open-sources its Phi-4 small language model
Microsoft Corp. today released the code for Phi-4, a small language model that can generate text and solve math problems. The company first detailed the model last month. Initially, Phi-4 was only accessible through Microsoft’s Azure Foundry artificial intelligence development service. The model is now downloadable on Hugging Face, a popular website for hosting open-source ...
AWS to invest at least $11B in new Georgia data centers
Amazon Web Services Inc. will spend at least $11 billion to grow its data center capacity in Georgia. The cloud giant detailed the plan on Tuesday. It’s the latest in a series of multibillion-dollar data centers investments announced by AWS over the past few quarters. It also mirrors a recent data center building boom, mostly ...
Anthropic reportedly raising up to $2B at $60B valuation
OpenAI rival Anthropic PBC is seeking to raise up to $2 billion in new funding, multiple publications reported today. CNBC and the Wall Street Journal cited sources as saying that investment could value the company at $60 billion. That’s more than three times the valuation Anthropic received last year in a funding round led by Menlo ...
Trump announces Emirati businessman will invest $20B in US data centers
President-elect Donald Trump today announced that Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani will invest $20 billion to build new data centers in the U.S. The investment could eventually “somewhat more than double,” Trump stated during a Mar-a-Lago press conference. Sajwani is the founder of DAMAC Properties, a major property development company based in the United Arab Emirates. ...