Monthly Archives: April 2025

xAI adds a ‘memory’ feature to Grok

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. Wednesday night, xAI announced a “memory” feature for Grok that enables the bot to remember details from past conversations. … Continue reading

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Zoom restores service after an hours-long outage

Zoom says its platform is back online after suffering an outage for much of Wednesday afternoon. “Service has now been restored after the earlier outage, and we sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding,” Zoom said in a post on X … Continue reading

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Chapter, a Medicare startup with links to Vance, Thiel, and Ramaswamy, just raised a round at $1.5B valuation

Chapter, a Medicare advisory startup co-founded by former Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, has closed a $75 million funding round at a valuation of $1.5 billion led by private equity and venture firm Stripes. The startup helps seniors choose Medicare … Continue reading

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Nvidia says it follows export laws ‘to the letter’ a day after AI chip sales to China stopped

Nvidia said in a statement that its exports help alleviate the U.S. trade deficit.

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Former cybersecurity agency chief Chris Krebs leaves SentinelOne after Trump targets him in executive order

A week after President Trump specifically targeted Chris Krebs in an executive order, the former head of CISA has left SentinelOne.

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NVIDIA’s Vision For AI Factories – ‘Major Trend in the Data Center World’

During a keynote at Data Center World 2025, a NVIDIA exec spoke about AI factories, purpose-built for gigawatt-scale data centers.

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Trump administration reportedly considers a US DeepSeek ban

The Trump administration is considering new restrictions on the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek that would limit it from buying Nvidia’s AI chips, and potentially bar Americans from accessing its AI services, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The restrictions … Continue reading

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Rippling wants UK fintech Revolut to reveal who paid off Deel’s alleged “spy”

Another highly-valued startup has just been added to the mix in the ongoing legal drama between Rippling and Deel: U.K. fintech giant Revolut. In his blockbuster affidavit that reads like it’s straight out of a movie, Irish Rippling employee Keith … Continue reading

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Former CISA director Chris Krebs vows to fight back against Trump-ordered federal investigation

The former cybersecurity chief is the latest to push back on the Trump administration’s targeting of critics and dissenters.

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Zuckerberg: Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted $6B buyout offer

During Meta’s antitrust trial this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted his company’s offer to buy the social network back in 2013, Business Insider reports. Court documents revealed that Meta, then … Continue reading

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